The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has announced the release of the report of the WFF-WFFP-ICSF-CIC’s National Workshop on Capacity-building for the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines).
The workshop was organized by ICSF in collaboration with the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), the World Forum of Fish Harvesters & Fish Workers (WFF) and Centro Internazionale Crocevia (CIC) with the support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) to promote awareness about the SSF Guidelines and to mobilize support for their implementation.
The workshop was attended by a wide spectrum of distinguished participants not only from marine and inland fishing communities across India, but also from a cross-section of ministries, departments, and agencies both at the Union and state level, dealing with human rights, rural development, decentralisation and local governance, labour and employment, environment, climate change, finance, tribal affairs, planning, fisheries as well as representatives of CSOs/NGOs, research institutions, FAO, IFAD and BOBP-IGO.
This report will be found useful for fishworker organizations, researchers, policymakers, members of civil society and anyone interested in small-scale fisheries, tenure rights, social development, livelihoods, post-harvest and trade and disasters and climate change.
The report can be downloaded from: http://demo2.icsf.net/images/proceedings/pdf/english/issue_158/158_New_Delhi_Report_2016_16_June_2016.pdf
2016 ICSF