Implementation of the Benguela Current LME Strategic Action Program for Restoring Depleted Fisheries and Reducing Coastal Resources Degradation
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Project Title | Implementation of the Benguela Current LME Strategic Action Program for Restoring Depleted Fisheries and Reducing Coastal Resources Degradation
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Financing | Total: $6,700,400; GEF allocation $5,448,000;
Sources of Financing: Global Environment Facility (GEF) |
Timeframe | 2007 - 2009
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Status | Ongoing
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Description
The Objective of this second phase of the BCLME Programme will be to deliver the following outcomes that reflect BCLME SAP implementation requirements and recommendations: -Strengthening the institutional capacity and effectiveness of the regional Benguela Current Commission -Negotiating and securing an agreed and appropriate BCLME Treaty to support the BCC -National Level Implementation of the BCLME SAP (through appropriate Policy, Legislative and Management Reforms) which are extended to the community level through the support of partners such as D-LIST -Securing Sustainable Capacity for Long-Term Maintenance of the LME Management Components -Overall Capture and Transfer of Knowledge Products and Best Practices, and Information Networking through cooperation and coordination with GEF/IW:LEARN
Expected Outcomes
Outcome 1: A Benguela Current Commission Infrastructure and Associated Treaty
Outcome 2: National Level Policy and Management Reforms
Outcome 3: Sustainable Capacity for LME Management
Outcome 4: Capture and Networking of Knowledge and Best Practices
Achievements: Results and Impact
Lessons for Replication
TYPE LESSONS HERE
References
See also
- Related Projects in Angola
- Strategic Action Programme for the Integrated Sustainable Management of the Congo river Basin
- Governance of Water and Sanitation in Angola's Poor Neighbourhoods
- Environmental protection and sustainable management of the Okavango River Basin
- Combating Living Resource depletion and coastal area degradation in the Guinea Current LME through ecosystem-based regional actions
- Building Partnerships to Assist Developing Countries to Reduce the Transfer fo Harmful Aquatic Organisms in Ship's Ballast Water (GloBallast Partnerships)
- Related Projects in Namibia
- Orange-Senqu - Preliminary TDA Executive Summary
- Environmental protection and sustainable management of the Okavango River Basin
- Development and adoption of a Strategic Action Program for balancing water uses and sustainable natural resource management in the Orange-Senqu river transboundary basin.
- Related Projects in South Africa
- Water Conflict and Cooperation/Incomati River Basin
- Sustaining the Right to Water in South Africa
- South Africa: law, practice and contestation
- Sharing the Incomati Waters: Cooperation and Competition in the Balance
- Development and adoption of a Strategic Action Program for balancing water uses and sustainable natural resource management in the Orange-Senqu river transboundary basin.
- Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystem (ASCLME) Project
