MEDIUM-SIZED PROJECT PROPOSAL 40176
REQUEST FOR GEF FUNDING
Public Disclosure Authorized
AGENCY'S PROJECT ID:P104225
FINANCING PLAN (US$)
GEFSEC PROJECT ID:
GEF PROJECT/COMPONENT
COUNTRY: Coastal countries of Sub-Saharan Africa
Project 1,000,000
PROJECT TITLE: Regional Activities of the Strategic
PDF A*
Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in
1,000,000
the Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa,
Sub-Total GEF
Tranche 1(P087411)
GEF AGENCY: World Bank
CO-FINANCING**
OTHER EXECUTING AGENCY(IES): African Union,
GEF Agency
United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization
Government
(FAO), World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Bilateral
DURATION: 3 years
NGOs 105,000
Public Disclosure Authorized
GEF FOCAL AREA: International Waters
Others 225,000
GEF OPERATIONAL PROGRAM: OP 8: Waterbody-
Sub-Total Co-financing:
330,000
based Operational Program
Total Project Financing:
1,330,000
GEF STRATEGIC PRIORITY: IW-1: Catalyze
FINANCING FOR ASSOCIATED
implementation of agreed reforms and on-the-ground
ACTIVITY IF ANY:
stress reduction investments to address transboundary
water concerns
* Indicate approval date of PDFA
ESTIMATED STARTING DATE: December 1, 2006
** Details provided in the Financing Section
IMPLEMENTING AGENCY FEE:
CONTRIBUTION TO KEY INDICATORS OF THE BUSINESS PLAN: Promotion of sustainable fisheries policies
and activities within key decision-makers with the inclusion of fisheries in policy documents such as PRSPs,
Public Disclosure Authorized
and key policy reform instruments such as national fisheries management plans and laws; Awareness of recent
developments and proven approaches to management for sustainable fisheries, of the status of global fisheries,
and of the dialogue between developing and developed countries and distant water fishing interests on sharing
benefits promoted in at least 75% of all Sub-Saharan African countries.
RECORD OF ENDORSEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT:
Focal Point endorsement will be received for individual projects supported by the Partnership
Investment Fund
This proposal has been prepared in accordance with GEF policies and procedures and meets the
standards of the GEF Project Review Criteria for a Medium-sized Project.
Project Contact Person:Christophe Crepin
GEF Regional Coordinator, Africa Region
Steve Gorman
Public Disclosure Authorized
Executive Coordinator, World Bank
Date: November 16, 2006
Tel. and email: 202-473-9727,
ccrepin@worldbank.org
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PART I - PROJECT CONCEPT
A - SUMMARY
This proposal for a Medium Size Project (MSP) Grant from the GEF is to support a Strategic
Partnership of stakeholders in the Africa region, led by the African Union, to advise a GEF
Partnership Investment Fund intended to co-finance projects that can help African countries meet
the fisheries and poverty reduction targets set at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD). As such, this MSP would help ensure that the projects proposed for
support by the Investment Fund reflect the priorities of the region, as well as help promote
lessons learned from the individual projects throughout the region. This MSP was described in
the Partnership Brief for the overall Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment
Fund in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa, which was approved by the GEF
Council in November, 2005. The proposed MSP supports the implementation of the results
framework included in that Brief.
1. RATIONALE
Fisheries around the world are being over-exploited, causing declines in marine resources which
have only reinforced cycles of coastal poverty for millions of rural fishing communities, while at
the same time threatening the marine biodiversity and coastal ecosystems that support fisheries.
Nowhere is the crisis in global fisheries more evident, and the need to implement both the
fisheries and poverty reduction targets set by the WSSD greater, than in the five Large Marine
Ecosystems (LMEs) that cover the coastal waters of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): The Canary
Current LME, the Guinea Current LME, the Benguela Current LME, the Agulhas Current LME,
and the Somali Coastal Current LME.1
These LMEs possess a wealth of globally significant marine biodiversity and habitats that
provide the coastal countries of SSA with some of the world's most fertile fishing grounds, many
of which are transboundary in nature (with either the fish stocks or the fishing fleets migrating
regularly across national boundaries, or both). FAO has estimated that some 2.7 million people
in the region are engaged in coastal and inland fishing activities on a full or part-time basis, often
in labor-intensive small-scale fisheries that include both subsistence and commercial activities.
Fishing also provides an average of 23 percent of total animal protein intake in the region,
significantly higher than the global average of 16 percent. Lastly, in terms of foreign exchange
earnings, the value of net exports of fish products for the continent as a whole reached the
equivalent of roughly US$1.7 billion in 2001, exceeding the net foreign exchange income
reported for any other agricultural commodity.
