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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

GMES & Africa  implementation in Western Africa GMES & Africa  implementation in Western Africa Dogbeda M.Y. AzumahRegional Marine CentreUniversity of Ghana

13th EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa

Pictures zone

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

•Project Description•Partners & Regional Bodies•Background•Objectives•UG‐GMES Work Packages•UG‐GMES Services• Feedback from Users

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UG‐GMES

Presentation LayoutUG‐GMES

Presentation LayoutUG‐G

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• Title: Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• Location(s): Benin, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire , Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau,  Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Nigeria

• Funded by:The European Union & African Union

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UG‐GMES

Project DescriptionUG‐GMES

Project Description

Coverage:Lat [20N‐5S]Lon [35W, 10E]

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

UG‐GMESPartnersUG‐GMESPartners

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Institution Country

University of Ghana (Regional Marine Centre)  Ghana

Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR)  Nigeria

Centre Universitaire De Recherche d'Application en Télédétection (CURAT)  Cote d’Ivoire

Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin, (IRHOB)  Benin

Centre for Oceanographic Research of Dakar‐Thiaroye (CRODT)  Senegal

Ghana Meteorological Agency (G‐MET)  Ghana

National Institute for Fisheries Development (INDP)  Cape Verde

Wetlands International Africa (WIA)  Senegal

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

UG‐GMESRegional Bodies

UG‐GMESRegional Bodies

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Institution Country

Commission for Agriculture, Environment and Water Resources, ECOWAS Commission

Nigeria

Sub Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC) Senegal

Fishery Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) Ghana

WMO Sub‐regional Office for North, Central and West Africa Nigeria

Abidjan Convention Cote d’Ivoire

Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre (MMCC) Zone F Ghana

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• The coastal zone is : home to 31 % of West Africa’s population source of 56 % of West Africa’s GDP

• The coastal and marine areas of western Africa is noted for enormous living and non‐living resources that:  provide employment (over 3 million in  the fishing industry) generate income (up to 30% of the GDP is based on earnings from the fisheries sector)

• Africa accounts for about 19% of mangrove cover (3.2 million hectares) with Nigeria alone having an area of 1 million hectares. 

UG‐GMES

Background Facts

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• Three main challenges to coastal and resources management in the region:  Availability of data and information Human and institutional capacities Utilization of information by decision and policy makers 

• GMES & Africa Marine Services in Western Africa will address the 5 main Strategic Objectives of ECOWAS Integrated Maritime Strategy (EIMS) Strengthen maritime governance Maritime security and safety Maritime environmental management Optimize the ECOWAS maritime economy Promote maritime awareness and research

UG‐GMESChallenges & Regional Policy

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• General objective: To provide decision makers with information and tools that would support effective marine and coastal resources management in western Africa. 

• Specific objectives: Consolidate, extend and develop services that will adequately provide information to policy and decision makers, scientists, businesses and the public Strengthen regional and national capacities to generate and apply EO‐based information Raise public awareness on the critical role of earth observation in sustainable development Develop a framework for promoting intra‐African collaboration and open access to data

UG‐GMES 

ObjectivesUG‐GMES 

Objectives

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

UG‐GMES Project Work packages

AFRICA UNION COMMISSION (Project Management Unit)

UG ADVISORY COMMITTEE WP 5: PROJECT MANAGEMENT RCPAC

(Regional Coordinating and Policy Advisory Committee) 

WP3: AWARENESS CREATION  FOR EO SERVVICES IN MARINE AND COASTAL AREAS MANAGEMENT 

WP1: IMPLEMENTATION OF EO SERVICES

WP2: CAPACITY STHRENGHTENING 

WP4: EO DATA ACCESS AND SHARING

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UG‐GMES Work Package 1Implementation  of EO Services

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Service 1: Generation of PFZ charts overlaid with vessel traffic

