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Who Activity 1.3 Strengthened Law Enforcement
Q1 Q2
Q3 Q4
FoN Fisheries Working Groups CR WR
X X
X HMSSG
Citizens Watch Program meetings and strategy development with FEU and MCS SSG TDY
X
CRC Material support for FCMCS Central and Western
Regions vehicles and office equipment needs assessment, disbursement plan and request for
approval from USAID. X
CRCHM Designs, environmental reviews and clearance to
trigger FC building rehabilitation to start in Year 2 X
List of Key Outputs •
USAID approval to provide training to law enforcement groups MP training in CR FoN and approvalclearance of selected participants from USAID
• Marine Police Curriculum Review [POL010]
• Marine Police Training curriculum CR and WR [POL011]
• Marine Police Training curriculum CR and WR [POL012, POL013]
• CR Prosecutorial chain meetingworkshop reports [POL014, POL015]
• Approval by USAID to purchase and deliver vehicles and computers to FC units
• Plan for FC building in Elmina
• Report on Competencies needed for MP national training curriculum [POL016]
• Citizens watch program design [POL017]
1.4 National Level Support for Small-Pelagics Management Plan
See 4.1 for operational details on small-pelagics management plan of Year 1 activities other than the national activity described below
Led by an SSG Sustainable Fisheries consultant from Philippines and supported by the Partnership Analyst, SSG will organize a high-level study tour to Philippines to learn from
operational successes in fisheries management facilitated by the USAID ECOFISH project. Study tour participants will visit key ECOFISH stakeholders including the Bureau for Fisheries,
local government units, community fisherfolk associations and volunteer community patrol associations “bantay dagats”. Participants will also learn how public-private partnerships have
contributed to fisheries management successes, including ICT contributions to IUU enforcement and fisherfolkboatsgear registration. The study tour will focus on the success in management of
the Sardinella fishery in Zamboanga-Bohol Sea, where a 30 increase in yield was achieved in two years due to a three-month ban imposed around spawning season and which many fishers
readily attribute to increased abundance due to the closure.
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stakeholders that with the right actions, the collapse of the small pelagic fisheries can be reversed by gaining insights in how this was achieved in the Philippines where the USAIDPhilippines
ECOFISH Project, working with stakeholders saw significant increases in landings after two years of implementing a seasonal closure. The process of making this decision involved the key
fisheries stakeholders which was critical in ensuring high voluntary compliance with the closure. Commitment by high level decision makers in government was also critical in this success. We
have proposed this study tour early in the life of the project and in Year 1 to demonstrate what is possible elsewhere can also be achieved in Ghana and help motivate the high level decision
makers and key stakeholder leaders that scenarios to be discussed in the national dialogues to reverse the decline in the fishery can work if all are committed and willing to support hard
decisions that will need to be made. This may include some initial hardship in the early years, but the payoff can be significant.
We expect that when participants come back they will be motivated to work together and to apply lessons from the Philippines in the SFMP, especially with regards to implementing and
enforcing management measures to reverse the fishery. Our expectation is that these leaders can play a pivotal role in the national dialogues to keep the national dialogue discussions positive,
creative and a can do attitude
On return from the tour, we will work with participants and assist in facilitating outreach communications concerning the lessons learned. Our past experience from ICFG and other
projects is that when these study tours are well designed and participants carefully selected, they can be highly motivating and help people in Ghana understand a wider range of potential options
and solutions to issues the sector faces in Ghana.
In selecting participants for the tour, we want high level decision makers in MOFADFC and well respected leaders in the fishing community to attend this workshop. This event is designed
to build commitment for specific changes needed n the fishery and from past experience, typically results in better communications between government and stakeholder leaders and
consensus on the way forward. Women leaders in the fishery sector will also be included in this event. This includes from within the processing and marketing sector and government.
While the exact make-up of the study tour will be determined by SFMP management, the participants may be drawn from key SFMP stakeholders including MOFAD, the Fisheries
Council, fisherfolk associations, local government, and others. Participants in the study tour will include:
• MOFAD Minister or deputy or other senior policy person
• FC Director or head of the Marine Fish Div.
• A Parliamentary committee representative
• Head of the FEU
• National Women’s group representative
• Canoe fishermen’s council head
• Semi industrial fishing vessel council head GIFANAFAC
• FoNNational Fisheries Alliance representative
• SFMP National Activity Manager lead facilitator
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SFMP Communications Specialist •
SFMP Senior Fisheries Advisor. Pre-departure briefings on Philippines context will be provided by the CoP, who lived and
worked in the Philippines SSG will plan the itinerary in consultation with the CoP and provide a local consultant to lead
and co-facilitate meetings. On the participants return from the Philippines, the SFMP communications officer will undertake a communications campaign to highlight lessons learned
and share with a wider audience of stakeholders in Ghana.
Table of Key Activities and Milestones
Who Activity 1.4 National level support for small-pelagics
management plan
Q1 Q2
Q3 Q4
SSGCRC Study tour planning X
SSG Study tour implementation
X CRC
Study tour outreach and communications strategy X
List of Key Outputs •
Study tour agenda and objectivesdesign •
Briefing pack •
Report after completion [POL018]
1.5 Harmonizing Regional Fisheries Policies
