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FEATURES - INTERVIEW<br />

connaissances acquises sur les LMMA depuis<br />

leurs créations à Madagascar, et servira d’outil de<br />

référence pour les communautés de pêcheurs et les<br />

ONG partenaires.<br />

ressources marines.<br />

Ce prix va aussi nous permettre de financer notre<br />

travail sur la mise en place d’un cadre légal pour<br />

les LMMA, en collaboration avec le gouvernement.<br />

MIHARI va organiser un symposium sur les LMMA<br />

et des visites des LMMA par des représentants des<br />

ministères. Afin de développer ce cadre légal, nous<br />

allons poursuivre nos discussions avec les autorités,<br />

pour mettre en place une interdiction des engins de<br />

pêches destructeurs et pour la création de zones de<br />

pêche réservées. Grâce à ce Prix, MIHARI va aussi<br />

pouvoir étendre ses zones d’intervention pour couvrir<br />

l’ensemble des 13 zones côtières de Madagascar.<br />

Dernier point, mais non des moindres, la création<br />

d’un guide des bonnes pratiques des LMMA<br />

est aussi un objectif important pour nous. Cela<br />

nous permettra de rassembler l’ensemble des<br />

As a Whitley Award winner your prize was £40,000<br />

in project funding over one year. How will you<br />

spend it?<br />

Winning a Whitley Award has given the team the<br />

capacity to realign the priorities for MIHARI and<br />

make progress towards fulfilling our ambition for<br />

small-scale fishers.<br />

We will use the award to finance vital training<br />

for LMMA leaders, in order for them to gain more<br />

technical skills and participate even more in the<br />

sustainable management of their marine resources.<br />

This award will also finance our work towards<br />

setting up a legal framework for LMMAs in<br />

collaboration with the Government. MIHARI will<br />

organise an LMMA symposium and visits to LMMAs<br />

with Ministry representatives. To develop this legal<br />

framework, we will continue our discussions with<br />

the authorities to establish a ban on the use of<br />

destructive fishing gear, and for the creation of a<br />

reserved fishing zone. With this award, MIHARI will<br />

also be able to expand its intervention zone to cover<br />

all 13 coastal zones of Madagascar.<br />

Last but not least, creating a guide to LMMA good<br />

practices is also an important goal for us. This guide<br />

will garner all acquired knowledge about LMMAs<br />

since their establishment in Madagascar, and will be<br />

a reference tool for communities of fishers and NGO<br />

partners.<br />

<strong>Magazine</strong> online<br />

www.primemedia.international<br />

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