Between May and July 2016, the Regional Maritime University (RMU) in Accra, supported by the EU CRIMGO project, has delivered an eight-week training to 18 mid-managers and operators from seven coastal countries of the Gulf of Guinea (Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe and Togo).
The curricula developed by the CRIMGO team for these training sessions, recently approved by ECCAS as a main element in the regional capacity building strategy for maritime safety and security, will remain in the hands of RMU and full autonomous sessions will be proposed in 2017 to all the states in the Gulf of Guinea and regional centres for military and civil servants as well as to private sector candidates.
This training session was the third and the last one developed in the framework of the partnership between CRIMGO and the RMU. The graduation ceremony took place at the University on 14 July, co-chaired by Ambassador William Hanna, head of the European Union Delegation in Ghana, Dr Gibril Jaw, RMU Pro Vice-Chancellor and VADM Jean-Pierre Labonne, CRIMGO Team Leader.
Another training session is planned between August and October 2016 at the Institut de sécurité maritime interregional (ISMI) at the Académie régionale de sciences et sécurité de la mer (ARSTM) in Abidjan. As in the case of the RMU, the ARSTM will be handed over the curricula devised by CRIMGO, to be utilised also after October 2016, date of the end of the project.
Between 2013 and the end of 2016, the two regional maritime universities (with the support of the EU) will have trained 185 delegates. This new capacity is clearly a successful symbol of the Yaoundé process spirit and a reference point for the other regional initiatives.
For further information about the activities of the CRIMGO project, please visit https://plus.google.com/communities/107942316918319235459
