10. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting 10.1
Report Period Accomplishments January 1 – March 31, 2009
The web-based reporting system functioned normally with field partners continuing to feed performance data through the
web-based PMP system
. This system has proven an effective tool for data collection and in the current reporting period, efforts began to adapt it for the
new USAID-funded Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development BALANCED project.
10.2 Priorities for Next Quarter April 1 – June 30, 2009
• Synthesize life of project PMP data and begin preparing for final report
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III.
MANAGEMENT ISSUES
SUCCESS field activities are now being completed and close-out events in Ecuador and Tanzania have been conducted. A few outstanding but small activities are scheduled in April.
This includes a close-out event in Nicaragua and a few meetings and several other activities in Menai Bay Tanzania. The next several months will provide an opportunity to assess how
these sites are transitioning beyond the SUCCESS Program support, through either other donor project support, or independent of further external support. This information will
provide an opportunity to gauge the sustainability of these activities. For this reason, the field will continue to monitor these continued activities over the next several months.
With field sites closed, the core team and CRC and UHH will devote more time to some of the regional and global initiatives that have proved to be more time consuming than
previously expected. This includes producing a final issue of Basins and Coasts newsletter, the Fisheries and Aquaculture Guide, and the special issue of the Coastal Management
Journal that features articles on selected SUCCESS activities and initiatives. The SUCCESS Program Director is addressing the usual challenge that faces Projects and
Programs in their final year—keeping the team motivated and energized through to Program conclusion.
IV. UPCOMING CHALLENGES, CONSTRAINTS, AND OPPORTUNITIES
Interest in the Global Climate Change Adaptation Guide continues and may be parlayed into additional opportunities for its adaptation for other agencies and clients around the world.
The next and final few months of the SUCCESS Program will continue to provide a springboard to explore these, with the hopeful result that the Guide and its application will
continue to be adapted and tested for a wide range of coastal places, users, and uses. CRC continues to receive many follow-up requests for short term, ad hoc technical
assistancetraining on the Guide, which continue to add leveraged funds to the Leader Award. The challenge is to array these opportunities into a coherent and longer term strategy
on global climate change post SUCCESS. The WIO-COMPAS Program continues to gain statements of interest from other donors.
Meanwhile, efforts continue to translate those “expressions of interest” into significant and hopefully long-term financial support andor public acknowledgements of endorsement e.g.,
the WPCAMarine.
V. ASSOCIATE AWARDS
While the physical Cooperative Agreement documents remained to be signed, official notice was received this period that URI-CRC was awarded the Gambia-Senegal Sustainable
Fisheries Program award from USAIDWest Africa. This five-year, US2.5 million program
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will contribute to the catalytic transformation of how fisheries are governed in The Gambia and Senegal. The overarching purpose is to develop and field-test a new model for
sustainable fisheries that, if successful and replicated, will assist the sub-region in achieving sustainable management of its artisanaltraditional fisheries sector. While the majority of
investment will be in site-based activities in The Gambia funded by the USAID regional office, the Program will collaborate closely with the Wula Nafaa II program in the Sine-
Saloum Delta funded by USAIDSenegal. The two programs will promote bilateral dialogue—and possibly broader regional dialogue—on harmonizing governance of artisanal
fisheries at the transboundary scale.
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