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Gorée Meeting November 14 / 17Th 2017 GORÉE MEETING NOVEMBER 14 / 17TH 2017 ENGLISH VERSION SUMMARY INTRODUCTION 5 PROGRAM 7 DAY 1 8 SMILO PROGRAM 10 ISLANDS PRESENTATION 14 COOPERATION CONTRACT SIGNATURE 16 ISLAND GOVERNING WORKSHOP 18 ROUND TABLE 1 / LOCAL PARTNERS 20 ROUND TABLE 2 / ISLAND/CONTINENT LINKS 22 ROUND TABLE 3 / ISLAND/CONTINENT LINKS 24 ROUND TABLE 4 / INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS 26 DAY 2 28 SMALL ISLANDS ORGANISATION NGO 30 DAY 3 34 BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE ISLAND WORKSHOP 35 GROUP 1 / SAO SMILO 36 GROUP 2 / KYRANIS 38 GROUP 3 / MANGROOVE ISLAND 40 CONCLUSION 44 As the island of Porquerolles saw the emergence During the three full days of the conference, of the ambitious Sustainable Islands Initiative participants were able to discover Gorée (October 2015, France), and the City of Island, famous far beyond Senegal’s borders. A Marseille hosted a technical workshop around small island that was a natural choice for the its famous “Vieux Port” gathering key-players organisation of these important meetings. of all horizons for this project’s first phase of construction (February 2017), it was on Gorée An ideal meeting place: as a fully functioning Island, renowned throughout history, that the town, under the mayor and his municipal latest big meeting took place to consolidate the team’s initiative, Gorée has been committed SMILO program, which aims to support small to environmental protection and sustainable islands towards sustainable development. development policies for about 10 years (particularly ISO 140001 approach, environmental This event stands as an important structural and management system, waste management, decisive step in the 2017-2021 development public awareness and information). It is justifiably phase. a pilot site, as planning, development and investment issues that the people of Gorée face, Gorée (Dakar, Senegal) welcomed the participants often reflect the issues that many other SMILO of this conference from the 15th to the 17th member Islands face. As it is very close to the of November 2017. The event, supported by continent, Gorée Island and its key-players were the French Facility for Global Environment able to discuss the island/continent link with (FFEM), was co-organised by the Small Islands other islanders directly concerned by this subject. Organisation (SMILO) NGO, the Conservatoire du Littoral’s European and international delegation and the town of Gorée. At this occasion, the representatives of 15 small islands in partnership with SMILO (Western Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean) discussed many different topics that affect their territories and outlined their implication in the program: environmental issues, good practices, progress in the steps to obtain the label, exchanging experiences, sharing knowledge and expertise networks… more than a simple “checkpoint”, this conference also formally structured the NGO carrying the program, with the organisation of the first Small Islands Organisation’s General Assembly which determined the composition of its Administrative Council and its Board. SMILO GORÉE MEETING / ACTS - ENGLISH VERSION 5 MORNING ROUND TABLE 3 MORNING ISLAND/CONTINENT LINKS OPENING SPEECH SMILO NGO : Iolanda ALMEIDA OPERATING AND GOVERNING Direcção Provincial da Cultura e Turismo de Cabo Delgado SMILO LABEL / PRESENTATION Tourism on Ibo, source of partnerships. NGO MEMBERSHIPS ISLANDS PRESENTATION Apostolos DIMOPOULOS - Sifnos green cooperative Ibo, Bolama, Emerald Sea, Sazani, Levant, Eigg, Designing the project 100% renewable energy GORÉE ISLAND VISIT Kerkennah, Sainte Marguerite, Zlarin, Santa on Sifnos island. Luzia, Port-Cros, Porquerolles, Pangatalan, Sifnos, Claire MIGNET - Parc national de Port-Cros Principe, Orango, Gorée Concertation in an action perspective as part of AFTERNOON the implementation of Port-Cros National Park SIGNATURE OF THE COOPERATION CONTRACT new charter. BETWEEN ISLAND OF GORÉE AND SMILO NGO NGO GENERAL ASSEMBLY Augustin SENGHOR - Ville de Gorée The island of Gorée, a commune of full exercise DISCUSSION TIME ISLANDS/FACILITATORS NGO ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL AFTERNOON ROUND TABLE 4 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS ISLAND GOVERNING WORKSHOP CULTURAL EVENT LOCALLY TO INTERNATIONALLY Antonio DE ABREU - Principe Trust UNESCO partnership for « Water&recycle » ROUND TABLE 1 : LOCAL PARTNERS project in Principe island. Thomas PAVY - Fondation SULUBAAI Vjeran FILIPPI - LAG5 Creation of a Protected Area by an individual on LAG 5, a local action group to implement LEADER MORNING island of Pangatalan, Philippines. approach on Croatian Islands. BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE ISLAND WORKSHOP Christophe CHEVALLIER - CESC Camille DRESSLER - ESIN The link between civil part, military European Small Islands Network & Smart