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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 "I am impressed by how well the Project has come together over the past year. The complexities of the project are such that it takes an enormous amount of effort to achieve even modest gains; for example, we are working with eight countries, with different languages and different levels of development. With all these challenges, the project has come a long way in a year.
David has put together a young and efficient team. These people are delivering at a level that would be expected from a much more experienced team. The cruises were undoubtedly a catalyst for action. More than just a data gathering exercise, the cruises became a bridge building exercise for the countries that participated. I am also impressed by the growth of the Project; after only one year there has been a growth in project activities and project partners." Prof. Paul Skelton, representing the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South African host of the Project Co-ordination Unit.
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