The Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) in the south-east Atlantic covers the territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ's) of Angola and Namibia and partly of South Africa. Increasing demands, user-user and user-environment conflicts occur throughout the area. The three countries, which are parties to the Benguela Current Convention (BCC), have begun to implement Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) to support the sustainable development of the area and enhance ocean governance. This makes the region one of the first in a developing economies context and on the African continent to introduce MSP. The article (1) traces the origin of MSP in the region and describes the reasons for its development, (2) reviews the status of MSP processes to date at the regional and national level, and (3) reflects on the regional and individual country processes in terms of differences and similarities in approach and process governance, shared opportunities and difficulties. The study finds that MSP in the region is introduced because of both strong interests to use it as a means to help grow the blue/ocean economy and as a mechanism to further the implementation of the ecosystem approach. Similar steps have been taken so far and alike approaches to MSP exist across the three countries, with the BCC as regional convention facilitating knowledge sharing and assisting to improve cross-border coherence and consistency on MSP from the outset. Although challenges, such as limited finances and data gaps exist both at national and regional level, the MSP processes to-date have created an enabling environment to develop the first marine spatial plans in each country and to exchange knowledge and experiences within the region and with other regions.

东南大西洋的本格拉当前大型海洋生态系统（BCLME）覆盖安哥拉和纳米比亚以及南非部分地区的领水和专属经济区（EEZ's）。需求增加，用户-用户和用户-环境冲突在整个区域中发生。这三个国家是《本格拉现行公约》（BCC）的缔约国，已经开始实施海洋空间规划（MSP），以支持该地区的可持续发展并加强海洋治理。这使该地区成为发展中经济体中最早的地区之一，并在非洲大陆上引入了MSP。文章（1）追溯了MSP在该地区的起源并描述了其发展的原因；（2）回顾了迄今为止在地区和国家层面MSP流程的状态，（3）从方法和过程治理的差异和相似性，共同的机遇和困难方面反思区域和单个国家的过程。该研究发现，在该地区引入MSP的原因是出于强烈的兴趣，将其用作帮助发展蓝色/海洋经济的手段以及作为进一步实施生态系统方法的机制。迄今为止，这三个国家已经采取了类似的步骤，在MSP方面也采取了类似的方法，而BCC作为区域公约，促进了知识共享并从一开始就帮助提高了MSP的跨境一致性和一致性。尽管在国家和地区层面都存在诸如有限的资金和数据缺口之类的挑战，