The role of the steering group is to act as the project advisory body, i.e. (i) advise in the design of the monitoring plan (WP2) as well as the decision-support tool (WP5) and (ii) help raise awareness of the outcomes and support the uptake of the services at local and regional level (WP6). The membership of the Advisory Board will be composed of: (i)Project coordinator, (ii) Local project manager, (iii) Systems engineer, (iv) Representatives of major stakeholders/users from national, regional and international organizations and (v) Scientific experts.