The Programme provides technical support to field projects in partner countries across Africa, aimed at promoting sustainable fisheries management in line with the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF).
These projects work to strengthen capacities, structures, and processes for enhanced fisheries management. By advancing sustainable fisheries practices, they contribute to food and nutrition security while also promoting gender equality within the fisheries sector. Additionally, the projects play an active role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring that fisheries contribute not only to economic growth but also to environmental sustainability and social inclusion.
Shared sardinella initiative
This project fosters concerted collaboration on the management of shared sardinella stocks in northwest Africa.
The regional and national activities promote the EAF in strengthening capacities, structures and fisheries management processes through the development and use of the fisheries management cycle (FMC) [more].
Beach seine fisheries initiative
This project promotes sustainable management of beach seine fisheries in three countries in the Gulf of Guinea, including Togo, Benin and Côte d’Ivoire.
The activities focus on promoting the implementation of concerted management plans in line with the EAF, to harmonize fisheries management through regional collaboration.
Other activities include community training on fisheries management, awareness-raising and studies on the impacts of marine litter on beach-seine fisheries [ more].