The project will finance enabling infrastructure development for the Balochistan Fishery Value chain Development through:

1. Feasibility & Design Consulting Services – Jetties and Allied Infrastructure: Of the 8 notified landing sites on the coast, jetties and allied infrastructure are being constructed at 5 sites (2 by the GDA and 3 by the BCDA). PMU to initiate the procurement process for hiring of consultant to conduct feasibility studies of Jetties at Kund Malir, District Lasbela, Ormara, District Gwadar and Jiwani, District Gwadar along Allied Infrastructure which include, Chill room, Flake Ice Plant, Gear Storage, Repair Workshop & Fuel Facility, Office Accommodation, Public Toilet, External Road & Internal Road, other such facilities required for a modern fish landing jetty. The final selection of the jetties will be based on the feasibility and costing of the site. Technical assistance will be sought with regards to development of scope of work, tendering, evaluation of proposals and checking the final design. This quality assurance is extremely important to be sourced to avoid pitfalls in design suitability. The project will hire consultant as reviewer and checker of the feasibility and design of the consultant and provide services for supervision of the construction of jetties.
2. Construction of Jetties and Allied Infrastructure. Once the feasibility study becomes available, the PMU will initiate the procurement process for construction of jetties and allied infrastructure. The construction will be done in two phases: (i) first the jetties and break-water will be constructed. As soon as work on jetties starts, the allied infrastructure will be designed /customized per site, based on the need of the fisherfolks, and construction initiated.
3. Fish Market Access Roads:  The Project will support the development of 77 km of black top road links from the landing sites to the nearest factory and/or trunk roads to facilitate safe and time-efficient transport of the catch. currently, the fish catch is mainly carried using donkey carts, exposing fish to direct sunlight and other contaminating elements for one to two hours before reaching the factory. Provision of proper roads will encourage motorized efficient transportation, adding to quality, reducing wastage and allowing better returns for fisherfolks. Roads will be identified as part of Cooperative Business and Union Council Development plans and constructed by C&W on provincial farm to market standards in light of climate change.
4. Cooperative Landing Site Platforms: These platforms will be supported at landing sites with no jetty to ensure efficient cleaning, grading, weighing and transportation to the factory. The Project will initially support 8 such platforms at sites that have the maximum catch and number of beneficiary fisherfolks/boats. This platform will have small solar powered RO plants for water (to keep fish quality), a roof covering a concreate apron, a store (for the cooperative equipment), a garage and an office. A concrete path from boat landing site on the beach to the platform will be part of the package. The design will be done by GLLSP II and will be available by August 2023. The cost of this infrastructure on average will be around USD 100,000 per site/cooperative.
5.  Capacity building and institutional strengthening. The Department of Fisheries will be provided with support to formulate a comprehensive sustainable Fisheries Management Policy for the province and to develop and approve a new Fisheries Cooperative Law covering all landing sites in Gwadar and Lasbela under Balochistan Fisheries Policy and Regulatory Framework. The Department of Fisheries will also be supported to spearhead capacity building through its technical institute, undertake monitoring of the aquaculture resources, develop mechanisms for dredging through PPP (public private partnership) arrangements and to establish hatcheries in the coastal areas to serve the purpose of conservation through restocking.
6. Hatcheries and Innovative Aquaculture. The project will support the establishment of 1 hatchery along the coastline to run on a commercially viable pattern. In addition, private sector will be assessed to start net culture in both districts. If the private sector was found interested, they can initiate net culture on different sites in collaboration with cooperatives.

Implementation: Implementation of the component 2 will be directly managed by the PMU through a team of three professionals including a Business/Banking specialist, a Fish Marketing specialist and an Institutional expert, with Fisheries Department related aspects assigned to an Activity Manager and field team notified by the Department. The PMU Team will operate out of PIUs based in Gwadar or Lasbela. The team will be supported by 4 field enumerators/business Support Facilitators that will monitor and follow up with 11 cooperatives in the first phase (3 cooperatives per agent). 7 additional agents will be recruited after MTR. Each agent will have a motorbike a lump sum operational amount per month for internet/phone and POL. All procurement will be handled by the procurement unit of the PMU. The Team in charge of this component will be responsible for all the M&E aspects of the component. Each cooperative will provide monthly operational and financial reporting to the PMU. Every quarter, a meeting with the Department of Fisheries will be organized by GLLSP to report on the progress and difficulties of this component. The 77km roads to be constructed under these components would be identified by Fisheries Department in collaboration with PMU to be endorsed by Project Steering Committee considering the needs and priorities of fisherfolks and communities identified the roads in UCDPs.