Policy dialoguereforms ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN YEAR FOUR

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2. ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN YEAR FOUR

2.1. Policy dialoguereforms

At the policy level, the project carried out a good number of activities to: - Obtain validation of the final report on the “Diagnostic study of existing consultation frameworks on climate change, fishing and the marine and coastal environment” by the Vulnerability and Adaptation Group, which works under the National Committee on Climate Change COMNAC. The validation took place during a meeting the group organized at DEEC on June 27 th 2014. The project later coordinated comprehensive information sharing and awareness building in the regions of Senegal to disseminate the study results and the action plan for integrating climate change in Senegal’s fisheries policies. The reporting back sessions organized to that effect have already taken place in the three regions of Dakar, Louga and Fatick where they brought together 224 persons from all the local technical units of the fisheries and environment departments, the administrative and local authorities, as well as the local stakeholders. Photo 1: National reporting back session Photo 2: Regional reporting session - Continue supporting the national management plan for sardinella fisheries by finalizing the collaborative management plans for the zones of Cape Verde, Petite Côte and Grande Côte Sud. The last Technical Working Group ETT meeting, attended by resource persons, pre- validated these plans before they were submitted to the National Commission for the Management of Small Pelagics. - Contribute in enhancing local governance of fisheries to support the DPM’s efforts for compliance with the LPS by establishing the Kafountine CLPA through a participatory and inclusive process with all the stakeholders on site local authorities, the Ziguinchor fisheries service, fisheries practitioners. These stakeholders subsequently sent their representatives for a three-day training exercise on the role of CLPA council members, after which an official ceremony to install the council members was held in Kafountine under the Katabal District Officer, who also presides over the CLPA. 8 Photo 3: Village meeting in Diannah Photo 4: Kafountine CLPA installation ceremony - Conduct studies and develop a methodology for the Fisheries Ministry to use in estimating IUU captures in the fight against IUU fishing. To fight more vigorously against this problem at the local level, the project provided strong support to CLPA collaborative supervision committees. - Support the technical experts committee on fishing capacity management to organize their technical and capacity development meetings, and thereby contribute to enhance fishing capacity management. The project conducted these activities within the action plan of the “Seafood and Aquaculture” cluster in the Accelerated Growth Strategy. The last meeting to assess and develop the action plan of the said cluster took place on August 12 and 13, 2014 in Dakar with the support of USAIDCOMFISH. - Contribute to initiate thinking on Senegal’s national extension strategy for maritime artisanal fisheries in order to boost the efforts being made in this regard by the Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs. The project also played an enabling role in the validation and approval of a national MPA strategy SNAMP by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development.

2.2. Human and institutional capacity development