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Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP)

GEF ID 1082
Project Website URL http://www.swiofp.net
Region Africa
Sub-Region Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
Basin East Africa - Western Indian Ocean
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  General Information:
Project Type Full Size Project
Start Date 2005/09/13
 
GEF characteristic:
Operational Programme OP8 - Water based Program
Focal Area Multiple Focal Areas
GEF Allocation to project 12.72M US$
Total Cost of the project: 35.67M US$
 
  Partners:
Countries: Comoros, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, United Republic, Mauritius, Seychelles
Lead Implementing Agency World Bank
Executing Agencies Ministry of Water and Forestry, Fisheries and Reforestation, in charge of Environment and Protection of Nature; Ministries of Fisheries from participating countries; UNDP (WIOMEP); UNEP (WIO-LAB)
Project Description:
The Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SIOFP) is one of several inter-linked projects being prepared by the World Bank and the UNDP in response to country requests for assistance in better managing the living resources and habitat of their shared marine ecosystems. Consistent with the GEF Operational Strategy, an ecosystems approach is being proposed to assist the countries in the assessment and management of the two large marine ecosystems (LMEs) that make up the West Indian Ocean, namely, the Agulhas Current LME and the Somali Current LME. The SIOFP is aimed at building the capacity of the countries and collecting the needed information on the LMEs so that the countries may make an informed decision to develop a management strategy for the offshore living resources of the two LMEs that extend to the 200 Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoros, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. The complexity of the situation and the subsequent need to divide the work into logical pieces for implementation requires different operations, which together will form a LME program for the West Indian Ocean.