Pacific Islands Oceanic
Fisheries Management Project
Coordination, Participation and
Information Services
4th Meeting of the Regional Steering Committee for the OFM Project
17 - 18 October 2008
Apia, Samoa

Introduction
Component 3 Coordination, Participation and Information
Services
Designed to support & enhance technical components 1 & 2
Seeks to provide:
- Effective regional & national project management
- Include industry & ENGO in activities & enhance
consultative mechanisms at national & regional levels
- Project & WCPFC info dissemination to increase
awareness
- Monitoring & evaluation

Introduction
Sub-components: Information Strategy,
Monitoring & Evaluation, Stakeholder
Participation & Awareness Raising & Project
Management & Coordination
This presentation reports on the activities for
Component 3 for the period 1 July 2007 30
June 2008
Highlights significant project outcomes in the
reporting period

Project Information Systems
Website improvements (improved interface,
uploaded back-dated material)
Project e-newsletter
Implementation of some KMS strategies
Pacific (Cook Is & FSM) representation/exposure at
4th IW Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, August
September 2007
Participation at IUCN led workshop on the Economic
Evaluation of LMEs

Monitoring & Evaluation
Independent evaluation MTR
2007 Annual Review consultations in
margins of WCPF4
Successfully completed audit requirements
2007 mechanisms in place for follow-up and
follow visit to SPC (June 2008)
APR/PIR & GEF IW PPR (1 July 2007 30
June 2008)
Baseline study

Stakeholder Participation
& Awareness Raising
Attendance by Industry & regional ENGO
representation at WCPFC meetings (SC3-Honolulu,
Aug 2007, TCC3 & WCPFC4, Pohnpei Dec 2007
ENGO & civil society OFM/WCPFC workshop Suva,
April 2007
Pacific ENGOs follow-up meeting(s) & discussions,
Nov 2007
Industry attendance at regional policy meetings
MOC, Raro Oct 2007, WCPFC4, Guam, Dec 2007

Project Management
& Coordination
RSC3, Rarotonga, Cook Islands Oct 2007
NCC some support to Nauru for meetings in 2007
Country visits (FSM, RMI June-July 2007, Palau
Jan 2008 & Niue & Kiribati April 2008)
GEF IW Conference & workshop on the Economic
evaluation of LMEs, Capetown, SA 29 July 3
Aug 2008)
Quarterly reports (Q3 & Q4 2007 and Q1 & Q2
2008)
Annual Report 2007