"Building climate resilience of coastal communities, ecosystems and small scale fishers through implementing community and ecosystem based adaptation activities and diversifying livelihoods" is a project by WWF South Africa (https://www.wwf.org.za/our_work/water/), with the support of the Government of Flanders, in partnership with Department of Environmental Affairs. WWF-SA initiated the project in response to declining fish catches in the Kogelberg region. Local fishers have cited the change in coastal climatic conditions as one of the causes. This impacts them directly in terms of food security and livelihoods, since they sell the fish to generate income.

WWF-SA is collaborating with ABALOBI (http://abalobi.info/) to assist these fishers by monitoring and recording their catches and then linking them directly to the market via a mobile application. What makes the project even more interesting is that fishers also capture their local ecological knowledge as well as their fishing activities and climatic conditions on the day they go out fishing. This information allows them to co-develop resilience-building projects in their communities, effectively making them active stewards of the marine resources on which they depend.