Activities and achievements of EU GoGIN project supporting the maritime centres of Yaoundé Architecture

1. EU project
“Gulf of Guinea Interregional Network”
GOGIN
Bertrand Demez
GoGIN Project Coordinator
www.gogin.eu
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2. GoGIN project – descriptive sheet
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7,5
M€
1,8
M€
2016 / 2020
2016 / 2018
Improving
maritime security
in the Gulf of
Guinea to favor
blue economy
Control of maritime
information
Improvement of national
structures
Improvement of
transnational structures
Team of
12
people
Diagnostics
Organization
Live trainings
Academic courses
Information systems
IT equipments
Legal assessments
Funding
Scope
19 countries
1 interregional coordination centre
(ICC)
2 centres régionaux de sécurité
maritime (CRESMAC & CRESMAO)
5 multinational coordination centres
3 regional universities
2016 / 2018
Main partners

3. Training
3
1. Maritime Safety and Security Course
2. Maritime Data Processing / Maritime Domain Awareness
3. One Week Training
4. LIVEX Exercises

4. Education - in Maritime Universities
4
Maritime Safety and Security Course
• Duration: 2 months
• Promoting and creating awareness for maritime
culture within the civil and military administrations
• Target: YS and national administrations
• When: UNIV CV Mindelo May-Jul 2020 ?

5. Education - on Site
5
Maritime Data Processing / Maritime Domain Awareness
• Duration: 10 days
• Improvement of the capacities and capabilities of the regional
maritime Yaoundé structure (YS) on the management of
maritime data of interest
• Target: YS
• When:
• CMC Z F Nov 19; CMC Z D, TBD in 2020 (they will also serve to train
the trainer including YARIS);
• National level and other Zones: Schedule for 2020 to be determined
jointly with YS

6. Education / Training - on Site
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One Week Training
• Duration: 5 days
• Support on particular knowledge gaps identified in advance by the concerned centers.
• Mainly focused on information management—understanding the information flows existing in a
center—but also concerning the center’s organization, improvement of SOP’s, etc. These are
customized programs, designed to respond to the centers’ requests. They may include paper
exercises.
• Training on YARIS is one the instances of these programs from which personnel will greatly
benefit. A pool of experts from GoGIN and YS will receive specific training directly from the
YARIS developers, and will disseminate the acquired knowledge throughout the region.
• Target: YS centers (mainly)
• When: Schedule for 2020 to be determine with YS
• To be provided on request
• To be provided alongside the deployment of YARIS

7. Exercises LIVEX
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Zonal and National exercises (LIVEX) supported by GoGIN
• With the general purpose of promoting inter-administration collaboration and exchange of
information both at and within the national level
• To support national specific goals, such as national strategy development, or the
development and test of national plans (e.g., SAR or anti-piracy plans)
• It includes 3–5 days of preparation workshops (INN, Piracy, Anti-Pol, Crisis Response…)
• Whenever possible, with the participation of other partners: PESCAO, COREP, GI WACAF,
INTERPOL, UNODC
• Zone G – December 19
• Zone F – TBD 2020
• Nigeria - ? 2020

8. LIVEX Exercises
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Participation in the annual international maritime LIVEX :
• Obangame Express (generally in March)
• MEGALOPS (generally in June)
• Gran NEMO (October)

9. Global achievements
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10. Information System YARIS

11. ICC
(Cameroon)
CRESMAO
(Côte d’Ivoire)
MCC Zone E
(Benin)
MOC
Bénin
MOC
Nigéria
MOC
Togo
MCC Zone F
(Ghana)
MOC
Côte d’Ivoire
MOC
Guinea Conacry
MOC
Sierra Leone
MOC
Liberia
MOC
Ghana
MCC Zone G
(Cabo Verde)
MOC
Senegal
MOC
Cabo Verde
MOC
Gambia
MOC
Guiné Bissau
CRESMAC
(Congo)
MCC Zone A
(Angola)
MOC
D. R. Congo
MOC
Angola
MOC
Congo
MCC Zone D
(Cameroon)
MOC
Cameroon
MOC
Gabon
MOC
Eq. Guinea
MOC
S. T. Príncipe
Roll out
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Ongoing
Planned
Unplanned
Complete
Infrastructure
Internet
TESS
YARIS
Component
Status
* Status as of October, 2019

12. Workplan
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07.19 08.19 09.19 10.19 11.19 12.19 01.20 02.20 03.20 04.20 05.20 06.20 07.20
INTERNET
INFRASTRUCTURE
TESS
YARIS
Definition
08.20
Definition Procurement Implementation Maintenance and support
Procurement Phase I (to reach IOC) Phase II (to reach FOC) Phase III (Maintenance & support)
Procurement Phase I ( to reach IOC) Phase II (to reach FOC) Phase III (Maint. & support)
HANDOVER Preparation Execution
07.20 08.20
21.08.2020
End of
technical work
Procurement & implementation (by the ICC & operations centres, supported by GoGIN)
IOC (Initial Operational Capability) includes priority requirements’ implementation (development, testing, deployment and users training)
FOC (Final Operational Capability) includes secondary and optional requirements’ implementation (development, testing, deployment and users training), maintenance and support
Maintenance and support includes changing and adding new requirements to a certain extent

13. GoGIN sur le Net – GoGIN in the Net
▰ Web - https://www.gogin.eu/
▪ Publié en français et anglais + traduction en espagnol et portugais
▪ Published in French and English + translation in Spanish and Portuguese
▰ Twitter - @GOGIN_project
▪ Actus du projet et actus du Golfe de Guinée
▪ News of the project and news of Gulf of Guinea
▰ Lettre d’information - Newsletter
▪ Publiée tous les deux mois en français et anglais
▪ Published every 2 months in French and English
▪ S’inscrire : https://www.gogin.eu/nous-suivre/lettre-dinformation/
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14. MANY THANKS