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Table of Key Activities and Milestones
Who 4.5 Integrated Community Fisheries
Management and Resilience Plans for the Ankobra River Estuarine and Mangrove
Ecosystem
Q1 Q2
Q3 Q4
Hen Mpoano
Social and ecological profiling of Axim Sawoma Apoaso Eshiam Eziome Adefekezo Kokofri
X X
Spatial Solutions
Mapping and spatial analysis, including assessment of existing plans and emerging
opportunities eg. Adamus Biodiversity Action plan for conservation of the estuary and
associated mangrove systems. This will include recommendations on how to integrate
conservation of fish habitat and mangrove ecosystems into the overall planning framework
SDF and MTDPs of Nzema East and Ellembelle districts as well as how this will become the
foundation for piloting JDPA by the districts.
X X
X
Daasgift Sanitation assessment by Daasgift to explore
opportunities for trashy bag business development.
X X
List of Key Outputs •
SocialEcological Profiling Report in Ankobra River Estuarine communities [ACT003]
4.6 Integrated Community Fisheries Management and Resilience Plans for the Pra
River Estuarine and Mangrove Ecosystems
Activity Lead: Kankam
Activity Team: Friends of the Nation, SNV, DAASGIFT, URICRC, UCC
The Pra River activity starts in Year 2. SNV will bring in its extensive experience in Ghana on sustainable mangrove utilization
including undertaking wood supply chain studies for the WR and CR to insure that fish smokers continue to have a supply of preferred wood species while protecting mangroves as fish
nurseries. CSLP will provide criteria for woodlot sites, tree species and sustainable forest harvesting practices and will monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the overall effort. SNV,
along with UCC student researchers, will document energy budgets and comparative economics of processing techniques. See 2.5 and 4.8
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Table of Key Activities and Milestones
Who Activity 4.6 Integrated Community Fisheries
Management and Resilience Plans for the Pra River Estuarine and Mangrove Ecosystems
Q1 Q2
Q3 Q4
FoN Develop Year Two work plan design for Pra, based
on experiences in Ankobra x
List of Key Outputs
None in Year 1.
4.7 Sustainable Financing of Co-management Institutions
Activity Lead: Crawford
Activity Team: Agbogah
No activities in Year 1. This activity will begin in Year 2. The issue of sustainable financing of co-management fisheries institutions is a global issue and is
particularly problematic in small-scale fisheries in developing countries such as Ghana, where profitability is low and opportunities for rent extraction are limited. The failure of the previous
co-management efforts were due in part to the lack of a legislative mandate for districts to take on any responsibility for fisheries management including budgetary allocations and revenue
generation in support of fisheries management. A plan of action will be developed with the FC and stakeholders to seek effective mechanisms to finance the various stakeholder committees
proposed at national, regional sub-national and local scale. This needs to include funding of committee activities, such as meetings to decide on new management measures to prevent and
end overfishing, development of fisheries management plans, and particularly, implementation of management measures and their contribution in law enforcement with MCS units. Options
may include legislative mandates for the FC to provide budget line items for co-management committees emulating Philippines and US examples as options for use of the Ghana Fisheries
Development Fund, the use of a percentage of license fees to support co-management committees This is the Senegal approach which so far has been unsuccessful., establishment of
landing fees, shares of fines, etc. This will be a theme topic for the national policy dialogues and also for inclusion in appropriate amendments to the Fisheries Act. The responsibility will likely
continue to reside in the FC and the co-management committees it chooses to establish. However, if management authorities are delegated to districts, then local funding mechanisms
under district mandates could also be explored following the recommendations of the evaluation of the previous WNB supported community-based management project. Once a strategy has
been worked out, SFMP will work with MOFAD and the FC to pilot at least one financing system supported by a series of trainings in administrative and financial management. A manual
of administrative and financial management will be produced based primarily on a concept of transparency and information sharing.
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4.8 Central and Western Region Fishing Community Livelihood Development Value
