Marine capacity building in North and West Africa |
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| Institution: | 1. Cátedra UNESCO/UNITWIN WiCop, Departamento de Química-Física, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Polígono Río San Pedro s/n, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain;2. Departamento de Ecología y Gestión Costera, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (CSIC), Campus Río San Pedro, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain;1. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal;2. Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Brussels, Belgium;3. Oceanário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal;4. Department of Earth, Sea and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal;1. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBio, Laboratório Associado, University of Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal;2. Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s?n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal;3. Mosquito Control and Research Laboratory, Department of Entomology, University of California Davis, Parlier, CA, USA;4. Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Center of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa;1. Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94 Grahamstown 6140, South Africa;2. Marine Research Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Abstract: | The North and West African coastal and marine areas discussed in this paper consist of the countries from Morocco to Libya for North Africa, and from Morocco to South Africa (up to the Cape of Good Hope) in West Africa. These marine areas consist of a wide to narrow continental shelf, estuaries, lagoons, coastal plains, isolated mountains, mangroves and wetlands. These areas are centres of productive socio-economic activities with a high population density, vast fisheries, and mineral resources. Presently, these resources are exploited with little attention for the environmental consequences. Sustainable management of the marine environment and its resources requires effective management plans and a human capacity to formulate, implement and monitor these plans. However, most of the countries still lack funds, human and infrastructural capacity for the management of their marine territories and its resources. Though there are many universities, research institutes and private organisations with a modest infrastructure for both data and information handling and the management of the marine environment, the region still lags behind in human and infrastructural capacity. Existing capacity development programmes by United Nations agencies, governments, universities, nongovernmental agencies, have so far not been very effective. A vigorous marine capacity building effort is needed to ensure the sustainable management of the marine environment in this African region. Externally funded programmes with a focus ensuring technology cooperation are needed. Such programmes must be based on mutual co-operation and participation of scientists and administrators from the region at all levels of programme formulation, implementation and assessment. |
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