WIO-COMPAS Learning Workshop

The WIO-COMPAS program celebrated the completion of the first generation of the program by holding a learning workshop in Nairobi, Kenya on the 18-19 of September 2012. The goal of the Learning Workshop was to reflect upon and refine the entire WIO-COMPAS program from its inception in the year 2005, to the program’s development phase from the first certification assessment event in 2008 to the seventh certification assessment event that was held in May 2012. The workshop also sought to define a path for the next generation of the program including scaling through continued certification events, the institutionalisation of the programme in the western Indian Ocean WIO Countries and the provision of services to MPA PROs. The workshop was attended by 25 participants amongst them MPA PROs, WIO-COMPAS assessors, key institutional partners and the program secretariat from WIOMSA and the CRC.