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Terminal evaluation of the areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) Tuna project, part of the "Global sustainable fisheries management and biodiversity conservation in ABNJ"

Project code: GCP/GLO/365/GFF GEF ID: 4581

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 105 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-133306-8

Series title Project Evaluation Series

Series number sep/20

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) comprise 40 percent of the earth’s surface, covering 64 percent of the surface of the ocean and 95 percent of its volume. The Common Oceans ABNJ Programme (2014-2019) was implemented by FAO as a concerted effort to bring stakeholders to work together to manage and conserve the world’s common oceans. The ABNJ Tuna project, one component of the Common Oceans ABNJ Programme, promoted important transformational changes in the management practices of tuna fisheries, improving their sustainability, strengthening Marine Stewardship Council capabilities of tuna regional fisheries management organizations (t-RFMOs) and their members, and significantly reducing their impact on biodiversity. The project generated knowledge but lacked a structured mechanism and strategy to harvest and disseminate it. Similarly to the programme level evaluation report, the programmatic approach component, the partnership framework, as well as how to foster synergies among projects and capitalization of knowledge management should be strengthened.

Management response

Annex 1. Terms of Reference

Annex 2. Evaluation matrix and evaluation questions by area of analysis

Annex 3. Case study: Certificate IV Fisheries Enforcement and Compliance

Annex 4. Reconstructed theory of change for the ABNJ Tuna Project

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​FAO. 2020. Terminal evaluation of the areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) Tuna project, part of the "Global sustainable fisheries management and biodiversity conservation ABNJ". Project Evaluation Series, 09/2020. Rome. 

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