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Requesting country:
PERU
Request title:
Technical assistance and capacity-building to develop a sectoral climate
change response strategy for fishing and aquaculture – Peru.
Contact information:
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organization that the request originates from, if different from the National Designated Entity (NDE).}
National Designated Entity
Request Applicant
Contact person:
Amelia Díaz Pabló
ROSA FRANCISCA ZAVALA CORREA
Position:
Executive President
Director General
Organization:
SENAMHI (National Meteorology
and Hydrology Office)
MINISTRY OF PRODUCTION –
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR
SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES
Phone:
614 1414
Office: (051) 6162222
Mobile:
Fax:
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E-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Postal address:
Jr. Cahuide 721 Jesús María, Lima
Av. Guardia Civil 834- 3er piso.
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Technology Needs Assessment (TNA):
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Geographical Focus:
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Theme:
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Adaptation to climate change
Mitigation to climate change
Combination of adaptation and mitigation to climate change
Sectors:
Sector: Fisheries, planning and governance
Problem statement (up to one page):
The Strategic Diagnosis of the Peruvian Fisheries Sector conducted in 2014 pinpointed the negative
impact of oceanographic phenomena, such as El Niño and La Niña, as being a threat to the fisheries
sector. These phenomena have a worldwide impact on the climate and can have dramatic consequences
in terms of generating excess water or causing water scarcity (flooding, drought, cyclones and fires),
which significantly affects farming, fishing, tourism, health, hydropower production and the economy
of the countries’ populations. The diagnosis also identifies climate change as another threat, which
could affect the biomass of species such as anchovies, due to species migration and/or the impact it
might have on reproductive cycles (FAO, 2009). The World Bank has also warned about the impact of
climate change, as it changes the distribution of marine species, thus affecting biological processes, as
well as fishing and aquaculture, which rely on these processes. Climate change is altering the
temperature and acidity of oceans, and the patterns and intensity of tropical cyclones. Fishermen, fish
farmers and inhabitants of coastal areas will feel the full force of climate change in terms of less stable
livelihoods, changes in fish availability and quality for their diets, and increased risks to their health
and the safety of their homes.
In Peru, per capita annual fish consumption stands at an average of 20-30 kg and the Ministry of
Production has been encouraging people to eat fish via the nationwide ‘A comer pescado’ (Let’s eat
fish) programme (Sofía Report – The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2014). The fisheries
sector is one of the fastest growing animal-derived foodstuff production sectors: in the coming decade,
the total production of capture fisheries and aquaculture will exceed that of beef, pork and poultry.
Non-traditional fish exports amounted to US$ 95 million in January 2014; a significant 38.9 per cent
increase on January 2013. As such, the sector accounted for 11 per cent of non-traditional exports and
3 per cent of total exports for the period under analysis (PromPerú – Peru’s Tourism and Exports
Promotion Board, 2014).
According to the 2012 Census of Traditional Fishing in the marine environment, there are a total of
44,161 fishermen, 12,398 ship owners, 16,045 fishing boats, 116 landing stages and 184 shipyards
across Peru. Traditional small-scale fishing is one of the areas most vulnerable to climate change
within the fisheries sector. Traditional fishing is undertaken by boats with hold capacity of up to
32.6m³. These boats catch fish primarily found along the country’s coastline, with the number of
species estimated at 220. This type of fishing is based in roughly 200 fishing coves located along the
coast of Peru and the fish caught is mainly for direct fresh human consumption (FAO, 2010). Most of
those involved in this subsector do not have a high school education and primary processing is
performed primarily by women.
Compared with the sheer scale of commercial fishing, traditional fishing is a much smaller subsector,
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although its economic importance has been growing in recent years. The traditional sector makes a
significant contribution to the economy and supplies most of the fresh fish on the market. This subsector
is increasingly contributing to sector exports, supplying both the canned and frozen seafood industry
(UNDP, UNDP draft paper, Governments of Chile and Peru, summary version1).
The Ministry of Production has recently begun to include the issue of climate change in some
institutional management instruments,2 albeit only partially. Furthermore, the ministry does not have a
strategic document containing guidelines to promote adaptation and emissions management initiatives
that are linked to subnational priorities and Peru’s international commitments within the context of
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (iNDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The Ministry of Production created the Directorate-General for Sustainable Fisheries (DGSP) in
2012. 3 The DGSP’s organizational structure makes it the main agency for the Climate Change
Coordination Department, whose remit includes promoting fishing and aquaculture guidelines,
initiatives and instruments to tackle climate change. The DGSP is a relatively new entity and requires
staff capacity-building on climate change. This will enable the directorate to put forward a regulatory
framework that considers the impacts and guidelines, in order to set down climate change adaptation
measures for fishing and aquaculture in Peru.
