**Please see attached a message forwarded on behalf of The School of International Development, University of East Anglia. Please only respond to [log in to unmask]**
Dear Colleagues,
We (The School of International Development, University of East Anglia) are conducting a global review, for the Rockefeller Foundation, of projects and programs for improved fisheries, aquaculture and marine or aquatic resource conservation. Our focus is on developing and transitional countries and on initiatives that have an explicit aim of contributing to poverty reduction and food security – either for resource-users, riparian and coastal communities, or for low-income consumers who depend on fish in their diets. Our focus is marine-coastal but we want to include inland waters too.
We are particularly interested in initiatives led by community and civil society organizations and/or private sector actors, but we will also include government-led partnerships, international NGO and aid agencies programs. We would especially like to hear about initiatives that can be considered successful or innovative (or both!). We are explicitly setting out to find the ‘positive deviants’ out there and learn from them and promote them.
We are not looking at projects that are exclusively or primarily concerned with research or advisory outputs. Actions, please – whether political, social, economic, institutional or environmental (or any mix of these).
We are initially compiling a list of such initiatives (which will be made publically available), so if you know of a good action, or are involved in one yourself, we would be very grateful for a quick message from you which will give us enough information to find out more about it:
Name or acronym of project/programme/initiative/:
Country/location:
Contact Name (with phone or email if available):
Website address or other source for further information:
If you have time, we would also appreciate a quick comment from you on why you think it is innovative or how it has been successful.
We will of course be conducting our own searches, but this is to triangulate those and to find the hidden gems that you think we should know about.
We will follow up the promising examples with a more in-depth review of their objectives, target beneficiaries, outcomes and impacts.
Please respond to my colleague Ann Delaporte ([log in to unmask]) initially. We would welcome a reply before September 10th 2012 so we have time to follow up on the information we get and include it in our review.
Many thanks in anticipation,
Dr Edward H Allison
Senior Lecturer in Natural Resources
School of International Development
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.
and
Senior Research Fellow
The WorldFish Center
P.O. Box 500, GPO, 10670 Penang, Malaysia
Reducing poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture