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Science to Governance in the BCLME: 20 years of institutional and capacity building for integrated transboundary LME management

June 11, 2013 STAP-GEF W/S, Washington DC

Hashali Hamukuaya and Nico Willemse

TDA: Major Transboundary Issues

• Decline in commercial fish stocks
• Uncertain ecosystem status and yields
• Inadequate capacity to assess ecosystem
• Deterioration in water quality
• Habitat destruction and alteration
• Loss of biotic integrity and biodiversity
• Harmful algal blooms

SAP: Policy Actions

• Sustainable Management and Utilisation of Living

Marine Resources

• Management of Mining and Drilling Impacts
• Oil and gas exploration and production
• Environmental Variability, Ecosystem Impacts and

Improvement of Predictability

• Coastal Zone Management
• Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and Protection of

Biodiversity

• Capacity strengthening
• Socio-economic and Governance
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• Annual monitoring and assessments of

commercial fish stocks through transboundary surveys

• Assessment of interactions between shared

demersal fish stocks in southern Angola and northern Namibia

• Assessment of early history and stock

identity for shared hake (Namibia and SA) and horse mackerel (Angola and Nam)

• Annual overall stock assessment report –

State of the Stocks Report published for 2012

• Joint Management Plans for horse mackerel
• Regional Stock Assessment Working Group
• EAF review of institutional capacities and

ecological risk assessment of major species

Sustainable management and use of LMRs

• Minerals and Oil sector very

instrumental during Convention text development

• Scoping study for Strategic

Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the BCLME completed, taking into account all marine sectors

• Working Group on Minerals and

Extractive Resources established

• Private sector indicate strong interest

for partnership – BCC Business Leadership Forum planned Management of Mining and Drilling Activities

• Environmental links to pelagic fish life

cycles, abundance and distribution: determining governing factors

• Impacts of H2S and low oxygen on inshore

marine species – mass mortalities and walk-outs recorded in the past

• Understanding of the impacts of climate

variability on the environment and on the resources and on communities

• Collaboration with GOOS-Africa and ODIN

Africa improves access to high resolution

• ceanographic data

Environmental variability, ecosystem impacts and improvements

• f predictability

SHBML Bottom Oxygen March 2000 - October 2006

20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 DISTANCE OFFSHORE (km)

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Concentration of dissolved oxygen

• Angola and Namibia at advanced

stages to accede to the Abidjan Convention

• Closer

collaboration established with IMO especially on regional oil spills contingency planning and regional Oil Spill Risk Assessment (OSRA) and sensitivity mapping Management of pollution

• Spatial biodiversity assessment and spatial

management, including mapping of areas proposed for marine protected areas (MPAs)

• Development of acoustic methodology for

zooplankton biomass assessment

• Implementation of Continuous Plankton

Recorder (CPR) survey in the BCLME – first cruise in August 2011

• Management planning for the Orange

River Mouth estuary underway – collaboration with GEF IW Project on ORM

Maintenance of ecosystem health and protection of biodiversity

• BCC’s Training and Capacity Building (TCB) Strategy

implemented since 2009

• Training Policy adopted in 2012
• BCC TCB Advisory Group in established
• Significant training and capacity building in each of

the projects

• Training offered in specialised fields e.g., Fish Stock

Assessment, hydro-acoustic surveys, responsible fisheries and fisheries management

• BCC supports various workshops and events where

skills are exchanged about LME approach, ocean governance

Training and capacity building

• BCC Instruments
• BCC Convention signed in

March 2013. First multi- sectorial LME framework

• Finance Policy, Personnel

Policy and Procurement Policy, Data Policy adopted

• Reviewing and updating
• f the TDA, SAP and

Science Programme to be completed by August

• Structures and functions

in place:

• Ministerial Conference,
• Management Board,
• Ecosystem Advisory

Committee (EAC),

• Regional thematic

working groups

• The Secretariat

Institutional Building

• Norway – BCC Science Programme
• Iceland – BCC Training and Capacity

Building Strategy

• FAO EAF-Nansen Project– Implementation
• f EAF projects and on climate change

vulnerability

• Danish Technical University (DTU) and EU –

improving stock assessment

• ODIN Africa (improved data management)
• ASCLME, GCLME and CCLME (African LME

Caucus) – which is a network that collaborates on issues of common interest.

Wider Cooperation

Concluding remarks:

Where we are:

• BCC is an established Commission with requisite

structures and functions, due to:

• Unwavering political will and support by the BCC

Ministers

• Support from GEF, other developing partners

Where we are heading:

• Finalising the updating of the TDA/ Strategic

Action Programme

• Sustainability of BCC – ensuring support to

implement the Convention and thus scaling up “Science-to-Governance”

• Establish partnerships with the private sector,

academia and relevant organisations