Title
Building a Blue Future for Ecosystems and People on the East African Coast. Annex B: Preliminary Process Framework. Version 2
Author(s)
Wildlife Conservation Society
Published
2022
Abstract
This preliminary Process Framework (hereafter, PF) is prepared by WCS in the scope of the Building a Blue Future for Ecosystems and People on the East African Coast project (the “Project”) as the potential for economic displacement due to access restrictions inhered to the Project has been identified. The overall objective for the Project is to create a new, sustainable-use MPA in the coastal area of the Districts of Memba and Mossuril, in the Nampula province — covering an area of at least 1000 km2 and potentially 7 000 km2 — that includes a network of well-operated community- managed fishing areas This coastline is very important for biodiversity, especially for coral reefs, seagrass and mangroves, and it also includes important coastal forest patches. It has been identified over time by different initiatives as an area needing protection. It is also an area that has been overfished. Some of the main drivers of threats in this area include high poverty rates and lack of opportunities for local communities. There is a significant number of displaced people in the Memba district, as a result of the military conflict in the northern part of the Cabo Delgado province. No Indigenous Peoples/ Sub-Saharan African Historically Underserved Traditional Local Communities are present in the Project area or in Mozambique and therefore none will be potentially affected by the project. The project will support local CCPs to improve the management of their community-managed fishing areas to promote a sustainable use of the ecosystems, contributing to increase access to food while improving marine biodiversity. The project will enhance priority biodiversity and ecosystem services that contribute to reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience of local communities to climate change impacts, promoting effective prevention and adaptation, aiding coastal protection and supporting resource- based livelihoods, especially fisheries, and contributing to national climate and conservation targets. To achieve this goal, the present project will achieve two Outcomes: 1) improve resilience of climate-relevant ecosystems through increased protection and management; and 2) provide improved resilience and enhanced livelihoods of the most vulnerable communities. The Project formulation implies that only during the implementation stage, based on the results of substantial stakeholder engagement activities and of biodiversity, socio-economy and climate vulnerability assessments, the proposal of the MPA, the community-based ecological mangrove restoration/rehabilitation component and the climate resilient and sustainable livelihoods will be defined. At this stage several aspects of the Project are dependent on the initial baseline. Therefore, the E&S safeguard tools, like the PF, to be initially prepared pre-project implementation are preliminary and subject to review / being complemented along the project implementation process.
Full Citation
Wildlife Conservation Society (2022). Building a Blue Future for Ecosystems and People on the East African Coast. Annex B: Preliminary Process Framework. Version 2. Bronx, NY: Wildlife Conservation Society and Blue Action Fund, 1-121.
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