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The objectives of REPAO
Our missions
Our axes of intervention

REPAO is a pole which ambition is to become a vast network of actors working in fisheries in West Africa (artisanal fishermen, industrial fishermen, those working in the transformation sector, wholesale fish merchants, governmental, intergovernmental and nongovernmental institutions, development partners etc) who adhere and share the under quoted vision and tend to conciliate the search for competitiveness in international markets, the satisfaction of the populations’ food needs and the durable conservation of fisheries resources.

The constitution of REPAO in a strong, cohesive and representative network meets the need to :

• On the political level: totally take into account the interests of fisheries actors in the national as well as the sub regional and international levels.

• On the social level: strengthen the role of artisanal fishing actors, in particular that of women working in a sector dominated by men, confer a legal statute to the female actors and promote their empowerment towards the wholesale fish merchants and the professionals.

• On a normative hand: reinforce the economic capacities of this profession to progressively ensure the passage towards a durable economy and a valorization of artisanal fisheries (in the long term we would like Africans to get control of all phases of production of the fisheries economy and get the means to ensure the food safety of the sub regional populations as well as the quality of the products)

• From a methodological point of view: adapt the instruments and economic means of development with the various social realities of actors and promote concrete and realizable cases of participated public policies.

The objectives of REPAO

• General objective: create the conditions of a regional dynamic in the stocks management – Incite and promote the emergence of sub regional concerted policies in fisheries reconciling 3 axes:

1. Commercial valorization
2. durable Management
3. food Safety.

• Participative objective: Support the elaboration of participated policies between all fisheries actors, - cause the awakening for a durable management of fisheries – contribute to the comprehension of the constraints and find means to get effective forms of regulation between actors

• Objective of research: improve the state of knowledge of West African fisheries and the new stakes actors must face

• Objective of formalization and political dialogue: contribute to a better coherence in fisheries policies at the sectoral, national and sub regional levels.

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Our missions

• Make of fisheries a turning point of the fight against poverty and a lever of durable wealth creation for communities

• Support the emergence of concerted public policies in the fisheries sectors

• Bring much more coherence between the markets, the systems of production and the protection of marine resources on the local, national, regional and international scales.

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Our axes of intervention

• Undertake activities of communication/sensibilisation and lobbying to promote pluri– actors political dialogue in the fisheries sector and lead to a greater coherence of fisheries, trade and environment policies

• Promote dialogue spheres so as to create spaces of regulation of the strategies and interests of the various categories of actors in order to support concerted and consensual public policies in West Africa fisheries sectors

• Strengthen the professional and organisational capacities of artisanal fisheries’ actors and facilitate their control of the political, social, economic and environmental stakes of the fisheries

• Encourage good governance and co management all over the fisheries sector and at all scales: national, sub regional and international

• Launch prospective research on topics that can lead to a greater coherence in policies and that can allow us give the actors strategic information

• Promote the valorization of fisheries resources in general and artisanal transformation in particular

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