Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca

Programme Overview

Fisheries governance across developing coastal states demands robust oversight to protect marine ecosystems and sustain local livelihoods.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​⁣ This five-day executive programme in Casablanca equips sector professionals with critical competencies in Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (MCS) alongside post-harvest infrastructure management. Participants examine the practical administration of vessel monitoring systems, dockside inspections, and catch documentation schemes. By addressing the vulnerabilities of both industrial and artisanal operations, the course supports national authorities in curbing illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing activities effectively.

Post-harvest losses present a critical bottleneck in small-scale fisheries, diminishing revenue for coastal communities and compromising food security. The training analyses the technical design, operations, and maintenance of modern artisanal landing site infrastructure. Delegates investigate hygienic handling protocols, cold chain logistics, and sanitary standards aligned with international market requirements, such as FAO and European Union regulations. Through detailed case analyses, participants assess infrastructure models that reduce spoilage, safeguard product quality, and elevate the economic value of landed catch at community ports.

Delivered through a combination of technical lectures and practical workshops, this course guides participants through the formulation of operational patrol schedules and landing site management frameworks. Casablanca provides a relevant regional backdrop, offering institutional contexts and port infrastructure examples pertinent to West African fisheries administrators. Attendees leave equipped with actionable tools to enhance multi-agency coordination, improve compliance enforcement, modernise primary landing points, and drive sustainable resource stewardship within their respective national maritime zones and donor-financed project environments.

Coastal nations are currently deploying substantial development capital, such as targeted 40 million dollar sustainable fisheries initiatives, to regenerate marine wealth and modernise coastal infrastructure.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​⁣ Maximising the impact of these capital investments requires direct technical capacity within public institutions to implement rigorous MCS regimes and manage improved landing facilities. Without capable personnel to enforce maritime compliance and maintain cold chain assets, public resources risk operational underperformance, leaving marine resources vulnerable to overexploitation and post-harvest depreciation.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Casablanca, Morocco, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• International legal foundations: UNCLOS, FAO Port State Measures Agreement, and regional conventions
• Structure and core components of contemporary Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance regimes
• Addressing IUU fishing threats across industrial, semi-industrial, and artisanal subsectors
• National inter-agency coordination mechanisms: Fisheries authorities, maritime police, and navies
• Practical exercise: Gap analysis of national fisheries enforcement mandates and statutory powers
• Technical fundamentals of Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) and Automatic Identification Systems (AIS)
• Integrating electronic catch reporting, satellite observation, and coastal radar feeds
• Developing risk-based risk matrices to deploy enforcement assets effectively
• Theory of change and results chains
• Logical frameworks and results frameworks
• SMART indicators, baselines and targets
• Data collection methods and tools

It is designed for fisheries authority inspectors and compliance officers, artisanal landing site and fish port managers, coastal resource coordinators and marine zone officers and others who want practical, current skills in monitoring and evaluation.

The Growing Importance of Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca

Governments and financiers want to know what changed, not only what was spent. Results frameworks, indicators and credible evidence now decide how programmes are judged and whether they receive further funding.

Many teams collect large amounts of data but struggle to turn it into decisions. Strong monitoring and evaluation links activities to results, shows progress early and supports learning across the institution.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Design results frameworks with measurable indicators
• Collect and check data that can be trusted
• Analyse progress and explain variances
• Plan and manage evaluations
• Use evidence to adjust plans and report results

Strong monitoring and evaluation systems help organisations:

• Show results clearly to financiers and citizens
• Detect delays and problems early
• Improve the quality of decisions
• Meet reporting and evaluation requirements

This Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Fisheries authority inspectors and compliance officers
• Artisanal landing site and fish port managers
• Coastal resource coordinators and marine zone officers
• Project implementation unit staff managing sustainable fisheries programmes
• Maritime surveillance and coast guard liaison personnel
• Sanitary and veterinary inspectors overseeing seafood handling
• Fisheries data officers and catch documentation specialists
• Ministry officials responsible for marine infrastructure planning
• Community fisheries management committee technical advisers
• M&E officers and managers
• Project and programme managers
• PIU staff responsible for reporting

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Training, participants will be able to:

• Assess modern monitoring, control, and surveillance architectures to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing
• Operate vessel monitoring systems and automatic identification systems data workflows for targeted offshore and inshore enforcement
• Formulate risk-based operational patrol schedules for coastal fisheries protection assets and sea-going inspectorates
• Examine sanitary fish handling standards and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point principles applied to landing sites
• Design robust landing site management frameworks to govern operations, cost recovery, and facility maintenance
• Evaluate cold chain infrastructure options and renewable energy applications suited to small-scale coastal fishing harbours
• Establish catch documentation and traceability protocols from the point of landing through primary processing
• Build a theory of change and results chain for a programme
• Design a results framework with SMART indicators
• Set baselines, targets and means of verification

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Training Methodology

The training employs an applied, scenario-based adult learning methodology combining expert presentations with collaborative technical clinics.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​⁣ Participants work individually and in syndicate groups using actual coastal monitoring datasets, landing site layout plans, and compliance case studies. Structured workshops allow delegates to apply theoretical standards directly to operational problems, resulting in peer-reviewed enforcement schedules and facility management protocols that can be adapted to their home institutions.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Training, participants will be able to:

• Capability to operate and interpret vessel monitoring data streams to detect unauthorized fishing activities
• Proficiency in drafting risk-prioritised coastal and offshore patrol deployment schedules
• Competence in executing dockside inspection checklists compliant with regional and international norms
• Practical skill in designing maintenance and operational budgets for landing site infrastructure
• Mastery of hygiene and cold chain standard operating procedures to reduce post-harvest fish spoilage
• Formulation of a complete, context-specific landing site governance framework for national deployment
• Design results frameworks with measurable indicators
• Set baselines and targets that can be tracked

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Results frameworks
• Indicator systems
• Data quality
• Evaluation planning
• Results reporting

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Indicator reference sheets
• Data collection tools
• Progress reports
• Evaluation terms of reference
• Learning reviews

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply monitoring and evaluation within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in monitoring and evaluation increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on monitoring and evaluation. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to monitoring and evaluation that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Casablanca, Morocco brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how monitoring and evaluation is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Morocco

Training programmes and study tours in Casablanca suit government officials, project teams and professionals focusing on international trade, maritime transport, banking and regional economic development.

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Readiness Assessment
• Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca Training Manual
• Theory of Change Template
• Indicator Reference Sheet Template
• Data Quality Checklist
• Evaluation Terms of Reference Template
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Results Framework Review Guide
• Progress Report Template
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions design results frameworks with measurable indicators?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Modern Fisheries MCS Frameworks and Legal Instruments), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions collect and check data that can be trusted?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Day 2: Surveillance Technologies, Vessel Monitoring, and Patrol Planning), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions analyse progress and explain variances?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Day 3: Dockside Compliance, Catch Verification, and Transhipment Control), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions plan and manage evaluations?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Day 4: Artisanal Landing Site Infrastructure and Cold Chain Logistics), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions use evidence to adjust plans and report results?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Day 5: Post-Harvest Quality Assurance and Landing Site Management), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Fisheries Monitoring, Control, Surveillance & Post-Harvest Infra in Casablanca programme take place?

It runs from 19 Jul 2027 to 23 Jul 2027, in Casablanca, Morocco. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for fisheries authority inspectors and compliance officers, artisanal landing site and fish port managers, coastal resource coordinators and marine zone officers, project implementation unit staff managing sustainable fisheries programmes, and others who want practical skills in monitoring and evaluation.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in monitoring and evaluation?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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