Focal Points, government representatives as well as representatives of partner organisations, Indian Ocean Commission and UNEP attended the Nairobi Convention Focal Points Meeting on 26 February 2014 in Mombasa, Kenya. The meeting was organized by the Secretariat for the Nairobi Convention at the kind invitation of the Government of Kenya. The objective of the meeting was to discuss the implementation of the Nairobi Convention’s Work Programme and the decisions of the Seventh Conference of Parties (COP7) that was held on 10 to 14 December 2012 in Maputo, Mozambique including a discussion of national reports. A total of 38 participants were in attendance (See Annex 1 for list of participants). The meeting was chaired by the Government of Tanzania with the assistance of the Secretariat of the Nairobi Convention.

The Nairobi Convention holds a Conference of Contracting Parties (COPs) after two years to review the implementation of decisions of past COPs. The Contracting Parties to the Nairobi Convention held the Eighth Conference of Parties (COP8) on 22-24 June 2015 in Mahe, Seychelles. The meeting was organized in two segments: experts meeting on 22 June 2015; and Heads of Delegation meeting on 23-24 June 2015. At the Heads of Delegation meeting, 15 decisions were adopted.
The Secretariat organised three meetings of Focal Points to report on the implementation of the COP8 decisions and the Convention’s Work Programme. The meetings were held on 23-24 March 2016 in Ebene, Mauritius, on 12 April 2017 in Flic en Flac, Mauritius, and on 17 November 2017 in Mahe, Seychelles.

The Nairobi Convention Secretariat through the Project on the ‘Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for the protection of the Western Indian Ocean from land-based sources and activities’ (WIOSAP) in partnership with the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) and the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) held the 2018 Science to Policy Forum for the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region in Durban S. Africa from the 9th to the 11th of July 2018. The Forum serves as an intermediary body to bridge the gaps between science, policy and practice and facilitates the interface between regional research agenda and priorities that could inform policy developments by member states towards a sustainable WIO region.

The African Ministers of Environment, having met in Kampala on 4 – 5 July 2002, at the 9th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, decide among other things, to fully implement the outstanding activities contained in the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment programme of work, 2000 –2004, and urge Governments to take the action necessary to ensure that the General Trust Fund for the Ministerial Conference is replenished within the intersessional period and request the President of the Ministerial Conference to mobilize additional financial resources from bilateral and multilateral institutions including Global Environment Facility.