Agenda
Sunday 1st April
ARRIVAL DAY
Monday 2nd April
INTRODUCTIONS
0830-0900 Workshop Registration
0900-1000 Welcome Addresses
Dr. Saleem Badat, Rhodes University
Mish Hamid, GEF IW:LEARN
David Vousden, Agulhas & Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystem
Stefano Barchiesi, IUCN
1000-1030 Tour le Table / Expectations
1030-1045 Break
GEF IW:LEARN
Session Facilitator: Mish Hamid, GEF IW:LEARN
1045-1145 IW:LEARN3 and its Tools/Services
Mish Hamid
REGIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
Session Facilitator: Warwick Sauer – Rhodes University
Individual Project Presentations focusing on Best Practices and Challenges
1145-1300 Achievements & Challenges in Achieving African IW Project Objectives
Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem project Canary LME
Birane Sambe, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem project Igcc/gclme
Max Donkor, UNIDO/Interim Guinea Current Commission
West African Strategic Partnership on Fisheries Warfp Presentation
Demba Kane, Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission
1300-1400 Lunch and Networking Time
1400-1530 Achievements & Challenges in Achieving African IW Project Objectives (continued)
Volta River project Volta river
Olumide Akinsola, UNEP/UNOPS
Orange-Senqu River Orange-Senqu
Christoph Mor, UNOPS
Botswana IWRM project Botswana IWRM
Michael Raamano, Kalahari Conservation Society
Coastal Tourism project Coast
Hugh Gibbon, UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
1530-1545 Break
1545-1730 Achievements & Challenges in Achieving African IW Project Objectives (continued)
Lake Tanganyika project Lake Tanganyika
Celeus Ngowenubusa, UNDP/UNOPS
Lake Victoria Lake Victoria
Raymond Mngodo, Lake Victoria Basin Commission
Atlantic/Indian Ocean SIDS project & Western Indian Ocean Land-based Activities project Wiolab & Atlantic/Indian Ocean
Doris Mutta, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
1800-2000 Welcome Reception / Braai
Location: Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes
Tuesday 3rd April
REGIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES (Continued)
Session Facilitator: TBD
0830-1030 Achievements & Challenges in Achieving African IW Project Objectives (continued)
Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem project Benguela
Nico Willemse, UNDP/UNOPS
Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project ASCLME
David Vousden, UNDP/UNOPS
Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Project Swiofp
Rondolph Payet, SWIOFP Project
Western Indian Ocean Marine Highway project Western Indian Ocean, Marine Highway
Ravi Naicker, South African Maritime Safety Agency
1030-1045 Break
1045-1115 UNESCO Type 1 University Partnership with Rhodes and potential LME linkages
Jay O’Keefe
1115-1230 General Discussion on Achievements and Challenges
1230-1330 Lunch and Networking Time
1330-1500 General Discussion - interventions and examples from African IW Projects
1500- Site Visit & Dinner
Wednesday 4th April
SCIENCE TO GOVERNANCE
Session Facilitator: Magnus Ngoile, Policy and Governance Coordinator, ASCLME
0830-0900 Good practices in legal and institutional frameworks / public participation Governance-public participation
Katharine Cross, IUCN
0900-0930 Science to Governance - Planning the Mechanism in an African LME Project
David Vousden – ASCLME
0930-1030 General Discussion - interventions and examples from African IW Projects
1030-1045 Break
ECONOMIC EVALUATION AND COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR ECOSYSTEM BASED MANAGEMENT
Session Facilitator: A Freshwater Project or an Agency
1045-1115 Payments for ecosystem services / Economic valuation of water-related environmental assets PES and econval
Katharine Cross, IUCN
1115-1230 General Discussion - interventions and examples from African IW Projects
THE ROAD AHEAD
1230-1400 Lunch and Networking Time
1400-1530 Planning the Way Ahead
Mish Hamid
- Possible Twinning Exchanges and further arrangements
- Priorities for next two workshops
- Reporting process
1530-1600 Any Other Business
1600-1630 Closing Session and Thanks
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- IW:LEARN ICT Workshop
- UNEP/IW:LEARN Regional IT Workshop (Athens)
A Web Based Toolkit for Using Remote Sensing Data
