Welcome to the ASCLME Project
Over the next five years, the nine countries of the western Indian Ocean region, including Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa and Tanzania, will work together through the Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems (ASCLME) Project.
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The Global Environment Facility The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the world’s largest environmental funding body. It was established in 1991 as a multilateral financial mechanism to test new approaches and innovative ways of responding to global environmental challenges. The GEF’s six focal areas are biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer and persistent organic pollutants. It helps fund initiatives that assist developing countries to meet the objectives of the four United Nations international environmental conventions:
- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- The Stockholm Convention on Persistant Organic Pollutants
With its multi-billion dollar trust fund, the GEF is open to universal participation and 176 nations are currently listed as members.
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 “This is the first time I’ve attended the PSC meeting and, before I came here, I had a completely different perception of this project. I am glad to have attended this meeting because I now have a detailed understanding of the project. Generally, I’m very impressed. After only year, the project has already produced certain products and the outreach is very good. Now that I understand the project, I will be in a better position to coordinate my country’s participation. I am going to set up an office in the Institute to facilitate Kenya’s participation in the ASCLME Project.” Johnson Kazungu, Executive Director of Kenyan Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
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