Case 2-19 Utilising government institutional funds: procedure for CLPA to apply to the Senegalese government for funding

The Senegalese government provides part of the relevant tax revenues (artisanal fishing license fees) to fisheries resource management organisations to fund their activities. Resource management organisations, such as the CLPA, can apply for government funding for their activities. Such organisations submit an annual report of their activities and an activity plan for the following year to the government’s Fisheries Directorate for review and evaluation, and on this basis receive the necessary budgetary measures for the following year’s activities. However, this administrative procedure does not work smoothly in reality, and the fisheries resource management organisations do not receive sufficient funds for their activities, which is one of the reasons for the stagnation of their activities.

Management and operational reports prepared by the fisheries resource management organisations include the ‘‘Quarterly Organisational Management and Operational Report’’ prepared on a quarterly basis, as well as the ‘Annual Organisational Management and Operational Plan’ and the ‘Accounting Organisational Management and Operational Report’ prepared once a year. Various resource management activities conducted by the organisations are also summarised in the ‘Fisheries Resource Management Activity Report’.

The content of each report is as follows:

(1) Organisational Management and Operational Report:

• A list of all members of the fisheries resource management organisation
• Names of professional organisations and leaders included in the organisation, and the number of people belonging to them
• Number of fishing vessels belonging to the organisation (number of registered vessels) and number of registered fishers (record of monthly variations)
• Number of seasonal migrant boats and number of migrant fishers (record of monthly variations)
• Purpose, number of meetings, number of participants and results of discussions in meetings such as plenary meetings and professional section meetings, etc.

(2) Fisheries Resource Management Activity Report

• Name of the fisheries resource management activity, number of implementations, number of participating professional groups and number of participants
• Type of monitoring and control activities (at sea or on land), number conducted and results
• Types of awareness-raising activities (such as door-to-door visits, landing beaches, rallies, radio broadcasts, posters, and billboards), number of target audiences and number of completions
• Name of the training activity, number of participants and content of the training
• Other activities related to fisheries resource management

The departmental Fisheries Directorate and other agencies that work with fisheries resource management organisations on a daily basis can play a central role in building the capacity of such organisations to follow the above-mentioned administrative processes and promote the smooth functioning of the system, thus revitalising the resource management organisations’ activities.

Chapter 2 Establishing and strengthening the resource management implementation system

2.6 Securing and managing funds for activities

Senegal has a system under which a portion of the government’s tax revenues is provided as a subsidy for the activities of the CLPA, which is responsible for resource management activities. The operation and applicability of such a system shall be examined.

This case can be a useful reference for fisheries administrations in Senegal’s neighbouring countries when designing institutional funding schemes, and for fisheries resource management organisations seeking to use institutional funds already in place.