Key Documents
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International maritime treaties include:
1. Africa Maritime Transport Charter (AMTC).
2. FAO instruments on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing (IUU) Fishing.
3. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
4. Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA Convention).
5. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS 74).
6. International Safety Management (ISM) Code.
7. International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code.
8. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (MARPOL 73/78).
9. International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, includes the 1988 Protocol (LL 66).
10. International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978 (STCW 78).
11. International Labour Organization Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention 1976 (ILO 147).
12. Maritime Labour Convention, 2006.
13. International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992.
14. International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992 (CLC/Fund 92).
15. Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast (BWM).
16. Anti-fouling Systems (AFS).
17. Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims (LLMC) and its 1996 Protocol.
18. Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea (HNS).
19. Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage (Bunkers). -
October 13, 2011
Monitoring & Evaluation Indicator Reference Guide
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Draft Agenda
- October 04, 2011
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October 01, 2011
The Bulletin of Fridays of the Commission Newsletter Volume VOL. 4 No.2 September 2011
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October 01, 2011
African Integration Review
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September 24, 2011
Report of Diaspora Ministerial Conference New York Sept 2011
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September 20, 2011
Kenya Humanitarian Update - 20 September 2011
HIGHLIGHTS
* A recount of applicants for refugee status in Dadaab has found large numbers attempting double registration. The apparent large backlog in applications for registration has been adjusted from 40,000 to 1,909. The average daily arrival rate for the past week was about 1,100 people per day.
* Deteriorating security situation along Somali border and around Dadaab; a vehicle belonging to an international NGO has been hijacked in Hagadera camp.
* Maize prices are on a downward trend but remain significantly above the five-year average.
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September 20, 2011
Somalia Snapshot 20 September
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September 20, 2011
OCHA Somalia Famine & Drought Situation Report No. 14, dated 20 September (covering the period from 15 to 20 September)
HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES
.Partners are scaling up response activities in order to reach the worst-affected population to avert further unnecessary deaths. Food assistance partners have reached 1.39 million people in crisis so far in the first two weeks of September, compared to 1.3 million throughout the month of August.
.An estimated 585,000 urban dwellers in Somalia are projected to be in crisis by December if interventions are not scaled up, a quarter more than the first half of the year.
.According to UNICEF, children constitute 80 per cent of the worst-affected population in the current famine.
- September 16, 2011
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September 15, 2011
Report on the Training of African Negotiators on the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for Mercury
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The main purpose of this document is to advocate and sensitize Africa’s Leaders about the essential role that Intra-African Trade can play in facilitating and sustaining Food and Nutrition Security and consequently the socio-economic development of the continent, in light of the upcoming African Food and Nutrition Security Day (AFNSD). It details the rich background of continental nutrition policies, plans and programmes and emphasizes the interrelationships between Trade and Food and Nutrition Security as well as successes accomplished through boosting Trade.
The concept note describes plans for the continental commemoration of the African Food and Nutrition Security Day (AFNSD) with this year’s theme being “Investing in Intra- African Trade for Food and Nutrition Security”. It will also serve as a source of information and working document for programme managers, implementers and local organizing committees in the Ministries of Agriculture, Health, Trade & Industry, Education, Gender, Social Welfare & Protection, Science & Technology, Economic Development & Finance as well as Local Government Offices, all other Government Agencies, Private Sector Organizations, Development partners and CSOs involved in implementing the African Food and Nutrition Security Day (AFNSD). It provides concrete ideas and strategic actions that inform member states’ commemoration of the AFNSD.
- September 10, 2011
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September 02, 2011
Highlights
• Over 13,600 refugees relocated to Hilaweyn camp
• Slight decrease in overall mortality rate, but under 5 mortality rate
remains a concern
• Further nutritional interventions agreed to mitigate severe acute
malnutrition among new arrivals
• Measles & polio vaccination campaign completed in all camps
• Significant improvement in water supply in all camps
• UNHCR essential relief supply arrived in Gode -
August 25, 2011
Please find below the tentative breakdown of pledges made during the Pledging Conference for the Horn of Africa
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August 25, 2011
Presentation of the Deputy Chairperson during the African Union Pledging Conference for the Horn of Africa
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August 25, 2011
Conference for the Horn of Africa. Joint AU/FAO/IFAD/WFP Paper
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August 25, 2011
Conference for the Horn of Africa. Joint AU/FAO/IFAD/WFP Paper
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August 11, 2011
Congress of African Economists Aide Memoire
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August 09, 2011
UNHCR Emergency Update
Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
09 August 2011Highlights
• Four days since the start of relocation from the Transit Centre, some 3,000 refugees have been moved to Hilaweyn refugee camp.
• UNHCR and health partners carrying out screening and measles vaccination for children aged 6 months to 15 years before their transfer to Hilaweyn
• Preparations underway for the expansion of the measles vaccination campaign to Kobe, the worst affected of all four camps in Dollo Ado.
• Health partners have started a large community mobilization campaign to raise awareness of the symptoms of measles with a focus on the “3 Rs" - red eyes, a rash and runny nose.
• WFP has started distribution of food in Hilaweyn.
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August 05, 2011
UNHCR
Emergency Update
Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
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August 03, 2011
East & Horn of Africa Update - Somali Displacement Crisis at a glance
3 August 2011Highlights
• UNHCR ups its July appeal to include $8.6 million to boost aid to displaced people inside Somalia.
• Plans to deliver aid to up to 400,000 people inside Somalia by the end of August.
• Ongoing Kenya operation moves more than 10,500 recent Somali arrivals to Dadaab’s Ifo camp.
• Arrivals continue to average 1,300 daily at Kenya’s Dadaab camps; slow to 270 daily in Ethiopia’s Dollo
Ado camps.
• July arrivals in Dadaab camps top 40,400, the highest monthly rate in the camp’s 20-year history.
• One in three children arriving in Ethiopia is acutely malnourished.
• Mortality rate increases in July, with up to 1.8 deaths per 10,000 at Dadaab’s Ifo camp.
• Malnutrition rates remain a concern iamong refugee new arrivals in Ethiopia and Kenya.
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August 02, 2011
Click below to access the continually updated breakdown of UNHCR's financial requirements in response to the Somali displacement crisis into Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya, as well as for assistance in Somalia.