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3. INTEGRATION OF CROSSCUTTING ISSUES AND USAID FORWARD PRIORITIES
3.1 Gender Equality and Female Empowerment
Please see IR5 for information on activities directly related to this issue.
3.2 Sustainability Mechanisms
Emphasis is placed on: Involvement of relevant government officials in project planning and implementation to
ensure continuity. Continued capacity building and development of local stakeholders and partners to
greatly assist project sustainability.
3.3 Environmental Compliance
Environmental monitoring and mitigation as per the approved USAID IEE and project Environmental Monitoring and Mitigation Plan were undertaken and with full compliance
with conditions contained therein. Areas of particular concern are construction activities of fish smokers and refurbished drying sheds although refurbishment of a government data
center and a training center office space were also reviewed for environmental compliance. The annual environmental monitoring and mitigation report was submitted to the AOR and is
available online 3.4
Global Climate Change
Please see section IR4.5 Pra and Ankobra Resilience plans for information on activities directly related to this issue
3.5 Policy and Governance support
Please see section IR1 which describes SFMP’s substantial policy and governance support initiatives.
3.6 Local Capacity Development
See section IR7 for capacity development activities of government, producer, processor and CSO groups.
3.7 Public Private Partnerships
See section IR 6 for information on activities directly related to this issue. 3.8
Science, Technology, and Innovation
Please see section IR2 for descriptions of activities of the science and technical working group on fisheries, collaborative research undertaken with UCC, and development of an ICT
strategy for the project. Of particular note is the adoption of paperless surveys using tablets and cloud data storage have been adopted by the ME unit of the Fisheries Commission and
some of our implementing partners. In addition, of particular note is SNV’s interest in promoting improved cook stoves that produce a healthy food product. With this in mind, and
the recent discovery of high PAH levels in the most fuel efficient design, the Project invested resources to develop a modified design which produces much less PAH in the smoked fish
than the original fuel efficient Morrison design and almost to EU import standards. A second stove with what preliminary assessment has shown to be even lower PAH levels is still under
development and slated to be piloted in the field in FY 17.
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resolution imagery for coastal planning, hazard mapping and environmental monitoring. The pilot activities have demonstrated this as a low cost and useful means of obtaining
information otherwise not available and demand for such imagery is high. SFMP is working on a sustainability plan to acquire a fixed wing aircraft in Year 3 that can cover larger areas
than the current helicopter model. Training of local pilots in flying the unmanned aircraft started in the later part of FY 16 and image processing and additional flight training will
continue in Year3 FY 17. An aim is to build the capability of using this technology at the University of Cape Coast with a handover of the equipment slated for FY 17.
Satelite Imagery
UAV Imagery
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4. STAKEHOLDERS PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT
