MVUVICARD (fishers ID card) is a SMARTID portal that used smartID coupled with portable iometric readers of registered fisherfolk in Kenyas Lamu county ( a Unicef world heritage sit) in each Beach management unit (BMU) for easy, rapid Identification & Verification.
Each smartID carries image, biodata, biometrics on both the face of the card an in the memory of the card. This enables fast and efficient identification of genuine fisher by the marine police and border patrol. enhaces security, provides ID and dignity to the fisher and wards of counterterrorism threat in the Lamu Archipelago.
Each Fisher belngs to a BMU and they vet each other. Each Marine vessel will be operated by licensed and SmartIDd fisher in compliance with the fisheries act. Less friction with law enforcers who can verify each vessel and fishers at sea. Each BMU will now create and keep records of the haul from each vessel and attribute it to the correct fisher and hence he reaps the proper benefits of the catch. These records will improve planning, commerce and help protect marine life and coral by study of the data it will show overfishing, size, depletion and if the ingests contain garbage.
Rather than a use control measure, the SmartID is an enablement feature that uses data for safety, security , commerce and preservation.
We maintain a comprehensive cloud based database with information syncronised from individual BMUs via the internet and utilised by the fisheries department to better oversee these distant ports from a single window.
Using BMU (beach co-op) clusters makes for easy management, information dissemination, the SmartID is small, unobtrusive and does not encumber the user and it provides a multiplicity of data that is in keeping with GDPR regulations protecting privacy of the individual while at the same time providing usable data.
CAD Creations is an IT firm with nearly 2 decades experience in large or big data system having previously developed for Kickstart International, Women empowerment Link, Political parties and equity bank SACCO.
Progress reports
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
Type of commitment
SHIPPING
- Management of ship-based pollution and/or port waste management
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
Type of commitment
- Community or Locally Managed Marine Areas
- Integrated Coastal Management
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
Type of commitment
- Compliance, monitoring and enforcement
- Reduction and elimination fishing practices and gear that destroy/degrade marine habitat
- Science-based fisheries management plans
- Ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF)
- Reduction of fisheries by-catch and product waste/losses
- Eco-labelling, traceability, certification programmes
- Market-based instruments (Individually Traded Quotas, Vessel Day Schemes, etc.)
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
Type of commitment
- Locally or community managed marine areas
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
Type of commitment
- Economic benefits from sustainable fisheries
- Economic benefits from sustainable aquaculture/mariculture
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
Type of commitment
- Legal/policy/institutional measures
- Access to market-based instruments
- Transfer of fishing technology
- Access to coastal fishing grounds
- Access and capacity building for eco-labelling and traceability systems
- Community empowerment for fisheries management
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of The Future We Want
Type of commitment
- Activities to raise awareness of the comprehensive legal and policy framework for the sustainable development of oceans and seas, in particular UNCLOS, its Implementing Agreements and other relevant ocean-related instruments and promote their effective im
- Activities to develop the capacity of States towards broader participation in and effective implementation of UNCLOS and its implementing Agreements
- Strengthening ocean governance, for example through the development of a national ocean policy or regional ocean policy
- Development of necessary infrastructure and/or enforcement capabilities to comply with international law, as reflected in UNCLOS and as complemented by other ocean-related instruments
Financing (in USD)
90,000 USD
Staff / Technical expertise
ICT staff, designers, programmers, database administrators, field enumerators and photographers
In-kind contribution
Information and knowledge transfer and training
Other, please specify
using BMU resources for community based approach and govt linkages at county and national govt level
August/2018