One of the DGSP’s key short-term deliverables is devising the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy
for Tackling Climate Change,4 which will generate evidence of the impact of climate change on the
sector and will enable response initiatives to be designed in line with the iNDCs and sector priorities.
The vulnerability assessment is currently under way;5 however, this is not a nationwide assessment and
it does not cover the topics that would provide comprehensive knowledge of the sector’s situation.
Equally, no analysis of the sector’s future vulnerability to climate change is under way. In this respect,
the Climate Change Working Group 6 , which has been tasked with this process, needs technical
capacity-building in this area in order to more effectively incorporate the assessment and monitoring
variables needed to design the aforementioned strategy.
Past and ongoing efforts (up to half a page):
The Peruvian State is still in the initial stages of addressing the impact of climate change on the sector.
Peru is currently implementing the GEF-UNDP (Global Environment Facility–United Nations
Development Programme) 2011-2016 project entitled ‘Towards Ecosystem Management of the
Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem (HCLME)’, a joint Peru-Chile project. The project aims to
progress the ecosystem-based, sustainable and resilient management of the Humboldt Current, thereby
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http://humboldt.iwlearn.org/es/hclme-home-es/ResumenProyectoHCLMEVolpdf.pdf
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The 2012-2016 Multiannual Sector Strategic Plan for the Production Sector (PESEM) identifies the following threats to the fisheries
sector: 1) The negative impact of climate change and oceanographic changes and 2) The negative impact of other forms of pressure on the
ecosystem and on the fishing and fish farming industries. The 2015 update of the plan (2016-2021) maintained climate change as an issue to
be tackled as part of the sustainability priority, stating that the fisheries sector needs to bolstered using an approach based on sustainable
development.
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Ministerial Decree 343-2012-PE
Ministerial decree 343-2012-PRODUCE
5 The Assessment of the Sector’s Current Vulnerability to Climate Change analyses aquaculture, traditional and commercial fishing, and
focuses on the regions of Puno, Ica, Ancash and Piura.
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Ministerial decree 277-2013-PRODUCE: the working group (CCWG) tasked with devising the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the
Fishing and Aquaculture Sector comprises representatives of the following agencies: the Vice-Ministerial Fishing and Aquaculture Office
(DPVA), the Directorate-General for Fisheries Development and Policies (DGP), the Directorate-General for Fishing and Production for
Direct Human Consumption (DGCHD), the Directorate-General for Fishing and Production for Indirect Human Consumption (DGCHI) and
the Directorate-General for Sustainable Fisheries (DGSP), alongside IMARPE (Peru’s Marine Research Institute).
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safeguarding biological integrity and diversity and ecosystem services for present and future
generations, despite the changing climatic and social pressures. The project will bolster governance
and the sustainable use of living marine resources and ecosystem services.
The national contributions (the iNDCs) submitted by Peru to the UNFCCC in 2015 include the fisheries
sector in the adaptation contributions, in order to take initiatives to protect the sector and its
contribution to GDP, and also to target the most vulnerable groups (traditional fishermen). The
fisheries sector iNDC has a medium-term objective but still needs to be developed by the sector in
conjunction with its Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate Change and sector
management tools.
At the institutional level, the Ministry of Production has focused on completing the baseline documents
so that the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate Change can be developed. In
2015, a specialized consultant was hired to support the process. However, the climate change priority
indicators and variables for the sector have still not been fully analysed and integrated, while
implementation of the climate change-based approach across the board in the sector’s institutional
budget and strategic planning is still pending.
The technical assistance requested from the CTCN is highly relevant in this context for the development
of climate change management instruments for Peru’s fishing and aquaculture sector. The country
needs a strategic planning and public policy expert with experience of developing climate change
management instruments for the fishing and aquaculture sector at the national level to be involved and
provide guidance. The participation of an expert will help more effectively identify the set of assessment
variables and planning instruments, methods and procedures which will lead to the development of the
Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate Change, and its alignment with national
and subnational planning and Peru’s international commitments (iNDCs).
Likewise, the country needs the expert to build and develop the technical capacity of the staff involved
in the Ministry of Production’s Climate Change Working Group, in order to bolster their involvement
and leadership role in: 1) developing the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate
Change, 2) successfully integrating a climate change-based approach into sector management
instruments at the three levels of government and 3) designing proposals and financial mechanisms
involved in rolling out the proposals identified by this sector-based management instrument.
Assistance requested (up to one page):
The following components reflect the technical needs identified in this request. However, we are well
aware that the CTCN only offers technical assistance for 12 months with a maximum budget of US$
250,000, which may mean that the planned activities need to be prioritized/fine-tuned.
1. Specialized technical guidance and advice to help with developing the Fishing and Aquaculture
Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate Change and implementing the climate change-based
approach across the board in institutional management and in line with Peru’s climate change
contributions (iNDCs) and national priorities.
