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BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES The Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project Challenges, how we resolved them and what lessons we have learned so far

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES New Problems with Research Cruise Planning 12° The exact boundaries have yet to be defined Definition is based on bathymetry, currents, productivity, etc. in an attempt to separate out discrete ecosystems for management purposes As the focus is on the ecosystem, the management area will inevitable extend beyond EEZs into ABNJ (high seas) and will be transboundary between sovereign jurisdictions Agulhas and Somali Currents LME Boundaries

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES ASCLME Management & Governance Approach There are five important steps which ASCLME is following in terms of evolving effective management and governance at the ecosystem level: 1.The Baseline: Identifying the existing status and boundaries of the LMEs in the Western Indian Ocean region ( You cannot manage what you haven’t measured) 2.Impacts and Causes: Agreeing on the main threats to the ecosystem, its living resources and the communities that depend on them and identifying specific areas of concern that need observing 3.Monitoring: Developing an effective monitoring and early warning mechanism for ecosystem variability and climate change, building on the baseline surveys and adopting appropriate indicators of change ( You cannot adapt to change unless you can recognise change ) 4.Science-to-Governance: Translating the outputs from this monitoring into policy and management level priorities and guidelines for adaptive management and decision-making 5.Cooperative Management: Evolving and adopting a Western Indian Ocean Alliance of partners to achieve sustainability of monitoring and adaptive management within the LMEs using the ecosystem approach

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES Achievements to date A.A detailed baseline assessment of a previously unknown area. Over 22 coastal and offshore research cruises over 4 years B.A detailed and comprehensive Marine Ecosystem Diagnostic Analysis completed for each country (including socioeconomics, coastal livelihoods assessment, policy and governance assessment and cost-benefit analysis of an EBM approach. Causal Chain Analyses now being finalised. C.TDA currently under construction D.Over 40 Ecosystem Assessment practitioners have been trained E.70 plus regional and international ecosystem-related scientific experts directly involved in baseline and monitoring process F.Over 50 related and peer-reviewed publications gone to ‘Abstract’ of which more than 20 already published G.Scientific Coordination Expert bodies created in each country to support the Ecosystem management process H.A strongly evolving WIO Alliance for scientific monitoring and adaptive (dynamic) EBM with over 15 partner organisations formally signed-up and many more cooperating on an informal basis I.Over $12 million in ‘additional’ co-funding leveraged above the original co-funding figure through partnership agreements

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES Challenges and Resolutions 1.Data-poor region with very little ecosystem information 2.Limited national capacities for data capture and handling 3.Lack of effective country ownership 4.Resistance to any new bureaucracy or governing body 5.Poor Coordination and Interaction across Disciplines and between ‘Players’ 6.Disconnect between Science and Governance 7.Absence of Realistic Community Engagement 8.No Involvement of Private Sector and Industry

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES 1. Data-Poor Region Challenge The WIO is one of the least known areas of the world’s oceans in terms of marine science. Therefore, it was essential to undergo a strategically focused and comprehensive data capture period in order to develop an effective baseline which could realistically drive/support a SAP development process Resolution An expansive programme of data capture at the coastal and offshore level to ensure: i) a strong enough understanding of the drivers of ocean-climate interactions and their influence on the LMEs ii) an early insight into the relationship and interactions between the LMEs and their dependent communities and community welfare iii) most importantly to provide a baseline against which change could be measured and adaptive management initiated

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES 2. Limited National Capacities Challenge Limited national capacities for ecosystem-based management and monitoring Resolution There is a high level of capacity within some specialised institutions in the region, particularly in terms of oceanographic, fisheries and general ecosystem management skills. This capacity has and is being captured and put to good use. 2 three-week training courses in the class and at sea on Ecosystem Management and monitoring approaches has resulted in over 40 trained practitioners/scientist and now over 70 regional scientists taking part in the long-term ecosystem monitoring programmes. CB&T programme is being expanded now through a growing arrangement of academic and global institutional partnerships Because of the presence of skilled EBM experts in the region, less than 3% of expert consultancies were contracted out to international experts from outside of the region

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES 3. Lack of Effective Country Ownership Challenge Delay between the negotiation phase and the actual implementation phase (several years) for the Project. Country ownership of the Project therefore often resided in one or two individuals at best and was not inherent at the institutional level Resolution ASCLME PSC agreed to start the TDA-SAP process with national Marine Ecosystem Diagnostic Analyses (MEDAs). This has proved to be a highly valuable and popular new approach as: i) it required the creation of an in-country nucleus of LME experts which now forms the core of a long-term national technical inter-sectoral group ii) it has created a strong sense of ownership within the countries iii) it provides each country with a baseline ‘State of the Marine Environment’ report from which they can evolve (or amend and update) a National Action Programme. iv) ensures that the TDA and its associated SAP and long-term monitoring programmes are ‘anchored’ at the national level as well as into regional institutions and activities.

