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Fish Forever, Mozambique
Rare, Inc., (www.rare.org<http://www.rare.org>), in partnership with the Environmental Defense
Fund and the Sustainable Fisheries Group, University California Santa Barbara, is implementing a
global initiative, Fish Forever, (www.fishforever.org<http://www.fishforever.org>) in five
countries. Fish Forever is designed to empower thousands of the world’s poorest coastal
communities to sustainably manage their fisheries while increasing food security, improving
livelihoods, conserving important marine habitats and strengthening coastal climate
resilience. This innovative approach is designed to work across different cultures, geographies
and political systems so millions of people benefit, building an international movement to reform
nearshore fisheries.
In Mozambique, Fish Forever is in partnership with the National Institute for the Development of
Small Scale Fisheries (IDPPE), an agency within the Ministry of the Sea, Inland Waters, and
Fisheries. The program is supported by funding from the Nordic Development Fund, which
administers the grant via the World Bank. The project is referred to as FISHCC (Sustainable coastal
fisheries and climate change adaptation) and forms part of the SWIOFish initiative of the World
Bank. It is a 36 month project and launches in July, 2015.
The Project has a strong capacity-building component so that local communities can develop
community-based natural resource management, develop sustainable fisheries, and improve their
social resilience to climate change. To catalyze this, the project will support community fishing
councils organized by the National Government. This will be facilitated by Rare Pride Campaigns,
in which IDPPE staff will be taught the principles of social marketing and a theory of social change
that will enable them to establish constituencies at local level, accelerating the adoption and
implementation of TURF-reserves as a principle tool to improve artisanal, coastal fisheries.