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PROFISH GLOBAL PROGRAM on FISHERIES Reforming Fisheries and Aquaculture for Global Benefits Evaluation Report PROFISH Public Disclosure Authorized GLOBAL PROGRAM ON FISHERIES Reforming Fisheries and Aquaculture for Global Benefits Public Disclosure Authorized Evaluation Report Public Disclosure Authorized Evaluation Team Meryl J. Williams (Chair) Joaquim Tenreiro de Almeida W. Mark D. Wilson Public Disclosure Authorized March 2009 PROFISH Evaluation Report: Reforming Fisheries and Aquaculture for Global Benefits 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS..................................................................................2 SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................4 Acknowledgments ......................................................................................9 1. BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION........................................................ 10 1.1 Background..................................................................................... 10 BOX 1: Key Fisheries Targets, Plan of Implementation, 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development................................................................ 11 1.2 Introduction .................................................................................... 12 1.3 PROFISH ........................................................................................ 12 2. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT................................................................. 14 2.1 PROFISH Relevance.......................................................................... 14 2.1.1 Rationale and context at PROFISH inception ................................... 14 BOX 2: PROFISH goal and objectives..................................................... 15 2.1.2 PROFISH relevance in relation to client countries’ priorities............... 17 2.1.3 PROFISH relevance to donors, other partners. ................................ 17 BOX 3: Types of Blockages to Fisheries Reform....................................... 19 2.2 Efficiency and Effectiveness............................................................... 19 2.2.1 PROFISH achievements according to indicators for target results....... 19 Table 1: PROFISH budget summary FY2005 - FY2009 .............................. 23 Table 2: Implementation Status and Results (ISR) Assessments of 8 PROFISH Supported Projects. ............................................................................ 23 2.2.2 Efficiency assessment ................................................................. 24 2.2.3 PROFISH staff and unit assessment............................................... 24 2.3 Outcomes, impacts and sustainability ................................................. 26 2.3.1 Foreseen and unforseen outcomes and impacts .............................. 26 2.3.2 Factors and processes that may explain outcomes and impacts ......... 27 2.3.3 The extent to which PROFISH can become sustainable ..................... 27 2.3.4 Factors affecting PROFISH sustainability ........................................ 28 2.4 Lessons Learned .............................................................................. 28 2.4.1 PROFISH operational lessons........................................................ 28 2.4.2 Development lessons from PROFISH related to development assistance agencies social and economic goals ....................................................... 29 2.4.3 The one-two-three of ‘how to’ reform fisheries................................ 30 2.5 Conclusions on Performance Assessment............................................. 34 3. FORWARD ASSESSMENT: REFORMING FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE........ 36 3.1 A clear vision and objectives for PROFISH............................................ 36 BOX 4: Draft Vision, Mission and Objectives ........................................... 36 3.2 Relevance and future demand for PROFISH services and products........... 37 PROFISH Evaluation Report: Reforming Fisheries and Aquaculture for Global Benefits 3 3.2.1 Client countries .......................................................................... 37 3.2.2 World Bank, International Finance Corporation and Global Environment Facility .............................................................................................. 37 3.2.3 Donors, OECD, OECD Countries and other Development Banks ......... 38 3.2.4 Other partners, including research, development and conservation NGOs, private sector........................................................................... 39 3.3 Building on lessons learned: work program scope and detail .................. 39 3.3.1 Scope for Marine Fisheries ........................................................... 39 3.3.2 Scope for Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries .................................... 40 3.3.3 Scope for Fisheries and Aquaculture in Global Themes – Climate Change and Food Security............................................................................... 41 3.3.4 Fisheries Needs a World Bank Framework for Action ........................ 41 3.4 Institutional framework..................................................................... 43 3.4.1 Locating PROFISH in the World Bank:............................................ 43 3.4.2 Governance of PROFISH .............................................................. 44 3.4.3 Donors and potential donors ........................................................ 45 3.4.4 Partners.................................................................................... 46 3.4.5 PROFISH Annual Work Program .................................................... 47 3.4.6 PROFISH unit staffing and support groups...................................... 48 3.4.7 Funding .................................................................................... 51 3.5 Indicators to measure the progress of PROFISH ................................... 52 Table 3: Suggested Indicators of Performance ........................................ 52 3.6 Risks.............................................................................................. 53 3.6.1 Risks to the World Bank .............................................................. 53 3.6.2 Risks Facing PROFISH ................................................................. 54 3.6.3 Risks Facing Partners .................................................................. 54 Annex A: Objectives of the Evaluation and Forward Assessment................... 55 Annex B: Evaluation Team Members ........................................................ 57 Annex C: Background Materials Made Available to the Evaluation Team......... 59 Annex D: List of Interviewees ................................................................. 64 Annex E: PROFISH Evaluation: List of Interview Questions .......................... 67 Annex F: Extract from the Global Programs and Partnerships (GPP) Pilot Quality at Entry Assessment Questionnaire Panel Report (2006) ............................. 68 Annex G: Blockages to Fisheries Reform ................................................... 69 Annex H: Performance Reference: PROFISH concept Note 2005 and Logframe73 Annex I: PROFISH Budget FY2005 to FY2009 ............................................ 76 Annex J: PROFISH Activity List FY2009-01-15 ........................................... 77 Annex K: Acronyms ............................................................................... 79 PROFISH Evaluation Report: Reforming Fisheries and Aquaculture for Global Benefits 4 SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS In September 2008, the World Bank commissioned an independent team to evaluate and assess the future role of PROFISH, the Global Program on Fisheries. The Evaluation Team found that PROFISH, since its inception in 2005, had made excellent progress in raising World Bank, bilateral donor and client country awareness of fisheries development needs, contributed fisheries and aquaculture content to global development products and assisted World Bank country/regional operations. In addition to World Bank funds, PROFISH attracted trust funds from 7 agencies and started a recovery in World Bank fisheries support following a decline that began in the late 1980s due to uncertainty over how to achieve sustainable fisheries. PROFISH helped re-establish the World Bank’s credibility in fisheries and revealed a large, pent-up demand for fisheries expertise. The Evaluation Team concluded that fisheries can be reformed to achieve multiple objectives by (1) focusing on governance and institutions, (2) including fisheries in the mainstream development agendas and in global themes such as food security and climate change, and (3) applying the key operational tools of problem diagnosis, sequenced interventions and implementation experience and learning. PROFISH is an innovative partnership serviced by a program team located in the World Bank’s Agricultural and Rural Development department (ARD) and with links to the Environment department (ENV). The small program team (3 senior and 2 junior/support staff) has performed at a high level but, confronted by many requests and lacking clear priorities, has tended to spread itself thinly. The Evaluation Team is convinced that PROFISH should be continued and strengthened. This report recommends how to grow PROFISH into a strategic development partnership with a clear vision, mission and strategy. A 3-5 year rolling Framework for Action is proposed, focused on the public good challenges of fisheries and aquaculture governance and a strong operational bias towards the ‘how to’ practice of achieving economic, social and environmentally sustainable
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