Annual Reports

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OFMP APR PIR 2006.pdf	231.24 KB
OFMP APR PIR 2007.pdf	316.34 KB
OFMP APR PIR 2008.pdf	444.81 KB

Baseline Study and Performance Indicators for the Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project (OFMP)

Introduction

THE UNDP/GEF-supported International Waters Project (IW-Project) for the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PacSIDS) has had a significant input into oceanic fisheries management and research in the Pacific Islands region. This input commenced with a Pacific SAP (Strategic Action Programme) Project (RAS/98/G32), implemented between 1999 and 2004. This project had two components: i) oceanic fisheries management and ii) integrated coastal and watershed management.  The three-year oceanic fisheries management element was considered a pilot, and underpinned the successful conclusion and entry into force of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries (WCPF) Convention.

In 2004 the GEF PDF-B fund supported the design of a second SAP project, the Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project (OFMP), which commenced in late 2005. This five-year project is designed to assist Pacific island countries as they reform, realign and restructure their national fisheries laws, policies, institutions and programmes to take up the new opportunities which the WCPF Convention creates, and discharge the responsibilities which the Convention requires.

Purpose of the Report

The purpose of this Report is to:

1. review the applicable GEF international Waters Operational Strategy, describe the GEF International Waters process, stress-reduction and environmental status indicators framework at a project level[1] and suggest any appropriate revisions;
2. describe the baseline situation, in mid-2005 before OFMP implementation in relation to:
3. measures in place at national, sub-regional and regional level for the conservation and management of the oceanic fish stocks of the WCPO and the protection of the WTP LME (Western Tropical Pacific Large Marine Ecosystem)  from fisheries impacts;
   1. the status of the fisheries, the  target stocks and the  ecosystem including trophic status and status of key non-target species; and
   2. initial measures of the GEF monitoring and evaluation indicators outlined in the project Logframe Matrix (Annex L).

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2010-OFMP_Baseline_Study_and_Performance_Indicators.pdf	183.57 KB

Mid Term Review of the Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project

This Mid Term Evaluation report sets out findings, lessons learnt and recommendations for the UNDP/GEF Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project (OFM Project). The report is developed in compliance with the terms of reference for the assignment. The conclusions and recommendations set out in the report are solely those of the evaluators and are not binding on the project management and sponsors.

Mid-term evaluations are intended to identify potential project design problems, assess progress towards the achievement of objectives, identify and document lessons learned (including lessons that might improve design and implementation of other UNDP/GEF projects), and to make recommendations regarding specific actions that might be taken to improve the project. It is expected to serve as a means of validating or filling the gaps in the initial assessment of relevance, effectiveness and efficiency obtained from monitoring. The mid-term evaluation provides the opportunity to assess early signs of project success or failure and prompt necessary adjustments[1].

The objective of the PIOFM MTE is to provide an assessment of the progress made towards the OFM project’s objectives and outputs. It should also identity strengths and weaknesses and provide an evaluation of the implementation and management of the project by identifying factors that have facilitated or impeded the achievements of the project objectives and outputs. In addition, the MTE should also provide recommendations and lessons learned to assist on defining future directions for the project.

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Mid Term Evaluation Report_Final.pdf	2.69 MB

Quarterly Reports

Quarterly Reports

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Q4 Report 2005.pdf	19.68 KB
Q1 Report 2006..pdf	104.57 KB
Q2 Report 2006.pdf	98.29 KB
Q3 Report 2006.pdf	102.56 KB
Q4 Report 2006.pdf	103.25 KB
Q1 Report 2007.pdf	92.08 KB
Q2 Report 2007.pdf	110.72 KB
Q3 report 2007.pdf	113.13 KB
Q4 Report 2007.pdf	103.83 KB
Q1 Report 2008.pdf	108.33 KB
Q2 Report 2008.pdf	103.43 KB
Q3 Report 2008.pdf	97.28 KB
Q4 Report 2008.pdf	83.55 KB
Q1 Report 2009.pdf	84.53 KB
Q2 Report 2009.pdf	88.59 KB
Q3 Report 2009.pdf	123.95 KB
Q4 Report 2009.pdf	130.18 KB
Q1 Report 2010.pdf	130.18 KB

Terminal Evaluation

Executive Summary

The Pacific Islands Oceanic Fishery Management Project (OFMP) has run from 2005 to 2011, and is focused on strengthening management of the tuna fisheries of the Western and Central Pacific, and through this impacting positively on the environmental characteristics of the West Pacific Warm Pool Large Marine Ecosystem. The project seeks to achieve its governance and environmental objectives through the development and strengthening of regional and national institutions and associated capacities.

A particular focus of capacity development is the establishment and operation of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), and ensuring the active and appropriate participation of the fifteen PacSIDS embraced within the project, both directly, and through existing regional technical institutions, the FFA and SPC Fisheries.

Findings

The project’s two greatest achievements are facilitating the establishment of the WCPFC and ensuring that Pacific Small Island Developing States (PacSIDS) are able to contribute fully to the deliberations of the Commission and to meet their membership obligations (in terms of legislation, fishery policies, and monitoring, control and surveillance systems).

The capacity building elements of the project have helped give PacSIDS’ fishery representatives the enhanced confidence to present and negotiate their positions at Commission meetings, to be actively involved in the technical meetings of the Commission, and to sit as equals at the same table as Distant Water Fishing Nations.

At outcome level, this project has proved successful and effective, with outcomes likely to result in durable impacts in line with the environmental and development objectives that guided the project’s design.

Crucially the very significant and on-going changes in the regional management and governance of tuna stocks and fisheries in the western and central Pacific would not have taken place asquicklyas they have done without the intervention of this project.

The particular features that limit the availability and application of GEF funding – constraints such as the need to address global environmental issues; the need to, in the context of international waters, have clear transboundary dimensions; and that GEF funding can only be used to meet incremental costs – have been particularly well used in the design of this project to channel funding and intervention to areas of need that generally fall outside the mandate of other sources of funding.

Assessment of the sustainability of project outcomes highlights some of the strengths deriving from the establishment of the WCPFC, but also points up the institutional weaknesses evident at a national level. But the project has actually achieved rather more than was planned, even at the national level. The work of the project has done much to establish and strengthen national systems and skills in planning, managing information, developing / modifying legislation, inspection, observer coverage, participation in science programmes – which is altogether positive. But the project was not designed to accomplish fundamental reform and restructuring of fisheries administrations, and inconsistencies in this area continue to undermine the full worth of project achievements, and challenge the sustainability of many of its outcomes and future impacts.

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PIOFMP TE final report v8.pdf	2.73 MB