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Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project

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 United Nations Development Programme

The UNDP is the United Nation’s global development network. UNDP is on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.
UNDP-implemented projects and programmes are primarily managed by the organisation's extensive network of over 130 country offices, with the central UNDP-GEF environment team providing technical guidance and support.
As of February 2008, UNDP's GEF-funded projects amounted to approximately US$ 7.47 billion.
UNDP supports the development of projects in the areas covered by the GEF and also manages two corporate programmes on behalf of the GEF partnership. These are the Small Grants Programme (which has a portfolio of over 5,000 community-based projects) and the GEF National Consultative Dialogue Initiative, which strengthens country ownership and involvement in GEF activities.
 
The Project has taken big strides forward over the past year. One of the most important steps it has taken has been to raise the profile of governance and policy issues, as well as the issue of financial sustainability. This is important because we don’t want the Project to deliver a Strategic Action Programme (SAP), we want the Project to deliver a SAP that can be implemented. In other words, there should not be a gap between the signing of the SAP and the start of implementation of the SAP.

I am very happy with the Project Coordination Unit. It is not common to have a project running in “real time” like this. I hope that the countries follow this dynamic and that at the country level the work will also be on track.

One thing I would like to make a plea for is stability at the PSC level. We want people to be informed about the project and actively participating in it. But when people are new to the PSC they need to be informed and brought up to speed. Changes at the PSC level set us back.”

Hajanirina Razafindrainibe, Natural Resource Management Expert, Service d'Appui a la Gestion de l'Environnement  (SAGE), Madagascar.
GEF/UNDP Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project
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