Welcome to the ASCLME Project
Between 2008 and 2012, 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 UNDP/GEF 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 second meeting of the PSC and from the discussions I have had with other countries, everyone is much more aware of the Project at this point. In comparison to other countries, Mozambique is a little bit behind in terms of knowing and understanding the project, what it is to produce and what its outcomes and outputs are to be. However, a lot of issues have been clarified at this meeting and the PCU has achieved a lot in its first year. Now we are going into a crucial phase; the foundations have been laid and the project will have more visibility in the countries. The PCU has all the different groups (data and information; training and capacity building; communication; and policy and governance) in place and they are now prepared to deal with the countries intensively. In the future Mozambique will be more involved in this project. I believe that the ASCLME Project will be useful to the region and to our country.” Domingos Gove, Director, Fisheries Research Institute (IIP), Mozambique.
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