African Regional Preparatory Meeting for AEWA MOP6

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Description: 
 
The Secretariat of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (UNEP/AEWA) is organizing an African Regional preparatory meeting for the 6th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to AEWA (Pre-MOP6), kindly hosted by the Government of the Republic of South Africa. The AEWA African Pre-MOP6 meeting will take place from 25 - 27 August 2015 at the African Pride Crystal Towers Hotel and Conference Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. 
 
This meeting will enable the National Focal Points (NFPs) from the AEWA African Contracting Parties to deliberate on key issues of relevance to the conservation of migratory waterbirds in the region, to be addressed at the 6th Session of the AEWA Meeting of the Parties (MOP6), which will take place from 9 - 14 November 2015 in Bonn, Germany. NFPs will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with a number of important MOP6 documents on issues including the development of waterbird monitoring along the African-Eurasian Flyways, potential impacts of marine fisheries on migratory seabirds within the Afro-tropical region and issues relating to the financial and administrative operation of the Agreement over the next triennium. Associated draft MOP6 resolutions on these issues will also be explored. The meeting will thus provide a platform for NFPs to prepare input towards the decisions to be made by Parties at MOP6. It will also enable NFPs to negotiate and establish regional positions on major issues to be presented to the AEWA MOP6.
 
One of the key tools that will be used by the meeting participants is the manual on the roles and responsibilities of National Focal Points for CMS and its instruments (CMS Family NFP Manual). 
 
The organization of this African Pre-MOP6 meeting responds to the need for strengthening the involvement of the African Contracting Parties in the AEWA planning and decision-making processes, as laid out in the AEWA Plan of Action for Africa 2012-2017.  
 
The AEWA African Pre-MOP6 meeting will be immediately preceded by a Southern African sub-regional workshop on preventing the risk of poisoning of migratory birds, taking place on 24 August 2015 in Cape Town. This workshop is jointly organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (UNEP/CMS), the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat and the Coordinating Unit for the CMS Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Birds of Prey in Africa and Eurasia (Raptors MoU), and equally hosted by the Government of South Africa.
 
Both events are made possible thanks to a generous financial contribution from the European Commission (EC) through the ENRTP Strategic Cooperation Agreement between the Directorate General for the Environment and UNEP under a joint CMS and AEWA capacity-building project, as well as co-funding from the Government of the Republic of South Africa.
Dates
25 Aug 2015 to 27 Aug 2015
OrganizerUNEP/AEWA Secretariat
CMS InstrumentAEWA
TypeMOP
StatusOver
CountrySouth Africa
CityCape Town
VenueThe African Pride Crystal Towers Hotel and Conference Centre

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African Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 6th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to AEWA Workshop Report
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UNEP/AEWA/Pre-MOP6 Pre-MOP6 Draft Agenda
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.2 Rules of Procedure for the Sessions of the Meeting of the Parties to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.7 Report of the Technical Committee
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.8 Report of the Depositary (StC10 document - MOP6 document still pending)
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.9 Report of the Secretariat (StC10 document - MOP6 document still pending)
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.11 Report on the Implementation of the African initiative and the Plan of Action for Africa (StC10 document - MOP6 document still pending)
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.19 Report of the Secretariat on Finance and Administration Issues 2013-2015 (StC10 document - MOP6 document still pending)
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.24 Report on the Development of Waterbird Monitoring Along the African-Eurasian Flyways
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.25 Draft International Single Species Action Plan for the Conservation of the Grey Crowned Crane
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.29 Draft International Single Species Action Plan for the Conservation of the Shoebill
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.33 Criteria for Prioritising AEWA Populations for Action and Management Planning and for the Revision and Retirement of Action PLans as well as Guidance on the Definition of Principal Range States in Action Plans
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.35 Draft Guidelines on National Legislation for the Protection of Species of Migratory Waterbirds and their Habitats
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.37 Renewable Energy Technologies and Migratory Species: Guidelines for Sustainable Deployment
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6.38 Review of the Occurance and Magnitude of the Conflict between Migratory Animals of all Taxa and Renewable Technologies Deployment
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UNEP/AEWA/MOP6/DR4 Conservation and Sustainable Use of Migratory Waterbirds (StC10 Document - MOP6 Document still pending)
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6/DR6 Updated Guidance on Climate Change Adaptation Measures for Waterbirds (StC10 Document - MOP6 Document still pending)
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6/DR12 Avoiding Additional and Unnecessary Mortality for Migratory Waterbrids (StC10 document - MOP6 document still pending
UNEP/AEWA/MOP6/DR15 Update on AEWA's Contribution to Delivering the Aichi 2020 Biodiversity Targets (StC10 document - MOP6 document still pending)
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Pre-MOP6 Participants Information Sheet
Terms of Reference - Technical Support Unit Offered by the Government of France to Support the Implementation of the AEWA Plan of Action for Africa (PoAA) 2012-2017 on the Ground
Terms of reference - African Sub-regional National Focal Point Coordinators
CMS Family National Focal Points Manual
UNEP/AEWA/MOP/Inf/6.1 Guidance for Dealing with the Accidental Shooting of Look-alike Species in the Western Palearctic
UNEP/AEWA/MOP/Inf/6.2 UNEP/CMS Resolution 11.2 - Strategic Plan for Migratory Species
UNEP/AEWA/MOP/Inf/6.3 UNEP/CMS Resolution 11.3 - Enhancing Synergies and Common Services among CMS Family Instruments
UNEP/AEWA/MOP/Inf/6.4 UNEP/CMS Resolution 11.15 - Preventing Poisoning of Migratory Birds
UNEP/AEWA/MOP/Inf/6.5 UNEP/CMS Resolution 11.16 - The Prevention of Illegal Killing,Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds
UNEP/AEWA/MOP/Inf/6.6 UNEP/CMS Resolution 11.19 - Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Birds Listed on the CMS Appendices
UNEP/AEWA/MOP/Inf/6.7 The Arctic Migratory Birds Initiative (AMBI) - Workplan 2015-2019