FISHERIES MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND THE MDGS: PAST EXPERIENCE AND FUTURE VISION
This paper examines the eleven year Department for International Development funded Fisheries Management Science Programme as a model to explore how fisheries management science can contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It describes how the Programme strategy was able to adapt to a changing policy environment and local needs and demands for research in order to achieve these goals. It describes a research portfolio that addresses a number of themes contributing to achieving ecologically and economically sustainable fisheries that can support and maintain fisheries associated livelihoods. These themes include policy information required to support fisheries; the information systems needed to involve fishers, particularly the poor, in the comanagement of fishery resources; fisheries assessment methods and how these can be integrated within pro-poor capture fisheries management strategies; and, the role that enhancement fisheries can play in poverty alleviation. The paper concludes by highlighting what more needs to be done, building on the achievements of the FMSP, and outlining a vision for the future.
Fisheries Management Science Programme: An overview of developmental impact to 2005, Final Technical Report.
This report examines the development impacts of the Department for International Development's Fisheries Management Science Programme, considering how the Programme has sought to achieve impact. Analysis of projects in Zanzibar, Laos and Namibia examines the development results.
Namibia
Namibia is virtually a one‐party state that does little to encourages its citizens to participate in government, leading to serious political apathy.