The World Conservation Union (IUCN), FAO, and WorldFish Center are the international partners collaborating in PROFISH; they help develop and promote solutions to core fisheries problems, including control of fishing capacity, management of small-scale fisheries, and illegal fishing. An example of one of the “regional products” of this partnership is the NEPAD Fish for All Summit Declaration and Action Plan (Anon. 2005). Funding: Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa is a GEF-funded initiative involving a US$60 million grant mechanism for country-level fisheries projects. The grant funding is intended to be leveraged at 3:1 ratio to deliver a total investment of US$240 million for sustainable fisheries over the next 10 years. There is a close link between PROFISH and the Partnership. It is intended that PROFISH will work at the country level to prepare some of the analyses required as a basis for Strategic Partnership projects and will also assist in aligning donors to attract the additional funding required. The Strategic Partnership is designed to help apply knowledge, capacity, and science generated through the four GEF Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) initiatives in Africa to build sustainable fisheries and effective governance of marine and coastal resources. These projects (Canary Current, Guinea Current, Benguela Current, and Agulhas and Somali Current) are building a scientific basis for fisheries management and establishing institutional capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is anticipated that the GEF-financed Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Project will further strengthen the fisheries dimension of the Agulhas and Somali Current LME program in Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros, and Mauritius. Other LME projects are in various stages of preparation or implementation in other areas, including the Bay of Bengal and South America (Humboldt Current), and GEF is also helping to create a scientific basis for coral reef management (box 6.8). Box 6.8 The Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building This Management Partnership (US$2.5 million) has established a global network of eminent coral reef scientists working across disciplines to provide the knowledge and capacity building required to base coral reef management policies on sound scientific practices. The Bank also participates in the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI). These coral reef activities are a direct response to the need for ecosystem-based management, providing managers and policy makers with a sound scientific basis for sustainable use and conservation of one of the ocean’s most diverse and fragile ecosystems and the hundreds of thousands of coastal communities dependent on these ecosystems. Source: World Bank 2004 |
  
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