Key Frame Seychelles

[Abbie Buesing]

Built in 1973, La Digue Island Lodge is the first hotel of La Digue Island, nestled amongst lush tropical gardens and a beautiful sandy stretch of beach of Anse Réunion, home to the national monument of Seychelles, the Colonial Yellow House. The hotel is also well known for its iconic A-frame chalets and as a traditional Creole resort on the island of La Digue. Couples can enjoy intimate, exclusive settings while families and children have ample space to explore and be active. Cocktails can be enjoyed with colourful sunset painted skies, while lounging on the beach or pool deck and experience authentic Creole cuisine throughout your stay.

A table with a view of our neighboring sister island, a simple pizzeria style dining moment or an al fresco dining experience awaits you at La Digue Island Lodge. We offer four dining venues in various locations for your preference.

A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer-based information system that enables the capture, modelling, manipulation, retrieval, analysis and presentation of geographically referenced data. They are database management systems that allow the concurrent analysis of information from diverse sources, provided they have geographic location coordinates.

Updating of the Enumeration Area (EA) frame: The Enumeration Area (EA) is a spatial unit specified for household-based surveys and censuses according to the number of dwellings and population size. The GIS unit is the custodian of the national frame used in the sampling process for all household-based surveys undertaken by the Bureau. The National frame is created as a result of each census conducted. However, since censuses are conducted once every ten years (decennial), the frame is updated from time to time through physical mapping exercises. The updating of this EA frame forms part of the routine activities of the unit.

Re-defining the boundaries of the EA: It uses updated household counts and the physical location of social facilities (Markets, Schools, Health facilities etc.), which also serve as reference points to demarcate the EA boundary.

Census cartographic mapping: Maps are needed during all stages of a census or survey. They are required in the planning stages, data collection, analysis and presentation of the results. Census mapping supports enumerators and supervisors to execute their specific assignments, which include the identification of enumeration areas, and the location of households and other structures.

[Sample Enumeration area (EA) Map]

In July 2010, the legal framework of the Bureau was recast and modernized and the National Statistics Bureau Act, 2005, was repealed to be replaced by the National Bureau of Statistics Act, 2010. The institution is now the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and is headed by a Chief Executive Officer.

In the frame of Share Your Knowledge: Creative Commons and Wikipedia for Cultural Institutions a series of institutions have been involved to release content related to Africa and contribute to WikiAfrica.

Soon Seychelles will have a new consumer protection bill for the financial sector. The work for framing a legislation has already started by the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) and the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The consumer protection framework is aimed at ensuring more transparency, responsible pricing, and protection of data and privacy and for redressing consumer complaints in an expeditious manner.

Presently, the law allows both the consumers and the financial service providers to mediate their differences among themselves further to seeking direct mediatory assistance from the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority as the financial regulators.

The bill being proposed will give both regulators more teeth than before. They will be empowered to directly mediate disputes between clients and financial service providers. Non-compliance will result in the suspension of licenses in part or in full, partial or total suspension of products and services or to refund the consumer affected. Legislation will cover banks, bureau de change, mobile money, gambling institutions, and insurance companies. Steve Fanny explained that the input of the general public at these consultations is crucial. The need to introduce a consumer protection framework in Seychelles was among the priorities identified in the Financial Sector Development Implementation Plan adopted by the government in 2014.

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The blue economy has emerged as an influential concept at the 2012 Rio+20 United Conference on Sustainable Development, redefining the role of the coastal and marine space in sustainable development. It has brought to the fore concerns about ocean health in the face of increasing demands on ocean renewable and non-renewable resources, marine pollution, and climate change. The ocean is increasingly being advocated as a development space by developing and developed nations, in particular for Small Islands Developing States (SIDS), and there has been a rapid proliferation of international and national blue economy initiatives (Roberts and Ali, 2016; Patil et al., 2016b; World Bank, 2017; Okafor-Yarwood et al., 2020; Stuchtey et al., 2020).

To date, there are few examples of national adoption of the blue economy as a transformational approach for the sustainable development of the ocean. A recent analysis of how blue economy has been enacted and governed across Commonwealth countries shows an array of plans and policies at different stages of development and implementation and institutional arrangements (Voyer et al., 2022). This review found that in practice, the blue economy may succeed if a more integrated approach to sectoral management is developed; however, there was less evidence that it was successful in driving integration of social, economic, and environmental objectives, with particularly limited engagement with equity objectives across many countries. This suggests the blue economy may not be fulfilling its potential for driving a truly integrated policy framework yet.

This study seeks to explore in depth the merit of the blue economy as an integrating policy setting for the sustainable development of the ocean, in particular the role of governance in enabling integration, through an in-depth examination of the experience of Seychelles, a blue economy early adopter and a global leader in blue economy implementation. Using Seychelles as a case study, we explored the following:

The extent to which blue economy governance arrangements have enabled effective integration of economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability and cross-sectoral policy coherence consistent with SDG 16 and SDG 17 and principles of good governance for sustainable development.

As shown by Cisneros-Montemayor et al. (2021), the ability of any country to transition to a sustainable and equitable blue economy and to benefit from goods and services from its ocean resources depends more on enabling conditions such as socioeconomic and governance factors than on resource availability. This leads to questions as to what type of governance arrangements are best suited to given socioeconomic, environmental, and governance settings. Many countries around the world are currently considering the most appropriate governance arrangements for their context, including whether to strengthen existing governance arrangements or establish new ones.

Although governance is seen as a key enabler to transition toward a sustainable and equitable blue economy, there is no unified definition of governance. It broadly understood to include concepts, practices, and institutions by which societal development is overseen (Rudolph et al., 2020, p. 2). Governance is understood to be a system of values, policies, and institutions by which a society manages its economic, political, and social affairs through interactions within and among the state, civil society, and private sector (UNDP EU, 2004, p. 3). Bennett and Satterfield (2018) defined governance as institutions, structures and processes that determine who makes the decisions, how and for whom the decisions are made, whether how and what actions are taken and by whom and to what effect (Bennett and Satterfield, 2018, p. 2).

The analytical framework focused on the dimensions of good governance related to the effective whole of government policy development and implementation. For example, the analytical framework includes political leadership and stability dimensions but investigates neither democratic processes per se nor the control of corruption, which are important dimensions of the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) as a multilateral development bank.

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