- Fishery
The project was designed to contribute to a coordinated regional approach to the long-term conservation, protection, rehabilitation, enhancement and sustainable use of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) in order to provide economic, environmental and social benefits and well-being to the region through the domestication and implementation of the Benguela Current Convention and accompanying Strategic Action Programme. More specifically it was designed to assist Party countries vulnerable to the impacts of marine and coastal degradation in implementing the BCLME Convention adopted by Party states. It does this by assisting the countries to carry out the prerequisite policy and legal and institutional arrangements in relation to the BCLME Convention. The project includes support for training and for building national capacity in BCLME key work areas and generally by raising awareness of the social and economic implications of degradation of the marine ecosystem. This five-year project dates (Jan 2017 to March 2022) was developed by the BCC in collaboration with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).