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Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project

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Over the next five years, the nine countries of the western Indian Ocean region, including Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa and Tanzania, will work together through the Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems (ASCLME) project.
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The ASCLME Project and NOAA formally announced a partnership agreement today at the joint steering meeting of the ASCLME and SWIOFP Projects at the Kunduchi Beach Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Delegates at the 3rd Steering Committee Meeting in Dar es Salaam after
the partnership agreement was unanimously accepted

This agreement formalises and strengthens the already constructive working relationship between the two organisations and lays the groundwork for them to comprehensively improve the collection, interpretation and dissemination of information relating to the understanding of marine and coastal environment of the western Indian Ocean. The agreement will be attached as an additional Annex to the ASCLME Project Document.

For a formal media release, please click here.

Leyla Tegmo-Reddy, Resident Representative, UNDP Mauritius & Seychelles;
David Vousden, ASCLME Project Director and Rebecca Shuford, NOAA
 

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The Project has taken big strides forward over the past year. One of the most important steps it has taken has been to raise the profile of governance and policy issues, as well as the issue of financial sustainability. This is important because we don’t want the Project to deliver a Strategic Action Programme (SAP), we want the Project to deliver a SAP that can be implemented. In other words, there should not be a gap between the signing of the SAP and the start of implementation of the SAP.

I am very happy with the Project Coordination Unit. It is not common to have a project running in “real time” like this. I hope that the countries follow this dynamic and that at the country level the work will also be on track.

One thing I would like to make a plea for is stability at the PSC level. We want people to be informed about the project and actively participating in it. But when people are new to the PSC they need to be informed and brought up to speed. Changes at the PSC level set us back.”

Hajanirina Razafindrainibe, Natural Resource Management Expert, Service d'Appui a la Gestion de l'Environnement (SAGE), Madagascar.

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