Conservation Dividends
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•To improve the livelihoods of the fishing communities by enabling and supporting them to initiate community managed and sustainable fishing-based enterprises.
•To develop and nurture Win-Win partnerships between the private sector and the communities that depend on the fishery for their livelihoods with the aim of promoting sustainable management of the fisheries resource.
The basic approach of Conservation Dividends is to “reward doing good and avoiding harm”. Through Conservation Dividends, ELCI will identify community groups that have adopted best practices that promise both environmental sustainability and livelihood improvement for reward. For the this purpose, a reward entails recognition for adopting best practices, deployment of financial, technological and human resources to support up-scaling of such community initiatives, and development of local community capacity to manage the projects in their original and/or up scaled state.<br />
<br>In partnership with the private sector, ELCI will identify services from the private sector that best complement services from ELCI in order to end up with a more comprehensive package of services that meet income generation as well as enhanced natural resource management. ELCI will harness both financial and entrepreneurial capacity of the private sector to develop sustainable enterprises with fish as the commodity. Focus will be on entrepreneurial capacity development of the local communities, product development (including standards and certification), and market development.<br />
<br>This way, there will be enhanced capacity to design and manage such nature based enterprises by the local communities, with results in the areas of household income and sustainability of the natural resources.<br />
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Group mentorship: To ensure sustainability of the project, ELCI will continue mentoring the groups and will gradually transfer its management role to the communities and enhance their capacity to manage the projects on their own, as well as to seek further support from relevant avenues. <br />
<br>Technology Transfer: ELCI will acquire and/or ensure development and/or application of methodologies and tools that have the highest possible resource efficiency. These include, but are not limited to, energy efficient fish processing methods (that reduce the rate of consumption of wood fuel), use of renewable energy options, and use of tools that are approved under FAO and Government of Kenya guidelines on sustainable fisheries. The groups will be required to contribute a percentage in cash or assets over and above their in kind contribution. This will strengthen a sense of ownership, upon which basis such proposed symbiotic relationships thrive. <br />
<br>Institutional Capacity Development of the communities:To enhance organizational capacity of the fishing-dependent communities. This important for the purpose of addressing systemic market access challenges. ELCI will coordinate regular capacity building sessions on management; organisational development; entrepreneurship; value addition to increase their capacity to independently manage their groups and enterprises. <br />
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ELCI is the main manager of the Conservation Dividends Initiative and the coordination mechanism will be organized as:<br />
<br>1. High –Level Panel: <br />
<br>Under the overall leadership / Chairmanship of the Executive Director of ELCI, and consists of: <br />
<br>i) Executive Director of ELCI <br />
<br>ii) CEOs of between two and three Private Sector Organizations<br />
<br>Their roles:<br />
<br>Policy formulation, Strategy, Resource Mobilization, Partnership/Coalition Building, Signing Agreements with Sponsors, and with Beneficiaries.<br />
<br>2. Project Management Unit /Technical Unit <br />
<br>Under the overall oversight of a Project Manager based at ELCI, and consists of:<br />
<br>i) Technical Team – a combination of private sector entrepreneurial experts and conservation experts from ELCI: Concerned with design of projects, technical capacity development (both in entrepreneurship and conservation),implementation, Awards scheme development and implementation, M&E and reporting<br />
<br>ii) Grant Management Team: Concerned with financial management including reporting, and logistics<br />
<br>This is the team that is responsible for:<br />
<br>Administration; Financial management and reporting; Coordination of activities in the field and in the secretariat; Monitoring and Evaluation; Communication with partners and beneficiaries; Research on prospective partners and emerging trends.<br />
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Sarah Munyao- Ndonye , Communication Officer