Africa-Press – Senegal. An awareness-raising workshop for parliamentarians, high territorial advisers and members of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) on transparency policies and standards in fisheries governance opened on Wednesday , in Dakar, noted the APS.
Des parlementaires et élus de la Gambie, de la Mauritanie, du Cap-Vert, de la Guinée Bissau, entre autres, prennent part à la rencontre.
« The general objective of this workshop is to provide parliamentarians, high councils and members of the economic, social and environmental council (CESE) with tools to better understand the challenges of transparency in the management of fisheries », said Ahmed Senhoury, Executive Director of the Regional Partnership for Coastal and Marine Conservation (PRCM)
According to him, it is necessary to sensitize these elected officials and councilors on the importance of fishing in Senegal and on the issues of transparency and good governance to better deal with the problems of sustainability of resources.
Mr. Senhoury underlined that the workshop will make it possible to share and make known to the participants the level of application of the norms and standards of transparency and good governance of fisheries in Senegal.
He felt that parliamentarians, local elected officials and local government officials must be equipped to better understand the importance of fishing in Senegal and the challenges of transparency to « help political decision-making for sustainable management, for the benefit of the people”.
Mamadou Woury Baillo Diallo, president of the Association of local elected officials, for his part, noted that transparency was not just a state affair and that all players in the fishing sector are concerned by transparency standards.
»Il ne peut pas y avoir de perte dans la transparence, il y a que des opportunité et des gains », a soutenu M. Diallo, soulignant que »le Sénégal a déjà les outils qui garantissent la transparence; il nous est demandé juste de pouvoir intégrer les normes internationales ».
A roadmap will be developed at the end of the workshop to « plan and monitor the actions to be taken by the various participating entities to accelerate Senegal’s effective adherence to the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FITI) ».
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