Ecosystem Management
Here is a report of the October 2021 Focal Points meeting help in preparation for the 10th Conference of Parties of the Nairobi Convention.
Below are presentations made during the meeting:
The Nairobi Convention in collaboration with WIOMSA and other partners are convening the 2021 Science to Policy Dialogue over three days from the 23rd – 25th March 2021.
This year’s theme is: Transitioning to a Sustainable Blue Economy in the WIO region: Addressing the challenges and harnessing opportunities
To access the abstracts of papers to be presented in the meeting, GO HERE.
The purpose of the Critical Habitats Outlook will be to support Governments of the WIO region to establish a baseline for Sustainable Development Goal 14.2 which seeks “to sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including strengthening their resilience and to take action for their restoration, to achieve healthy and productive oceans by 2020”.
On World Ocean Day, 8 June 2021, WIOMSA and the Nairobi Convention partnered to launch the Western Indian Ocean Marine Protected Areas Management Network (WIOMPAN).
The Nairobi Convention Secretariat in executing the SAPPHIRE project organized the third SAPPHIRE Project Steering Committee (PSC) held virtually on Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 16 March 2021 from 15h00 – 17h00 East African Time.This was following a request for the Project Management Unit to host a third PSC meeting to present the project workplan and budget for 2021.
The objective of the third PSC meeting was to:
i) review the project progress from the fourth quarter of 2020,
ii) discuss and approve the workplan and budget for 2021,
Meeting minutes