Governance dialog A one-week dialog between stakeholders, managers and international experts will be facilitated
early in the project year. It is envisaged that this will start with a fishing community visit lead by community members and stakeholders with the objective of providing a deeper understanding to
outside experts on the context of fishing in Ghana. This will then progress to a 3-day workshop focusing on local context, lessons from study tours and global success stories.
Policy brief on governance structure The primary output from the dialog will be the fishery-specific components of a policy brief
outlining plausible and productive designs for nested coastal and fisheries governance, institutional requirements, and the steps required to implement recommendations. It is
anticipated that this will take considerable development following the dialog, as it must be integrated with the legal and institutional analysis to map the pathway forwards.
Table of Key Activities and Milestones Task 1.2.3
Q1 Q2
Q3 Q4
Legal and institutional analysis completed X
Consultative selection of dialog participants X
Dates for dialog finalized X
Workshop with stakeholder groups held X
Background papers completed X
Dialog held X
Policy brief draft for circulation X
Policy brief released X
Draft scientific publication on consultative processes X
List of Key Outputs
ｸ Policy brief on implementation of nested governance ｸ Draft scientific paper on consultative processes in governance design
1.2.4 Promoting Compliance and Enforcement of Fisheries Laws Activity Leader: Kyei Yamoah.
Activity Team: Donkris Mevuta, Mark Fenn; Nana Efua, Richard Adupong, Kwesi Johnson
Fisheries Working Group; AFRICOMUS Navy; MCS.
Important Implementing Organizations: Fisheries Commission, Fisheries Working Group FWG, District Assemblies, Ghana National Canoe Fishermen’s Council and, the Attorney
General’s Office.
The overall goal of this element is to facilitate engagements and explore new avenues to promote voluntary compliance and enforcement of fisheries rules and regulations. The voluntary
compliance strategy will identify a group of motivated people at both the district and community scale. The approach would adopt the piloting of a fresh approach to community-based
management in two focal areas Shama and Cape Three Points. The criteria for selection will
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include strong community leadership, the nature of the landing beach as well as heterogeneity or homogeneity of the community; considerations would also be given to communities where
strong interest exists for the piloting.
In Year 3 improved communications at the district and community level will be explored for compliance and enforcement through the building of informed constituencies with the
mobilization of interest groups at the district scale to engage with the district assemblies and sustain permanent voices at the district and community scale. More community durbars will be
organized to communicate on compliance and enforcement using simple graphical presentations, local drama, story-telling by study tour participants and other methods. Engagements on the
environmental courts and training of selected judges and prosecutors will continue to strengthen enforcement, also planning with the Fisheries Commission technical officers in the Western
Region will continue. Activities will link strongly with focal site activities piloting fisher folk associations in selected communities under component 2. Tasks will include the following:
Community durbar on compliance and enforcement Community durbars a traditional form of community meeting will organize meetings for
voluntary compliance and enforcement communicating to fisher folks through simple presentations, drama and study tour participants to share lessons learned. The community durbars
will be organized in major fishing communities but will concentrate more in the communities selected for the piloting of community-based management approahces.
Continued training of judges and prosecutors Continued training of judges and prosecutors and engagements for the establishment and
functioning of an environmental court for WR. This will strengthen the enforcement arm in the region to coordinate fisheries enforcement activities in a more consistent and orderly manner.
Planning meeting with Fisheries Commission WR Continued planning meetings will be held with the Fisheries Commission in the Western Region
to develop a more proactive approach to fisheries enforcement as well as explore ways that technical staff can be more proactive in extension services geared towards collaborative
management approaches. The planning meetings will explore ways to build the capacities of the technical officers and orient them to provide extension services to fishers. This is also related to
the governance dialogue activities described in section1.2.3 above.
Assistance with the training of marine police units Training programs for planned “marine police units” will be prepared and implemented in
collaboration with the MCS division of the Fisheries Commission and the Western Regional Police Command. ICFG will support training on appropriate social approaches to enforcement
and seek to develop complimentary roles for marine police and Chief Fishermen.
Creation of Citizen Watch on the Water CWOW Program The creation of a CWOW program will be modeled on a similar program in Kenya that is
supported by AFRICOMS, and other examples worldwide. A collaborative support program has been planned with AFRICOMs, the WR MCS team, the Ghana Navy and will include the future
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