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- SIREN 2025: GI WACAF leads an onboard exercise on the Tonnerre
- Supporting the “Effects of Oil on Wildlife” Conference
- 2nd Oil Spill Management Technical Workshop & Exhibition taking place in Nigeria
- The GI WACAF welcomes a new industry member
- An new GI WACAF project coordinator
- A new Industry Chair for the GI WACAF project
- The 10th Regional Conference of the Global Initiative for West, Central and Southern Africa (GI WACAF) will take place in Lomé (Togo), 25th to 28th November, 2024
- We are glad to introduce the new Project coordinator: Rim Al Amir
- New GI WACAF Project Manager, Anaïs Guillou
- GI WACAF contributed to the World Bank led “West Africa Coastal Areas 2020 Assessment”
- GI WACAF conducted its end of 2020-2021 biennium webinar - 1 December 2021
- GI WACAF second webinar season in a nutshell
- GI WACAF Q2 Q3 2021 review of activities [infographics]
- 2021 Mid-year review: how did the GI WACAF Project keep supporting the region?
- GI WACAF takes part in the national workshop to launch the coastal sensitivity maps and validate Senegal's Shoreline Response Plan – 24-26 August 2021
- GI WACAF organised a fully online joint industry-government national IMS 300 training and exercise with Namibia – 20 -23 July 2021
- GI WACAF attends the closing ceremony of the MOOC on environmental management of offshore oil & gas activities in West Africa - 12 July 2021
- GI WACAF conducted its first fully online training on liability and compensation in case of oil spill pollution - 28-30 June 2021
- GI WACAF participated in the 2021 Virtual International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) – 12 May 2021
- GI WACAF Q1 2021 review of activities [infographics]
- GI WACAF participated in the virtual meeting to launch phase #2 of the "Sustainable management of oil&gas activities in West Africa" project (COBIA initiative) - 15 April 2021
- GI WACAF contributes to a MOOC on the environmental management of offshore oil & gas activities in West Africa
- New GI WACAF Industry Chair
- GI WACAF webinar series on oil spill preparedness and response returns starting April 14th!
- 2020 activities review: how did GI WACAF innovate to strategically rethink the way the Project supports the region?
- GI WACAF attends DMISA Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR) Webinar 2021 - 17-18 March 2021
- GI WACAF attends CRIMSON virtual Coordination Meeting - International Maritime Partners in the Gulf of Guinea, 17-18 March 2021
- New GI WACAF Project Manager
- GI WACAF first webinar season in a nutshell
- New GI WACAF Industry Vice Chair
- New GI WACAF Project Coordinator
- How did GI WACAF adapt during the first semester of 2020?
- GI WACAF launches its webinar series on oil spill response and preparedness
- IMO and IPIECA reaffirm their commitment to support national authorities to remain prepared for oil spills during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Coronavirus - Message from the GI WACAF Industry Chairman, Rupert Bravery
- GI WACAF activities postponed due to Coronavirus
- GI WACAF attends the mid-term evaluation meeting of the COBIA initiative in Dakar, Senegal
- 2019 has been a very productive year for GI WACAF
- GI WACAF attends the GoGIN coordination meeting in Lisbon, Portugal - 13-14 January 2020
- GI WACAF collaborates with GoGIN to support operational training on oil pollution response – Cotonou, Benin, 25 June-3 July 2019
- GI WACAF attends GoGIN Project Advisory Committee (GPAC) in Dakar – 9/10th April 2019
- GI WACAF attends the GoGIN coordination meeting of maritime international partners in the Gulf of Guinea in Paris – 18th/19th December 2018
- GI WACAF attends a joint Government/industry Incident Management System (IMS) oil spill exercise in Port Elizabeth – 29-30 November 2018
- Change in GI WACAF Secretariat
- GI WACAF attends the scoping workshop for the preparation of the plenipotentiaries meeting of the Abidjan Convention in Abidjan – September 3-5 2018
- GI WACAF and MAVA, a blossoming collaboration
- GI WACAF attends a French Navy at sea response exercise in Brest – September 13-14 2017
- Industry Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) – Plymouth, United Kingdom – September 26-28 2017
- Conference on Marine Safety and Fisheries Protection – Nigeria – July 13-14 2017
- Activities
- The Gambia - Workshop for the development of national regulations for the use of dispersants
- Sub-regional Workshop on handling and administration of claims from oil pollution damages
- Technical Assistance for the development of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
- 10th GI WACAF Regional conference
- Sierra Leone: Shoreline Clean-up training and the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NOSCP) table top exercise
- Ivory Coast - National Exercise POLLUMAR 2024
- Liberia: Technical assistance to strengthen the national accidental spill response system through the improvement of the National Spill Contingency Plan and the support of the development of tactical an operational maps
- Sierra Leone: National Oil Spill Contigency Plan Assessement
- Mauritania - Technical assistance to Mauritania to update the POLMAR plan and develop a policy for the use of dispersants
- Sub-regional Workshop on dispersant use policy
- Namibia - National workshop on role and responsibilities between government and industry in case of an oil spill
- Congo - National workshop ofr the update of the national contingency plan
- The Gambia - National Workshop on Oil Spill Contigency Plan
- Nigeria - Oiled Wildlife Contingency Plan
- The Gambia - Shoreline risks assessment and stakeholder meetings
- Legal assistance on the ratification, transposition and effective implementation of IMO conventions
- Guinea-Bissau. Pursuit of initiated work for the set-up of a national spill response system
- Real scale exercise in Senegal (SAMAREX / POLMAREX 2022)
- Namibia: National Workshop on Oil Dispersant Use Policy
