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4. Project Management
4.1 Strategic Partners
Since this Project is an Associate Award under the Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement for Sustainable Coastal Communities and Ecosystems SUCCESS Program, the
Coastal Resources Center CRC at the University of Rhode Island URI is the lead institution responsible for overall Project management and implementation including programmatic and
financial reporting to the USAIDWest Africa Regional Office. The World Wide Fund WWF West Africa regional office and its program located in Dakar, Senegal with a field office in The
Gambia is the primary regional and in-country implementation partner for the fisheries and now the additional climate change activities to be implemented in Year 3. Some of the fisheries work
with local partners will, however, now be managed directly by the URI in-country office. These include TRY, NAAFOGAMFIDANASCOM, TAGFC and the Water Resources Laboratory
activities. The new Water and Sanitation component that starts in Year 3 will be implemented by local partners TARUD and GAMWORKS contracting directly with URI.
Several other organizations play critical partnership roles in implementation or as primary clients who benefit from the Project . The Gambia Department of Fisheries DoFish is the primary
national institution slated for institutional strengthening as well as the Department of Parks and Wildlife Management. Also targeted are the National Association of Artisanal Fisheries
Organization, and the Fisheries Management Committees at the Community Fisheries Centers and the TRY Women’s Oyster Association. Each will contribute resources e.g. staff time,
equipment, etc. to implementing a unified vision for the Project. Additional partners with roles include the USAID West Africa Regional Office and USAID Senegal. At the regional scale, the
USAID Wula Nafaa II and COMFISH Project and other ongoing donor regional initiatives also play a role. The Project also coordinates with other U.S. government-funded initiatives in the
region as appropriate.
4.2 Operational Staffing and Lines of Authority