Project Management Approach, Staffing Plan and Key Personnel

Sustainable Fisheries Management Project Page 53 of 108 The Implementation Team Core Implementing Partners: CRC- University of Rhode Island: CRC has over 35 years’ experience relevant to the SFMP. Sustainable Fisheries : Building on over four decades of sustainable fisheries experience, CRC has worked in West Africa and Indonesia recently to help these countries redefine fisheries laws and policies; suggest new ways forward; provide technical training in best practices; and help decision- makers and practitioners use an issues-driven approach to collaborative, adaptive, and ecosystem based fisheries management. CRC wrote the manual for USAID staff on Sustainable Fisheries Aquaculture, and under contract to FHI360, implemented a fisheries training event and online course for USAID staff. In The Gambia, CRC worked with the national government to develop ecosystem-scaled management plans using a co-management framework that led to exclusive rights to user groups. In Senegal, CRC is building the capacity of local co-management committees and assisting the Department of Fisheries in developing a national sardinella management plan with linkages to the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem CCLME. Biodiversity Conservation : CRC helped establish andor strengthen community-based MPAs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and designed and piloted a first-of-its-kind certification program for MPA Professionals MPA PRO in the Western Indian Ocean region endorsed by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, International Ranger Federation, World Wildlife Fund, and Park Ranger Association of Africa. This competency-based approach will be applied to the SFMP to develop the capacity of fisheries law enforcement officers and FC field officers. Climate Change Adaptation : CRC led the design and writing of the USAID publication Adapting to Coastal Climate Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners to help decision-makers, policy- makers and practitioners understand the impacts of climate change on natural and built coastal and marine environments and to provide strategies and tools to mitigate or adapt to those impacts. CRC provides climate change adaptation training and helps countries “apply a climate change lens” to all key policies and plans. Gender in Fisheries : CRC has piloted innovative work with the “invisible fisheries” of women harvesters in West Africa, East Africa, and Latin America; has built the capacity of women fish-buyers and processors; and helped women fishers add value to current livelihoods. It addresses the root causes to risky behaviors and gender inequity and incorporates reproductive health HIVAIDS awareness and prevention and water and sanitation components into its projects. Capacity Development University Strengthening : For 40 years, CRC has built local capacity as a strategy for sustainable, long-term management and governance of coastal and marine resources, congruent with USAID Forward. It offers coastal management and fisheries leadership training and has helped strengthen coastal management and fisheries centers of excellence at Thailand’s Prince of