2. Building the capacity of members of the Climate Change Working Group, the staff in the
Directorate-General for Sustainable Fisheries and other agencies at the three levels of
government in the Ministry of Production, to develop the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector
Strategy for Tackling Climate Change.
3. Building the capacity of members of the Climate Change Working Group and the staff in the
Directorate-General for Sustainable Fisheries to develop a proposal for financial mechanisms
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to implement the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate Change.
Expected benefits (up to half a page):
1. The involvement of the CTCN expert will help lay the foundations for fostering sustainable
production in Peru’s fishing and aquaculture sector by creating a more robust framework of
sectoral policies promoting the development of fishing and aquaculture in the country at the
three levels of government. These policies will cover “risk management and reducing the
impact of climate change on the fishing and aquaculture sector”, as well as compliance with
international commitments (iNDCs), thereby improving the adaptive capacity of the
stakeholders linked to the sector, ecosystems and ecosystem services.
2. Technical assistance in order to build the capacity of the Climate Change Working Group and
of the staff in the Ministry of Production’s Directorate-General for Sustainable Fisheries,
enabling an overarching policy instrument to be formulated that properly addresses climate
change. The trained staff will pass on their knowledge, enabling subnational governments’
knowledge of climate change at the sector level to be appropriately enhanced.
3. Technical assistance to develop a proposal for financial mechanisms that enables projects with
a focus on climate change to be implemented in the fishing and aquaculture industries at the
three levels of government. This will make it possible to access and coordinate international
sources of funding and develop complementary financial mechanisms and instruments at the
national level, to enable the strategy to be implemented.
Within one year, the deliverables will enable Peru to develop a Fishing and Aquaculture Sector
Strategy for Tackling Climate Change. This strategy will promote the implementation of climate
change adaptation and management measures that will benefit the marine ecosystems, traditional
fishermen and communities that earn a living from fishing. Issues addressed by the strategy
include:
- Reducing fishing pressure by improving fishing gear selectivity.
- Implementing the ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approach in fisheries and
aquaculture management as a climate change adaptation measure. The
management of MPAs (Marine Protected Areas) is relevant, given the nature of
climate change.
- Accessing high-value markets and improving product value (fishery certification,
improving product quality for direct human consumption, and new technologies),
taking climate-change risk management into account.
- Diversifying economic activities (eco-tourism, aquaculture, etc.) as a means of
adapting to climate change.
- Bio-oceanographic and modelled monitoring to predict changes in the availability
of resources in light of future climate change scenarios.
- Strengthening traditional fishing communities and organizations to involve them in
local management of climate change and help them take advantage of market
opportunities and diversify their productive activities.
Post-technical assistance plans (up to half a page):
The results of the technical training and assistance delivered by the CTCN to the Ministry of
Production will lead to the sector having a Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling
Climate Change. It will also build the sector’s capacity regarding climate change, which will support
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ongoing efforts to develop a comprehensive climate change management policy at the sectoral and
multisectoral levels, in coordination with strategic sectoral planning. This will guarantee the
sustainability of the intervention, as well as establishing the sector’s contribution to the country’s
iNDCs.
Specific follow-up initiatives are as follows:
 Building the capacity of officials and authorities at the subnational level in “the field of climate
change and its impact on the fishing and aquaculture industries, and developing and
implementing climate change management instruments in the sector” to support the
implementation of the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate Change.
 Technical assistance for subnational government agencies involved in fisheries in order to
identify climate change adaptation initiatives to be implemented via public and private sector
investment projects, under the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate
Change and Regional Climate Change Strategies.
 Agreements with strategic stakeholders from the national level and subnational governments to
promote the development of financial proposals and mechanisms designed to implement the
Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate Change.
Key stakeholders:
{Please list in the table below the main stakeholders who will be involved in the implementation of the
requested CTCN technical assistance, and what their role will be in supporting the assistance (for
example, government agencies and ministries, academic institutions and universities, private sector,
community organizations, civil society, etc.). Please indicate what organization(s) will be the main/lead
counterpart(s) of CTCN experts at national level, in addition to the NDE.}
Stakeholder
Ministry of Production – DirectorateGeneral for Sustainable Fisheries (DGSP)
Role to support the implementation of the assistance
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26 regional governments via their Regional
Production Departments
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Peru’s Marine Research Institute (IMARPE)
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Associations of Traditional Fishermen
Organizes and facilitates so that the CTCN’s
support is implemented in accordance with the set
schedule and plan.
The ministry’s directorate is responsible at the
national level for the sustainable development of
fishing and aquaculture within the context of
climate change.
Supporting
the
Directorate-General
for
Sustainable Fisheries’ initiative and establishing it
as a policy and priority.
Coordinating with traditional fishermen’s and fish
farmers’ associations to take part in the technical
assistance process if required.
