Our Jim McCafferty was recently contracted as an international fisheries and aquaculture expert as part of the FAO’s Blue Transformation Programme in the Western Indian Ocean Region.

Advance Africa has been contracted by Liberia’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA), as part of the World Bank-funded Liberia Sustainable Management of Fisheries Project (LSMFP), to support the sustainable development of the country's fisheries and aquaculture sectors.

Advance Africa has been contracted by Karingani Game Reserve to develop a fit-for-purpose fisheries management framework for Massingir Dam, founded on the principles of social, ecological, and economic sustainability.

Our Professor Tom Hecht was contracted by the Seychelles Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy to review the Fisheries Sector Policy and Strategy (2019), as part of the World Bank-funded Third South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and Shared Growth Project (SWIOFish3).

Our James McCafferty was appointed by the FAO’s Subregional office for Southern Africa to formulate fisheries and aquaculture fact sheets and policy briefs for 13 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States.

Our James McCafferty was appointed by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat to prepare a final report on progress in implementation of the SADC Protocol on Fisheries and development of policy briefs and related advocacy materials. This included the development of (i) a report on domestication and implementation of the Protocol on Fisheries; and (ii) a policy brief to further promote domestication and implementation of the Protocol on Fisheries, and related advocacy materials in the form of factsheets and success stories.

Advance Africa were appointed by the FAO to support a project aimed at increasing resilience to climate change in the fishery sector of southern Lake Malawi and Lake Malombe.

The Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the FAO contracted our senior consultant Jim McCafferty to conduct a South African case study to inform the chapter on Disasters and Climate change Impacts on the Fisheries and Aquaculture sector for the flagship publication “Report on the impact of disasters and climate change in agriculture and food security”.