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| ACRONYMS | ANNEX 2 |
Except for more widely known and used acronyms, links to first occurrences are underlined in grey. Links to homepages of organizations are in blue.
| ACCE: | African Council for Communication Education |
| AMR: | African Media Review, Nairobi, Kenya |
| AUPELF-UREF: | Association des Universités Partiellement ou Entièrement de Langue Française, Université des Réseaux d'Expression Française (association of universities partially or entirely francophone; university belonging to French expression network) (Réunion) |
| CBE: | Commission for Biology Education (of IUBS) |
| CBO: | community-based organization |
| CCTAS: | Community Centre for Appropriate Technology in Health (Senegal) |
| CMAP: | Coastal Management Advisory Programme (South Africa) |
| CMSC: | Coastal Management Steering Committee (Kenya) |
| CoastCARE: | (programme in South Africa) |
| CONGAC: | Confederation of Non-Governmental Environmental Organizations of Central Africa |
| CSI: | Environment and Development in Coastal Regions and in Small Islands (UNESCO interdisciplinary/cross-sectoral platform; see also Foreword) |
| CSIR: | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (South Africa) |
| CUREF: | Conservation and Rational Use of Forest Ecosystems programme (Equatorial Africa) |
| DANCED: | Danish Cooperation for Environment and Development |
| DOE: | Division of Environment (Seychelles) |
| EE: | environmental education |
| ENDA-ECOPOP: | Environment and Development in the Third World – ‘Économie Populaire’ |
| EU: | European Union |
| FAO: | United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FEPA: | Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Nigeria) |
| GEF: | Global Environment Facility |
| GIS: | geographical information system |
| ICAM: | integrated coastal area management |
| ICM: | integrated coastal management |
| ICT: | information and communication technologies |
| ICZM: | integrated coastal zone management |
| IDRC: | International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
| IEC: | information-education-communication |
| IOC: | Indian Ocean Commission
Note: not to be confused with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC of UNESCO) |
| ISCM: | integrated sustainable coastal management |
| IUBS: | International Union for Biological Sciences |
| IUCN: | World Conservation Union |
| JET: | Environmental Journalists Organization of Tanzania |
| JHU/PCS: | Johns Hopkins University/Population Communication Service) |
| KEDEF: | Kirikese Environmental Educational Development Fund (Nigeria) |
| LARRRI: | Land Rights Research and Resources Institute |
| MET: | Ministry of Environment and Tourism (Namibia) |
| MINEF: | Ministère de l’Environnement et des Forêts (ministry of the environment and forests) (Cameroon) |
| MINEFI-FNUAP: | Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances, Fonds des Nations Unies pour la Population (Cameroon) |
| MINEPIA: | Ministère de l’Élevage, des Pêches et des Industries Animales (ministry of livestock, fisheries and animal product processing) (Cameroon) |
| NCE: | National Council for Education (Nigeria) |
| NDES: | Niger Delta Environmental Survey (Nigeria) |
| NEAP: | national environment action plan |
| NEMC: | National Environmental Management Council (Tanzania) |
| NERDC: | Nigerian Education, Research and Development Council |
| NGO: | non-governmental organization |
| NTIC: | Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (new information and communication technologies) |
| OAU: | Organization of African Unity |
| PACSICOM: | Pan-African Conference on Sustainable Integrated Coastal Management |
| PANOS: | an NGO for the development of community media and the environment; with an office at PO Box 50596, Ridgeway, Woodlands, Lusaka, Zambia |
| PRE-COI: | Environment Programme, Indian Ocean Commission |
| RTD: | Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam |
| SANCOR: | South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research |
| SEACAM: | Secretariat for Eastern African Coastal Area Management |
| SICOM: | sustainable integrated coastal management |
| SMART: | specific, measurable, appropriate, realistic and time-based (strategy used when developing IEC) (Nigeria) |
| SUBIOS: | Sub-Indian Ocean Seychelles (under-water photography festival, Seychelles) |
| TGNP: | Tanzania Gender Networking Programme |
| UIO: | University of the Indian Ocean |
| UN: | United Nations |
| UNCED: | United Nations Conference on Environment and Development |
| UNEP: | United Nations Environment Programme |
| UNESCO: | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| USAID: | United States Agency for International Development |
| WCS: | Wildlife Clubs of Seychelles |
| WIOMSA: | West Indian Ocean Marine Science Association |
| WLDCN: | Women’s Law Development Center, Nigeria (an NGO based in Lagos) |
| WNC: | Wakirike National Congress (Nigeria) |
