This Conference will gather world leaders to foster cooperation towards a fair blue economy free from fisheries crime. Following the High-Level opening event on December 10, a range of expert webinars will follow. These will highlight different topics related to addressing fisheries crime targeting government representatives, academia and civil society.
The first webinar “Key governance and associated gender challenges to tackling organized crime in the fisheries sector" is scheduled for December 10 at 15:00 - 16:30 CET. The UNDP Blue Resilience project research team will share their key research findings on how governance and gender issues impact the effective tackling of fisheries crime. A particular focus will be on institutional cooperation, including different cooperation models that the research has identified. The webinar speakers will include Julia Kercher, Senior Expert on SDG 16 and UNDP Blue Resilience Lead Governance Researcher, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre; and Medina Thiam, Deputy Director, Maritime Safety and Marine Pollution Prevention and UNDP Blue Justice Lead Gender Researcher Senegalese National Agency for Maritime Affairs (ANAM).