Synopsis (short abstract)International organizations have spearheaded initiatives to increase the focus on gender issues. FAO’s The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2012 highlighted gender mainstreaming as a key issue facing the sector. These developments led the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department to decide to review its progress in advancing gender equality in fisheries and aquaculture development and to assess the extent to which policies, researches and action projects are oriented towards gender equali ty and women’s empowerment. With this aim, it conducted a stock-taking and planning exercise on mainstreaming gender in fisheries and aquaculture. The exercise identified challenges and gaps in the Department’s programmes and projects, becoming the basis for an action plan to achieve ten goals: formulating a gender mainstreaming strategy; improving the gender awareness and mainstreaming capacity of senior managers and staff; increasing attention on the persistent data and knowledge gap on gender in fisheries and aquaculture; bridging the gap between the relatively strong attention on gender in policy responses and the much weaker integration of gender analysis and perspectives; creating opportunities for regular sharing of information on gender activities; strengthening the focus on gender equality; improving the gender equality framework; strengthening the social science and gender expertise at all levels; strengthening management accountability for, and leadership in, promoting gende r equality and gender mainstreaming; and pursuing compliance and tracking on the Department’s contribution to achieving FAO’s gender equality objectives. This initiative provides the Department’s management with guidance upon
Cite this content as:
FAO. 2013.
Mainstreaming gender in
fisheries and aquaculture:
A stock-taking and
planning exercise. Final
report.
Rome. 55 pp.