Service 2: Monitoring & forecasting oceanography variables

Service 3: Forecast of ocean conditions disseminated as SMS alerts

Service 4: Monitoring coastal vulnerability

Service 5: Coastal ecosystem/habitat mapping

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

UG‐GMES

Target Users• Policy and decision makers • Fisheries managers & Ministries; Monitoring, control and surveillance units, Marine police, navies

• Coastal communities and local fishermen• Meteorological Agencies  & Climate and weather forecast institutions• Oceanographers, Marine and Coastal Researchers, Universities• Environment ministries, environment protection agencies• Disaster management organisations &  coastal district managers• Other Marine Operators & entrepreneurs

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• Status: Consolidated EO service of MESA • Products 

• PFZ charts generated using algorithms developed in MESA

• Charts overlaid with fishing vessel traffic; some of the data acquired/disseminated via EUMETCast, web‐portal, geo‐portal, emails  

• Periodic bulletin with daily list of fishing vessels, trip metrics etc.

UG‐GMES Work Package 1 (EO Service 1)Generation of PFZ charts overlaid with vessel traffic

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• Status: Consolidated EO service of MESA 

• ProductsDaily charts of chlorophyll‐a concentrations, Sea Surface Temperature (SST), Wind speed and direction, Sea Surface Waves and CurrentsMonthly bulletins with statistical analysis

UG‐GMES Work Package 1 (EO Service 2)Monitoring & forecasting oceanography variables

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• Status: Consolidated EO service of MESA

•ProductsEarly warning alerts (SMS) on ocean conditions provided to usersSMS texts (“1” for CALM, “2” for ROUGH, and “3” for DANGEROUS) backed with coloured flags.

UG‐GMES Work Package 1 (EO Service 3)Forecast of ocean conditions disseminated as SMS alerts

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• Status: Extended EO service of MESA• Expected products

• Map of coastal vulnerability indices (CVI)

• Information on state of the environment: vulnerable coasts(high, medium, low)• Risk and hazard maps• Forecast of shoreline change

UG‐GMES Work Package 1 (EO Service 4)

Monitoring coastal vulnerability

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• Status: New EO service of GMES & Africa

• Expected products• Maps of coastal vegetation change

• State of the environment reports• Vector(shape files) and raster images (jpeg, geotiff)

UG‐GMES Work Package 1 (EO Service 5)

Coastal ecosystem/habitat mapping

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• WP 2 ObjectiveTo implement activities at regional and national levels to strengthen the capacities of beneficiaries to effectively utilize EO services for the management of coastal and marine areas. • Activities: Develop training materials for on‐site and distance learning

Implement online learning and on‐site trainings for target beneficiaries Award Two Fellowships for Graduate degree studies Facilitate continental training of AUC

UG‐GMES Work Package 2 

Capacity Strengthening

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• WP3 ObjectiveTo Improve communication on societal benefits of EO applications for managing the coastal and marine environment and its resources.• Activities: Develop a Regional Strategic Communication Plan for Coastal and Marine Areas management Develop project website for information dissemination Produce communication and visibility materials Carry out awareness creation events at regional and national levels

UG‐GMES Work Package 3 

Awareness Creation in EO Services

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

• WP4 Objective 4: Design a strategy amongst western African institutions for data sharing• Activities Develop a regional data exchange strategy Provide technical support for use of GEONETCast (EUMETCast) stations Establish a geo‐portal for disseminating EO products Establish an online Learning Management System Distribute archived EO data on storage devices to target beneficiaries

UG‐GMES (Work Package 4)

EO Data Access and sharing 

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UG‐GMES

Feedback from Users

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Forecasting of  Ocean State through SMS 

Production of National Environmental Bulletin

Productions of PFZ leading to Closed Season

Celebration of  Earth Observation day

Engaging Policy Makers

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Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa

UG‐GMES Thank You for listening

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UG‐GMES Kick‐Off Meeting:29‐31 October 2018

Theme: Marine and Coastal

Earth Observation Services for West Africa’s Blue Growth

Twitter: @ug_gmesFacebook: @RegionalMarineCentre