Transforming Fisheries Sector Management in South-West Indian Ocean Region and Maldives Project (TransFORM, SWIOFish5)

The development objective of the Transforming Fisheries Sector Management in South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO) Region and Maldives Project for Maldives is to strengthen regional, evidence-based fisheries management in the SWIO region and to improve competitiveness in the fisheries sector in the Maldives. The project comprises of three components. The first component, enhance evidence-based management advice to the fisheries sector in the SWIO region will aim to enhance fisheries management in the SWIO region as a whole and reinforce regional collaboration through production and sharing of regionally relevant knowledge, targeted capacity development, improving fisheries and fish stock assessments, the production of management advice, and by promoting effective collaboration with other regional programs and initiatives supporting different elements of fisheries management, policy, or research. It consists of following sub-components: (i) promoting the development and coordination of relevant innovative regional research with a focus on capacity development programs and initiatives; (ii) coordinating and consolidating regional cooperation for evidence-based advice on management of fisheries and other uses of marine and coastal ecosystems; and (iii) linking and coordinating the fisheries initiatives and programs in the region. The second component, supporting Maldives as the catalyst for strengthened regional capacity for fisheries governance and management will support Maldives to provide the functions of a regional enabler. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improved and innovative implementation, enforcement, and monitoring of fisheries management plans and sharing results with SWIO Countries; (ii) augmented comprehensive quarantine, disease surveillance and management and experience sharing with SWIO countries; (iii) skills and capacity building for supporting enterprise development in fisheries sector; and (iv) augmentation of project management capacity of...