Assess species composition, distribution, abundance of migratory eels and associated fish communities in selected coastal ecosystems and define ecosystem parameters.

Supporting planners in making more informed decisions by improving the available knowledge base on marine ecosystem services in Namibia and providing decision-support methods, including a spatial cost-benefit approach, that allows trade-offs to be assessed.

Producing sound scientific knowledge for the conservation of fish functional diversity from socially inclusive and environmentally-sustainable economic growth perspectives in Senegal.

Updating the current inventory of seaweeds in Senegal, assessing their influence on coastal marine biodiversity and identifying bottlenecks for their recent exploitation.

Optimize conservation policies through provision of key data and models to inform strategies and monitoring tools as early-warning systems.

Finding a suitable and sustainable solution of retrieving ocean and coastal data for decision making processes.

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Integrated ocean governance approaches for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the West Indian Ocean through establishing a science to policy networking platform, promoting scientific exchange, early career capacity development and integrative social learning approaches. 

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Strengthening a science-based decision-making process in support of sustainable fisheries management in the East African region by developing a regional framework for the collection, sharing and analysis of fisheries data.

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Improving the integrated assessment of South Africa’s land-sea interface to enhance the knowledge base for informed decision-making. Generating new data, piloting new technology for coastal and marine ecosystem assessments, filling important knowledge gaps, translating this knowledge into formats that can be used in spatial management, and building capacity in South Africa and the region.

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Supporting the use of new and innovative digital technologies for policy-making in marine resource management in Eastern Africa. Achieving improved handling of biodiversity data in East Africa, through providing and assessing as well as communicating data.

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Facilitating the mainstreaming of biodiversity protection, into the management of the fisheries sector, the Oil & Gas industry and Protected Areas policies.

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Developing standards for a coastal monitoring program to improve local knowledge about the marine coastal environment and the biodiversity around Cabo Verde.