Our Strategic Objectives

To develop and implement marine conservation programs.
To involve and empower the community in marine conservation efforts through education

and awareness programs, with special emphasis on youth.
To contribute to the efforts of sustainable use of the marine environment in Jordan

through integrating environmental conservation with socio-economic development.
To develop and implement environmental advocacy programs through networking with

national, regional and global partners.
To develop the institutional, technical and financial capacity of JREDS to maximize

brand quality.

Programs:

Marine Conservation Program:
Marine life is home to thousands of habitats and species. These habitats are under increasing pressure and threat from general coastlization activities; coastal development, and increasing tourism and pollution. The fact that Jordan’s coast line is only 27 km long is a sufficient incentive for JREDS to protect it and to labor to bring issues affecting it to the attention of the public, the media and the decision makers.
JREDS’ marine conservation program aims to protect, preserve and restore the special marine ecosystems, and to control human-caused damage.
-Underwater Clean-up Project
-Monitoring of the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS)
-Coral Monitoring
-Clean Up the World Campaign

Outreach and Advocacy program:
-Multiple Awareness Functions
-“We Care for our Future” project
-“Aqaba Watch” project
-School Environmental Clubs
-The Knowledge Center at the AMP Visitors’ Center
-The Seashell Museum at the AMP Visitors’ Center
-The Shell Museum at the Marine Science Station
-Awareness in the Old Town of Aqaba
-Eco-Tourism Awareness

Suntainable development program:
-Gift Shop and Outlets at the AMP Visitors’ Center
-The Glass Boat Sector Capacity Building in Aqaba
-Introducing Eco-Diving to the Diving Industry

New projects:
Project Name   "I don''t want to get thirsty"
Duration  :6 months, May-October 2005
Corporation:The project is implemented in partnership with Heinrich BÖll Foundation (HBF).
Description
The project will identify 18 potential young leaders (18-24 years) from the region including Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan.
The project aims to empower those young leaders in the "Right to Water". This initiative will start with training. The General guidelines for the training will be covering the evaluation criteria of the UN concept of water as a Human Right.
Those leaders will be the spark for a regional movement for the protection and implementation of "Right to Water". This core group will go back to their universities, communities and groups to spread the concept using different lobbying and campaigning

activities.
One of the projects outputs will be a youth lead initiative to present project outcomes to be used as awareness tools: film making, plays, publications, contests and paintings.
In September, during Clean Up the World campaign, the leaders coming from Jordan with an open invitation to other regional participants to come and communicate those ideas for the public during the campaign''s days.