1 There are 5 large marine ecosystems identified in Sub-Saharan Africa:
·
Canary Current (West Africa)
·
Guinea Current (Gulf of Guinea)
·
Benguela Current (Namibia, Angola, South Africa)
·
Agulhas Current (continental shelf shared by South Africa, Mozambique, Comoro Islands, Seychelles, Madagascar and
Mauritius)
·
Somali Current (Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia)
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As mentioned above, the fisheries resources supported by the Large Marine Ecosystems of SSA
are being degraded and reduced by over-fishing. Total marine production from these LMEs
seems to have reached a plateau since the early 1990s, and the number of overexploited and
depleted stocks is rising throughout the region. The fisheries supported by all five LMEs have
all shown ten-year trends of decline in catches. They are threatened both by: (i) the destruction of
critical habitat that provides spawning and nursery grounds for many species of fish in the early
stages of their life cycle, and (ii) by over-harvesting of target fish stocks by adequately managed
fishing effort.
Both local and foreign fleets fish in de facto open access conditions along most of the continent,
and fishing pressures continue to increase. Much of the increased fishing pressures in SSA
waters come from illegal fishing, which was recently estimated by a DFID-sponsored report to
account for roughly 16 percent of the total value of all fish caught legally in these waters.
In many coastal countries of SSA, governments still do not have the financial resources or
capacity to take control of their own resources and to prevent overexploitation by regulating
access to these resources and protecting the critical habitats that support them. Nor do the
Regional Fisheries Management Organizations in SSA have sufficient funds to assist individual
coastal countries to implement the needed governance reforms in fisheries.
To support systematic reforms in fisheries management and governance in SSA, the World Bank
will implement the Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the
Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa. This Strategic Partnership initiative includes:
(i) a Partnership Investment Fund that will encourage at least 10 country level investments in
better fisheries management in SSA over the next 10 years, and (ii) a regional Strategic
Partnership to help disseminate lessons learned from the various investments made by the fund.
More specifically, in terms of the Partnership Investment Fund, the GEF will create a Sustainable
Fisheries Investment Fund of US$60 million to be disbursed as grants, which will be available in
three tranches over a ten-year period. This Partnership Investment Fund will be available to co-
finance, together with IDA credits and IBRD loans from the World Bank and/or funds from other
interested donors, country-level projects aimed at assisting SSA countries to achieve
sustainability in their marine fisheries and meet the fisheries and poverty reduction targets set by
the WSSD.
In order for the Partnership Investment Fund to be a stakeholder-driven regional funding
mechanism, it will be advised by a partnership of stakeholders including Regional Fisheries
Bodies (RFBs), led by the African Union and working through a Regional Advisory Committee
(RAC). The Regional Activities of the Partnership will help ensure that the projects proposed for
support by the Investment Fund reflect the priorities of the region and are in line with the
eligibility criteria approved by the GEF Council, as well as complement existing initiatives such
as the GEF-sponsored LME Programs. This will be achieved through this proposed medium
sized project. In addition, this partnership of stakeholders will promote lessons learned from the
individual projects throughout the region, in order to encourage replication and the prioritization
of sustainable fisheries in national development policies such as Poverty Reduction Strategy
Papers, as well as the development planning of the World Bank (e.g. in relevant Country
Assistance Strategies).
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The Regional Activities of the Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund
in Africa will constitute the Regional Coordination, Communications and Capacity-Building
component of the overall Strategic Partnership initiative. These Regional Activities will promote
learning, information exchange and capacity building at the regional level, and encourage direct
support to the fisheries sector as a result of good practices and lessons learned. The output will
be dissemination of lessons learned from the individual projects throughout the region, in order
to encourage replication and the prioritization of sustainable fisheries in national development
policies.
Therefore the proposed project will carry out four functions which
includes the following components:
· Coordination
· Communication
· Linkage and cohesion with RFBs and LME programs
· Mobilization of co-finance
2. OBJECTIVES
The objective of the Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the
large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa -- is to promote the sustainable management of
fisheries resources in the LMEs of Sub-Saharan Africa in order to assist coastal countries to
make concrete progress towards achieving the fisheries and poverty reduction targets set by the
WSSD. This objective combines the aim of sustainable use of fisheries resources and the marine
ecosystems that support them, with the aim of promoting effective poverty alleviation and
sustainable income growth of fishing communities in SSA.
Specifically, the objectives of this MSP Grant in support of the Regional Activities of the
Strategic Partnership are to:
· Strengthen regional coordination in order to ensure complementarity among country-
level and regional projects, particularly in respect to management of trans-boundary
resources;
· Promote learning and information exchange at the regional level to ensure that the
lessons from successes and failures of country and LME level investments are
adequately disseminated;
· Encourage direct financial support in the SSA countries for the necessary governance
(i.e. policy, legal, and institutional) reforms and sector adjustments to manage their
fisheries sustainably in a way that ensures a distribution of benefits that will
contribute to poverty reduction and food security;
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· Assist individual coastal countries to build the capacity to participate in the ongoing
GEF-led Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) projects and regional fisheries bodies
(RFBs) as well as collaborate through these initiatives to implement management
measures for the marine ecosystems and the trans-boundary fisheries resources and/or
fishing fleets that would be more appropriate at the sub-regional scale (e.g. sub-
regional monitoring, control and surveillance systems, management of fishing
capacity, sub-regional research initiatives, networks of marine protected areas
(MPAs), etc.).
