Africa Safety and Operations Workshop – Recommitting Ourselves to Safety in Operations

Last year, we hosted our second joint Safety and Operations workshop for the CANSO member experts from across Africa. Following on this success, the members have agreed to meet again this year with the aim of bringing together our operations and safety experts under one roof.

The main objective for the workshop is to recommit to our collaboration efforts while reinforcing the safety in operations message. Recently CANSO has made significant strides in delivering on regional programs, namely FRA/UPR and Peer Review Mechanism.  Furthermore, CANSO is working closely with key regional stakeholders such as ICAO, AFRAA, and IATA to delivery on joint initiatives. These new approaches will require new ways of working and more commitment from members. The theme for this workshop is Recommitting Ourselves to Safety in Operations.

Hosted by Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) from 21 – 24 May, the workshop will bring together the regional experts and workgroup members in Accra, Ghana. It will be structured in such a way that cross-cutting issues are covered in the plenary, while giving the different work streams their own breakaway sessions. Furthermore, the workshop will also host global speakers from within the CANSO family.

The workshop will highlight the following activities by CANSO members:

• The CANSO Members have, with the support of ICAO, finalised the process of redesigning the Peer Review Mechanism. CANSO is now working with ICAO to stage a training workshop for the reviewers before the official launch of the redesigned framework
• CANSO, working with regional stakeholders (AFRAA, ICAO IATA and various ANSPs), is the co-lead of the FRA/UPR Trials initiative for Africa. Working within the parameters of the ICAO PMT on FRA, this team is assisting the region in advancing implementation through trials and by taking lessons from global partners in the Latin America region. Part of the next steps will involve the introduction of the CANSO ATFM Data Exchange Network for Cooperative Excellence (CADENCE) framework as a possible support tool for the implementation of Free Routing Airspace in Africa.
• Coming out of the 26^th APIRG (AFI Planning and Implementation Regional Group) meeting, CANSO is recommitting itself to finding synergies and to working with partners in more areas than before. In this regard, CANSO is engaged in the planning phase with ICAO regional offices on Cybersecurity, ATFM and RPAS/UTM initiatives. More details will be revealed in the next few months.

In the light of the above, the core objectives of the workshop are:

• Recommitting our teams to safety in our operations and reinforcing the safety culture message.
• Learning from recent successes of collaboration and finding ways to enhance and replicate them.
• Focus on implementation and meaningful contribution towards regional programmes.
• Aligning what we do to new ways of working including such concepts as the CATS Global Council Vision 2045.
• Address critical topics such “Cybersecurity, AI and the ATM Industry”.

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