ACAO as member of the Steering committee of the SatNav Africa Joint Programme Office (JPO) IV- participated in its 1st meeting  SC/1 which has been held in Dakar, Senegal the 8 -9 April 2025. The meeting has been co-chaired by the European Commission (EC) and the African Union Commission (AU).  

The meeting was attended by a total of 27 participants from 10 Organisations, inter-alia, ICAO, EC, AU, AFCAC, ACAO Galileo and some RECs.

The meeting was appraised of the SatNav Africa JPO progress status, then the meeting has been updated on the Continental CBA study and way forward. In addition, the JPO presented the SatNav Africa Governance and coordination under the Africa-EU regarding the Space Partnership Programme of the SBAS, while ANGA (Augmented Navigation For Africa) program under ASECNA presented the updated activities regarding the actual coverage of the SBAS in Africa as well as the expected one in the next phase. African RECs also presented their achievement with regard to the cooperation with JPO.  

 The ACAO presented in that meeting the ongoing activities regarding the review of the ACAO GNSS Strategy and Roadmap and the current activities regarding the GNSS.