In these pages, we capture the results of a methodology to measure the growth we strive to help build in our partners. Through this measurement, we want to understand how our support is helping them towards achieving a common goal of supporting coastal communities to rebuild fisheries.
We believe BV’s approach to rights-based marine conservation is simple, coherent and highly effective. We believe that community-based organisations and small NGOs are the cornerstone of effective conservation practice, but are all-too-often overlooked. As an integral part of the community, they build trust, identify emerging issues that can derail progress, and ultimately help secure community support for conservation.
We track these organisations down, provide them with flexible, targeted and sustained technical and financial support, and bring them together at national and international levels in networks to advocate for reform.
Our approach
To rebuild fisheries and restore ocean life at scale, we build long-term relationships with like-minded partners who are already working closely with coastal communities.
Our support infrastructure − training, technical assistance, data systems, mentoring and funding − assists our partners to restore wild seafood populations, create healthy ocean environments and improve the livelihoods of traditional fishers.
Together we design, scale, strengthen and sustain fisheries management and governance at the community level.
The partners
We look for partners who are committed to addressing overfishing and protecting marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people. They will have a full time presence in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, as well as a long-term commitment to stay there. Over the last six years, we’ve engaged with more than 35 partners in new geographies, expanding from three to 13 countries, and reaching over 650,000 beneficiaries.
In our last four fiscal years (running from July to June), we have granted funding to partners totalling;
- FY19 £273,000
- FY20 £621,000
- FY21 £1,530,000
- FY22 £2,000,000 (target)
The Assessment
We have monitored the progress each of our partners has made in three critical areas – building governance, fisheries management and monitoring & evaluation in fishing communities. All are critical to establishing locally managed marine areas which deliver benefits to livelihoods, biodiversity and climate change resilience.
BV has mapped the key milestones in these three areas through which we can measure progress. The percentages presented in these pages indicate the partners’ progress towards this end.
These analyses, and these pages, are being developed to include operational information (including finances, and health, safety and safeguarding) as additional themes. We are also encouraging self-assessment by our partners, to guide the development of technical support to ensure further progress is achieved.
“I have seen a real empowerment amongst people who previously felt that they had no rights to manage their own resources”
Nusi, Forkani
FY21
Partner profiles
- 17 Partners
- 2 regions
- 5 countries
FY21
Global Assessment
Fisheries Management
0
%
Community Governance
0
%
Monitoring & Evaluation
0
%
Overall
0
%
Regional Assessment
Coral Triangle
Fisheries Management
0
%
Community Governance
0
%
Monitoring & Evaluation
0
%
Overall
0
%
Western indian ocean
Fisheries Management
0
%
Community Governance
0
%
Monitoring & Evaluation
0
%
Overall
0
%
Coral Triangle
Western indian ocean
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