FAO. 2013. Report of the Fourth Aquaculture Network for Africa (ANAF) Annual Meeting. Entebbe, Uganda, 4-6 December 2012.

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report. No. 1049

Report of the Fourth Aquaculture Network for Africa (ANAF) Annual Meeting

Entebbe, Uganda, 4–6 December 2012

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rome 2013

ABSTRACT

FAO. 2013.
Report of the Fourth Aquaculture Network for Africa (ANAF) Annual Meeting. Entebbe, Uganda, 4–6 December 2012.
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report No. 1049. Rome. 82 pp.

This document contains the report of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Aquaculture Network for Africa (ANAF), which was held in Entebbe, Uganda, from 4 to 6 December 2012. The participants addressed and made decisions on matters concerning relevant follow-up to the third ANAF meeting. The meeting was attended by the ANAF National Focal Points from nine member countries, two international consultants, two representatives from NEPAD, a representative from ACP FISH II (Eastern Africa), a consultant from the FAO Regional Office for Africa and an FAO Aquaculture Officer. The meeting discussed the steps for the establishment and management of National Aquaculture Advisory Group (NAAG) and National Aquaculture Farmer Associations (NAFA) in ANAF Member Countries. The participants adopted a strategy to turn ANAF into a functional Intergovernmental Organization and they discussed and endorsed the ANAF work plan for 2013. During the session, three task forces were established and elaborated their terms of references for the preparation of three distinguished reports. These reports will describe the measures that ANAF member countries shall take in order to turn the ANAF into an Intergovernmental Organization. The reports will be presented and finalized at the Fifth ANAF Annual Meeting to be held in September 2013 in Dakar, Senegal.

Table of Contents


INTRODUCTION
Opening of the session
Adoption of the agenda
Report of the intersessional activities since the previous ANAF Annual Meeting
Report of the "Role of National Aquaculture Advisory Group (NAGA) and National Aquaculture Farmer Organization (NAFO)"
	Discussion on AAGs
	Discussion of AFOs
	Follow-up
Presentation of the Committee of Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture for Africa (CIFAA) review report and its implications for ANAF
Presentation of the discussion paper on the Aquaculture Network for Africa (ANAF) – Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) transformation process
Terms of reference of the three task forces
Status review of aquaculture development by country – presentation of updated FAO National Aquaculture Sector Overviews (NASOs), National Aquaculture Legislation Overviews (NALOs) and NASO maps for aquaculture inventory and monitoring by the ANAF NFPs
ACP Fish II programme "Strengthening Fisheries Management in ACP Countries" activities/interventions in the Eastern Africa Region and possible support to ANAF
Background on post-Compact National Aquaculture Investment Plans (NAIPs) and the status of NAIP countries that have adopted the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) process
ANAF website: performance assessment and future development: for discussion and recommendations
Programme of work for 2013
Date and place of the next ANAF Annual Meeting
APPENDICES
1 –	List of participants
2 –	Provisional agenda and timetable
3–	The Role of Aquaculture Advisory Groups and Aquaculture Farmer Organizations
4–	Towards an Aquaculture Network for Africa (ANAF) Inter Governmental Organization (IGO) – Small Steps for the Final Leap

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