Overall objective / activities to be implemented under the grant:?A key element of SGP?s implementation in OP7 is the development of landscape/seascape approaches within countries to better focus grant-making and promote strategic programming and clustering of small grant projects with the aim to achieve greater impact and lead to synergies and opportunities for scaling up. This process is to undertake a preparatory process to develop its strategy for OP7. The key steps in this preparatory process and the key deliverables expected are:

Step 1. OP7 Country Programme Strategy consultations and Scoping exercise
This process will include communications, outreach and capacity development about OP7 and its strategic initiatives; Multi-stakeholder consultations; Selection of the landscape/seascape area(s) of focus; and Grant-making outside the selected landscape/seascape area(s).

Step 2. Selected Landscape/Seascape Baseline Assessment
The Landscape/Seascape Baseline Assessment process will be guided by the CPS Consultation and Scoping Exercise. The objective of the baseline assessment is to assist SGP National Coordinators and National Steering Committees a) to elaborate a landscape/seascape-wide baseline, b) to develop a
landscape/seascape strategy that will guide grant-making with typology of projects proposed, and sets of indicators for selected SGP strategic initiatives identified.

Step 3. Country Programme Strategy Finalization
A draft of the complete CPS will be produced for review and the final draft of the CPS which will then be widely shared and posted online for public information.