Our Activities

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Current ocean sustainability frameworks are limited by resourcing, capacity, collaborations and knowledge. At AfriSeas we endeavour to address these limitations by focussing interlinked and multidisciplinary activities on blue financing, capacity enhancement, inclusive partnership development and information management. Leading this initiative is our POISED programme (see Footnote).

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• AfriSeas’ blue financing activities are aimed at the advancing financial support and investment opportunities directed towards a) the sustainable and inclusive resource-use development, and b) conservation of ocean and water systems and resources to ensure future use values.

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• AfriSeas’ capacity enhancement in least and less developed countries is aimed towards blue financing, blends of adaptive and evidence–based ocean governance processes and products and information management strategies and services.

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• Inclusive partnerships are required at various scales to collapse the often highly silo’ed nature of resourcing activities, ocean management and governance and knowledge development. AfriSeas aims to utilise collaborative opportunities and partnerships to align programmes, ensure multidisciplinary approaches and minimise duplication in financing, capacity and knowledge development and uptake.

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• AfriSeas advances ocean sustainable development that hinges squarely on knowledge - policy – practice chains and trialogue governance frameworks of adaptive and evidence-based governance including authority (as rule makers, rule implementors and rule adjudicators), users (as civil society and economic industry sectors) and knowledge (including indigenous knowledge) actors.

 

Footnote:  Our Programme for Ocean Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Development.