OFMP II Project Design Workshop, 7 May 2010

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PROJECT DESIGN WORKSHOP ­ OFMP II

Honiara, Solomon Islands
7 May 2010





OFMPII PROPOSED PROJECT STRUCTURE





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Proposed Project Structure
Layout of the Paper
Section 1
Project Outline
Section 2
Objective
Section 3
Baseline and Alternative Scenario
Section 4
Components and GEF-Funded Activities
Section 5
Budget Summary



















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1: Project Outline

Title: Implementation of Regional and Global Oceanic Fisheries Conventions in the
Pacific Islands.
GEF Implementing Agency: UNDP
Executing Agency: FFA, in coordination with SPC
Countries in which the project is being implemented: Cook Islands, Federated
States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New
Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu and Vanuatu
Budget: US$13.7 million
Duration: 5 years
Estimated Start date: 1 April 2011


2. Objective

to achieve global environmental benefits and strengthen the contribution of oceanic
fisheries to Pacific SIDS' sustainable development by enhanced collective
conservation and management of transboundary oceanic fishery resources in the
Pacific Islands region and the (protection of the biodiversity/maintenance of the
ecosystem services) of the Western Tropical Pacific Warm Pool Large Marine
Ecosystem (WTPWPLME) through the implementation of global and regional fishery
conservation and management instruments, particularly the implementation of
practical stress reduction measures adopted by the Western and Central Pacific
Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)


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3. Baseline and Alternative Scenarios
Baseline Scenario
In the baseline scenario, Pacific SIDS would have continued to manage the
transboundary oceanic fish stocks in their waters, essentially independently, although
within a framework of cooperation between themselves at the regional level, executed
through FFA for economic, legal and compliance aspects and through SPC for
fisheries data collection and management, biological and ecosystem research and
stock assessment. There would have been relatively little cooperation, particularly in
non-scientific areas, between Pacific SIDS and other states in the region. Pacific
SIDS would have maintained capable national licensing authorities to address their
national economic needs and continued to strengthen their compliance functions
through stronger sea and air patrols and the use of VMS, but national oceanic fisheries
management functions would have continued to remain relatively poorly resourced.
Some Pacific SIDS would have begun to apply limits to fishing within their waters
but the effectiveness of these efforts would have been undermined by the lack of any
coherent regional framework for those limits and by the knowledge that vessels
limited from fishing in national waters could operate freely in the high seas without
limits or other controls. Pacific SIDS would have encouraged large fishing states to
cooperate on a voluntary basis in providing information and controlling vessels
operating on the high seas, but response to this approach would have been mixed ­
with some states responding well, others declining to cooperate with voluntary
measures including data provision on the high seas. High seas fishing would have
remained unregulated and largely unreported. Vessels operating from the high seas
would have continued to make illegal incursions into national waters, undermining
national efforts at conservation and management. Lacking detailed comprehensive
data especially on catches and effort from the high seas and Indonesia and
Philippines, substantial uncertainty in stock assessment results and about the levels of
bycatches and incidental mortalities would have weakened the basis for management
action as key stocks are threatened by over-exploitation and harmful impacts on
sharks, billfish, turtles, marine mammals and other associated species increased. Lack
of a legally-binding mechanism applying to all participants in the fisheries would also
have substantially weakened the scope for effective conservation and management
measures. Essential regional science and monitoring programmes would have
remained funded on an ad hoc basis by donors instead of being funded by those
benefiting from fishing on the stocks. There would have been no systematic progress
in ecosystem analysis.

Alternative Scenario
The alternative scenario is based on the implementation of the SAP and the WCPF
Convention with GEF support. The institution-building phase of the alternative
scenario has been largely accomplished, with Pacific SIDS joined by all key fishing
states as Parties to the Convention; the Commission beginning to operate, and
financial sustainability of the Secretariat apparently ensured based on the principle
that those who benefit from fishing should pay the costs of management ; key
Commission technical programmes are established in science and compliance; advice
on the status of key stocks is being provided to the Commission; national laws and
programs have been reformed and strengthened in association with ratification of the
Convention; and preliminary conservation and management measures have been

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adopted for most of the key target stocks; but these have yet to be broadly
implemented, and there has been no real changes yet in fishing patterns and behavior
on the water.