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
· Greater knowledge of and support for best practices in sustainable management of
fisheries at both country and LME level, as indicated by evidence that relevant
stakeholders in SSA countries have become aware of lessons of successes and failures
of country and LME level investments.
· Increased financial commitment to reform of fisheries management and governance,
as indicated by changes in budget and staffing for policy, institutional and legal
initiatives contributing to more effective management compared with baseline levels.
· Increased capacity for participation in LME projects and Regional Fisheries Bodies
for effective management of trans-boundary fishery resources, as indicated by new
institutions and staff devoted to such issues at the national level.
B - COUNTRY OWNERSHIP
1. COUNTRY ELIGIBILITY
The countries are eligible under paragraph 9(b) of the GEF Instrument. All SSA countries that
will benefit from these investments will be those that have ratified the 1982 United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).2
2. COUNTRY DRIVENNESS
Coastal countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are expected to request support from the Partnership
Investment Fund for projects that would be designed to assist them to meet the fisheries and
poverty reduction targets set by the WSSD. Project proposals would clearly reflect the countries'
own vision of sustainable fisheries and the key priority actions necessary to achieving that
vision, as developed through a participatory process with the key stakeholders. Proposals will
aim at strengthening stakeholder consultation processes and institutions for fisheries governance
at the national and local level by: a) fostering public and private participation in the management
of the fisheries, b) strengthening or establishing conflict resolution mechanisms, and (c)
enhancing the capacity of civil society organizations to participate in fisheries resources
management.
2 Section A.1 of the Partnership Brief
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The Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund will encourage county-level investments in the LMEs
of SSA, which would complement the ongoing GEF-led sub-regional LME projects. These
investments would build the capacity of coastal countries in SSA to implement policy and
institutional reforms needed at the national level in order to meet the targets for sustainable
fisheries and poverty reduction set by the WSSD, and as well as to support monitoring,
surveillance and enforcement of national and international laws and regulations with regard to
fisheries and the ecosystems that support them, thereby enabling the countries to more fully
collaborate with and participate in the ongoing GEF-funded regional LME projects.
C PROGRAM AND POLICY CONFORMITY
1. PROGRAM DESIGNATION AND CONFORMITY
The rationale for support of the Strategic Partnership through the Waterbody-based Operational
Program (OP#8) is that the fisheries resources in the large marine ecosystems of Sub-Saharan
Africa are both poorly governed and often transboundary in nature. Furthermore, the activities
within the Strategic Partnership will contribute directly to meeting the targets of the GEF-4
International Waters Strategic Objectives, specifically to IW#1: Catalyze implementation of
agreed reforms and on-the-ground stress reduction investments to address transboundary water
concerns (e.g. WSSD fisheries targets) and, also to IW#2: Expand foundational capacity-building
to a limited number of new transboundary systems through integrated approaches and foster
replication through targeted learning for the international waters portfolio.
More specifically, the proposed MSP will contribute to indicators of IW#1 through the
promotion of sustainable fisheries policies and activities to key decision-makers throughout the
region, with the inclusion of fisheries in policy documents such as PRSPs, and key policy reform
instruments such as national fisheries management plans and laws. And, contribute to indicators
of IW#2 through the creation of and support to the Regional Advisory Committee of fisheries
decision-makers and stakeholders led by the African Union.
As part of the larger initiative for a Strategic Partnership a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund
in Africa, the regional activities of the Strategic Partnership would complement the ongoing
GEF-led sub-regional LME projects. These country-level investments would build the capacity
of coastal countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to more fully collaborate with and participate in the
ongoing GEF funded regional LME projects as well as their obligations as members of Regional
Fisheries Bodies.
2. PROJECT DESIGN
SECTOR ISSUES AND ROOT CAUSES
The fisheries sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, like the fisheries sector in other areas of the world,
suffers from pervasive overexploitation and resource depletion, with serious socio-economic
impacts on coastal communities and on food security in those countries. Both local and foreign
fleets fish in de facto open access conditions along most of the continent, with fishing pressures
continuing to increase. These problems have multiple root causes which include the following:
· Systematic overcapacity in both inshore and offshore fisheries and fleets.
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· Inadequate governance systems, including the legal and administrative frameworks
under which the sectors are regulated.
· The absence of economic incentives for sustainable fishing in coastal waters through
limiting access and allocating fishing rights.
· Inadequate capacity for effective fisheries management based on an ecosystem
approach in key institutions.
· Inadequate capacity for the negotiation of equitable and sustainable international
fishing access agreements with distant water fishing countries or their fleets.
