At the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress, held from 3 to 9 February 2023 in Vancouver (Canada), Senegal was designated as the host country for the Sixth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC6).

The choice of Senegal is justified not only by its extensive experience in the management and community-based governance of its network of marine protected areas, but also by the widely recognised quality of its organisation of major international events such as the World Water Forum in 2022.

As well as enhancing Senegal’s reputation as a pioneering country in the implementation of environmental preservation and conservation efforts, this congress is fully in line with environmental and climate diplomacy. It is aligned with various international multilateral agendas, notably the International Congress of National Parks, the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, etc.

It aims to bring together national, regional and international stakeholders in marine conservation to share best practice, strengthen the governance of marine protected areas and propose concrete actions to achieve common objectives.

To ensure the successful organisation of this important meeting and to encourage participation from stakeholders in the Global South, the various pricing options are summarised in the table below: