| COUNTRY | IDENTIFICATION OF PRIORITIES | SEQ. NO. | DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES | TYPE OF PRIORITY | IMPLEMENTATION BY | ESTIMATED COST (in US$) | ASSISTANCE NEEDED | |
| FINANCIAL | TECHNICAL | |||||||
| URT | Department of Fisheries and donors | 1. | Extension service: Provide means to make periodic visits | Short term | Dept of Fisheries; Regional administration | Yes | (Yes) | |
| 2. | Increase food production: Improve pond culture practices (intensification, new species, integrated culture, improved seed supplies) | Short term | Dept of Fisheries; Regional administration | Yes | (Yes) | |||
| 3. | Expand extension services: Increase operating funds, train high-level officers | Medium term | Dept of Fisheries; Regional administration | Yes | (Yes) | |||
| 4. | Increase income of farmers: Commercialize mariculture, provide credit, promote integrated fish farming | Medium term | Dept of Fisheries; Regional administration | Yes | (Yes) | |||
| 5. | Direct coordination of national aquaculture plans (centralization) | Medium term | Dept of Fisheries | No | No | |||
| 6. | Create job opportunities in rural areas: Fish farming in schools, commercial fish farming | Medium term | Dept of Fisheries | No | No | |||
| 7. | Improve statistical data collection: Train field staff, create awareness of importance among farmers | Medium term | Dept of Fisheries; Regional administration | Yes | No | |||
| MLW | National Aquaculture Coordination Committee and MFD | 1. | Encourage integrated aquaculture systems: Farmers are relatively better off with diversified production | Short term | CNRFFP, MAGFAD | Yes | Yes | |
| 2. | Increase awareness of fish farming techniques through extension | Short term | MAGFAD | Yes | (No) | |||
| 3. | Improve quality/quantity of extension staff | Medium term | MFD, SADC | Yes | Yes | |||
| 4. | Increase participation by women: They are the main people involved in farming | Short term | MAGFAD | Yes | Yes | |||
| 5. | Increase the number of fish farmers | Short term | MAGFAD, CNRFFP | Yes | (No) | |||
| 6. | Enhance fish production from SWRs through research, demonstration and advice to communities and estates | Short and Medium term | CNRFFP, FAO/ALCOM, World Bank, MAGFAD | Yes | Yes | |||
| ZAM | DoF in Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries | 1. | Fish seed production: - Government fish farms - private producers | Short term | DoF, JICA, FAO/ALCOM, NORAD | Yes | Yes | |
| 2. | Effective extension services: - trained staff - operating funds - technical support units - collaboration with other extension service | Medium term | DoF and MAFF sections; FAO/ALCOM | Yes | Yes | |||
| 3. | Commercial-scale fish farming | Short term | Private investors | Yes | Yes | |||
| ZIM | Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Resettlement + Ministry of Environment and Tourism | 1. | Rehabilitate aquaculture infrastructure (Henderson Fish Farm) as basis for fingerling production and research | Short term | Govt and FAO | Yes | Yes | |
| 2. | Support rural aquaculture extension | Short term | Govt and FAO | Yes | Yes | |||
| 3. | High-level training in aquaculture | Medium term | Government | Yes | No | |||
| 4. | Develop local marketing mechanisms for cultured fish products | Medium term | Govt and private | No | No | |||
