Then again...in the defense of MAC workers;
They were sab
atoged from day-one by the rules of engagement put forth from the outset of the program.
The funders have their agenda to be sure and it simply doesn't jive with the rest of the people involved.[ except in theory ]
Poor fisherman have a hard time getting with a program that has everyones reward in mind but theirs.
GMAD, funder mandates and resource management groups etc. all have a stake and a payday in this drama...but since the fisherman have been approached all wrong they have not embraced it as a result.
Ironically, done right, the fisherman are the easiest to get to play ball.
[As is proven by every commercial project to set up collecting stations all over the world
all the time]
They are the easiest to show immediate benefit to and the easiest to enlist in training programs that they agree enhance their livlihoods.
But....sandbagging the conversion process and sabatoging field efforts with unattractive or impossible to comply with add-ons, requirements and paperwork have insured that no one will get their agenda satisfied.
No one.
So with all the intellect at work at MAC, CCIF, MAMTI, REEFCHECK etc. etc. you'd figure that at some point they might start looking at their own failed year in and year out strategies and wonder how long will they continue to beat heads against the wall approaching the villages via the wrong mindset.
Enough free and constructive advice.
Steve
