DLIST BCLME was created to help provide access to information for all stakeholders who have an interest in the welfare of the BCLME, its coastal areas and local communities. It hopes to do this in the first place by helping people connect with each other.
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New discussions
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DLIST ASCLME
Did you know? There is another DLIST community for the Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystem, which covers the Western Indian Ocean side of southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean Island States. Please visit www.dlist-asclme.org as many lessons learned can be shared between the two Communities of Practice (COPs).
Film festival
DLIST-BCLME provides access to a travelling film festival that contains a delightful mixture of local and international films from the BCLME region and beyond. The film festival is ideal for group showing as long as there are data projector facilities. To host the film festival yourself, at no charge, please contact the DLIST administration team. For films currently available in the festival click here. For a short history of the film festival, click here; also see more detail on the documentaries.
The Benguela Current Commission
The Benguela Current Commission (BCC) provides a vehicle for Angola, Namibia and South Africa to introduce an ecosystem-based approach (EBA) to managing the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem, or BCLME. It promotes the sustainable utilisation of the BCLME, while restoring, maintaining and conserving the biological integrity of the system.
The GEF-funded BCLME SAP Implementation project provides support for the implementation of the Strategic Action Programme (SAP) of the Benguela Current Commission. Support includes institutional development of the BCC and developing and securing the signing and ratification of a binding multilateral Convention for the transboundary management of the BCLME.
For more information, please go to http://www.benguelacc.org/
Welcome to DLIST BCLME
Current voices: Bontekoe mining disaster
Introduction
The Distance Information Sharing Tool (DLIST) BCLME registered users form an online community from all sectors of society that shares the common aim of promoting sound management of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Join this growing community to share information and make your voice heard through discussion forums that provide input into the strategic action and implementation process for the region flanked by the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem. The web-based platform is also a mechanism to capture, discuss, review and make information available to appropriate audiences and stakeholders - only through collective participation by all parties can we ensure sustainable resource use and equitable development for the benefit of the people of the region and humankind.
The Benguela region is a region with irreplaceable biodiversity...
...it is also a place where millions of people depend on the rich but dwindling marine and coastal resources for their livelihoods. Sound management of these resources requires efforts by everyone. The DLIST BCLME approach aims to make information available to its online users as well as to remote communities that can only be reached by other means of communication. Everyone’s voice is important and no one is excluded. The DLIST web-based platform offers basic distance learning courses and a variety of mechanisms for information sharing.
DLIST Demonstration Sites
The DLIST demonstration sites provide opportunity for stakeholders without access to internet to actively take part in the planning process for the BCLME Project:
