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SUSTAINABLE MECANISM TO ADRESS MARINE RESSOURCES
AND CONFLICTS MANAGEMENT IN WESTERN AFRICAN
MARINE ECOREGION (WAMER)
PROJECT CONCEPT NOTE
By Alassane DIENG WWF WAMER
Addis Ababa September 2009
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• 1. CONTEXT
• WWF Priority Sites
• 6 countries
• 3 500 Km
• Upwellings
• Fishing
• Tourism
• Biodiversity

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Priority Conservation Areas
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High biodiversity
?1,060 sp
6 sp
26 sp
?600 sp
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• CONTEXT
• Over the past decades, pressures on coastal
  ecosystems and fish stocks have continued to rise
  resulting in significant losses of key habitats
  and overfishing by both local and foreign fleets.
• Ensuring the sustainable use of the regions
  marine resources is critical to national
  economies, peoples livelihoods food security.

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2. CHALLENGES PROBLEMS

• Unsustainable fishing methods practices
• Over-fishing by foreign national fleets
• Conflicts between fishermen for access to fishing
  areas, between fishermen others marine
  resources usages

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1990-1999
1960-1969
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• Depletion of fish resources

Fish biomass excluding small pelagics
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2.Other challenges problems

• Concentration of people on the coast 60
• Concentration of major economic activities
  (industrial, tourism, oil and gas)
• Poor institutional capacity
• Single sector-based on national approach
• Inadequate involvement of local people in the
  management of natural resources

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3. WAMERS STRATEGIES TO FACE CHALLENGES
PROBLEMS

• April 2000, WWF WAMER creation present in 1
  country (Senegal)
• 2009, 41 WAMERs staff members present in 4
  countries (Senegal, Cape Verde, Mauritania
  Gambia)
• WWF WAMER is part of a coalition with IUCN, the
  FIBA, Wetlands International over 50
  governmental non-gov. institutions called the
  Regional Program for Marine Coastal
  Conservation in West Africa (PRCM).

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3. WAMERS STRATEGIES TO FACE CHALLENGES
PROBLEMS

• Building a strong partnership with Gov., local
  and Intl NGOs, Research institutions
  Professional organisations
• Developing projects in a participatory way
• Linking conservation poverty alleviation
• Strengthening the capacity of the local NGOs,
  environmental journalists and professional
  organisations

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4. INTEREST FOR CoCooN PROGRAM

• The CoCooN Pgm is aiming to contribute to
  sustainable development, poverty reduction to
  reach the MDGs by adding to evidence-based policy
  development, interventions practices in the
  field of conflict and cooperation on natural
  resources by contributing to adequately manage,
  resolve and learn from conflicts
• For this reason a partnership between WWF WAMER
  and CoCooN Pgm will allow us to broaden and
  deepen impacts at all levels

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4. INTEREST FOR CoCooN PROGRAM

• Locally using community based conservation and
  innovative tools to sustainably protect
  biodiversity and ecological processes while
  mitigating conflicts among users and improving
  the livelihoods of fishers and their families
• Nationally- using a spectrum of technical,
  financial, and advocacy tools to support the
  development and implementation of environmentally
  sensitive approach, to promote principles of
  co-management between government and communities
  and to develop integrated approaches to
  developing coastal zones

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4. INTEREST FOR CoCooN PROGRAM

• Ecoregionally- using fact-based experiences to
  promote better coordination between WAMER
  countries for shared resources and opportunities,
  and
• Globally- in partnership with the Institute for
  Environmental Studies (IVM) other potential
  partners, ensure that the lessons learned and the
  approaches tested in West are heard in
  international fora, and encouraging the adoption
  appropriate environmental and social safeguards
  for foreign investments in fisheries and other
  key sectors.

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5. ISSUES RELATED TO CoCooN ON WHICH THE WWF
WAMER IS WORKING ON

• WAMER is currently working of two issues related
  to CoCooN
• The first approach is How to identify and
  implement sustainable financing mechanism which
  can help to sustain the conservation the local
  develop goals?
• WAMER has facilitated the establishment of new
  MPAs in Guinea (1), Senegal (4), Cape Verde (2)
  Gambia.
• Most of these MPA (St. Louis, Cayar, Joal,
  Abèné) are currently developing management plans

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5. ISSUES RELATED TO CoCooN ON WHICH THE WWF
WAMER IS WORKING ON

• With Senegalese Gambia department of
  environment and US AID, WWF WAMER implements the
  fisheries component of the natural resources
  management program based on the triptych nature,
  wealth and power. In this program, we are
  developing Ecosystem approach for fisheries
  testing a local convention approach to manage
  natural resources
• Senegalese fisheries department has created local
  committee of artisanal fisheries (CLPA) to manage
  conflicts and initiatives at local level. But
  these CLPA have difficulties to function

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5. ISSUES RELATED TO CoCooN ON WHICH THE WWF
WAMER IS WORKING ON

• The second approach is around Eco-labelling.
• Here the basic underlying question is How to
  break the vicious circle of vulnerability and
  dependency of small scale primary producers
  towards traders processing companies?
• Taking into account the needs of smallholders for
  daily subsistence such a combination often leads
  to resource over-exploitation. Especially, -as it
  is the case in Senegal, if there are no fishery
  management and enforcement procedures in place.

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5. ISSUES RELATED TO CoCooN ON WHICH THE WWF
WAMER IS WORKING ON

• A feasibility study on eco-labelling of
  small-scale fisheries in Senegal, elaborated in
  June 2007 for GTZ, has identified the mayor
  constraints, opportunities the most appropriate
  ways to approach eco-labelling.
• The Senegalese Steering Committee has then
  identified selected the Cephalopod fisheries of
  Nianing Pointe Sarène as suitable candidate for
  eco-labelling.
• This can be enlarge of other species other
  sites in Senegal Gambia.

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5. ISSUES RELATED TO CoCooN ON WHICH THE WWF
WAMER IS WORKING ON

• This program will be strongly oriented towards
  creation of market-based incentives to facilitate
  support changes in economic responsibilities,
  dependencies performance of job for daily
  subsistence.
• The proposed linking of eco-labelling, - as a
  market based incentive practical tool to guide
  producers towards sustainability.
• The methodology of value chain promotion along
  the products supply chain has been proven
  successful in a number of other initiatives in
  other sectors such as small-scale aquaculture and
  organic farming.

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6. STRATEGY FOR ELABORATION IMPLEMENTATION

• To jointly define with IWM both innovative and
  scientifically excellent research.
• This will involve other regional partners such as
  University of Dakar, research centre, local NGO,
  Marine fisheries department of Senegal and
  Gambia, PRCM, Subregional Fisheries Commission,
  the Senegalese Federation of Artisanal Fishers,
  Environmental Development Action in theThird
  World Network on Fisheries Policies in West
  Africa
• Provide pilot sites in Senegal and the Gambia
  where innovative approaches and can be tested

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7. OBJECTIVES FOR CoCooN MATCHMAKING

• Presentation on related to fisheries management
  and development of innovative tools such as MPAs
  management and ecoloballeling in West Africa
• Presentation of potential avenues for partnership
  in the framework of CoCooN linking fisheries
  management, conservation, poverty alleviation
  conflict management between fishers, between
  fishermen other marine resources usages
•  Promote regional international cooperation

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