FAO and Norway announce new phase of the EAF-Nansen Programme
10/12/2023
10 December 2023, Dubai – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the government of Norway today announced a new five-year phase of the EAF-Nansen Programme at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The Programme is a partnership between FAO, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Norway, regional fisheries organizations and 32 partner countries in Africa and the Bay of Bengal, dating back to 1975.
Norway will fund the budget of 1 billion NOK (almost $94 million) for the new period.