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Project Component Description

This section provides an overview of the Project Component 1 and Subcomponent 3.1 that are going to be implemented by PERSGA. Below is a brief description of these components. Figure 1 summarizes their main milestones.

Component 1: Strengthening regional collaboration in management of marine fisheries and aquaculture in the RSGA region (US$3.5 million)

This component will aim to strengthen and sustain regional collaboration through support to science-based management of fisheries in the RSGA, development of a regional platform for coordination of policies, legislation, management plans and measures for responsible fisheries and aquaculture and use of ecosystems approaches, and support to regional level capacity building and technical assistance program on management of living marine resources responding to both anthropogenic and climate induced changes. Specifically, the component will include:

  1. a) PERSGA Regional Information Management System (RIMS), monitoring network and institutional capacity. Building the capacity of PERSGA, as a regional organization, to compile data on catch and fishing effort and analyze the relevant statistics received from its member states and make this information available to its member states as assigned to PERSGA by the regional convention and derived regional protocols, including improving RIMS hardware and software and networking for integrated functions; supported for its capacity for processing, analyzing and utilizing fishery data to support science-based policies and their implementation in the RSGA region; support for PERSGA system capacity for monitoring marine environment; promoting system capacity for design and communication tools; and updating institutional guidelines and promoting PERSGA’s capacity in resource management, accounting policies and procedures, financial reporting and monitoring, procurement procedures, project cycle management, risk assessment; and environmental and social risks and impacts assessment, planning and management.
  2. b) Regional platforms for capacity building and regional coordination of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in the regional management mechanism. This will provide capacity development, technical assistance and effective coordination on fishery management at the regional level under the [Jeddah Convention] and the related regional protocols, support developing technical manuals and a regional mechanism to share information with member states on fishery information and knowledge; conducting training programs for national capacities on sustainable management of fisheries and aquaculture; technical guidelines, and provision of operational costs and technical assistance for the establishment and maintenance of regional platforms to effectively coordinate efforts in fisheries management, policies and legislation; protection and restoration of critical fish habitats, and sustainable aquaculture; and regional mechanism to interact with relevant international efforts; technical assistance and provision of operating costs for developing toolkits for effective fisheries monitoring; support for developing a Regional Plan of Action for combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing (RPOA-IUU), and other specific action plans concerning conservation of vulnerable non target species.
  3. c) Citizen, private sector and development partner engagement in the regional sustainable fishery mechanism through enhanced knowledge management, communication strategies and awareness. This will provide technical assistance, consultations, and operating costs for supporting citizen, private sector and development partner engagement; raising awareness through effective communication and reporting on regional cooperation actions; building PERSGA’s capacity to make use of the information and process of joint assessment of fisheries status and trends in the RSGA LMEs; and its feedback to policy instruments at the regional level, and to assist facilitate their implementation; developing special awareness activities; technical guidelines for best practices in knowledge management; and providing a regional platform for sharing knowledge, facilitating linkages to research and development institutes addressing issues related to sustainable fisheries and aquaculture management in the RSGA region.

Subcomponent 3.1: Program Coordination, project management, monitoring and evaluation and reporting by PERSGA (approximately US$0.35).

  1. This subcomponent includes technical assistance, training, operating costs, and goods for PERSGA for management of the regional activities ensuring technical, fiduciary, environmental and social, parameters, and developing and maintaining a grievance mechanism (GM). It will also support ongoing communication activities to raise awareness about the SFISH Program and implementation progress, ensure effective engagement of stakeholders at the RSGA level, and collaboration and synergy with UNDP.