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1st Conference of National ICZM Committees in the Western Indian Ocean

 

The Indian Ocean Commission and ReCoMaP are inviting to the 1^st Conference of National Integrated Coastal Zone Management Committees in the Western Indian Ocean from 24 - 25 March 2010, at Mombasa, Kenya. Official Delegations to the Conference will be coming from all Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) countries and all Parties to the Nairobi Convention e.g. Comoros, Kenya, La Réunion (France), Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia (tent.), South Africa and Tanzania.

The conference, which is intended to be a first step towards a Regional ICZM Policy Platform to be established over the coming years, will have two core themes, i.e.

1. The current status of National Institutional ICZM Frameworks, ICZM Legislation, National ICZM Plans, Implementation and Monitoring. This will be based on presentations by country delegations, discussion of lessons learned regarding ICZM processes, regional cross-reference between countries and discussion of legislative and planning documents; and
2. Recommendations for a Regional ICZM Policy Platform in the Western Indian Ocean and potentially an ICZM Protocol to the Nairobi Convention¹, and 
   

Response from International and Regional Organisations with respect to potential support for the Development of a Regional ICZM Platform in the WIO and potentially to the Development (Drafting) of an ICZM Protocol to the Nairobi Convention.

 

The conference date has been placed just before and back to back with the 6^th Conference of the Parties of the Nairobi Convention (see next news item) as several outputs will feed into the COP6 Experts Meetings (29^th and 30^th March), which will then forward the matters for official deliberation into the COP and Plenipotentiaries Meeting. The Conference will for this purpose send one ICZM expert per country to the COP6.

 

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¹ Convention on the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region