· Lack of opportunity or capacity of artisanal fishers and fishworkers to participate in
co-management schemes and otherwise exercise responsibility for regulating inshore
fishing.
· Weak systems of fisheries monitoring, control, surveillance and law enforcement
measures
BARRIERS TO TRANS-BOUNDARY COOPERATION AT SUB-REGIONAL LEVEL
At the ecosystem and sub-regional level, there is a need for countries to cooperate in addressing
these root causes in order to manage fisheries resources, including trans-boundary resources,
effectively. The barriers to successful cooperation at the LME and sub-regional level include:
· Insufficient human and financial resources for international cooperation.
· Inadequate institutional arrangements for coordination and exchange of information
· Insufficient harmonization of legislation and procedures
· Insufficient data and analysis of status and trends in transboundary resources.
PROJECT STRATEGY
This proposed MSP for the Regional Activities of the Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable
Fisheries Investment Fund in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa will aim to
achieve the objectives referenced above in Section 2. The proposed MSP has been structured
around four components as described below:
Component 1: Coordination (Total cost: US$609,000; GEF: US$444,000; Others: US$165,000)
This component would focus on the overall coordination of the Strategic Partnership in order to
ensure that stakeholders advise and monitor the projects supported by the Partnership Investment
Fund and that countries are aware about the opportunities of the Partnership. This component
would include (i) supporting the Regional Advisory Committee to advise the World Bank and
GEF on potential projects for support by the Partnership Investment Fund; (ii) informing coastal
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countries in Africa about the availability and procedures for the Strategic Partnership funds; (iii)
promoting policy dialogue on the importance of fisheries at the regional level with the African
Union and member nations; and (iv) providing monitoring and evaluation of the Strategic
Partnership and the projects towards achieving the fisheries and poverty reduction targets of the
WSSD.
Component 2: Communication (Total cost: US$316,000; GEF: US$211,000; Others:
US$105,000). This component would focus on communicating the results and lessons learned
from various projects supported by the Partnership Investment Fund, both to encourage
replication, and also to highlight successes and the importance of fisheries in key policy
decisions throughout the region. This component would include: (a) communication of lessons
learned and key results from projects supported by the Partnership Investment Fund to both
decision-making and technical audiences throughout the region, (ii) promoting the importance of
fisheries for poverty reduction and inclusion in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs); and
(iii) publishing materials and other medium for raising awareness with stakeholders throughout
the region about the importance of fisheries resource management.
Component 3: Linkage and cohesion with RFBs and LME programs (Total cost: US$210,000;
GEF: US$210,000). This component would focus on ensuring that projects supported by the
Partnership are complementary to the activities of the Regional Fisheries Bodies and the Large
Marine Ecosystem programs, and help implement the findings and research of these bodies and
programs. This component would include: (i) meetings of the Regional Advisory Committee on
at least an annual basis in order to give the RFBs and LMEs an opportunity to review and
comment on proposed project concepts, as well as suggest ways they could be revised to better
link with their programs and priorities; and (ii) provision of technical support as needed to
individual countries to help identify projects or revise project concepts in order to better link
with the ongoing work of the RFBs and LMEs.
Component 4: Mobilization of co-finance (Total cost: US$195,000; GEF: US$135,000; Others:
US$60,000). This component would focus on assisting countries to mobilize the required co-
financing to access the Partnership Investment Fund to support project concepts aimed at
sustainable fisheries. This component would include: (i) international technical support to
review project concept notes for technical soundness and eligibility to access various sources of
co-financing; (ii) to provide assistance to countries to access identified sources of co-financing
and to help mobilize other donors; and (iii) to support technical replication of projects and
project concepts to attract donor co-financing.
Overall, the proposed MSP will help ensure that participating countries generate the information
necessary to measure the success of the Strategic Partnership towards achieving its Global
Environmental/Development Objective and the more specific objectives by providing a system
of monitoring and evaluation. The monitoring and evaluation system will include the following
sub-components:
· Project level Monitoring and Evaluation (processes)
· Country level Monitoring and Evaluation (results)
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· Program level Monitoring and Evaluation (results)
The Regional Activities of the Strategic Partnership project will be implemented through a
Regional Advisory Committee (RAC), which will represent all national and international
stakeholder concerned with fisheries management and the LME-wide issues and programs.
The functions of the RAC will include the following:
· ensuring that country-level projects are in agreement with the decisions and
recommendations of regional fisheries management organizations and in support of
agreed regional goals,
· coordinating with regional fisheries management bodies and with the GEF-sponsored
LME Programs, e.g. by developing and maintaining an inventory of all LME and
GEF fisheries projects in the region and by convening a meeting of representatives
from RFBs and the LME Programs at least once a year to ensure coordination and
exchange of lessons learned,
· ensuring coherence between the country-level projects supported by the Strategic
Partnership,
· advising each proposed project,
· allowing for independent analysis and evaluations of projects,
· identifying synergies and disseminating common lessons that could be shared
between different projects, and
· formulating strategies to replicate similar projects in the region;
· raising awareness of the importance of sustainable fisheries in development policies
and strategies such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and World Bank Country
Assistance Strategies, and
· assisting countries in the mobilization of co-funding.
