{"id":2608,"date":"2022-01-06T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2024-03-25T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T08:31:46","slug":"strong-high-seas-dialogue-workshop-the-role-of-regional-cooperation-efforts-for-the-high-seas-of-the-southeast-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/06\/strong-high-seas-dialogue-workshop-the-role-of-regional-cooperation-efforts-for-the-high-seas-of-the-southeast-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"STRONG High Seas Dialogue Workshop – The Role of Regional Cooperation Efforts for the High Seas of the Southeast Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 16-17 November 2021, the Secretariat of the Abidjan Convention and the\u00a0STRONG High Seas<\/a>\u00a0project organised the fourth Dialogue Workshop in the Southeast Atlantic region. The workshop brought together more than 50 participants from national governments as well as global and regional organisations, regional scientific institutions, academia, the private sector and NGOs. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was held online.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Under the title \u2018The Role of Regional Cooperation Efforts for the High Seas of the Southeast Atlantic\u2019<\/em>, workshop participants discussed various topics relevant to marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), presented the outputs and outcomes of the STRONG High Seas project and spoke about future work. The workshop provided a setting for States and stakeholders to exchange regarding lessons learnt and best practices as well as challenges and potential points for increased collaboration in ocean governance, particularly with regard to the conservation of marine biodiversity in ABNJ.<\/p>\n The workshop was part of a series of Dialogue Workshops organised under the STRONG High Seas project in the Southeast Atlantic region with the aim to bring together stakeholders to discuss the status and challenges of global and regional ocean governance, as well as foster exchange of knowledge and information, and build new networks. The\u00a0first Dialogue Workshop<\/a>\u00a0took place in Abidjan, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, in June 2018, the\u00a0second Dialogue Workshop<\/a>\u00a0took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in June 2019, and the third Dialogue Workshop<\/a> took place online in February 2021. A fifth workshop is planned for the first half of 2022.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>About the STRONG High Seas Project<\/strong><\/p>\n The STRONG High Seas project (\u2018Strengthening Regional Ocean Governance for the High Seas\u2019) is a five-year project that aims to strengthen regional ocean governance for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Collaborating with the Secretariat of the Abidjan Convention, the project aims to develop and propose targeted measures to support the coordinated development of integrated and ecosystem-based management approaches for ocean governance in the Southeast Atlantic. The project also works with the Comisi\u00f3n Permanente del Pac\u00edfico Sur (CPPS; Permanent Commission for the South Pacific).<\/p>\n The workshop summary can be found here in\u00a0English<\/a>\u00a0and here in\u00a0French<\/a>.<\/p>\n The workshop agenda can be found here in\u00a0English<\/a>\u00a0and here in\u00a0French<\/a>.<\/p>\n The workshop presentations can be found\u00a0here in English and here in French<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tags\u00a0ABNJ<\/a>,\u00a0BBNJ<\/a>,\u00a0CPPS<\/a>,\u00a0STRONG High Seas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 16-17 November 2021, the Secretariat of the Abidjan Convention and the\u00a0STRONG High Seas\u00a0project organised the fourth Dialogue Workshop in the Southeast Atlantic region. The workshop brought together more than 50 participants from national governments as well as global and regional organisations, regional scientific institutions, academia, the private sector and NGOs. Due to the ongoing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n