1. WP 10 -Capacity Building in North African Countries
(+ workshops of observatory managers)
Daniel Cebrian
8 June 2017, International Day of the Oceans
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2. Why the capacity building need?
Capacity building shortage is a major issue faced by the environmental sector in the 21st century, and there is a key need to exchange ideas, solutions and best practice
More support regarding countries capacity still needed to achieve e.g. the majority of the CBD Aichi targets and UN SDGs :
To undertake effective conservation actions and resource management
For development and exchange of tools, incentives and processes, technologies and good practices
For the full and active involvement of relevant stakeholders including indigenous and local communities, youth, NGOs, women and the business community.

3. “KISSES” approach to capacity building
Knowledge mainstreaming: Guidelines
Information exchange: innovative tools, web based support. Experience share
Skills development: On the job training
Stakeholder networking: Bridging NGOs, communities and official agencies
Environmental awareness: make known degradation challenges and conservation advantages
Sensitizing: brain is the engine but heart is the fuel. This is a key approach for the success of all efforts above

4. Premises to better achieve trainees engagement
The action has measurable outputs, not abstractions on maybe-outcomes
Fitting to local conditions by external trainers. Tailor to local knowledge and uses
Continuous feedback: trainers and trainees hate the thanks and bye-bye
Training of local trainers a must for such field of action
Strategic sensitising and capacitating of key decision makers and local actors very well valued

5. Premises to better achieve trainees engagement
The action has clearly identified gaps where action is needed
Beneficiaries receive what they really wish from trainers! Bottom-up approach needed. Potential harm and disrespect to local pride and actions sustainability if not
Complementarities regarding involved participants networking ensured: not overlap, not gaps, clear roles
Show an extended number of beneficiary organisations and other actors satisfied, and a taste for clear stakeholder visibility

6. Opportunities for better achieving national level upholding
Actions framed in institutions’ engagements (adapting management needed for that):
Periodic programming of key Conventions as well as governing institutions in each geographical area
Pursue CBD Strategic Goal E: Enhance implementation through participatory planning, knowledge management and capacity building; and Aichi biodiversity targets, with emphasis on approaching Community involvement and benefit sharing
Sustainable development goals post 2015: goal 17 on means of implementation and partnerships

7. Opportunities for better achieving national level upholding
Support to Conventions’ Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) instruments
Outcomes of Climate conference Paris 2015
Joining effort of stakeholders for employment-raising: Work shift from development into sustainable resource management paradigma

8. Experience on recent capacity building tools and training actions by RAC/SPA
Tools such as:
Regional working programme for marine and coastal protected areas
Policy and legal frameworks development in Adriatic
Diverse guidelines, handbooks and teaching packages through a six year regional programme
MPAs Roadmap that will bring the required focus in the remaining years to reach Aichi Target 11 in the Mediterranean region.

9. Experience on recent capacity building tools and training actions by RAC/SPA
Tools such as:
Countries’ experts gathered to define in common Med EBSAs
Training on wildlife monitoring techniques in the field
Training supporting communities to develop ecotourism businesses, nature-based products, crafts, rangeland and wildlife management methods, and cultural heritage & environmental education programs in key buffer areas for biodiversity conservation
Press training on diffusing climate change information

10. Principles considered on capacity building and education
Capacity building takes place within individuals or groups of people and cannot be forced upon them: although you can train, you cannot “do” capacity building for others, it is an internal process
Trainees are far more likely to reject information that contradicts their own life experiences or beliefs (Sayers, 2006)
Everybody learns differently: capacity building requires multiple strategies, methods and techniques to serve multiple needs

11. Principles considered on capacity building and education
Developing capacity is impacted significantly by the learning environment: create a stimulating learning environment
Trainees especially need to understand the big picture to recognize the value of each piece of information they encounter
Establish connections between information received and knowledge already possessed.
Participants’ feedback is vital for the effective building of capacity

12. WP 10 Objectives
WP10’s aim is to ensure that the ODYSSEA platform, observatories, and associated services use is mastered by North African countries’ stakeholders, allowing their use at those countries level for monitoring, vulnerability and risk prediction and management, and optimise the availability of unused countries’ datasets for ODYSSEA

13. Task 10.1: Professional workshops for observatories managers within the consortium
Training staff composed of members of the project as well as external advisors, if needed
They aim to develop the needed capabilities for establishment of sustainable partnerships with local end users and local training to operate the observatories
EcoOcean's research vessel aimed to be used as platform for the instruction of various marine sciences methods during the workshops

14. Task 10.1: Professional workshops for observatories managers within the consortium
Three main skills development modules:
Technical skills: needed for the establishment and technical operation of the observatories
Managerial skills: needed for the ongoing operation
Marketing, capacity building and assimilation tools: needed for locating and creating partnerships with end users, and for expanding the circle of end users as the project will progress
Duration M6–M54; Task leader RAC-SPA; Participants: AGIR, NSV, ANDDCVS, RAED, IU, UNIBO, EcoO, DUTH, Sapienza, Alseamar, Develogic, Deltares, AP
NOTE: Also WP 5.3 Trains on use of sensors (gliders...) along M12-M18

15. Task 10.2: Ongoing coordination and support during the project lifespan
Coordination staff and mechanism to assist in the creation of local workshops as well as the coordinated operation of the observatories.
Networking activities, such as local workshops, that will build individual, institutional and infrastructure capacity, including exchanges between North African and European scientists and the setting up and operation of the Model Observatories.
An annual meeting of observatories managers will be done as a side event in the General Assembly or similar, during which operational issues will be discussed and experiences exchanged.
Duration M12 – M54; Task leader RAED; Participants: AGIR, NSV,
ANDDCVS, RAED, RAC-SPA, DUTH

16. Task10.3: Demonstration of platform novelties and monitoring & modelling systems
4 National workshops, in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, to present the main results to local stakeholders and end-users
Towards the end of the project, a meeting addressed to expert representatives of the Barcelona Convention Parties: results, novelties and operational potentials of ODYSSEA presented and explained, to boost use by Mediterranean official institutions linked to ministries in charge of marine environment
Duration M38 – M54; Task leader: RAC-SPA; Participants: AGIR, NSV, ANDDCVS, RAED

17. WP 10 Outputs # Deliverable name WP Lead Type Dis. level Del. date
Training material for workshops 10
RAC
OTH PU
M18
D10.2
Reports of local capacity building workshops R CO
M54
D10.3
Protocols of demonstrations

18. WP 10 and timeline

19. WP 10 and timeline

20. Thank you
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No