This is the report of a regional workshop organised under the EAF-Nansen Programme “Supporting the application of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries management considering climate and pollution impacts”. The workshop took place at the premises of the National Fisheries Research Institute (Institut National de Recherche Halieutique - INRH) in Casablanca, Morocco from 5 to 7 May 2017. The main objectives of the workshop were to determine regional priorities within the research themes of the EAF-Nansen Programme science plan, identify specific research that could be carried out collaboratively and to review objectives of the 2017 R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen survey in Northwest Africa.

Ce document est le rapport d'un atelier régional organisé dans le cadre du Programme EAF-Nansen «Appuyer l'application de l'approche écosystémique de la gestion des pêches en tenant compte des impacts du climat et de la pollution». L'atelier s'est déroulé à l'Institut national de recherche halieutique (INRH) à Casablanca, au Maroc, du 5 au 7 mai 2017. Les principaux objectifs de l'atelier étaient de déterminer les priorités régionales au niveau des thèmes de recherche du plan scientifique du Programme EAF-Nansen, d’identifier les travaux de recherche spécifiques qui pourraient être menés en collaboration et d’examiner les objectifs de la campagne 2017 du N/R Dr Fridtjof Nansen en Afrique du Nord-Ouest.

(ENG) This strategy document was formulated to guide the EAF-Nansen Programme capacity development activities. The current phase of the Nansen Programme aims to strengthen capacity of countries and regional organizations for managing fisheries according to the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) through an integrated approach, considering all three levels of interlinked capacity: enabling environment, institutional and individual. 

(FR) Ce document de stratégie du Programme EAF-Nansen a été formulé pour guider les activités de développement des capacités du Programme. La phase actuelle du Programme Nansen, intitulée Programme EAF-Nansen, vise à renforcer les capacités des pays et des organisations régionales à gérer les pêches conformément à l'AEP par le biais d'une approche intégrée qui tient compte des trois niveaux de capacité interconnectée: environnement favorable, environnement institutionnel et individual.

This is a strategy document of the EAF-Nansen Programme, formulated to guide the Programme’s activities on gender equality aspect. Mainstreaming gender and striving for gender equality in fisheries will support the EAF-Nansen Programme in achieving its intended impact: “sustainable fisheries improve food and nutrition security for people in partner countries.” Thus, much like FAO, the EAF-Nansen Programme promotes gender equality in all its areas of work.

This is a strategy document of the EAF-Nansen Programme, formulated to guide the Programme’s communication activities. All the communications goals were designed to highlight the Programme’s successes and potential. The overarching objective of the Programme is to support sustainable fisheries as a way to improving food and nutrition security in partner countries.

The EAF-Nansen Project has designed a university-level training course on the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) and has already run the course in partnership with a number of universities in Africa. The EAF course targets professionals in fisheries research and management institutions, universities, environmental agencies and the private sector. It is intended that the course be mainstreamed in the fisheries training offered by the partner universities. This handbook has been developed to complement the PowerPoint resources and to combine into one document the examples provided in the course, as well as key reference materials, suggested readings, exercises and case studies, for the purpose of supporting both trainers and trainees.