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expertise, develop capacity, improve operations and increase material resources and equipment. CRODT provides support to participatory research projects. To be more efficient and give the
stakeholders a more active role in these initiatives, CRODT needs to take a more focused approach. This would also address some of the complaints the stakeholders made during our field visits.
A number of academic or research institutions are interested in certain aspects of fisheries, marine resources, the coastal environment, marine and wildlife management, etc. Measures should be taken
to contact the Geography Department, the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire IFAN, IUPA, the Faculty of Science, the Veterinary School, the Institute of Environmental Sciences ISE, ITA and
some of the departments in the Ministry of Environment. They carry out research and provide knowledge on fisheries that can be useful to the services and ongoing projects in MPAM. The Head of
the Department of Marine Biology indicated that IFAN is working to reproduce and grow marine and freshwater species together with IUPA and COMFISH. Training institutions and research institutes
accept many interns and PhD students who can carry out surveys and research on several topics of interest to fisheries projects and programs. In line with their needs, the fisheries projects and
programs can even propose topics for study and research to the interns and PhD students.
The training schools, which are under the supervision of the Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, should not be left out of this process.
SECTION IV: Recommendations and Action Plan Outlines
The recommendations and action plans presented below have been designed to enhance the integration of extension and capacity development in fisheries programs.
4.2 Improve the institutional framework
The legal and regulatory instruments in force make little provision for extension and capacity development. Institutions are set up, including offices and divisions, but they exist only on paper.
Steps must be taken to organize them, define their scope of activity and provide them with material and human resources to discharge their duties properly. Efforts should be made also to train staff and
help them specialize in extension, bearing in mind that extension work is a profession that people learn to do, either in specialized training schools or through hands-on training.
4.3 Train and resource good governance organs CNCPM, CLPAs
The fisheries policy and fishing code are two indicators of the Government of Senegal’s political will for participatory and collaborative fisheries management based on close collaboration and shared
responsibilities with fisheries stakeholders and fishing communities. But, unless the entities in charge of fisheries are competent to practice good governance, this political will shall not translate into
success.
4.4 Synergize and coordinate projects
To avoid “duplication” on the ground that causes officials and stakeholders to deal with the conflicting results achieved by these project activities efforts will be coordinated and synergized.
4.5 Ensure proper monitoring and evaluation of the programs
Proper measure and evaluation of the program activities will be implemented to ensure that
set goals are achieved, to avoid eventual distortions and deviations, and to intervene in a timely manner and make the adjustments deemed useful.
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4.6 Ensure outreach on and communication of policy options, legal and regulatory provisions
Outreach and communication efforts must be undertaken on policy options, legal and regulatory provisions. These elements are sometimes unknown or are interpreted wrongly by most stakeholders
and some officials. Stakeholders often ask for the extension of the Code and CLPAs .
Therefore, the time is right to rethink the approach and techniques of communicating and disseminating information
to ensure that set goals are achieved, well understood and owned by the target communities. In the same vein, outreach to and training of stakeholders should be done under the best conditions,
and in a specialized facility. There should be some brainstorming on a number of different strategies, including: possible ways to involve the Schools under MPAM, resume the FENAGIE PECHE
training center project, build on the initiative conducted by the Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training, and rehabilitate the CPEP.
4.7 Promote greater use of scientific knowledge and progress in developing fisheries