- The 9th Regional Conference of the Global Initiative for West, Central and Southern Africa (GI WACAF) will take place in Accra (Ghana), 7th to 10th November, 2022
- Guinea-Bissau. Technical assistance for the set-up of a national spill response system
- Sao Tomé E Principe. Technical assistance for the set-up of a national spill response system and development of a National Spill Contingency Plan
- Togo. Technical assistance for the procurement of oil spill response equipment and development of a training & exercise program.
- GI WACAF end of 2020-2021 biennium webinar
- Critical review of the draft Coastal and Marine Sensitivity Map of Liberia
- Critical review of the draft Shoreline Response Plan of Senegal
- Joint industry/government IMS 300 training and exercise
- Online training on liability and compensation in case of oil spill pollution
- Preparatory study on the development of a sub-regional agreement for oil spill preparedness and response in Central Africa
- Critical review of the draft National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NOSCP)
- Remote legal assistance to Liberia on the effective implementation of IMO conventions
- Remote legal assistance to Namibia on the effective implementation of IMO conventions
- Remote legal assistance to The Gambia on the effective implementation of IMO conventions
- Remote legal assistance to Nigeria on the effective implementation of IMO conventions
- Real scale exercise in Senegal (SAMAREX 2019)
- IMS 300 Training and 3rd Joint industry – government exercise
- 8th GI WACAF Regional Conference
- National workshop on liability and compensation in case of oil spill
- Transboundary oil spill response exercise between Angola and Namibia
- Transboundary oil spill response exercise between Namibia and Angola
- National workshop on contingency planning and on the update of the NOSCP
- Training on the key elements of pollution response in the case of oil spill
- National exercise to test the NOSCP of Cote d'Ivoire
- National training workshop on Incident Management System (IMS)
- Sub-regional workshop on the transposition and effective implementation of conventions relating to preparedness, response, liability and compensation in the event of oil spillage
- National workshop on shoreline response to oil spills
- National Workshop on contingency planning and the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NOSCP) of Benin
- National workshop for the development of a national system for prevention, preparedness and response to oil spills
- Sub-regional workshop on shoreline response to oil spills
- National OPRC Level 2 Training Course
- National workshop on contingency planning
- National workshop and training on Incident Management System 300
- National workshop on waste management
- 7th GI WACAF Regional Conference
- Sub-regional workshop on the Use of Dispersant and Net Environmental Benefit Analysis
- Table top exercise to test the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan with elements of IMS and NEBA
- National Workshop on Waste Management
- National Exercise to test the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National Workshop and Exercise to test the newly developed NOSCP
- National workshop on Oil Spill Modelling
- Sub-regional workshop on the use of Incident Management System (IMS) and Net Environmental Benefit Analysis (NEBA) in oil spill preparedness and response
- National workshop on Contingency Planning and Sensitivity Mapping
- National workshop to review the Oil Spill Contingency Plan and develop national legislation related to OPRC 90
- National workshop and exercise on Contingency Planning and Incident Management System
- National workshop to strengthen the National system for the prevention of, preparedness for and response to oil spills
- National Workshop on Contingency Planning and Liability and Compensation in case of an oil spill
- National workshop on Contingency Planning
- 6th GI WACAF Regional Conference
- Sub-regional workshop on the challenges related to Shoreline Clean-up and Waste Management in case of an oil spill
- Trans-boundary exercise to test the lines of communication in case of an oil spill
- Trans-boundary exercise to test the lines of communication in case of an oil spill
- National Workshop on Waste Management
- National workshop on Incident Management System (IMS)
- National workshop on Sensitivity Mapping and Shoreline Clean-up
- Trans-boundary exercise to test the lines of communication in case of an oil spill
- Trans-boundary exercise to test the lines of communication in case of an oil spill
- National workshop on Dispersant
- Sub-regional workshop on Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Techniques (SCAT) and waste management
- National workshop to develop the Sensitivity maps of Côte d’Ivoire
- Sub-regional workshop on liability and compensation
- National workshop to develop the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop on dispersants and in-situ burning
- Sub-Regional workshop on Incident Management System
- National workshop to update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop to update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan and develop an atlas of sensitivity maps
- National workshop and exercise to test and update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National exercise “Eagle” to test the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- 5th GI WACAF Regional Conference
- Sub-regional workshop on Liability and Compensation
- National workshop to review the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Preparatory mission for the joint government industry exercise to test the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop and exercise to test and update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop on the implementation of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop on the finalisation of Sensitivity Maps
