The AEWA Secretariat is pleased to announce that Mr. Sidi
Imad Cherkaoui has entered on duty as Regional Coordinator
for the 3-year project on “Strengthening waterbird
and wetland conservation capacities in North Africa (WetCap)”
as of 15 June 2009.
The WetCap project, which was developed under the umbrella
of AEWA, in cooperation with its project partners SEO/BirdLife,
BirdLife
International, Wetlands
International and the Ramsar
Convention, is closely linked to the ongoing
Wings over Wetlands UNEP-GEF African-Eurasian Flyway Project
WOW. Within the framework of the
WetCap project, capacity building activities will be implemented
in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Mauritania.
SEO/BirdLife, which runs the BirdLife International
Country Programme in Morocco, was closely involved in
the development of the WetCap project and will provide
the coordination of regional activities under the WetCap
project. The project is sponsored by the Spanish Agency
for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
 Sidi
Imad Cherkaoui is a Moroccan ornithologist with a PhD
in ornithology and ecology of birds. In the past he has
worked for SEO/BirdLife in the framework of a LIFE Wetlands
project in Morocco and as Coordinator of the WWF Freshwater
Programme in Morocco. As Representative of SEO/BirdLife
in Morocco and Regional Coordinator for the WetCap project,
Imad is based at the Wetlands Centre in Rabat, Morocco
which was established by SEO/BirdLife under the LIFE Wetlands
project. Imad is fluent in French, English and Arabic
and has a good understanding of Spanish.
The AEWA Secretariat is looking forward
to working with him in the framework of the WetCap project!
For more information on the WetCap project
please contact the AEWA Secretariat:
Ms. Catherine Lehmann
Programme Officer UNEP/AEWA
Tel: +49 (0)228 815-2453
clehmann@unep.de
AEWA Press Release: New
initiative gives boost to waterbird conservation in Africa
(October 2008) |
