Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries
Management Project (OFMP)
Phase II ­ Project Management
Project Design Workshop - OFMP II
7 May 2010, Honiara Solomon Islands


· Implementing agency
· Executing agencies
· PCU
· Multipartite review processes (regional
steering committee)
· National consultative committees


Project Management
& Coordination Arrangements
NATIONAL COORDINATION
REGIONAL COORDINATION
NATIONAL COORDINATION
COUNTRY X
COUNTRY Y
GEF
UNDP
STEERING
COMMITTEE
NATIONAL
NATIONAL
INTERSECTORAL
INTERSECTORAL
NATIONAL
PROJECT
NATIONAL
COMMITTEE
COMMITTEE
FOCAL
COORDINATION
FOCAL
POINT
UNIT
POINT
EXECUTING AGENCY


UNDP as the Implementing
Agency
· Four major advantages:
- GEF council identifies UNDP as having comparative advantage in
design & delivery of GEF capacity building & TA projects.
- Strong country and regional presence & linkages between
project activities & UNDP programme of country assistance
- Good fit without overlap or duplication between project
design, implementation & monitoring capabilities of UNDP & the
technical capacities of FFA & SPC
- UNDP has a good record of effective delivery of regional
environmental projects, including GEF financed projects, working
with regional agencies (SPREP, SOPAC & FFA & SPC)


Key Executing Agency
FFA:
· Overall execution
· Law, Policy & Compliance activities
· PCU Host
SPC Oceanic Fisheries Programme (OFP)
· Fishery Monitoring & Scientific activities
International Union for Nature (IUCN) ?
· ?
An Environment NGO (WWF Pacific)
· undertake co-financed awareness raising activities
An Industry NGO (PITIA)
· Support industry engagement in the WCPF process & information
dissemination


Project Coordination Unit
· Responsibilities
-Overall responsibility for day to day project management ­ project
secretariat
- Provide technical advice to project participants
- Administration including: reporting requirements, disbursements
- Directly accountable to IA & RSC
· Established at FFA and operational until end March 2011
· MTR recommendations to strengthen PCU
- Increased financial and administrative capacity - Manager, F&A
Officer & assistant
- Enhanced Knowledge Management Component


Knowledge Management
Component
· Component 3. Knowledge Management: Increasing understanding &
awareness across broad sectors of society through greater
stakeholder participation, including in the WCPFC
· Projected Outcome: Increased understanding & awareness of, &
participation in oceanic fisheries resource & ecosystems management, the
project & the work of the WCPFC and other relevant regional oceanic
fisheries management bodies
· Planned Outputs
· 3.1. Knowledge management & information systems including websites,
publications, promotional material, media relations & participation in GEF
events & information exchanges (IWLEARN etc),
· 3.2. Broader stakeholder (ENGO, INGO, civil society) awareness through
workshops & strengthened stakeholder participation in oceanic fisheries
management, including the WCPFC
· 3.3. Strategy for long term strategic capacity building in oceanic fisheries
management and oceanic biodiversity


Multipartite Review Process
· Regional Steering Committee - established TORs & serves as MRP
· Attendance ­ `National' Focal Points, IA. EAs, co-funding partners, SPREP,
observers as decided
· Joint chair arrangement
· Annually
· Function`
- Monitor progress of project execution
- Provide strategic & policy guidelines
- Review & approve work plans & budgets
- Review & endorse all formal M & E reports & findings
- Regional fora for resolving national concerns
- Regional forum for stakeholder participation
- Platform to launch new initiatives related to the project but funded by other
donors


National Consultative
Committees
· Should consist snr policy level officials from relevant agencies/sector
(Fisheries, Environment, Police, AGs, etc). NGOs (industry &
environmental), relevant funding agencies & community rep
· Meet at least once a year (before RSC)
· Function
- To endorse requests for national activities
- Monitor effectiveness of national activities
- Prepare work plans (based on identified needs)
- Discuss project progress & implications at national level
- Identify national concerns on activities & delivery
- Ensure integrated coordination of actions & concepts with Govt
departments with fisheries/Convention related responsibilities
- Voice for national NGO stakeholders
- Update, inform, ensure transparency of process & multisectoral
participation.


NCC Issues
· Lack of commitment to NCCs ­ mixed
performance
· Alternative approaches in OFMP II
- e.g focus on key elements of national
coordination - are kept well informed and key
stakeholders know about in-country Project
activities - increase in-country awareness of the
Project).
· Encouraging inter-Ministerial cooperation

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