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.
This 2-year project is one of three Mami Wata Pilot Projects implemented in the Abidjan Convention region in West Africa.
From 7-8 June 2018, the first-ever African Blue Economy event was held in London, UK.
In Côte d’Ivoire, on Saturday 9 June 2018, several actions were carried out, including the cleanigng of Bassam Beach by the UNEP / Abidjan Convention and the Ministry of Waste Management, Environment and Sustainable Development.
From the 5-9 March 2018, the Mami Wata partners and the Benguela Current Convention organized a Marine Spatial Planning training in Swakopmund (Namibia) for participants from West, Central and Southern Africa.
The government of Seychelles has recently announced the creation of new Marine Protected Areas, after a three year long public consultation within the framework of its Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Initiative.
From the 11-15 December 2017 in Dakar, Senegal, the Mami Wata project organized its first Marine Spatial Planning workshop.
On the 27th February 2018, Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet signed a decree establishing the National Parks of Patagonia Network, along with the creation of new Marine Protected Areas.
Join our webinars series on Integrated Ocean Management tools EBSAs, MSP and SoME this spring!