MAREA Regional Program for the Management of Aquatic Resources and Economic Alternatives
Brief Description:
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to promote alternative livelihoods and to foster novel, more sustainable fishing practices. To help find employment for the many fishermen who stand to lose their jobs and to support the equipment purchases needed to assist with the creation of new job opportunities. The Program is working with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration to provide loans and outside donations to help offset the cost of upgrading village fishing boats with fiberglass to ready them to carry tourists. These joint initiatives are expected to create an opportunity for private and public investment in new, sustainable tourism activities that can employ out-of-work fishermen and divers. The project is looking for encourage local fishermen and country-level natural resource managers to adopt a broader, ecosystem-based approach to marine coastal conservation, educating local fishermen and regional leaders about rights-based mechanisms such as ‘catch-shares,’ which grant fishermen exclusive access to fish stocks in designated areas while making other vulnerable areas off-limits.
Promover medios de vida alternativos y fomentar prácticas de pesca novedosas y más sostenibles. Ayudar a encontrar empleo para los muchos pescadores que pueden perder sus puestos de trabajo y apoyar la compra de equipos necesarios para ayudar con la creación de nuevas oportunidades laborales. El Programa está trabajando con el Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica para otorgar préstamos y donaciones externas para ayudar a compensar el costo de mejorar los barcos de pesca de las aldeas con fibra de vidrio para prepararlos para transportar turistas. Se espera que estas iniciativas conjuntas creen una oportunidad para la inversión pública y privada en nuevas actividades turísticas sostenibles que puedan emplear a pescadores y buceadores desempleados. El proyecto busca alentar a los pescadores locales y a los administradores de recursos naturales a nivel nacional a adoptar un enfoque más amplio basado en el ecosistema para la conservación costera marina, educando a los pescadores locales y a los líderes regionales sobre los mecanismos basados en los derechos, como las 'capturas compartidas', que otorgan los pescadores tienen acceso exclusivo a las poblaciones de peces en áreas designadas mientras que otras áreas vulnerables están fuera de los límites.
Lead Organization : Chenomics International Inc
Donor: USAID
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Geographic Scope:
Multicountry (regional)
Project Status: Completed
Start Date: 2010-07-02
End Date: 2015-07-07
Last Update: 23/01/2021
Start Date: 2010-07-02
End Date: 2015-07-07
Project Profile Manager: Nestor Windevoxhel
Contact Email: nwindevoxhel@mareaprogram.org
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Contact Email: nwindevoxhel@mareaprogram.org
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Partners: WWF, TNC, Sea Turtle Conservancy, Solimar International
Grant (USD):
$13,900,000.00
Total co-financing (USD):
$0.00
(Co) financing not originating from GEF:
Participating Country(s):
Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
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