Support for a coordinated ocean and coastal ecosystem management approach in South Africa

The overall objective of the demonstration project is to contribute to the SAPPHIRE principal goal of achieving effective long-term marine and coastal ecosystem management in the Western Indian Ocean LMEs in line with the Strategic Action Programme as endorsed by the participating countries. Moreover, most of the countries in the WIO region have already developed national strategic approaches towards the green and blue economies which are consistent with and complement the LMEs SAP. In line with this, SAPPHIRE will support the participating countries to implement their priorities as well as deliver their national commitments. Throughout this demonstration project implementation period, progress monitoring, best practice and lesson learned documentation will be given emphasis for wider learning, scale up and replication at the national and WIO region level. In addition, policy brief/s will be prepared and shared to inform decision making, policy and strategy development as well as to prepare and implement relevant adaptive management plans.