- Preparatory mission for the organisation of a national workshop on the finalisation of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Preparatory mission for the exercise to test the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National exercise to test and update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Sub-regional workshop on International cooperation and Incident Management System
- National workshop to update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop to develop the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Sub-regional workshop on Liability and Compensation
- National workshop to update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop and exercise to test and update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop to develop the national sensitivity maps
- National workshop to update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National exercise to test the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop on the use of dispersant and local contingency planning
- 4th GI WACAF Regional Conference
- National exercise to test the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Sub-regional workshop on Dispersant use policies
- Joint government-industry exercise to test and update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop and exercise to test and update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Sub-regional workshop on the revision of the Emergency protocol to the Abidjan Convention and on the Regional Contingency Plan and its related documents
- National workshop on the use of dispersant and the development of local contingency plans
- National workshop on the development of sensitivity maps
- National Workshop on Oil Spill Trajectory Modelling and National Dispersant Use Policy
- National workshop for the testing and updating of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan and National workshop on the development of national Oil Spill Sensitivity maps
- National Workshop for the finalisation of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan and the development of oil spill sensitivity maps
- National Workshop for the validation of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National Workshop to Launch the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop for the test and update of the National Marine Oil Spill Contingency Plan And National workshop on the development of national Oil Spill Sensitivity maps
- National workshop on the development of the National Oil Spill / HNS Incident Contingency Plan
- National workshop on the development of national Oil Spill Sensitivity maps
- National Workshop for the Development of the National Contingency Plan
- National workshop on the development of oil spill sensitivity maps and test of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop on the Benin National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NOSCP) and the development of oil spill sensitivity map
- National workshop on claims and compensation for oil pollution damage caused by oil spills from tanker
- National Workshop on OPRC Level 3 Training Course and Review of National Oil Spill Response System
- Regional meeting of national legal and technical experts on the Emergency Protocol to the Abidjan Convention
- GI WACAF Regional Conference 2009
- National workshop for the developement of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop and exercise to test and update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop to launch the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan Training of national experts on sensitivity mapping
- National workshop for the development of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National Workshop for the Test and the Validation of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Course OPRC level 1 and trajectory modeling first responder
- National Workshop on oil spill response and Exercise
- National workshop for the development of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop to test, review and update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National Workshop on Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) Mapping for Nigeria and dispersant use policy
- Ghana’s off-shore Oil Production: Building partnership for the prevention of marine pollution and effective oil spill response
- National Workshop to test and update the reviewed NOSCP, to train on technical aspects of oil spill response and to raise awareness on IOPC Funds mechanisms
- National training workshop on coastal sensitivity mapping and oil spill contingency planning
- Regional meeting for the development of an Action Plan for the GI WACAF Project – Regional workshop on the OPRC-HNS Protocol and on the IOPC Funds mechanisms
- National workshop for the finalization and implementation of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- National workshop for the Development of a National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Launch of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan and establishment of the way forward for preparedness
- First Meeting on the Revised Emergency Protocol to the Abidjan Convention
- Second Meeting of the IMO/IPIECA/IGCC Technical Advisory Group on Development of sub-regional contingency plan and sub-regional agreement for co-operation in cases of major marine pollution incidents
- Introduction to National Oil Spill Response Plans and Relevant International Conventions
- National workshop for the development of a National Marine, river and lake Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Workshop for the development on the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan
- Regional Workshop for the development and the harmonisation of environmental sensitivity mapping in West and Central Africa
- National workshop on Contingency Planning
- National workshop on the Review and Update of the National Contingency Plan
- National workshop on Contingency Planning
- GI WACAF Project Launch
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