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PART 4 OUTLOOK AND EMERGING ISSUES
» partnerships that drive direct social, economic and
commitments from the agencies such as the
World Bank’s Africa Climate Business Plan,
A FDB’s Ten Year Strateg y (2013 –2022) and High
Fives, and FAO’s Blue Growth Initiative. In each
countr y the assistance is provided through new
investments funded by the agencies as well as
from the Green Climate Fund and GEF.
environmental action to promote the work of the
stakeholders (private sector, CSOs, NGOs and
governments) in transforming the fisheries and
aquaculture sector. It will provide opportunities
for identifying potential strategic alliances among
initiatives of different sectors and actors and for
creating synerg y among them.
Within the African Package, FAO is working with
the two banks in three major areas of assistance:
„ „ development of blue economy strategies as the
foundation for building an investment plan,
e.g. in Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire and Sao Tome
and Principe;
„ „ technical assistance in the development or
implementation of fisheries and aquaculture
strategies with a blue economy or blue growth
focus, e.g. in Côte d’Ivoire and Sao Tome and
Principe;
„ „ supporting countries in piloting blue growth
approaches to strengthen coastal communities,
e.g. in Algeria and Tunisia with a regional blue
growth programme. n
The Blue Forum is open to governments, CSOs
and the private sector and encourages an
inclusive approach. Blue Forum stakeholders will
meet annually at an assembly to review progress
on actions undertaken by the forum and to plan
future work.
African Package for Climate-Resilient Ocean
Economies
In the Mauritius Communiqué agreed in
September 2016 at Towards COP22: the African
Ministerial Conference on Ocean Economies and
Climate Change, African Ministers requested
that the African Development Bank (A FDB), the
World Bank and FAO prepare a package of
technical and financial assistance for developing
their ocean-based economies. In response to that
request, the African Package was presented at
UNFCCC COP 22 in Marrakech, Morocco in late
2016. It provides the framework for the three
agencies to deliver up to USD 3.5 billion in
combined investments covering the marine
sectors of fisheries, aquaculture, tourism,
shipping, ocean energ y, safet y at sea, ports,
hydrological and meteorological ser vices, carbon
sequestration, coastal protection and waste
management (FAO, World Bank and A FDB, 2017).
THE EMERGING ROLE OF
REGIONAL COOPERATION
FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
A growing human population and growing per
capita demand for food, nutrition and other
goods and ser vices means an expansion of
fisheries and aquaculture activities in the
oceans and inland water bodies and along the
coasts, and increased pressure on the
environment and on the use of other resources.
Pressure on aquatic and coastal ecosystems is
increasing even faster than the number of
people on the planet (NOA A, 2013; Neumann et
al., 2015). As awareness of this pressure rises, it
becomes increasingly evident that sustainabilit y
can only be achieved through cooperation
among all stakeholders, as recognized in SDG
17 (Revitalize the global partnership for
sustainable development). The ecosystem
approach to fisheries and to aquaculture
(discussed in Part 2) includes a number of
principles that recognize the interactive nature
of sustainable development:
The package is currently a work in progress, as the
three agencies coordinate and develop its
different components in various African
countries. It is designed to be f lexible enough for
adjustment to the needs of African countries and
other partners.
The package comprises five f lagship programmes
covering four coastal regions and the African
SIDS over the period 2017–2020, and is designed
to address their climate change priorities as
identified in their Nationally Determined
Contributions (see “Climate change impacts and
responses” in Part 3). The approach supports
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