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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetPromoting sustainable coastal fisheries 2024
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No results found.Coastal fisheries are vital to millions of people, providing healthy food and supporting livelihoods. The Coastal Fisheries Initiative (CFI) aims to make coastal fisheries more sustainable and inclusive, addressing the pressures unsustainable practices that affect marine environments, including precious ecosystems like mangroves and coral reefs. By enhancing policy frameworks, strengthening capacity, and fostering partnerships, CFI works to preserve marine resources, ensuring coastal fisheries continue contributing to food security and socio-economic development. In Cabo Verde, the CFI collaborated with the government to develop the first National Gender Strategy for Fisheries, ensuring women's inclusion in decision-making. The initiative also supported 526 fisherfolk across seven associations helping them register as public utilities, enabling access to local benefits. In Côte d’Ivoire, in partnership with the NGO Afrique Verte Environnement, the CFI restored 350 hectares of mangroves in Fresco and Sassandra. Local communities, especially women, were trained in mangrove planting techniques, with awareness campaigns highlighting mangroves' ecological importance. In Ecuador, the CFI worked with a cooperative of 65 artisanal mahi-mahi fishers to qualify for traceability labels by installing cameras and electronic logbooks on fishing boats. -
Book (series)Evaluation of the project "Creating an enabling environment for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries"
Project code: GCP/GLO/965/SWE
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No results found.It was found that the SIDA-SSF project was robustly designed, relevant and responsive to needs and emerging opportunities to further the implementation of the SSF Guidelines. Most notable achievements include greater awareness of the SSF Guidelines at all levels, the preparation of National Plans of Action for SSF (NPOA-SSF) in selected countries, the operationalization of the Advisory and Regional Advisory Groups under the SSF Global Strategic Framework (SSF-GSF), the Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH) study and the celebration of the International Year for Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) 2022. The elaboration of a monitoring system for the implementation of the SSF Guidelines has progressed. The project has influence in building the capacity of SSF organizations and actors to represent the interests of small-scale fishers and fishworkers at national level and in international fora. Partnerships are a cornerstone of project implementation and enabling to move the SSF agenda forward.Recommendations include actions to be taken by the SIDA-SSF project Core Team and FAO. They emphasize approaches and priorities, thematic areas, collaborations and partnerships, social inclusion and targeting, project administration and oversight, learning and knowledge sharing, and finally the place of SSF in “blue” narratives and initiatives as areas to build on the project results and achieve sustainability and long-term impact. -
Book (series)Report of the Workshop on Creating an Enabling Environment for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries
Rome, 14–16 November 2023
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No results found.The project “Creating an enabling environment for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries” (GCP/GLO/965/SWE), funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines). It does so by, inter alia, improving relevant legal frameworks applicable to small-scale fisheries and reducing marginalization of small-scale fisheries stakeholders in decision-making processes. The project works with a wide range of stakeholders, ranging from small-scale fishing communities and organizations, to governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and academia, in both marine and inland waters. The project, initiated in December 2018, was designed under the FAO Umbrella Programme for the Promotion and Application of the SSF Guidelines (PGM/MUL/2015-2020/SSF) – Enhancing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and sustainable livelihoods. Activities under the project first started in Cabo Verde, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Myanmar, Namibia, Oman, Philippines, Senegal and United Republic of Tanzania. In subsequent phases of the project, support was further extended upon ad hoc requests to other countries, such as Mozambique, and to a number of small-scale fisheries organizations, civil society orgranizations (CSOs) and NGOs. The project fosters synergieswith the project implementing the SSF Guidelines for gender-equitable and climate resilient food systems and livelihoods’ supported through the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). A workshop on this project with project countries and partners brought together people to share experiences and lessons learned from the project. The workshop, which took place in Rome, Italy, from 14 to 16 November 2023, hosted discussions on the additional followup support that is required to further facilitate the implementation of the SSF Guidelinesat national, regional and global level, hence contributing to a more sustainable small-scale fisheries sector.
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