Benguela current large marine ecosystem program

Mission The mission of the initiative is to create sustainable, integrated management of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem using an ecosystem approach across political boundaries. The application of the precautionary principle to all matters appertaining to the LME.

The adoption of anticipatory and cooperative actions and agreements. The use of clean technologies and phasing out of high waste-generating processes. Transboundary cooperation between states and within the private sector.

The encouragement of full participation and transparency with and between all LME stakeholders. Ministerial Conference. The BCC is guided by a Ministerial Conference, which includes high-level delegates from the three nations, who can approve changes to the Strategic Action Programme and develop broad policy. Management Board. The Management Board includes a delegate from each nation and is charged with promoting coordinated regional approaches to dealing with resource management issues, coordinating the implementation of the Strategic Action Programme, ensuring adequate stakeholder consultation, and interpreting and applying policy from the Ministerial Conference.

The position of chairman will rotate among the three nations. An executive secretary is appointed by the Management Board to oversee the Secretariat, which conducts administrative functions, prepares reports and assessments, and draws up work plans. Ecosystem Advisory Committee. The Ecosystem Advisory Committee includes experts named by the three nations to provide the best available scientific, management, legal and other information, and to build the capacity within the three nations to provide expert advice.

Threats Threats to the ecosystem, however, are becoming more pressing and rapid degradation of coastal habitat has been observed.

The Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem Programme sponsored about projects in the region to support the following strategies: Capacity Strengthening Opportunities for scientists and researchers in the region needed to be improved to develop the human capital that would allow the governments of Angola, Namibia and South Africa to execute scientific monitoring and research to maintain effective management of the marine resources.

Policy Development and Harmonization Advice and recommendations were needed to assist the three nations in developing and harmonizing policy, and developing management tools to improve the ecosystem. Targeted areas included: Management policies for shared fish stocks and fishery conservation measures. For more information on the Benguela Current Commission and its activities, please visit: www.

Protecting Benguela together. Feature Story. July 23, Swakopmund, Namibia. A pelican flying over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Swakopmund, Namibia. Fish processing factory in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Marine ecosystem projects supported by the GEF use science-based tools to provide forecasting and recommendations so that stakeholders at all levels can adapt to highly variable climate and long-term climate change. All of these compound the effects of fishing and complicate the task of sustainable resource management.

In addition, the Benguela Current is believed to play a significant role in global ocean and climate processes and may be an important site for the early detection of global climate change.

The GEF-supported, ecosystem-based approach in the Benguela region and elsewhere is building political and stakeholder commitment to action, setting the stage for the world community to invest in capacity building and technology.

The participatory process relies on sound science to generate political solutions and commitments to reverse marine degradation and resource depletion. With more than million people around the world directly dependant on fisheries for food security, cooperative efforts like those supporting sustainable use of the Benguela Current will be essential to securing the oceans and their resources and reducing poverty. Sustainable fisheries management, pollution control, the maintenance of essential habitats, and the creation of marine reserves will prove good investments in the productivity and value of the goods and services that the oceans provides to humanity.

The Benguela current. Feature Story. May 1, The Benguela Current template. Large Marine Ecosystems. South Africa. Related Content. Related News. Integrated fisheries management for coastal communities' resilience in Guinea.

November 18, Please check you local newspapers for vacancy announcements. The Benguela Current Convention offers various employment opportunities at its Secretariat and through its various projects that are based within the Secretariat and the Parties.

We offer the following employment categories,. Professional Category:. These are positions of high responsibility of a managerial, professional or scientific nature. These positions are filled by appropriately qualified professionals, preferably with post graduate qualifications or the equivalent.

Staff members in this category are recruited from Contracting Parties. General Services Category:. These are auxiliary administrative and technical positions; clerical, secretarial and other office personnel. Such staff members are recruited in Namibia from among Namibian nationals and citizens of Contracting Parties with permanent residence in Namibia.

Projects Staff. These are positions that are available within projects and for the duration of such projects. As BCC is dependent on donor funding for its project expenses, consideration shall be given to lack of funding to the particular project and the costs associated with such.

The BCC reserves the right to terminate the employment of one or more individuals involved with projects that does not have enough funding. Special Service Agreements shall not be classified as staff members. The BCC also offers opportunities through its procurement process.