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ANNEX 3: MULTIPLIER EFFECTS OF NACA'S COORDINATING ROLE


Assistance to Safe Transboundary Movement of Live Aquatic Animals in Asia (with FAO and OIE)

Provides a single unified platform (on the development of technical guidelines for quarantine, certification and reporting) for several agencies to collaborate with governments in addressing multiple issues ranging from capacities for diagnostics, prevention and control; reliable and effective national information systems for decision-support on the causes, origins, seriousness and control of epizootics and a regional information exchange system. It enables other countries to benefit from a national centre participating in the project that has been strengthened by a bilateral programme into a centre of excellence (i.e. AAHRI).

Aquaculture Farm Performance Study (with ADB)

Enabled the collection, analysis, organization, processing and rapid delivery of an extremely large amount of farm-level primary data and information from several (16) countries to guide actions at different operational levels (i.e. farm, farming community or region, agency, national, supra-national; enables quick access to these data by intermediate users of information for various other purposes). The recommendations embodied in the publication "Aquaculture Sustainability Action Plan" have formed the basis for government policy, legislation and management plans for sustainable aquaculture.

Mixed Farming Systems in Mangroves (with ACIAR and AIMS)

Multiplier effect: provides a regional spread to the results of a national-level activity through the regional information exchange and links to other sub-regional and regional projects under NACA. It is now being fed into training and extension not only in the country in which it was conducted (Viet Nam) but in other countries as well.

Tropical Coastal Ecosystems Project (DANCED)

Also a multiplier effect - providing regional spread to the benefits derived from the methodologies and results of a sub-regional project through training, information exchange and links to other network activities, such as Environmental Impact Assessment, rural aquaculture, coastal resources development and management

Grouper Regional R and D Network now Asia-Pacific Marine Fish R and D Network (ACIAR, APEC, SEAFDEC AQD and lately NGOs including International Marinelife Alliance and The Nature Conservancy)

Enables the coordination of and sharp focus to separate research and development efforts of individual workers and institutions located in various countries to crack, in a concentrated manner, a technical problem that has been the major bottleneck to mass seed production. It has expanded its remit to include environment, socio-economics and institutional development and manpower training as well as extension.

Formulation of a Master Plan for Aquaculture Development, Sabah, Malaysia (UNDP and the Sabah State Government)

Three major features can be cited from this bilateral project - the coordinated use at a very cost-effective manner of regional expertise to develop the Plan, the continuing (as opposed to a one-time) assistance provided to a Member Government of the activities recommended by the Plan and the expansion of one regionally relevant aspect of the Plan - namely reef fish management and culture - into a full-blown regional project on grouper research and development.


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