Regional Marine Centre

Abandze, a coastal fishing community in Ghana, celebrated its festival last week with the apotheosis on the 5th and 6th of November 2022. The purpose of the yearly festival is to cleanse, thank and mobilize resources for developmental projects within the community. A team of fishers ready for the regatta, Abandze Being made of strong fishing community groups (canoe and gear owners, women investors, fishermen, fishmongers, and their dependencies), the people of Abandze called upon the GMES and Africa project to support and address the celebrants during a durbar and also the regatta (canoe race) that marked and end the festival. The gatherings served as mediums to promote the safety at sea campaign. A section of the gathering during the durbar, Abandze The MarCNoWA consortium of the GMES and Africa Project supported the organization of the durbar, the mobilization of funds for community development, and the canoe race with visibility materials such as branded shirts, flyers, poster...

The call was made by the Greater Accra regional branch of the Canoe and Gear Owners Association of Ghana during the Safety at Sea campaign organised by the Marine and Coastal Areas Management in North and West Africa’s consortium (MarCNoWA).   Group picture with the leadership of the regional branch of  Canoe and Fishing Gear Owners Association of Ghana, Greater Accra  The ocean state forecast service provided to beneficiary countries is one of the flagship services of the MarCNoWA consortium under the GMES and Africa Project Phase II. The service provides information and ocean state maps to protect lives and property at sea from bad weather. In Ghana, information on the ocean state has been accessed more than 100 000 times via the short code *920*88# since its inception in phase I of the project. The shortcode was developed by the University of Ghana which is the lead of the consortium. At the palace of the Chief fisherman of the Moree fishing town in the Central region...

President of Canoes and Fishing Gears Association of Ghana (CaFGOAG), Nana Kweigyah, called on the GMES and Africa Community not to abandon them and to continue providing the ocean state forecast services. According to him, the ocean state service has made a tremendous impact on the lives of artisanal fishermen in Ghana. He made the appeal at the Launch of the Marine and Coastal Areas Management in North and West Africa (MarCNoWA) Project, under the GMES and Africa Project Phase 2. Nana Kweigyah, President of Canoes and Fishing Gears Association of Ghana (CaFGOAG) More than 75 African experts in natural resources, marine and coastal areas management gathered in Accra-Ghana to launch the MarCNoWA Project on the 6th of July 2022 in Accra, Ghana. The launch brought experts from the GMES & Africa consortia of institutions, the African Union Commission, the regional bodies involved in fisheries and environmental management, and Earth Observation practitioners from the private sector, th...

The Marine and Coastal Areas Management in North and West Africa (MarCNoWA) Project was launched on July 6, 2022, at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, Ghana, and was attended by more than seventy-five African experts in natural resources and marine and coastal areas management. Experts from the Global Monitoring For Environment and Security ( GMES & Africa ) consortium of institutions, the African Union Commission, regional bodies involved in fisheries and environmental management, Earth Observation practitioners from the private sector, the partner institutions, and the national focal points of beneficiary institutions were present at the launch. Professor Boateng Onwona - Agyeman, Provost of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS) at the University of Ghana and Director of the project , urged the GMES & Africa community to consolidate their gains from the first implementation phase of the programme and work towards a successful second phase during the opening cerem...