Territorial facilitator, a profession to be developed and defended: A Tunisian experience

Houssem Braiki (1) , Guillaume Lestrelin (2, 3) , Sylvie Morardet (4, 5) , Soumaya Younsi (6) , Emeline Hassenforder (7, 6, 3, 4) , Amar Imache (8) , Audrey Barbe (9) , Anissa Ben Hassine (10) , Fethi Hadaji (11) , Mohamed Chamseddine Harrabi (11)

1 BUREAU D'ETUDE ACCORD TUNIS TUN
2 UMR TETIS - Territoires, Environnement, Télédétection et Information Spatiale
3 Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
4 UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages
5 INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
6 INAT - Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie
7 UM - Université de Montpellier
8 LISODE
9 Lisode
10 Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Ressources Hydrauliques et de la Pêche Maritime [Tunisie]
11 Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Ressources hydrauliques et de la Pêche en Tunisie

Territorial facilitators work towards facilitating the dialogue between a wide range of stakeholders (farmers, elected officials, administrators, etc.) with regard to developing a territory. This chapter describes a pilot project in Tunisia in which agents from regional agricultural services were trained and accompanied in implementing their new profession for concerted territorial planning in six rural areas of Tunisia.

Keywords: Training; Planning; Participatory methods; Skills; Know-how; Knowledge; Profession

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Environmental Sciences

Houssem Braiki, Guillaume Lestrelin, Sylvie Morardet, Soumaya Younsi, Emeline Hassenforder, et al.. Territorial facilitator, a profession to be developed and defended: A Tunisian experience. Transformative Participation for Socio-Ecological Sustainability - Around the CoOPLAGE pathways, QUAE, pp.62-68, 2024, Update Sciences & technologies, 9782759239214. ⟨10.35690/978-2-7592-3920-7⟩. ⟨hal-04558913⟩