The Project is to improve food security and reduce poverty, especially in rural areas. The Project will contribute to achieving this goal by promoting market driven and sustainable management of inland fisheries and aquaculture through resource development and quality improvement

The Project will support aquatic resource development and quality improvement to enhance food security and reduce poverty, especially in rural areas. Project interventions will encourage community-based and private-sector-led development of the sub-sector. The focus of the Project will be to develop and demonstrate models that can be easily replicated by community-based organizations and by private entrepreneurs. With this in view, the project design, centres around the development of small-scale, low cost infrastructure at the community level, and supporting entrepreneurship development by providing access to (i) technology, (ii) technical expertise, (iii) information systems, (iv) credit, and (v) extension services. Through institutional strengthening activities, the project will assist the National Aquaculture Development Authority (NAQDA) to build its technical and financial capacity to support these developments, and to become a financially self-sustaining organization.