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SECTION III. Main Lessons Learned
The main lessons we have learned from this study, after considering the various entities covered and their approaches to extension and capacity development can be summarized as follows:
3.2.1. Slow integration of national strategy on extension
The Department of Oceanography and Marine Fisheries and its Artisanal Fisheries Unit have always attempted to do extension, develop capacity and organize stakeholder in fisheries
programs. But their efforts were too fragmented and flawed by several limitations.
The extension work by CAMP and its predecessors covered only one component engines and equipment for CAMP, leaving out the entire marine environment e.g. development
projects such as the PAPEC on the Petite Côte, or PAMEZ in the Ziguinchor Region. In the process, officials from the Department for Cooperation worked with the former DOPM to
train, supervise and mentor fishermen. But there was no clear vision for extension with a national strategy, planned activities, set goals and adequate human and material resources.
3.2.2 Absence or weakness of institutional framework
CAMP achieved some encouraging results in extension of outboard engines and use of fishing accessories, materials and equipment. Its successive transformations to CAEP in 1994 and to CPEP in
2003 boosted progress in national policy for assistance, management, training of artisanal fisheries, experimentation and extension, and dissemination of fishing gear and accessories.
But CPEP existed only on paper. There were no follow-up measures to structure, develop and support it with material and human resources until it was shut down in 2006 due to operational constraints.
On the other hand, CNFTPA improved the institutional framework for extension and capacity development by formalizing customized and continuing training, thereby giving public and private
partners in the fisheries sector access to training and capacity development. But appropriate supportive measures now need to be taken to enable CNFTPA to discharge its new duties properly
continuing and customized training, vital for extension and stakeholder capacity development in artisanal fisheries. But unless channelled properly, the duties of CNFTPA may make redundant the
IUPA, which primarily trains undergraduates and graduates in fisheries and aquaculture.
State and non-State entities, as well as NGOs and POs, support extension projects and sometimes run their own initiatives. Yet, they have no institutional framework for extension and capacity
development.
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2.2.3 Outcomes of extension
