1.1 Objectives of the programme and priority issues
The global objective
of the PESCAO Programme is to enhance the contribution of fisheries resources
to sustainable development, food security and poverty alleviation in West Africa.
To attain these objectives, the Programme has
identified three target results, which are:
Result
1: A West African fisheries and aquaculture policy is developed and
coordination of regional stakeholders is improved;
Result
2: Prevention of and responses to IUU fishing are strengthened through improved
regional Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS); and,
Result
3: Marine resources management at the regional level is improved, building the
resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems to perturbations.
This Call for Proposals is designed to address Result 3.
Therefore, the specific objective of this call for proposals is that: ‘Marine resources management at the regional level is improved, building
the resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems to perturbations.’
To achieve this objective, three priorities for
intervention have been identified, which are as follows:
Priority 1. Improving the knowledge
on the state of shared fish stocks* and/or fisheries of common interest**;
Priority 2. Developing and/or
implementing management measures or plans for important shared stocks and
fisheries of common interest; and,
Priority 3. Building wider
social-ecological system resilience.
* A fish
stock is generally understood to be a more or less reproductively
discrete sub-population of a particular species of fish. For the purposes of
this Call for Proposals, the term ‘shared fish stocks’ therefore
describes the following[1]:
1.
fish
stocks occurring within two or more EEZs, but showing no clear
migratory pattern;
- fish stocks
occurring within two or more EEZs and displaying a clear pattern of
movement:
a.
resulting from seasonal migration; and/or
b.
dependent on developmental (ontogenic) stages.
** Fisheries of ‘common interest’ are
defined as fisheries that exist in at least two States and which target stocks
of the same or similar species, but where these stocks might not be necessarily
known to be shared
[1] after Gulland, 1980
Design Principles for Proposals
Applicants to this Call can propose a programme of
activities that will address one, or
more than one, of the three priorities.
More detail and guidance on the preferred types
of activity is provided in Section 2.1.4, but there are five core design.
principles to clearly demonstrate in the Proposal and
they are as follows:
Principle 1: Wide-ranging, accountable and equitable stakeholder participation;
Principle 2: Maintaining or establishing effective partnerships;
Principle 3: A strong focus on delivering concrete results within the Action’s
time frame;
Principle 4: The design of formal strategies to communicate the results; and,
Principle 5: Ensuring the outcomes of the proposed Action
have a clear regional application.
1.2 Financial allocation provided by the contracting authority
The overall indicative amount made
available under this call for proposals is EUR 4,500,000. The Contracting Authority
reserves the right not to award all available funds.
Size
of grants
Any grant requested under this call for proposals
must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
· Minimum amount: EUR 1,000,000
- Maximum amount: EUR 1,500,000
Any grant requested under this call for proposals
must fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total
eligible costs of the action:
·
Minimum percentage: 50 %
of the total eligible costs of the action.
·
Maximum percentage: 90 % of the
total eligible costs of the action (see also section 2.1.5).
The balance (i.e. the difference between the
total cost of the action and the amount requested from the Contracting
Authority) must be financed from sources other than the European Union Budget
or the European Development Fund[1].
[1] Where a grant is financed
by the European Development Fund, any mention of European Union financing must
be understood as referring to European Development Fund financing.
2.1 Eligible actions: actions for which an application may be made
Definition
Programmes
to build the necessary capacity in the competent authorities to apply best
practice stock assessment tools and fisheries management planning
An action is composed of a set of
activities.
Duration
The initial planned duration of an action
may not exceed 36 months.
Sectors or themes
Priority Themes:
The action shall
contribute to increasing the sustainability of the use of marine resources in
West Africa by enhancing scientific knowledge, and supporting the development
and implementation of effective management/conservation measures. This will
enhance the empowerment of fisheries stakeholders and communities, hence improving
the resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems.
While the details of any proposed action are for the applicant(s) to
identify and to justify, three priority areas have already been identified for
this Call for Proposals (Section 1.2) and
activities should be designed to address at
least one of these three priorities.
Location
Actions must take place in at least two of the following countries:
Benin
Cape Verde
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
|
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Mauritania
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
|
Types
of action
- An action shall form a coherent programme of activities.
- An action shall focus on a specific shared fishery or a specific fishery of common interest (as defined in Section 1.2). The potential target fisheries include fisheries for small pelagic species, demersal finfish, shrimp and cephalopods.
- Relevant competent regional fisheries bodies and national fisheries administrations should be closely associated with the design and implementation of the actions, and actions should be coherent with existing strategic plans developed at regional or national level. In particular, proposals should acknowledge the relevant recommendations of the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) and the strategies developed by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC) and Fisheries Committee for the West and Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC), while the two latter organisations cannot be lead or co-applicants in the context of this call.
- In preparing a programme of activities, applicants should consider the opportunities to enhance the understanding of the current and potential impact of climate change on the target fisheries.
Types
of activity
The types of activity presented
below is indicative and not exhaustive:
·
Research cruises to generate
fisheries-independent abundance indices;
·
Population connectivity studies (e.g. through
the use of genetics);
·
Ageing studies;
·
Life-cycle, distribution and migration studies;
·
Collection of oceanographic and other
environmental data;
·
Climate change drivers of oceanographic &
ecological change.
·
Typology of fishing units and Frame Surveys;
·
Species composition sampling;
·
Length-frequency sampling;
·
Research into standardisation of measures of
fishing effort;
·
Mapping of main fishing grounds and their use;
·
Research into marine ecological drivers of
fisher migrations;
·
Design and piloting of fisheries data collection
protocols and information systems.
·
Observational and assessment studies of
by-catch;
·
Studies to identify opportunities to reduce
by-catch;
·
Research on coastal and marine habitats directed
to improving their conservation;
·
Implementation of collaborative marine &
coastal habitat restoration programmes;
·
Research on the value and feasibility of
protected areas in the management of the target fishery(ies);
·
Fisheries economics/trade and the relationships
between fisheries of different scales;
·
Value-chain analyses;
·
Research on the contribution of fishermen
migrations to food security;
·
Research on the economic value of migrant vs
non-migrant fishery components;
·
Feasibility assessments of fishery certification
or other incentives for improved stakeholder participation in fisheries
management;
·
Development and/or introduction of methods to
reduce post-harvest losses;
·
Development and/or introduction of novel
fish-based products to target nutritionally vulnerable stakeholder groups.
Identification of factors that have constrained the effective implementation of
fisheries management plans in the target fishery(ies);
·
Analyses related to the participation of the
various types of stakeholder in the governance of the target fishery(ies) with
due consideration of potentially marginalised stakeholders (e.g. migrant
fishers);
·
Management implementation actions (to include at
least one full-cycle of best practice stock assessment);
·
Programmes to build the necessary capacity in
the competent authorities to apply best practice stock assessment tools and
fisheries management planning.
Link to application and proposal guidelines: International cooperation and development: calls for proposals and tenders
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