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Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP)

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.
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GEF ID 1082
Project Website URL http://www.swiofp.net
Region Africa,SIDS
Sub-Region Eastern Africa,SIDS (Africa),Southern Africa,Small island developing States
Basin Agulhas Current (LME), Somali Coastal Current (LME)
Project Contacts
  • Dr. Tracy Hart
    GEF International Waters Technical Specialist / Senior Environmental Specialist, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (WB),
  • Mr. William Leeds-Lane
    Natural Resource Management Specialist, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (WB),
  • Mr. David LaRoche
    Chief Technical Advisor/Task Manager, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
  • Mr. Peter Scheren
    Project Manager, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
  • Harrison Ong'anda
    Regional Coordinator - Data Management, South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Project, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI),
  • Ednah Onkundi
    Project Assistant, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI),
  • Mr. Joseph Rondolph Payet
    Regional Executive Secretary,
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Project Documents
  General Information:
Project Type Full Size Project
Project Status Under Implementation
Start Date
Sep 12, 2005 07:00 AM
End Date
Nov 30, 2011 07:00 AM
 
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$
IP Rating: Moderately Satisfactory
DO Rating: Moderately Satisfactory
 
  Partners:
Countries: Comoros, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania United Republic of, Mauritius, Seychelles
Lead Implementing Agency International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (WB)
Executing Agencies
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.

 
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