The RAC will meet as needed, but at a minimum once a year, to review Concept Notes and
undertake any of the other functions listed below, including receiving the full Project Briefs for
information once they have been approved.
The Regional Advisory Committee will have the following 13 permanent members:
· The African Union (as the Chair)
· The Regional Fisheries Bodies:
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1. Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC)
2. Regional Fishery Committee for the Gulf of Guinea (COREP)
3. Southeast Atlantic Fisheries Organization (SEAFO)
4. Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC)
5. Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF)
6. The Ministerial Conference of the African States bordering the
Atlantic
· Civil Society Organizations (on a rotational basis to be decided by the RAC,
should include professional organizations);
· United Nations Development Program (UNDP), on behalf of LME Programs;
· United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), on behalf of LME Programs;
· FAO; and
· World Wildlife Fund
In addition, representatives with an observer status will be invited from each of the four GEF-
funded LME Programs, the World Bank, the GEF Secretariat, additional civil society
organizations and other donors.
The RAC will be served by a small Secretariat, which the African Union will organize and lead
with the support of FAO and WWF. The AU-based Secretariat will support the RAC's
execution of its functions by:
· providing assistance to countries for preparation of proposals;
· supporting the activities of the RAC, on communications, coordination and exchange
of information from lessons learned;
· assisting in informing countries, stakeholders, potential co-financiers, and other
relevant parties of the objectives and requirements of the Strategic Partnership;
· assisting in the preparation of annual reports, progress reports, work plans and
budgets for approval by RAC; and
· coordinating monitoring and evaluation activities at the regional level, including
aggregating the data for key results indicators from individual projects into a
database, and reporting on the Strategic Partnership's progress towards achieving its
regional targets (as elaborated in the Partnership Brief).
PROJECT LOGICAL FRAMEWORK
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This MSP would contribute to the larger results and results indicators included in the overall
Results Framework for the Strategic Partnership, which was approved in November 2005. More
specifically, this proposed MSP would contribute directly and primarily to one of the four overall
specific objectives of the Strategic Partnership - to "promote learning, information exchange and
capacity building at the regional level, to ensure that the lessons from successes and failures of
country and LME level investments are adequately disseminated." This would be measured by
the following process indicators for the Strategic Partnership (over the 10-year period and three
tranches of the Strategic Partnership):
· Awareness of recent developments and proven approaches to management for
sustainable fisheries, of the status of global fisheries, and of the dialogue between
developing and developed countries and distant water fishing interests on sharing
benefits promoted in at least 75% of all Sub-Saharan African countries.
· Examples of support for sector strategy design and development of tactical programs
to implement the sector strategy documented and distributed to all sub-Saharan
countries.
· Examples of programs to effectively provide more remunerative alternative
employment to fishermen (including creation of vocational training, education,
micro-credit programs and the introduction of social security programs) documented
and distributed to all sub-Saharan countries.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
· Reduced fishing pressure on fish stocks in selected coastal fisheries in the longer run. The
performance indicator for this impact would be fishing capacity operating in the waters of
participating countries has been reduced from baseline levels.
· Implementation of policies, programs and laws aimed at the conservation and sustainable
management of fisheries resources, consistent with the targets set by the WSSD and the
principles contained in the Code of Conduct for Sustainable Fisheries. The performance
indicator would be the successful implementation of programs, laws and policies under
projects supported by the investment fund that meet rigorous technical criteria for the
instrument in question.
· Reforms and strengthening of institutions necessary to control fishing effort in country
waters and maintain or restore the fisheries to levels at or below maximum sustainable
yield. The performance indicator would be the successful creation or strengthening of
institutions according to appropriate technical criteria by projects supported by the
investment fund.
· Increase in socioeconomic benefits for fishers remaining in the sector, as well as for those
individuals departing the fisheries. The performance indicator would be increased fish
catch for inshore fishers increases; additional non-fishing jobs are created in and around
fishing communities affected by projects supported by the investment fund.
· Increased intra-regional cooperation and learning on fisheries governance and
management. The performance indicator would be evidence from a post-project survey
that stakeholders in participating countries have acquired ideas or information from
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project learning exchanges and dialogues on best practices and collaboration that they
will be able to use or in future policies or programs.
PROJECT COSTS TO BE FINANCED BY THE GEF
The GEF will finance the costs of the Regional Activities of the Strategic Partnership, including
the Secretariat and the RAC, in the amount of US $ 1 million over the 3-year period of the first
tranche. Estimated co-financing for the project is US$ 330,000. This level of co-financing
represents the baseline upon which these incremental costs would be financed, in order to
achieve the global environmental objectives of the Strategic Partnership.
