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ODINAFRICA PLANNING FOR 2010 – STEERING COMMITTEE MEETS

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The Steering Committee for ODINAFRICA-IV at it's first session held at the UNESCO/IOC's Project Office for IODE from 20 - 22 January 2010 reviewed the work plans and came up with a detailed implementation schedule for 2010. The Committee noted noted that though they will be requesting for an extension of the project to 31 July 2013 (from the current scheduled end date of 31 December 2012), the institutions participating in ODINAFRICA-IV will have to make an extra effort to ensure that all the planned activities are implemented and the project activities achieved. This means that 2010 will be a particularly busy year for ODINAFRICA. The meeting was also attended by Ms Cornelia Hauke, who will be assisting with the administrative tasks for all IODE projects at the IOC Headquarters in Paris, France.

The Steering Committee noted that ODINAFRICA-IV will dedicate substantial energies to development of products for integrated marine and coastal management, especially at the local and national level. The planned activities under each of the following “products clusters” were reviewed and optimal mechanisms for successful development of the products in the available time prepared:

  1. Web-based data services (including catalogues and archives)
  2. Web-based Information Services (including literature catalogues and repositories, institution and experts directories, inventories of projects)
  3. Mapping, Forecasts (and predictions), and Scenario Development
  4. National and regional portals, as well as project websites and national NODC websites
  5. Communication tools: newsletters, policy and media briefs, African Oceans and Coasts books series

The revised implementation plan for ODINAFRICA-IV will be circulated to the ODINAFRICA National Coordinators, and also availed online.

 

Benguela Current Commission Holds Scientific Symposium

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The Benguela Current Commission held its first Scientific Symposium in Swakopmund, Namibia from 23 – 25 November 2009. The ODINAFRICA National Coordinators for Angola, Namibia and South Africa, together with the ODINAFRICA Regional Coordinator for BCLME region and the Project Manager were among the participants, who included marine scientists from Angola, Namibia, and South Africa, and representatives of UNESCO/IOC, FAO, UNDP, ASCLME, and institutions in Germany, Norway and USA. The ODINAFRICA Coordinators used the opportunity to hold a meeting to review ODINAFRICA activities in the region.

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TASK TEAM OUTLINES PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF MARINE ATLASES.

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The African Marine Atlas task Team met at the UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE from 12 - 14 October 2009 to plan the development of the African Marine Atlas and related mapping activities at the national and regional level.

[Access to videos of presentations made during the session]

The team identified the mapping needs, and the skills and tools that will be required to develop the atlas. Members of the African Marine Atlas Task Team include experts who worked in the earlier version of the atlas, representative of the LME projects being implemented along the African coasts, and invited experts who are involved in other coastal atlas programmes.

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