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES 4. Resistance to any new bureaucracy or governing body Challenge The participating countries and the various Conventions and Commissions operating in the region made it clear that they did NOT want a Commission-style management approach. It was felt that there were already sufficient mandated and responsible organisations and entities and that any attempt to usurp those mandates or to overarch them with a new body would meet strong resistance. Resolution Rather than trying to develop an ungainly and unnecessary overarching new body, ASCLME is working closely with other partners to develop the WIO Alliance. The Alliance is a partnership between the countries, mandated bodies and institutions within the region, and international supportive agencies all working together to develop an effective long-term management programme for the WIO LMEs. The Alliance includes partnerships for undertaking scientific monitoring and research (and delivering the results and conclusions to managers and decision-makers) and for CB&T. One advantage of the Alliance is that it uses existing activities and funding but within an overall partnership of agreed priorities

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES 5. Poor Coordination and Interaction across Disciplines and between ‘Players’ Challenge Large interest and funding commitment in this region in terms of ocean-climate interactions and the fact that the region was likely to suffer first and hardest from climate extremes. However, there was little interaction or collaboration across disciplines or with appropriate national institutions. This led to duplication and lack of cost-effectiveness of efforts Resolution ASCLME has attempted to act as a facilitating agency for all of these various activities whilst diplomatically avoiding any impression of formally adopting a coordination role without formal agreements to this effect The Project has also developed a number of ‘Aides-Memoire’ with various institutions and agencies working in the region which define the areas of cooperation between them and the Project The evolving Alliance aims to consolidate these various Aides-Memoire under the overall SAP so that each entity agrees to a clearly defined responsibility within the overall ecosystem management strategy

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES 6. Disconnect between Science and Governance Challenge Very little of the science and data analysis so far has been effectively translated into management tools or guidelines or into policy briefings. Science needed to be applied and delivered and adaptive management needed to be driven through identification of trends and monitoring of change Resolution Both the PSC and the Joint (ASCLME/SWIOFP) Policy and Governance Assessment concluded that the WIO needed an effective Science-to-Governance mechanism This mechanism needs to translate the outputs from scientific work (TDA and monitoring) into adaptive management and governance guidelines and briefs to managers and policy-makers. Such ‘Science-Based Governance’ is now being developed at the national and regional level using a ‘Weight-of-Evidence’ approach which takes the science beyond the Precautionary Approach and prioritises those issues that need higher confidence limits

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES 7. Absence of Realistic Community Engagement Challenge The original Project Document had a limited amount of focus toward community engagement and coastal emphasis Resolution There are now community engagement demonstrations in each country operating through the concept of DLIST It is hoped that the lessons learned from these and further community engagement practices by Alliance partners will help to develop a more robust and sustainable mechanism for community involvement in the LME management process and in the decision-making and policy process The Project deliverables were expanded to include a detailed and comprehensive assessment of coastal livelihoods, coastal habitat mapping and artisanal, small-scale, inshore fisheries

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES 8. No Involvement of Private Sector and Industry Challenge There was also little focus on engagement with the Private Sector in the original document. There are many different private ‘sector’ groups that could and should be engaged (oil, gas, shipping, tourism, etc) Resolution Private Sector Engagement is a new and strong focus of ASCLME The Project aims to develop a ‘one-stop shop’ approach by partnering with the World Ocean Council The World Ocean Council and a number of its members have expressed a strong interest in supporting the aims of the Alliance partners both at the monitoring and data capture level but also at the ecosystem management and regulatory level

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES Lessons Learned and Best Practices - ONE A Project of this nature is not ‘written-in-stone’ and should be dynamic (Adaptive Management) One of the first functions of a Manager, PCU and PSC should be to review the original Project Document to identify any short-comings or gaps, and then open discussions between the countries and the Implementing Agency as to how best to resolve these in terms of amendments to activities, deliverables and budget realignments In the case of the ASCLME Project, we hired the original Project Development consultant to come back to the 1st Steering Committee to review the objectives and LogFrame and, with hindsight, to present some of the gaps and shortfalls This proved enormously valuable and the Project was able to get the Steering Committee to agree to creating some new activities (Policy and Governance Assessment; Coastal Livelihoods Assessment) and to revise the budget to cover new posts, consultancies and workshops to support these

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES Lessons Learned and Best Practices - TWO A top-down approach can often cause conflict and resentment with the people operating ‘on-the-ground’ Based on recommendations from regional IGOs, the Project developed its Alliance and partnerships approach (along with new management and governance structures) from the bottom upwards (not excluding communities) so as to build support from the grass-roots scientists and the various institutions which have to undertake the management process. This has slowly but surely created a strong support structure. At the same time, the ‘concept’ of an Alliance and new governance mechanisms have been exposed to Directors and Permanent Secretaries so as to give them an awareness of what to expect

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES Lessons Learned and Best Practices - THREE Revising the overall objectives to deliver national MEDAs (Marine Ecosystem Diagnostic Analyses) has proved to be an extremely valuable new exercise as: A. This left each country with a valuable national product prior to the TDA process and from which they could create or refine National Action Programmes B. It has built strong country ownership for the Project C. It has provided an enormous amount of accurate input to the TDA process D. It created in-country teams of experts and specialists that can now form the core of a national inter-sectoral body for monitoring and for putting into effect the new science-to-governance mechanisms as part of the long-term SAP

BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO MANAGING AFRICAN MARINE RESOURCES WITH THANKS… …to all of our Partners who have made the ASCLME project a success so far And looking forward to developing further partnerships for a more dynamic adaptive management approach