ICSF has made presentations to highlight the perspectives and concerns of small-scale fishworkers at various UN and Civil Society meetings. These are presented here. Material from such meetings has helped build awareness of developments at the both the international level of, say, UN forums, and among fishworker organizations
Women engage in a wide range of activities in fisheries, including paid and unpaid work and liaison with institutions. In several countries, women dominate inland fishing and aquaculture. Their play multiple roles – in seafood processing plants, as caregivers in the family, as the builders of social networks and community.
Gender issues focus not on women only but on their relationship with men, on their roles, rights and responsibilities. They acknowledge that these vary within and between cultures as well as by class, race, ethnicity, age and marital status.
The 2014 SSF Guidelines are based on the principle of gender equality and equity. They integrate gender issues into all small-scale fisheries development strategies.
Regional small-scale fisheries governance training for Asia- Creating an enabling environment for SSF Guidelines implementation: Social Development, Employment and Decent Work organised by The International Ocean Institute Southern Africa, 16-18 November...
Conference Name:Asia Regional Workshop: SDG 14.b and Associated Indicator 14.b.1, 6-8 July 2021, Virtual Workshop Date: 08-07-2021 Abstract: Genesis of SDG 14.b 1992 Agenda 21 recognizes the rights of small-scale...
Conference Name:‘Human rights, livelihood and dignity of small-scale fishers’ SSF Open House: World Ocean Week 2021, 3 June, 2021 Date: 03-06-2021 Abstract: 90 percent of the 38 million people employed...
Conference Name:CFFA Steering Committee, 19 April 2021 Date: 19-04-2021 Abstract: Rationale of the Study World aquaculture production – 114 mmt 95% contributed by developing nations and 82% by just 5...
Conference Name:The 2021 APFIC webinar series: Characteristics and performance of co-management in Asia, 08 April 2021 Date: 08-04-2021 Abstract: SSF Guidelines Promote participatory resource management systems such as co-management (5.15)...
Conference Name:Youth for the Coast training programme Delhi Forum and National Fishworkers Forum, 22-26 March 2021 Date: 24-03-2021 Abstract: Global fish production in 2018 was 179 million tonnes, (value of...
Conference Name:Webinar, “Conservation of Life Below Water: Perspectives on Systematics, Sustainable Livelihoods and Citizen Science”, March 18-20, 2021, Kerala, India Date: 19-03-2021 Abstract: SDG 14 and fisheries By 2025 reduce...
Conference Name:Regional Small-scale Fisheries Governance Training Course for Africa: Creating an Enabling Environment for SSF Guidelines Implementation, 15-19 February 2021 Date: 16-02-2021 Abstract: An Introduction to Sub-Saharan Africa Population: 1.3...
Conference Name:Fisheries Governance: Transboundary Cooperation between Bangladesh and India Date: 21-01-2021 Abstract: India has the fourth largest freshwater surface area in the world, an area of about 314,070 km2 or...
Conference Name:Virtual Dialogues on the Road to the 34th Committee on Fisheries, 13-17 July 2020 Date: 17-07-2020 Abstract: Fisheries and Covid-19 Fish are declared as essential food, and fishing and...