The IUCN Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) project, is using local knowledge to reforest areas, restore degraded lands and regulate natural resource use in the protected area.
On May 2 2019, the Ivorian Center for Antipollution (CIAPOL) under the supervision of the Ivorian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, has launched the GIAMAA project in Grand Bassam.
This document makes available to the signatory countries of the Abidjan Convention a guide to understand the process of describing Ecologically or Biologically Significant marine Areas (EBSAs) and helps them initiate an EBSA process. The document describes in detail the process of identifying and describing EBSAs based on the CBD reference documents, but also on…
This document describes the general approach for the development of marine assessments or State of the Marine Environment reporting (SoME) under the Mami Wata project. The methodology follows the structure and approach described in the Integrated Environmental Assessment Training Manual (UNEP/IISD 2009) and offers, depending on availability of data and information, different options to develop…
This document is intended as a guide to assist countries of the Abidjan Convention to establishing a Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) process. The guide provides practical advice on the activities and series of steps required to run a successful MSP process. It also frames MSP as part of an ongoing management cycle, and uses examples…
On 16 and 19 February 2019, the Mami Wata project organized two workshops gathering government officials, experts and researchers on Marine Spatial Planning.
On February 13 2019, the Mami Wata Project team met with national project partners and discussed initiatives that could be replicated in other Abidjan Convention countries.
The inception workshop for the Ecosystem-based approach to an Integrated Marine and Coastal Environment Management Pilot Project found place last week in Amansaman, Ghana.
From 24-27 October 2018, the Mami Wata capacity building workshop on State of the Marine Environment (SoME) reporting and on Ecologically and Biologically Significant marine Areas (EBSA) was held in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The GIZMaC (Integrated Marine and Coastal Zone Management) project in Benin, is one of the three Mami Wata pilot projects currently being implemented in West Africa.
