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Namibia Hosts UNESCO-IOC and FAO Ocean Decade Training

15/06/2022
Swakopmund, Namibia
13 - Climate Action
14 - Life Below Water
17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Namibia host Angola, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire Ghana, The Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania

Namibia is hosting this week 17 scientists and technicians from 12 different African countries who are undertaking the practical sessions of a blended training course in methods in quality control, processing, interpretation, and reporting of ocean monitoring data from the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen surveys, which will support such methods harmonisation and standardization among the EAF-Nansen Programme partner countries. 

 This course is being organized by the EAF-Nansen Programme of FAO in collaboration with the UNESCO-IOC Sub Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States, UNESCO-IOC Project Office for IODE, and the OceanTeacher Global Academy, and it is setting a corner stone for leveraging regional cooperation in the generation of knowedge products in observational oceanography to support fisheries science and management across Africa.

Finally, this joint initiative aims to address existing gaps and challenges identified in the Ocean Decade Roadmap for Africa in relation to ocean training, research capacities, and equitable access to data, information, knowledge and technology by promoting transformative partnerships for the sustainable development of oceans round Africa.