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Task Q2
Q3 Q4
Fisheries Department Outputs
• An accessible, written, clear and validated practical document that addresses the full suite of capacity building needs and strategies for effective coastal and fisheries governance
• A clear analysis of the potential for private sector aquaculture development in the Western Region including in the event of a positive outcome suggestions on
appropriate technological and institutional arrangements • A review that provides a short-list of sub-sectors, with justification for these choices
including reasons for excluding others and suggestions on next steps • An action plan for capacity building for the fisheries service
• A work plan with clear targets for capacity building
3.6 Design of Phase 2 Program and Year 2 Workplan
During the months of August and September 2010, the ICFG Program team will design and develop the Phase 2 Program for Years 2 to 4 of the program. This will serve as the introductory
chapters of the Year 2 work plan. The Phase 2 program description will include the following:
• Anticipated future pressures on coastal ecosystems including projecting existing trends and
impacts of climate change • Refined four year Program objectives and strategies
• Medium and long term goals for the coast and fisheries of the Western Region and a description of the underlying hypotheses and enabling conditions essential for success
• The selection and justification of issues to be addressed and the priority activity components • A refined qualitative and quantitative framework for assessing progress and adaptive
management that serves the Program, local to national management and governance structures, and builds up into USAID and GEF monitoring indicators.
The Year Two workplan, from October 2010 to September 2011, will emanate from the Phase 2 Program description as well as build upon the experiences of the “Early Actions” completed
during Year 1 of the Program.
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Q4
Completion of Phase 2 Program description and Year 2 workplan
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4. Program Management
4.1 Strategic Partners and Clients
The Coastal Resources Center CRC at the University of Rhode Island URI is the lead institution responsible for overall Program management and implementation including Program
performance and financial reporting to USAIDGhana. Several other international, national and local organizations will play critical partnership roles with implementation. Key implementing
partners are The WorldFish Center, Sustainametrix and Friends of the Nation:
• Friends of the NationFoN is a local socio-environmental NGO that has on-going activities
to address the crises in Ghana’s fisheries sector, especially in the Western Region. FoN has worked with fishery communities for over 12 years to achieve “Good Governance” by
advocating for institutional reforms in the fisheries sector for more effective regulation and management. FoN applies an advocacy strategy that aims at citizens’ empowerment,
community participation, building communal networks and providing district and regional platforms for national level advocacy in the fishery sector.
• The WorldFish Center’s West Africa regional team has extensive experience in West
Africa and Ghana, especially on fisheries co-management, governance, market analysis and livelihoods, and will provide technical support services to the ICFG Program.
• SustainaMetrix is a “Guide Service” institution for communities and organizations that seek
to create a desirable future. It builds the capacity needed for a more sustainable path of development. It does this by working with clients to help buildtransfer the skills, knowledge
and attitudes that are necessary to understand the complex terrain of adaptive ecosystem- based management and to chart a course that is rooted in a deep understanding of the place.
The primary clients of the Program are coastal communities and government agencies in the six coastal districts in the Western Region. Other implementing partners and beneficiaries are:
• Fisheries Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture • National Fisheries Commission
• Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology • Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources
• University of Ghana and University of Cape Coast The ICFG Program will also work with the civil society sector in Ghana, which includes national
and local nongovernmental organizations NGOs, especially those with on-going programs on environmental and community-based resources management in coastal areas of the Western
Region. This includes:
• Community-Based Fisheries Management Committees CBFMCs established to help
decentralize fisheries management at the local level—with its membership including Chief fishermen, fisheries stakeholders and government representatives.
