The Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) spans some 30 degrees of latitude, extending from Angola's Cabinda Province in the north, to just east of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is one of the world's richest marine ecosystems and supports an abundance of life, sustaining both artisanal and large-scale fishery activities which contribute to local food security and employment for hundreds of thousands of people in areas of limited alternatives; these fisheries activities serve as important drivers of economic development. In addition to fisheries, non-living marine resources exploitation is socially and economically important with total marine goods extraction worth some US$260 billion per annum. The GEF co-funded Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) Programme, for which planning discussions commenced by the mid-1990s, ran effectively from 2002 to 2008 and promoted the integrated management and sustainable use of marine resources of the BCLME. Over the past years, BCLME project has accomplished several achievements in the three countries (Angola, Namibia and South Africa) among which the establishment of BCC and the signing of the convention can be mentioned. This proposed project is therefore initiated to build on the strong political commitment of the three countries to sustainable management of the BCLME and on the past GEF investment in the region, the proposed project aims to 1) promote further policy, legal, institutional and management reform at both regional and national level to implement SAP and Convention; 2) promote the engagement of communities as well as private sectors in stress reduction demonstration activities and in the implementation of SAP and Conventions; and 3) strengthen institutional and human capacity building through, among other means, south-south cooperation.