Accelerating Progress The Seychelles, with Africa’s second-largest EEZ of 1.4 million km2, has made sustainable development and protection of the ocean a strategic objective in Despite these constraints, several national, both the National Development Strategy for 2015– regional and international initiatives are now 2019 and the Seychelles Sustainable Development under way to develop the long-term [...] Since 2016, Kenya has established the State Department for Fisheries and the Blue Economy; set Key Steps up the presidential Blue Economy Implementation Committee; enacted the Fisheries Management These initial national, regional and multilateral and Development Act; promulgated the Kenya steps have proved to be a substantial catalyst, Coast Guard Service Bill to provide the legal helping create t [...] Building on similar initiatives the Maritime Safety and Security Fund proposed elsewhere — for example, the Union for the by the strategy; and accelerating implementation Mediterranean Regional Stakeholder Conference of the Lomé Charter by strengthening cooperation, on the Blue Economy4 — the AfDB can convene a mobilizing training, encouraging capacity building similar annual continent-wide public [...] At the those vessels engaged in IUU fishing; and building continent-wide level, the 2050 AIM Strategy already capacity for regional and pan-continental action.3 proposes the establishment of an Integrated The AfDB and the World Bank can also explore Maritime Human Resources Strategy for the support to countries most vulnerable to IUU fishing, continent. [...] A new initiative in the period leading up between the New Development Bank and the to 2020 that targets at least two countries in AfDB can help attract the large-scale maritime each of the five geographic regions of the Africa infrastructure investments needed to realize Package.
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