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 resourcing, capacity enhancement, inclusive partnership development and information management within transformative ocean governance

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1. Adequate resourcing (blue financing) is required within enabling policy and economic environments. Such blue financing needs to address both sectoral activity financing (advancement of sustainable and inclusive blue economies) and financing of the protection of ocean environments across a range of finance instruments that require adherence to sustainable and inclusive finance principles.

2. Human and technological capacity requires continuous and updated training that considers ocean change, ocean resource-use change, and evolving ocean knowledge products and processes.

3. Partnerships, inclusivity, and two-way stakeholder engagement is pivotal to ensure the breakdown of ocean governance silos and ensure transboundary and transdisciplinary partnerships, processes and practices. In particular, the inclusion of informal ocean economy practitioners is imperative to ensure their voice in ocean governance through collaboration and co-design.

4. Knowledge – policy – practice implementations of accountable, and evidence-based approaches under adaptive policy cycles, require adequate information management strategies to allow data mining; data assimilation across sectors, authorities and environments; measures of data veracity, confidence and “fitness for purpose”, transdisciplinary big data, and complexity sciences considerations. 

 

The importance of the interlinked nature of these pillars lies in their nesting, in that none of them stand on their own. Blue financing requires capacity, inclusion and knowledge; capacity enhancement and training requires resourcing, inclusion and knowledge; partnership development requires resourcing, capacity and knowledge; while knowledge and its associated management requires resourcing, capacity and inclusion. Each is then highly interlinked and imperative to the transdisciplinary, sustainability, and inclusivity requirements of ocean sustainable development.

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Our Services

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• Training and Capacity Enhancement

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• Consulting and Advisory Services - particularly with respect to ocean and ecosystem accounting

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• Ocean Sustainable Development Planning through our POISED (see Footnote) programme

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• Data, Information and Knowledge Management

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• Resource Facilitation

 

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

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