Strategic partners for the roll-out of planned
activities; these regional departments provide
financial and human resources.
Providing support for technical assistance via its
nationwide network of laboratories.
Providing supporting information.
The associations will support the initiative and are
amenable to working together and in coordination
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Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP)
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Universities
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National Meteorology
Service (SENAMHI)
and
Hydrology
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with all the stakeholders.
Taking part in training activities, workshops,
initiative approval and consensus-building events.
Providing support for the technical assistance via
its decentralized units in the Peruvian Amazon.
Providing supporting information.
Universities with biological sciences, fisheries
sciences or similar academic courses.
Providing supporting information.
Recording
and
supplying
climatic
and
hydrological information for the region.
Providing regionalized future climate scenarios.
Providing supporting information.
Ministry of the Environment (Ministerio del
Medioambiente, MINAM)
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Providing guidelines, guides and technical
assistance to incorporate climate change into
public management at the three levels of
government.
Ministry of Economy and Finance
(Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas, MEF)
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Providing guidelines, guides and technical
assistance for the development of SNIP (National
Public Investment System) projects incorporating
risk management and climate change adaptation.
Alignment with national priorities (up to half a page):
Documents:
 Peru’s Bicentenary Plan - page 245, Climate Change
 National Climate Change Strategy - page 9, The importance of the climate change strategy's
importance for the future of Peru (first paragraph)
 National contributions to the UNFCCC - page 8, Adaptation priorities
 The Ministry of Production’s 2016-2021 Sectoral Strategic Plan - page 54, Sustainability.
Strategic objective: a sustainable development-based approach to bolstering the fishing
industry
 Concerted regional development plans of 26 regional governments. See Strategic Areas
section.
 Official figures from INEI (Peru’s statistics agency).
Development of the request (up to half a page):
The initiative was managed by SENAMHI (NDE for the CTCN) via the Ministry of the Environment’s
General Directorate of Climate Change, Desertification and Water Resources (DGCCDRH).
Coordination meetings were held in order to identify the features and scope of the request. These were
attended by representatives of the Ministry of Production (DGSP) and the Ministry of the Environment
(DGCCDRH). Joint feedback and technical review meetings were also held.
The NDE – SENAMHI – is a strategic partner in terms of supplying and providing access to
information about future climate scenarios, which is key to modelling the future of marine-coastal
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ecosystems and Andean and Amazonian aquatic ecosystems. This constitutes baseline information for
the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate Change assessment, research and
ongoing monitoring of the environmental conditions for fishing and aquaculture sector policy feedback
and updating processes.
Expected time frame
Peru is asking the CTCN to provide technical assistance as part of a 12-month process led by the
Ministry of Production’s Directorate-General for Sustainable Fisheries via its Climate Change
Coordination Department. By the end of this period, it is hoped that the Fishing and Aquaculture
Sector Strategy for Tackling Climate Change management instrument will have been devised and the
capacity of sector staff involved in the process will have been built.
Background documents:
Documents
 Peru’s Bicentenary Plan
http://www.ceplan.gob.pe/plan-bicentenario
 Strategic Diagnosis of the Peruvian Fisheries Sector
http://web.ua.es/es/giecryal/documentos/pesca-peru.pdf?noCache=1396567782720
 National Climate Change Strategy
http://www.minam.gob.pe/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ENCC-FINAL-250915-web.pdf
 National contributions to the UNFCCC
http://www.minam.gob.pe/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ESPA per centC3 per cent91OL.pdf
 The Ministry of Production’s 2012-2016 Multiannual Sectoral Strategic Plan
http://www2.produce.gob.pe/produce/pesem.pdf
 The Ministry of Production’s 2016-2021 Multiannual Sectoral Strategic Plan
http://www2.produce.gob.pe/dispositivos/publicaciones/rm435-2015-produce.pdf.
 Concerted
regional
development
plans
of
26
regional
governments.
http://www.ceplan.gob.pe/planes/planes-desarrollo-regional-concertado
 Official INEI figures.
https://www.inei.gob.pe/#url
Monitoring and impact of the assistance:
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By signing this request, I affirm that processes are in place in the country to monitor and evaluate
the assistance provided by the CTCN. I understand that these processes will be explicitly identified in
the Response Plan in collaboration with the CTC, and that they will be used in the country to monitor
the implementation of the CTCN assistance.
I understand that, after the completion of the requested assistance, I shall support CTCN efforts to
measure the success and effects of the support provided, including its short, medium and long-term
impacts in the country.
Signature:
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NDE name:
Amelia Díaz - SENAMHI
Date:
09-03-2016
Signature:
[signature]
AMELIA DÍAZ PABLÓ
Executive President of SENAMHI
THE COMPLETED FORM SHALL BE SENT TO THE [email protected]
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