Africa's Blue Economy: A Policy Handbook

A step-by-step guide Towards a Blue Economy policy

This policy handbook proposes following a step-by-step guide in order to frame the development of a Blue Economy policy. These steps are identified in Figure 9.

Figure 9: Sequencing and steps of the Blue Economy policy development process

Step 1 Agenda setting, awareness, and sensitization

Step 7 Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

Step 2 Coordination in formulating the Blue Economy policy

BLUE E CONOMY

Step 3 Building national ownership of the Blue Economy policy formulation process

Step 6 Policy

Step 6 Policy

Implementation

Step 5 Designing the Blue Economy policy

Step 4

and prioritization Sector identification

Sources: Authors.

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Africa's Blue Economy: A policy handbook