European Fisheries Development Advisory Network meeting 2016

Date: 6-7 June 2016

Venue: ADF, 5 rue Rolland Barthes, Paris, FRANCE

Contact: François HENRY

Email: [email protected]

Tentative Agenda & Presentations

Day 1 - Monday 6 June

13.30 Welcome coffee

14.00 - 14.15 Introduction by the Operations Directorate (Laurence Breton-Moyet, Director)

14.15 - 14.45 The place of natural resources in AFD activities (Jean- Luc François, manager of the department ARB, -Agriculture, Rural development and Biodiversity-)

14.45 - 15.00 Follow up of last year EFDAN meeting (Isabelle Viallon, UE)

15.00 – 18.00 Exchange of views on recent developments:

• IUU Fishing issues (EU Eduarda.Duarte de Sousa in coordination with NORAD, Brit R Ø Fisknes and Mark Prein)
• Outcomes of the resumed UNFSA Review Conference (Gunilla Tegelskär Greig, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management)
• Negotiations on ABNJ (Serge Segura, Ambassador for Oceans, Foreign office, France)

16.00 Coffee break

• Forthcoming COFI meeting and the technical consultations (Jackie Alder, FAO)
• Next implementation of PSMA agreement (people tbd, FAO)
• Fisheries Transparency Initiative in Mauritania (Gunilla Tegelskär Greig, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management)
• The German action plan on marine protection and sustainable fisheries, and fisheries as a new pillar of the "ONE WORLD - no hunger" initiative (Ellen Funch, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development/ GIZ)
• The Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI): launch and preliminary outcomes of the Benchmarking Tool (Germany cooperation, Niklas Wehner)
• Other coming events 2016-2017? (e.g. COP 22 in Morocco)

18h00 Cocktail (provided by AFD)

Day 2 - Tuesday 7 June

9.00 - 9.15 Welcome coffee

9.15 - 11.00  Donor coordination

• Brief presentation of the AFD fishing portfolio (Francois Henry, AFD)
• Update on new programmes
• Identification of possible synergies
• By countries:  South East Asia,  i.e. Myanmar, Indonesia, Cambodia, Pakistan, Africa and Indian Ocean : West Africa, Madagascar, Maurice, Seychelles, …
• By Issues: IUU fishing, traceability, working conditions in the fisheries sector, RFMO as counterparts, aquaculture (in Myanmar, cofinancing EU GIZ)

11.00 - 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 12.30 Discussions on Aquaculture

• Research for sustainable development of tropical aquaculture : needs and perspectives (Domenico Caruso , IRD & Olivier Mikolasek, CIRAD, France)
  

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break (provided by AFD)

14.00 – 16.00 Discussion on Aquaculture (following)

• Integrated small commercial fish-farming systems into family farms in west Africa. (Marc Oswald, APDRA, France)
• Financing aquaculture in Egypt (Jean-René Cuzon, ARB, AFD)

16.00 - 16.15 Coffee break

16.15 - 16.30 Next steps for EFDAN

16.30 - 17.00 Conclusion (Operations Directorate and ARB department, people tbd)

17.00 Convivial drink (provided by AFD)

Additional event

Wednesday 8 June – PROFISH Steering Committee

08:00 – coffee

08:30 – Review of projects undertaken over the last 18 months

10:00 – coffee

10:30 – Proposals for projects over the coming 12 months

12:00 – Lunch

13:30 – PROFISH internal review and planning:

1. External Review: results and response;
2. Do we need a new Strategic Plan?
3. Roles and Responsibilities – how do we select and supervise projects?

15:00 – coffee

15:30 - PROFISH internal review and planning (continued):

1. Blue Economy: what does it have to do with PROFISH?
2. Budget Situation and Funding

17:00 - close