The PRISE project includes in its first strategy knowledge and tools improvement. It expects to develop and build on good practices of ecosystem management and protection, identify coastal areas of biological interest, and analyse their exposure and vulnerability to infrastructure development. It also plans on strengthening monitoring systems and participatory surveillance of priority sensitive sites. 

The PRISE project includes in its strategies the improvement of the legal framework (Strategy 3). As such, the project should contribute to the legal framework updating of each country as well as the adoption of relevant conventions, protocols and regional guidelines at the national level. The project also integrates support for tools and knowledge improvement at the site level (Strategy 4). In this respect, it awaits that coastal ecosystems are taken into account and integrated into the legal frameworks. It also ensures that environmental assessments are integrated into the process of infrastructure development planning and new infrastructure projects subject to environmental control.

The Planning and Programme Guidance provides for the production of a range of regulatory documents to support these strategies:

• Inventory of infrastructure likely to negatively impact priority sites 
• Report on the identification of coastal areas of biological interest, sensitive and vulnerable to an infrastructure development 
• Coastal zone management plan integrating the protection of sensitive ecosystems of the Bijagos Archipelago
• Coastal zone management plan integrating the protection of sensitive ecosystems of the Saloum Delta
• Zoning plans for priority sites 
• Sectoral guides to good environmental practice
• Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment (SESA) reports and environmental audits of infrastructure with negative impacts in or around priority sites 

The project foresees in its strategy two different advocacy and awareness-raising actions. The expected results are that civil society organisations (CSOs), local communities, and national representative networks can participate in the reduction of the negative impacts of infrastructures and commit to the protection of sensitive coastal ecosystems. Similarly, the project expects the private sector to understand the need to protect ecosystems and engage in mitigating the impacts of infrastructure on the coastal zone. Finally, State Institutions are expected to be better equipped to engage stakeholders (CSOs, communities, private sector) in synergies to protect sensitive coastal ecosystems from negative infrastructure impacts.

To achieve these objectives, PRISE plans to: 

• Train technical services and professional staff on new methods for the management of sensitive ecosystems:
• Transfer knowledge between technical services in the targeted countries
• Share experiences on the management of sensitive ecosystems between the different target countries (workshops, technical visits, interviews on the sites, other activities,…).
• Strengthen the capacities of national technicians in the use of new technologies (remote sensing, drone technology, sheet cameras, digital cameras, tablets, GPS, long-range binoculars, motorboats, launches, etc.) for monitoring sensitive ecosystems in the target countries.
• Draw up guides of good environmental practice.
• Publish, disseminate and popularise the different guides produced with stakeholders in the target countries (workshops, documents, exchange visits, etc.).