South Africa: Consolidating Democratic Practises in Small-Scale Fishing Communities - Phase two

South Africa, Civil Society Capacity Building and Small-Scale Fisheries

Project title
Consolidating Democratic Practises in Small-Scale Fishing Communities.

Objectives
Immediate objectives:
1.For Coastal Links to strengthen its institutional functioning and management capacity so that it can better participate and influence decisions that affect the livelihoods of its local community constituency.
2.For Coastal Links to influence the contents of the new small scale fishing policy and to participate in the implementation of this new fishing policy, including the co-management of near-shore marine resources at local level.

Target groups
The primary target group is the 2000 Coastal Links members; their families; and additional community members who directly participate or gain from small-scale fishing. In total, more than 20.000 people from the fishing communities (women, men, girls and boys). The secondary target group is the approximately 65 leaders of Coastal Links.

Main outputs
1.The membership base has increased to 2000
2.New leaders are identified and empowered
3.Coastal Links' has improved capacity to negotiate and participate in meetings with government officials and other external stakeholders, particularly in relation to the development of the new small-scale fishing policy
4.Coastal Links' fishing policy is reflected in the officially gazetted new small-scale fishing policy
5.Coastal Links' has gained the institutional capacity to take part in the implementation of the new small-scale fishing policy.
Risks and pre-conditions

Africa Contact contributes 7,360,000 Danish Kroner to the project.

Implementation period: August 2009 to July 2012

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