Component
Cost Category
US$ Million
Global Benefit
I. Coordination
Baseline
165,000
Minimum exchange of information
necessary for countries to access
Partnership Investment Fund.
GEF
609,000
Promotion of sustainable fisheries
Alternative
policies at the regional level and
institutional reforms in countries for
sustainable fisheries.
II. Communication
Baseline
105,000 Basic communication of
experiences of Partnership
Investment Fund.
GEF
316,000
Exchange of lessons learned from
Alternative
Partnership-supported projects,
replication of examples in various
countries throughout the region for
increased management of fisheries
resources.
III. Linkage and
Ba
seline
0
No linkage with RFBs or LMEs.
Cohesion with RFBs GEF
210,000
Complementarity with RFBs and
and LME Programs
Alternative
LME programs to ensure that
Partnership Investment Funds
support the ecosystem-based
fisheries management measures
designed by the LME programs, for
the greater protection of LMEs
throughout the region.
IV. Mobilization of B
aseline
60,000
Minimum exchange to attempt to
Co-finance
raise necessary co-finance.
GEF
195,000
Greater donor coordination to
Alternative
promote increased support and
financing for sustainable fisheries
and ecosystem-based fisheries
management in Africa.
Totals
Baseline 330,000
GEF
1,330,000
Alternative
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Incremental 1,000,000
3. SUSTAINABILITY (INCLUDING FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY)
The sustainability of the country-level projects supported by the Partnership Investment Fund
will be assured by the nature of these investments, which will be focused on institutional
capacity-building and national policy and regulatory reforms that would enable sustainable
management of the fisheries resources of the LMEs long after the completion of individual
projects. Based on the eligibility criteria and operating principles, as well as the suggested types
of projects and monitoring indicators, each individual project will be designed to implement
long-lasting reforms in the fisheries of the LMEs. In addition, each project will include a
sustainability and replication plan in the design, in order to ensure that the outcomes of the
projects supported by the Partnership Investment Fund are sustained. The sustainability of the
Regional Activities supported by this proposed Grant will be assured by the leadership of the
AU, and the efforts of this proposed Grant to support long-term capacity building within the AU.
4. REPLICABILITY
One of the key objectives of the Strategic Partnership is to promote the replication of successful
reforms and management measures implemented by countries with the support of the Partnership
Investment Fund (see specific objectives in section B.2). Through the Regional Activities of the
Strategic Partnership supported by the Grant, the RAC will formulate strategies to replicate
successful projects and examples throughout the region, for example by utilizing existing
resources such as the GEF-sponsored International Waters Resources Center (IW:Learn
Program) and website (www.iwlearn.net) to share the lessons from one country-level project
supported by the Partnership Investment Fund with other current or prospective projects, or to
assist the RFBs and wider LME Programs to promote the reforms made by one country more
broadly throughout the LME, etc. As the RAC will include members and observers from the
LME Programs, the Regional Fisheries Bodies, civil society and donors, it will be well placed to
communicate success stories throughout the region, particularly through the African Union.
5. STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT
STAKEHOLDERS IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Regional stakeholders as well as other intergovernmental and non-government organizations
have been involved in the planning of the Regional Activities of the Strategic Partnership.
The coastal SSA countries involved have already provided GEF Focal Point endorsement of each
of these 5 LME Programs, and the Programs are now providing a critical knowledge base from
which individual countries can improve the governance of their marine resources and protect
marine biodiversity and habitats. To complement this ongoing process, additional assistance is
being sought at the country level to implement the fisheries-related action programs and
recommendations generated by the work undertaken through the LME Programs. For this reason,
in 2003 the GEF asked the World Bank to explore options for creating a stakeholder-driven
funding mechanism to assist individual coastal countries to build on the findings and
recommendations provided through the implementation of the LME Programs and meet the
targets for sustainable fisheries and poverty reduction set by the WSSD.
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As a result, the World Bank submitted a concept for establishing a Strategic Partnership for a
Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the LMEs of Sub-Saharan Africa based on the model
of the GEF-sponsored Danube/Black Sea Basin Strategic Partnership. This concept for a
Strategic Partnership was approved by the GEF in mid-2003, and the World Bank asked the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Wildlife Fund
(WWF) to serve as planning partners in the preparation of this initiative. (The GEF approved the
full Strategic Partnership brief for the Strategic Partnership initiative in November 2005.)
In order to ensure this concept for a stakeholder-driven regional funding mechanism would fit
within such regional inter-governmental agreements as the WSSD, the AU priorities, the
NEPAD CAADP, the strategies of the Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and the
ongoing LME Programs, the Strategic Partnership was prepared through wide consultations
within the region. The process began when the First Consultative Workshop with stakeholders
from throughout the region was convened by FAO, the World Bank and WWF (i.e. the planning
partners) in Dakar, Senegal, 18-20 January 2005.
