Programme for the Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems: Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project (ASCLMEs)

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Programme for the Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems: Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project (ASCLMEs)

GEF ID	1462
Region	Africa
Sub-Region	Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
Basin	Agulhas Current (LME), Somali Coastal Current (LME)
Project Contacts	Andrew Hudson Principal Technical Advisor, International Waters United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Nik Sekhran MR Regional Coordinator for UNDP/GEF, Southern Africa United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Claire Attwood Media Consultant ASCLME Project Dr David Vousden Project Director ASCLME Project Policarpo Napica GEF National Focal Point Ministry for the Coordination of Environmental
Project Documents	Outreach materials newsletters, brochures. Evaluations Reports mid-term, final, appraisals... Maps/Graphics Maps and Graphics Datasets measurement, statistical data Workshops presentations, participants list, meeting reports... Project Documents project document, fact sheets, annexes... Technical Reports TDAs, SAPs ...

General Information:
Project Type	Full Size Project
Project Status	Under Implementation
Start Date	2005/09/13

GEF characteristic:
Operational Programme	OP8 - Water based Program
Focal Area	International Waters
GEF Project Stage	CEO Endorsed
GEF Allocation to project	12.92M US$
Total Cost of the project:	31.18M US$

Partners:
Countries:	Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, United Republic
Lead Implementing Agency	United Nations Development Programme
Executing Agencies	United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

Project Description:

The Objective of the Project is to work with two other "thematic" GEF international waters projects in the area as part of a "strategic approach" to fill gaps in understanding of transboundary living resources of the two LMEs and to build capacity of the participating countries to utilize this improved understanding for more effective management by use of an ecosystem approach. This information and capacity then would be utilized by governments as part of the frameworks being established by the three projects collectively. The project is innovative in that it is being designed to complement two existing projects in the same LMEs, each with a different GEF implementating agency covering a different aspect of the same system with linkages created between them. This is being tried in these 2 LMEs for the first time to test reducing transactions costs of IA interactions. This is also the first replication of the approach taken in the Benguela Current LME project on the other side of Africa. Bilateral funding was used to build country capacity in sampling and then understanding their transboundary resources before GEF was asked to assist. The capacity was built through joint cruises and sampling to understand how their transboundary living resources worked so that information could underpin management. This project replicates that approach but utilizes GEF resources along with a ship potentially provided by Norway to slowly build country understanding to fill essential gaps on the transboundary nature of living resources and in doing so build their capacity to bring this information for fisheries/living resources management purposes. This is a pre-SAP project and will contribute at project's end to a revised TDA/SAP for the LMEs as one outcome in conjunction with the other 2 projects.

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