Technical Approach GENERAL 1. Amount Obligated:

Sustainable Fisheries Management Project Page 23 of 108 Project Vision We envision this project fostering substantial changes in fisheries management in Ghana with the nation making significant progress in achieving the goals and objectives of its METASIP, FASDEP II and FASDP policies, and contributing to USAIDs CDCS DO2 and the agency’s Feed the Future FtF, climate change and biodiversity initiatives. We envision the Fisheries Commission FC, UCC University of Cape Coast, key fishermen and fishmonger associations and NGO groups with strengthened capacities for problem solving through open and transparent communications and shared decision making. We believe that over the life-of-project, the investments by USAID, WARFP and GOG promote technological innovations and put the marine fisheries sector on a course towards sustainability, benefiting 130,0000 people engaged directly in the fisheries sector along with many others that rely on Ghana’s seas to contribute to the nation’s food security, by potentially increasing annual yields of fish supply by tens of thousands of metric tons via improved management of over 700,000 hectares of marine waters. We also envision that Ghanaian local implementing partners have their capacities strengthened to sustain the intervention and actively engage beyond SFMP lifespan and contribute to the USAIDforward agenda. Theory of Change Development Hypothesis The project purpose is to “Rebuild targeted fish stocks through adoption of sustainable practices and exploitation levels.” This project will forge a campaign that builds a constituency for change that captures the support of high-level decision makers and politicians as well as grass roots fishermen, fishmongers and processors. To achieve sustainable fishing practices and exploitation levels, reduced fishing effort must occur in order to end of overfishing. This, over the longer term, will lead to improved fish stocks and higher and more sustainable fishing yields. This signals to stakeholders and beneficiaries a causal chain and time lag between ending overfishing and improved stocks, and ultimately, improved fish yields and profitability household income. IR 3 “constituencies and political will built,” is critical to insure that the public is supportive of and will demand changes in the fisheries sector. This implies grass-roots movements among producer groups and the public that drive high level political support for change—achieved via strong stakeholder participation campaigns coordinated with the FC and WARFP. MOFAD and the FC must be willing to push for these changes and convince legislators and others that they are in the country’s interest and have widespread public support. Such stakeholder-driven processes can be risky. But in the end, CRC’s decades of experience with USAID projects and public processes demonstrates that the benefits greatly outweigh the risks. We believe that for any short-term gains from reduced fishing effort to be sustained beyond the SFMP requires that a larger suite of interventions and outcomes be implemented see Theory of Change, Figure 1 below, especially given the open access nature of the current fishery. Comprehensive management plans for targeted stocks are needed that both control effort and manage harvest. Effort control requires a suite of measures such as restrictions on the number of fishing units by