The support is based in a trilateral agreement between Iceland, Mozambique and Norway. The immediate objective of the programme is to strengthen the fisheries administration in capacity and competence in the area of promoting the development and management of the fisheries and of aquaculture, in order to achieve sustainable and viable use of aquatic resources and the part of private operators and communities of fishermen and of fish farmers directly dependent on fishing and on aquaculture.

The Programme is structured according to the functional arrangement of the public Fisheries administration, that is, according to the policy, fisheries management and development promotion components. For each of these components an objective is defined and a coordinating entity identified. For their part, the components "Fisheries management" and “Promotion of development of fisheries produces for domestic consumption" are structured by sub-components identified by the institutions belonging to the functional components of the fisheries administration system. Each of these institutions is responsible for programme implementation.

- The objective of the Ministry of Fisheries component is to achieve greater capacity to formulate policies and strategies, make proposals for fisheries legislation, formulate plans and monitor them, as well as coordinate their implementation internally and with other economic and social sectors..

- The objective of the Fisheries Management component is to achieve greater capacity to assess the state of exploitation of the resources and of the fisheries, to make recommendations, to convert them into management measures and to impose compliance with the fisheries laws and regulations in general.

- The objective of the Development of the production of fisheries produce intended for domestic consumption component is to assist the Fisheries Administration to achieve greater capacity to promote the development of food production intended for domestic consumption (commercial artisanal fishing, use of the shrimp by-catch and small scale aquaculture).

- The objective of the Cross-cutting Questions component is to achieve greater capacity in the fisheries sector to deal with the spread of HIV/AIDS, to apply good governance practices, and to contribute towards greater gender equity and environmental sustainability.