EVALUATION
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the project to achieve its target in implementing biodiversity conservation stated in the TOC<br />
(i.e., fish stocks increased) at LOP is the absence of established, operating and earning<br />
enterprise to achieve better employment at midterm.<br />
4.3 RECOMMENDATIONS<br />
(1) Right sizing of fishing effort<br />
Establish the enabling conditions for right sizing of fishing effort such as equitable sharing in<br />
the use/boundaries for fishing. Appropriate boundaries will prevent encroachment of<br />
fishers with destructive fishing and/or illegal fishing gears or commercial fishing vessels<br />
within municipal waters. This will ensure small fishers to have equal access to harvest the<br />
benefits of increased fish catch resulting from conservation efforts; and not the other way<br />
around, where large commercial fishers take advantage of the increased benefits.<br />
(2) Gaining new or better employment<br />
Use “better employment” as the primary indicator for Key Result B. Gaining “new<br />
employment” can be measured as a separate indicator and assessed through a pilot<br />
demonstration of at least one operating social enterprise in two most promising MKBAs.<br />
Generation of new employment is feasible with at least a single operating and earning social<br />
enterprise, meaning that the enterprise can afford to pay for labor and other social benefits<br />
for its employees. While new employment maybe generated by a newly established<br />
enterprise, its sustainability needs also to be ensured by demonstrating the operational<br />
profitably for at least two to three cycles of operation.<br />
(3) Developing social enterprises<br />
Demonstrate preferably two social enterprises in the remaining years of the project in<br />
two most promising MKBAs, to reach the status of established, operating and earning<br />
enterprises;<br />
Establish at least one PPP linked with at least one social enterprise; and<br />
Work directly with agribusiness/processing firms that can provide the critical capacity<br />
building for evolving profitable enterprises, notably technology, capital and markets. To<br />
do this, ECOFISH Project needs to assist in establishing the enabling conditions (e.g.<br />
groups of small fishermen, availability of raw materials, etc.) to attract potential agribusiness<br />
firms to invest, preferably through a business matching forum. The project can<br />
select a suitable partnership and roll out a sustainable social enterprise development<br />
through a phased approach beginning with a pilot in the most prepared MKBAs.<br />
(4) Demonstrating market-based instruments<br />
Accelerate the implementation of one (1) pilot tested market-based instrument in a most<br />
promising MKBA, preferably payment for ecosystem services (PES), similar to what the<br />
project has demonstrated in providing 21-day Cash for Work (i.e., coastal clean-up and<br />
waste management) jobs to affected fishers in VIP MKBA in 2014 to enforce seasonal<br />
fishing closure of pelagic fish during its reproduction period. This PES scheme came in the<br />
form of compensations received by affected fishers for earnings lost during a period of<br />
fishery closure. The project needs to institute a long-term arrangement/partnership for PES<br />
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