The Dakar workshop attained broad agreement on the goals and objectives of the Strategic
Partnership and its operating principals, as well as on eligibility criteria for country level projects
to be supported by the Partnership Investment Fund. More specifically, there was agreement
among the participants on the premise that inadequate governance of the fisheries resources is
the root cause of the current levels of overexploitation in the LMEs, and the Strategic Partnership
is a suitable mechanism to generate funds which could assist coastal countries in SSA to take the
necessary actions to meet the WSSD fisheries and poverty reduction targets.
After the First Consultative Workshop, a small meeting was held in Dakar with several
representatives from the GEF-sponsored LME Programs, in order to discuss ongoing
coordination. The meeting agreed that the LME Programs should be represented at the regional
level in the Strategic Partnership, and that the RAC would also coordinate with them in terms of
individual country level activities as well.
STAKEHOLDERS IN PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
As a result of these extensive consultations, there is broad agreement on the roles and
responsibilities of relevant stakeholders in project implementation. The African Union will
provide both leadership of the RAC as its Chair, and the Secretariat function for the RAC with
the support of FAO and WWF. FAO and WWF, as planning partners with the World Bank in
the preparation of the Strategic Partnership, will play active roles as members of the RAC, and
will provide support to the African Union, especially on technical matters and in
communications, awareness building and information dissemination of the Strategic Partnership.
MARGINAL GROUPS AND PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
In the larger context of the Strategic Partnership Initiative, inshore fishers have been net losers in
fisheries management wherever distant water fleets have dominated fishing in national waters.
The reforms of fisheries governance and management mechanisms supported by the investment
fund should include means by which inshore fishers have a greater voice in fisheries
management. This shift should also be reflected in the Regional Activities carried out by the
RAC. Specifically, exchanges of experience in management and governance reform would focus
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on this issue, which will require participation in joint learning processes by inshore fishers and
their representatives. Similarly the coordination of policies, programs affecting the LME or sub-
regional level of management would involve the adequate representation of inshore fishers'
interests.
Furthermore, the larger initiative will be aimed in part at strengthening stakeholder consultation
processes and institutions at the national and local level, which means that inshore fishers will be
more involved in advising governments on fisheries management measures and policies.
Because the RAC is involved directly in monitoring and evaluating progress on that objective, it
will be in a position to reinforce the strengthening of consultations with inshore fishers.
6. MONITORING AND EVALUATION
To evaluate the results of the regional activities, the RAC will have an independent evaluation
conducted roughly every three years to monitor the success of the Strategic Partnership in
coordinating among projects and among donors; in advocating for the prioritization of
sustainable fisheries in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, World Bank Country Assistance
Strategies and other key development policies and strategies; and in disseminating good practices
and experiences from projects and LME programs. Three output indicators that will be used:
· Awareness in at least 75% of all Sub-Saharan African countries of recent developments
and proven approaches to management for sustainable fisheries, of the status of global
fisheries, and of the dialogue between developing and developed countries and distant
water fishing interests on sharing benefits promoted.
· Examples of support for sector strategy design and development of tactical programs to
implement the sector strategy documented and distributed to all SSA countries.
· Examples of programs to effectively provide more remunerative alternative employment
to fishers (including creation of vocational training, education, micro-credit programs and
the introduction of social security programs) documented and distributed to all SSA
countries.
These regional level indicators will be followed and tracked by the RAC. In addition, the
Secretariat to the RAC will compile in a regional database the key results indicators data from
each country-level project supported by the Strategic Partnership (the data will be pulled from
World Bank project supervision reports in collaboration with the World Bank who will be the
implementing agency). The Secretariat will compile, aggregate and analyze this data in order to
track the overall progress of the Strategic Partnership towards its key performance indicators and
logframe in the Partnership Brief. The Secretariat will present the results of this monitoring and
evaluation as part of an annual report to the RAC.
