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4. Associate Awards, Leveraged and Complementary Activities

Background The SUCCESS Leader Award has to date had the US 3.26m Post-Tsunami Sustainable Coastal Livelihoods Program in Thailand as its sole Associate Award and which ended March 31, 2008. While there is potential for a possible Associate Award for work related to small scale, nearshore fisheries management and reform in West Africa, there is nothing definitive on this at this time. 4.1 Leveraged and Complementary Activities The SUCCESS Program has leveraged over a 1.4 million dollars US for its activities see pages 56-58 for more detail. An interesting example of this is the leveraged funding being secured by other donors and programs interested in the SUCCESS Certification Program models in the Latin America and Western Indian Ocean regions, where WIOMSA and EcoCostas have leveraged about 250,000 each. The main funders are the Avina Foundation and LOICZ Latin America and the Swedish International Development Agency SIDA and the European-Union funded Regional Coastal Management Program ReCoMap East Africa. Equally impressive is the over US 4 million that has been secured and that clearly complements—sometimes building upon, sometimes feeding back to—SUCCESS funding and activities. This includes but is not limited to: In Tanzania , the USAID Mission funds a broad portfolio of ICM activities being implemented by the Tanzania Coastal Management Partnership TCMP and which compliment those of SUCCESS. This includes but is not limited to activities in biodiversity conservation; microenterprise development; small-scale, sustainable, native species mariculture; developing and disseminating good practices; influencing policy; etc. ReCoMap has also supported and built upon our on-the-ground activities in Tanzania by providing two grants, totaling around 170,000 dollars to expand half-pearl and milkfish farming. The half-pearl farming and jewelry making efforts on Fumba are also enhanced by a 305,000 dollar grant from the US Department of State and a grant from the McKnight Foundation of 151,000 dollars. In Ecuador , the USAID Mission provided funding directly to EcoCostas for mapping the Cojimies watershed as well as tapped EcoCostas and CRC expertise to assess its portfolio of Galapagos activities. In addition the PMRC national ICM agency has funded EcoCostas to conduct a water quality study in the Cojimies Estuary, a SUCCESS Program site; and the European Union-funded Prodonera project is funding the reforestation of the coastal forest that is also part of the SUCCESS work site area. In Nicaragua the SUCCESS partner UCA has secured funding from a range of private sources as well as international bi-lateral development agencies for work on issues around shrimp and cockle farming—two issues also being addressed by SUCCESS. UCA-CIDEA and UHH have also partnered to expand water quality and sanitation efforts with funds leveraged from the AquaFish CRSP program. 50

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