Development of Strategies for Fisheries and Aquaculture Management
Advisory services and support to regional and national fisheries organisations and agencies to develop strategies for fisheries and aquaculture management and development provided by Regional Solutions Co. Ltd. Managing Director U.W. Schmidt as individual consultant. Countries and Regions covered included the Lower Mekong Region, for the Mekong River Commission, countries of the Horn of Africa including Uganda and Kenya, for the Intergovernmental Authority for Development, Togo, Pakistan, Somaliland, Timor Leste and Cambodia, for sector line agencies and non state actors. For copyright and IP reasons only references and summaries are given here.
MALDIVES
Restructuring of an IFAD loan to the Maldives to rehabilitate the fisheries sector post tsunami policy and strategy development for a restructured tuna fisheries including resource management and value chain/post harvest sector improvement by U.W. Schmidt as individual consultant.
TOGO
Plan Sectoriel de la Pêche et de l’Aquaculture, for the Direction des Pêches et de l’Aquaculture, Ministère de l’Agriculture, Elevage et Pêche, commissioned by the EU Programme ACP Fish 2 and provided by U.W. Schmidt as individual consultant and team leader.
SOMALILAND
Strategic Framework for the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, commissioned by the Somaliland Development Fund (SDF) funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and the Norwegian Government provided by U.W. Schmidt as individual consultant.
PAKISTAN
Fisheries Policy and Strategy Framework for Sindh Province, commissioned by the Chemonics International Inc. Firms Project, funded by USAID. The framework addressed issues and challenges of sustainable resource use (management of fishing capacity/fighting IUU fishing, institutional development, inclusive value chains etc.) of marine and inland fisheries of Sindh Province.
CAMBODIA, LAO PDR, THAILAND, VIET NAM
Development Basin-wide Fisheries Management and Development Strategy, for the Fisheries Program of the Mekong River Commission provided by Regional Solutions Co. Ltd. Managing Director U.W. Schmidt as international consultant. The assignment involved drafting and redrafting of the strategy based on the result of multiple stakeholder consultations from 2015 to 2016.
Solutions Co. Ltd. Managing Director U.W. Schmidt served as international consultant to draft the Project based Action Plan (PBAP), for the Environmental Management (ED) Division of the Mekong River Commission, on the base of multiple stakeholder consultations and validation from 2017 to 2019.
TIMOR LESTE
Regional Solutions Co. Ltd. Managing Director U.W. Schmidt, as individual consultant, provided advisory to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to facilitate the drafting of the National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste focusing on sector governance, fisheries management, institutional development, diversification of production and value chain development. The assignment was commissioned by WorldFish Timor-Leste, through its Timor-Leste Fisheries Sector Support Program funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy to Indonesia in Jakarta and the Asian Development Bank. It involved, from 2017 to 2019, a scoping mission and several missions to draft the strategy based on the result of multiple stakeholder consultations and a final national validation forum.
CAMBODIA
Regional Solutions Co. Ltd. Managing Director U.W. Schmidt, as individual consultant, assisted the Fisheries Administration of the of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to draft the Strategic Plan for Fisheries Conservation and Management 2019 – 2028. The assignment was funded by the European Delegation in Cambodia.
Development of the organization’s Fishery Strategic Framework 2019-2023, commissioned by Oxfam in Cambodia’s Natural Resource Governance Program (NRGP) and carried out by Regional Solutions Co. Ltd. Managing Director U.W. Schmidt.