In the implementation phase of the alternative scenario, Pacific SIDS and other
Commission Members apply a comprehensive, ecosystem-based set of measures in
the high seas and in national waters that conserve the globally important oceanic
fisheries resources and mitigate the impacts of fishing on non-target species
(particularly seabirds, sharks and marine turtles) and the environment of the Warm
Pool LME more generally; setting global standards for application of the UN Fish
Stocks Agreement, and contributing to global initiatives to improve the conservation
and management of oceanic fisheries, especially in the high seas.


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4. Components and GEF-Funded Activities

Component 1: Governance: Strengthening of legal and policy frameworks and
performance, including deterring IUU fishing
Projected Outcome: A comprehensive set of conservation and management
measures reflecting and contributing to global best practice in tuna RFMOs adopted
by the WCPFC for collective eco-system based management of target stocks,
protection of non-target stocks and mitigation of impacts on the marine environment
of the WTPWPLME, including the high seas, with substantial involvement by
Pacific SIDS; capacities to implement CMMs developed in all Pacific SIDS; these
CMMs and other applicable global and regional instruments being effectively
implemented by Pacific SIDS.


Planned Outputs
1.1 Proposals from Pacific SIDS for Commission CMMs and supporting legal
arrangements and compliance mechanisms, including provisions relating to non-
Parties, monitoring of implementation and sanctions for non-compliance
1.2 Amendments to SIDS laws, regulations and license conditions and associated
policy reforms and institutional strengthening to implement WCPFC CMMs and other
relevant international legal instruments;
1.3 . Enhanced contribution by Pacific SIDS to formulation, compliance and
enforcement of WCPFC CMMs, including on the high seas
1.4. Capacity building, including training of 1000-1500 Pacific SIDS legal, policy and
fisheries management and protection personnel in the implementation of WCPFC
CMMs and other relevant international legal instruments


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Component 2: Information for Management: Providing information for
formulation, implementation and monitoring of the effectiveness of fisheries and
ecosystem conservation and management measures, including improving
understanding of the impact of climate change.
Projected Outcome: Improved information and methods for determining stock-
specific and ecosystem impacts of fishing and for designing innovative and best-
practice management responses that account for uncertainty; capacities developed in
fishery and ecosystem monitoring and science at the regional and national level; these
enhancements improving the quality and credibility of advice and decision-making
both nationally and at the Commission, and for monitoring compliance with national
laws and WCPFC measures; with improved understanding of the impact of climate
change on conservation and management of oceanic fisheries and the Warm Pool
LME.

Planned Outputs
2.1 Effective monitoring of national fisheries through regionally-coordinated training
and operational support for observers, port samplers and national coordinators
(estimated 300 personnel trained over 5 years).
2.2 Data management systems based on regional standards installed in 15 SIDS
leading to effective management, reporting and regional integration of observer, port
sampling, logsheet and unloading data
2.3 Scientific support for national and coordinated regional ecosystem-based
management of oceanic fisheries by SIDS through the provision of analytical and
modelling services and associated capacity building
2.4 Estimates of climate change impacts on oceanic fisheries and the associated
uncertainties through the 21st century

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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

Component 4. Project Management
Projected Outcome: Effective project management at the national and regional
level; project evaluations reflecting successful and sustainable project objectives
Planned Outputs
4.1. Monitoring and Evaluation: measures of, and reports on, overall project
performance and delivery, including independent evaluations of the Project.
4.2. Operational Project Coordination Unit
4.3. Arrangements for coordination between Implementing and Executing Agencies
4.4. Arrangements for national coordination
4.5. Coordination between Project participants, including through the Regional
Steering Committee


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Section 5: Budget Summary

OFMPII BUDGET SUMMARY
1. Governance:
(US$)
1.1 Regional & Sub-Regional Policy-Making
1,525,000
1.2. Legal
355,000
1.3. Smaller Island States
1,487,500
1.4. Implementation of measures to deter IUU fishing
600,000
FFA Project Support
277,725

4,245,225
2. Information for Management:

2.1 Fishery monitoring
1,670,000
2.2 Data management systems
250,000
2.3 Scientific support for management
2,315,000
2.4 Improving understanding of the impact of climate
675,000
change
SPC Project Support
343,700

5,253,700
3. Knowledge Management & Civil Society

Partnerships
3.1 Knowledge Management
929,250
3.2 Civil Society Partnerships
450,000
3.3 Long Term Capacity Building Strategy
100,000
FFA Project Support
51,450

1,530,700
4. Project Management& Coordination

4.1 Monitoring & Evaluation
350,000
4.2 Project Management SPC
147,125
4.3 Project Management & Coordination FFA
2,030,000
FFA Project Support
166,600

2,693,725
TOTAL 13,723,350




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