Initiative Rules presentation part and National Park on Levant Island. Constance CORBIER-BARTHAUX - FFEM GROUP 1 : WORK IN GROUP Emmanuel DIAS - IBAP The example of the FFEM, a financial mechanism Ibo / Santa Luzia / Bolama / Orango / Principe Concerted management between the serving territories to be preserved National Park and Orango island. Mathieu THÉVENET - Initiative PIM GROUP 2 : WORK IN GROUP Gorée / Kerkennah / Emeral Sea / Sainte Maud BOISSAC - City of Cannes The PIM initiative: volunteering for the Marguerite / Levant Local partnerships on Sainte Marguerite Island. protection of the Mediterranean islands GROUP 3 : WORK IN GROUP ROUND TABLE 2 Pangatalan / Porquerolles / Sifnos / Eigg / Zlarin ISLAND/CONTINENT LINKS DINNER AND CONCERT Silvana MONTEIRO / Tommy MELO Create an island committee on Santa Luzia. RESTITUTION OF THE WORKSHOP Tatienne BE - Diana Region Tourist office, manager of the islands of the Emerald Sea AFTERNOON Haitham KHEBOUR - Jeunes Sciences Kerkennah Multipartnership on Kerkennah Island for CONCLUSION preservation of traditional fishing. Manuel Raimundo LOPES - ONG Pro Bolama Create an island committee on Bolama. SMILO GORÉE MEETING / ACTS - ENGLISH VERSION 7 The first day of meeting was dedicated to the presentation, the SMILO program’s progress and its partner islands’ involvement. The later part of the morning ended with the presentation of the islands and the beginning of exchanges, in a round-table format, around the essential «Governing» issue. Exchanges conti- nued until the end of the first day. OPENING SPEECH Augustin SENGHOR Mayor of Gorée Cheikh FOFANA Deputy Director Environment and Classified Establishments Management Dr Henry Mathieu LO First Technical Advisor and Representative of the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development Fabrice BERNARD European International Delegate of the Conservatoire du littoral Maxime PRODROMIDÈS SMILO President WATCH THE MOVIE SMALL ISLANDS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PIONEERS 9 The other twelve islands are part of the SMILO network and are already benefiting from the exchanges of experience generated by these new island connections. They take part in the SMILO technical workshops and will be the next candidates for the label. They are a various islands, sometimes with cultural, historical and READ THE DOCUMENT SMILO geographical ties on the sub-regional level (in West Africa for example), but always driven by STRATEGIC AND THEMATIC a common desire to cooperate to better manage A COOPERATION PROGRAM TO SUPPORT resources. GUIDELINES SMALL ISLANDS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The SMILO program aims to support small islands CLICK HERE towards sustainable development according to strategic guidelines (governing and coordinating knowledge, planning and land development, With nearly forty years of international support for implementation, by sharing innovative financing) and topics (water, energy, cooperation experience, and following the networks, sharing common objectives or even waste, terrestrial and marine ecosystems, PIM Initiative for Small Mediterranean Islands’ provide important contributions in terms of landscapes). success, in 2013 the Conservatoire du Littoral message communication: the PIM Initiative for developed the Sustainable Islands Initiative, Small Mediterranean Islands (PIM), UNESCO, the These guidelines are detailed in the «Strategic which aims to promote an international Global Islands Partnership (GLISPA), the Indian and Thematic Guidelines» document. network of islands committed to sustainable Ocean Commission (IOC), the Priority Actions development, through a label which recognises Program Regional Activity Centre (CAR PAP) of respectful and effective management methods the Mediterranean Action Plan of the United regarding clearly identified themes. An approach Nations Environment Program. that was concretised by the creation of the SMILO program and the NGO of the same name, By the end of 2017, 30 islands (<150 km², which will now take it to a more international without any bridges, clearly detached from the and autonomous level. mainland at low tide, whether inhabited or not, protected or not, from any seas) were part of The Small Islands Organisation association was the SMILO program network. Among them, 18 created on the 7th of December, 2016. The pilot sites are being supported in their labelling Conservatoire du Littoral, which supported it process over the 2017-2021 period. during its creation and remains its main partner, aims to support it towards operation autonomy The FFEM supports the islands of: Kerkennah which will enable it to fully ensure its international (Tunisia), Santa Luzia (Cape Verde), Bolama development. and Orango (Guinea-Bissau), Gorée (Senegal), Príncipe (São Tomé archipelago and Príncipe), After a pilot phase and setting up projects during Ibo (Mozambique),
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