This Medium Size Project (MSP) Grant from the GEF is to support a Strategic Partnership of stakeholders in the Africa region, led by the African Union, to advise a GEF Partnership Investment Fund that was approved by the GEF Council in 2005 to co-finance projects aimed at helping African countries meet the fisheries and poverty reduction targets set at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). As such, this MSP would help ensure that the projects proposed for support by the already existing Investment Fund reflect the priorities of the region, as well as help promote lessons learned from the individual projects throughout the region.