19 region has increased the number of fisherfolk reached through IUU messages and provided the
platform for fishers to exchange knowledge and strategies on responsible fishing practices.
Behavior Change Communications Campaign on Child Labor and Trafficking CLaT
Weak institutional collaboration and poor communication have been identified as one of the key challenges to addressing CLaT issues in the fisheries sector. FoN organized a half-day CLaT
Hotline communications launch event on February 14, 2017 at the Pempamsie hotel in Cape- coast. A total of 182 persons participated in the event including representatives from the US
Embassy, USAID-Ghana, Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development. The event provided unique platform to Government institutions and stakeholders to share and communicate
their plans and strategies towards addressing Child Labor and Trafficking as well as strategies for moving Ghana off the US Dept. of State TIP Watch list Tier Two.
SFMP CLaT intervention is aimed at promoting behavioral change communications to insure that CLaT practices become socially unacceptable. As part of this initiative, the project carried
out a 5-day Communities’ Sensitization against Child Labor and Trafficking CLaT in February, 2017 in all thirteen 13 communities in Central Region of Ghana with a total of 2,992 adults
1269 men and 1723 women engaged with key messages on Anti-Child labor and trafficking. The meetings were used to inform stakeholders about the implication of Ghana on the Tier Two
of the US State Department Trafficking in Persons TIP Watch-list and reiterated the need for stakeholders to work with government.
3.2 Executive Level Policy Maker Communications
The executive level communications targets policy makers and fisheries authorities and is intended to formalize relationships with them to build the political will and support for SFMP’s
fisheries policy agenda aimed at rebuilding stocks. A transition from the John Dramani Mahama led administration to the Nana Akuffo Addo led Administration took place in Q2. SFMP
provided technical assistance on fisheries related project to the transition team. Again, SFMP was instrumental in orientation the ministerial appointees and the newly constituted fisheries
committee on the state of Ghana’s fisheries.
3.3 Corporate Communications
The CiviCRM contact management system has evolved from an experimental trial to a core part of SFMP communications. More than 4000 individuals and 110 organizations have been
included, with phone contact information for 3000 of these persons along with about 400 email addresses. The CiviCRM data base is also used to obtain additional descriptive information
about the SFMP’s engagement with stakeholders. Some recent results are described below in Section 4 of this report. The SFMP needs to directly reach a greater proportion of the
membership of stakeholder organizations. Another reason is that the number of fishing canoe owners, fishers, and fish processors intended as SFMP beneficiaries is 20 times more than we
have directly met and worked with to date.
To date the SFMP has completed about 90 technical documents, event reports and program management documents, the majority of which are online. At the end of Quarter 2, the SFMP is
working on another tranche of 90 items in review, revision or final processing. We anticipate receiving nearly 190 reports of all types in Year 3 based on the Year 3 work plan and partner
sub-contracts. A list of reports under active review and processing during Year 2 as well as reports now online is provided as Annex D.
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Figure 8. Trends of catch per unit of effort for demersal fisheries in Ghana IR 4: Applied Management: Improved Management of Marine Resources to Reduce Over-
exploitation, to conserve Biodiversity and Provide Other Benefits
4.1 Implementing the National Marine Fisheries Management Plan
