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1. INTRODUCTION
The Collaborative Management for a Sustainable Fisheries Future in Senegal Project USAIDCOMFISH is a five-year initiative funded by the United States Agency for International
Development USAID and implemented through a Collaborative Agreement between USAID and the University of Rhode Island URI. The project’s major implementing partners include government
entities, the private sector, non-governmental organizations NGOs working on fisheries in coastal communities, academic institutions IFAN, IUPA, research institutes CRODT, IRD, CSE and many
other bodies APTE, WWF, FENAGIE PECHE, etc..
The goal of the USAIDCOMFISH project is to support the Government of Senegal’s efforts to achieve reform of its fisheries sector, as stated in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy Letter, by
strengthening the enabling conditions necessary for enhancing governance and promoting the use of effective management tools and approaches. These tools simultaneously address all the aspects of
sustainability, specifically the social, institutional and biological aspects. The 1998 Fishing Code makes overall provision for local governance organs, as evidenced by the creation of Local Artisanal
Fishing Committees CLPAs. However, research on the biological sustainability of some stocks is still not being used adequately in collaborative management plans. This means the existing
mechanisms responsible for collaborative management at the local level do not actually internalize the sustainability criteria in the Sector Policy Letter. The direct consequence is that most fisheries in
Senegal are not managed in a sustainable manner.
The USAIDCOMFISH project supports Senegal’s efforts to achieve fisheries sector reform. It also promotes the objectives of biodiversity conservation, taking into account the crosscutting themes of
enhanced governance, gender mainstreaming and adaptation to the impacts of climate change.
The USAIDCOMFISH project’s long term objective, over a 20-to-30 year timeframe, is to end overfishing in Senegal and provide the nation with a sustainable source of high quality protein that
contributes to the quality of life in artisanal fishing communities, and maintains the capacity of coastal and marine ecosystems to produce goods and services that are useful to, and desired by the people in
Senegal.
The USAIDCOMFISH project contributes to achieve the following four major results: IR 1: Institutional and stakeholder capacity strengthened at all levels of governance to implement
an ecosystem-based, collaborative management approach to sustainable fisheries to prevent overfishing, and to increase climate change resilience;
IR 2: Strategies, policies and best practices identified, tested and applied to strengthen resilience to climate change and address destructive and unsustainable marine resource uses that threaten
biodiversity conservation in the West African ecoregion;
IR 3: Vulnerability assessed and capacity of vulnerable coastal communities strengthened to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change;
IR 4: Increased social and economic benefits to artisanal fishing communities provide incentives to a continued sustainable fisheries agenda and increased climate change resilience.
This report presents the activities the USAIDCOMFISH project conducted in FY14. It contains five parts: an introduction; section one that presents the year’s major accomplishments;
section three on crosscutting activities communication, environmental compliance monitoring, performance monitoring and evaluation; and the last section on project management and annexes.
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2. ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN YEAR FOUR
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