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4. STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT
Stakeholder participation and involvement is a key pillar of the SFMP approach and a central means to achieving the overall project goal to restore Ghana’s marine fisheries to a healthy and
sustainable state. As such, stakeholder participation is mainstreamed into all of the intermediate results categories including IR3; building constituencies and political will for reform, IR;
national policy initiatives, national dialogues and workshops, IR 4; applied management initiatives, IR 5; gender, and IR 6; private sector partnership activities have involved substantial
numbers of fisheries stakeholders.
An analysis of information from 150 stakeholder and beneficiary engagement activities 58 in Year 1, 92 in Year 2 indicates that by the end of project Year 2, a cumulative total of 5,707
inidividuals participated in all events--- more than double Year 1---and involved 3,574 unique individuals, twice the level of Year 1. The cumulative proportion of women as new individuals
involved with the SFMP increased by 150 during the second year, passing above 50 of the total participants at the end of calendar year 2015 and steadily growing to 58.8 by the close of
Year 2. More information on the gender dimension is provided in Section 2, IR 5.
The field training of the Fisheries Watch volunteers in James Town and Ada East was undertaken in collaboration with Fisheries Commission lead, FEU, National Fish Traders
Processors Association, Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council, and the Ghana Police Service. These stakeholders were present to ensure the practical training achieved the desired
results for smooth implementation of the FWV initiative in these pilot areas.
Further, the Millennium Fishers Future Plan partnership engaged local fishers as actors in the insurance film that will be used for the education and sensitization for the insurance initiatives.
The fishers belong to the National Fish Traders Processors Association and Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council, respectively.
The Tigo partnership includes the Fisheries Commission as a partner. The Commission is passionate about this partnership as it will go a long way to support its extension efforts in
sustainable fisheries management.
5. MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES
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