D - FINANCING
1) FINANCING PLAN
The budget for the GEF funds is given as follows:
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Budget Line Item
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Total Executing
Others
(GEF)
(GEF)
(GEF)
Agency
Component 1: Coordination
RAC Secretariat
85,000 85,000 85,000 255,000 AU
Coordinator
Travel (RAC
15,000 15,000 15,000 45,000 AU
Coordinator)
Secretarial
Support
28,000 28,000 28,000 84,000 AU
30,000
Office Equipment & 20,000
2,500 2,500 25,000 AU
60,000
Materials
Monitoring & Evaluation 5,000
10,000
20,000
35,000
AU/FAO
75,000
Component 2: Communication
Communications
40,000 40,000 40,000 120,000 WWF
105,000
Coordinator (1/2 time)
Travel (Communications 5,000 5,000 5,000 15,000 WWF
Coordinator)
Publications
5,000 15,000 15,000 35,000 AU
Production
of
Materials
5,000 5,000 5,000 15,000 WWF
Website
Development 16,000
5,000 5,000 26,000 WWF
Component 3: Linkage and Cohesion with RFBs and LME Programs
RAC
Meeting
Costs
60,000 60,000 60,000 180,000 AU
Contracts3
10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000 AU/FAO
Component 4: Mobilization of Co-Finance
Technical Support on 45,000 45,000 45,000 135,000 FAO
60,000
PCNs; Replicability
TOTAL
GEF
355,000 317,500 327,500 1,000,000
330,000
2) Co-financing
CO-FINANCING SOURCES
Name of Co-
Classification Type
Amount
(US$)
financier
Status*
(source)
AU Multilateral
In-kind
90,000
Confirmed
FAO Bilateral In-kind
135,000
Confirmed
WWF NGO
In-kind
105,000
Confirmed
Sub-Total Co-financing
330,000
E - INSTITUTIONAL COORDINATION AND SUPPORT
1) CORE COMMITMENTS AND LINKAGES
The World Bank, as Implementing Agency, is committed to supporting systematic reforms in
fisheries management and governance in SSA. The Regional Activities of the Strategic
3 Contracts for technical assistance to countries for project identification and establishing linkages with RFBs and
LMEs.
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Partnership are nested within the larger Strategic Partnership initiative, which will encourage at
least 10 country level investments in better fisheries management in SSA over the next 10 years.
These two closely linked initiatives, the investment fund of the Strategic Partnership (funded by
US$60 million in GEF grants in 3 tranches over 10 years) and the Regional Activities of the
Strategic Partnership (proposed for funding from this Medium-Sized Project Grant), are part of
broader role played by the World Bank in the environmental sector by supporting regional
mechanisms for identifying environmental priorities and supporting investments aimed at
responding to those priorities. The GEF Strategic Partnership on the Danube/Black Sea Basin is
a major World Bank-sponsored program for governance and investment.
The GEF is heavily committed to assisting governments of coastal countries in SSA to manage
their fisheries resources more sustainably and to protect the critical habitats that support them.
As a first step toward that goal, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has sponsored sub-
regional LME Programs in each of the 5 LMEs.
2) CONSULTATION, COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN AND AMONG
IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES, EXECUTING AGENCIES, AND THE GEF SECRETARIAT, IF
APPROPRIATE.
The extensive consultations with all stakeholders which preceded the submission of the concept
for the Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the LMEs of
Sub-Saharan Africa to the GEF, including the consultative workshops in Dakar in January 2005
and in Dar Es Salaam in June 2005, have been followed by further consultations over the past
year among the World Bank, the LME programs and the planning partners--the African Union,
FAO and WWF. In May 2006, the African Union, together with FAO and WWF, hosted the
first meeting of the Regional Advisory Committee (RAC), which endorsed this draft proposal.
Taking note of the Resolution adopted by the Dar Es Salaam consultative workshop and
endorsed by the first meeting of the RAC, the AU, FAO and WWF broadly agreed on the terms
of reference for their respective roles and responsibilities in executing the project. This
agreement, in line with good partnership practices, is based on three principles as follows:
· Individual responsibility of each partner for each well-defined activity;
· Common peer review of all outputs by the three partners;
· Collective agreement among all three partners on the set of envisaged outputs based on
the recommendations of the RAC and the project brief as endorsed by the GEF Council.
Taking account of the respective comparative advantages of each agency, the roles and
responsibilities would be assigned as follows:
The African Union will chair and direct the Secretariat of the RAC and take responsibility for
overall coordination, and for mobilization of funding, as appropriate. The Secretariat will work
under the direction of the RAC and report its activities to the RAC as well as to the World Bank
as implementing agency.
FAO will provide technical assistance to the RAC Secretariat and AU. It will provide technical
advice to the AU and to countries, at their request, on project proposal preparation, assist in
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consultation and coordination with the GEF-supported LMEs of Sub-Saharan Africa, and advice
on replication strategies and policies and help the RAC in meeting its M & E responsibilities.
WWF will provide support to the AU in regard to the communications functions of the RAC
Secretariat, including, inter alia, the development of a dedicated web site, the identification of
synergies and dissemination of common lessons learned and the raising of awareness of
sustainable fisheries best practices.
In summary, this proposal has been designed through a large and extensive period of
consultations as part of the larger Strategic Partnership initiative, and endorsed by the first
meeting of the RAC held in Nairobi in May, 2006.
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PART II RESPONSE TO REVIEWS
A - CONVENTION SECRETARIAT
NO COMMENTS RECEIVED YET
B - OTHER IAS AND RELEVANT EXAS
NO COMMENTS RECEIVED YET
C - STAP
Individual projects proposed under the Partnership Investment Fund will undergo
individual reviews by a qualified reviewer chosen from the STAP roster.
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