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1 February 2019
Aug 18-21: Conference on Fisheries and Coastal Environment in Accra, Ghana ...read more1 November 2018
Nov 8: CRC to host RIMTA’s Annual MeetingCRC will be hosting the RI Marine Trades Association’s annual ...read more25 October 2018
Nov 8 and Nov 9: Game of FloodsCRC is teaming up with Providence, RI Emergency Management Agency – ...read moreThe prevalence of child labor and trafficking in fishing has being issue of public concern, in Ghana and especially in the Central region. This had made it necessary for trained Community Advocates by DAA under the USAID SFMP from Child labor and trafficking prone Communities like Mumford, Apam and Winneba to advocate against child labor and trafficking in those mentioned Communities. The Anti CLaT advocates from Apam, Winneba and Mumford organized video shows to educate, sensitize them on the prevalence and negative impact of child labor and trafficking. The video show was successful with the help of DAA, sponsored by USAID through the Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP).
read moreDiscussions with the FC leadership (CR), the Department of Social Welfare in Accra, and local implementing partners during the designing stage of the SFMP, highlighted the problem of illegal child labor in fishing—especially in the CR. This includes both hazardous fisheries work by children under age 18 and child trafficking. During focus group discussions held during project design, participants reported that child labor and child trafficking is prevalent in the Central Region. Children are being sent to the Volta Lake region to engage in dangerous fishing practices and are never enrolled in school. Especially vulnerable are single female-headed households with many children. Migrant fishers often leave women to fend for themselves and their children, without money for school fees or food. Agents come offering relief in the form of payments and promises to care for the children, but then force them into hard physical labor in the lake fisheries. Coordinating closely with the Fisheries Commission Child Labor focal person in Accra, the SFMP will conduct a comprehensive assessment of the problem in the CR and identify communities and households most susceptible to such practices and root drivers of the problem. This work will involve a comprehensive literature review on the problem, identify current actors involved in addressing this issue, and conduct a number of community meetings as well as a household survey. Out of that, a behavior change communications initiative will be developed in the CR on the issue in an effort to make such practices socially unacceptable.
read moreThis report contains information on a workshop organised within the framework of the USAID/GHANA Sustainable Fisheries Management Project being implemented through the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MOFAD). It was organised around the Gender Mainstreaming Strategy (GMS) for the Leadership of the Ministry of Fisheries’ and Aquaculture Development (MOFAD) and the Fisheries Commission (FC) from March 14-15, 2018 at the Forest Hotel, Dodowa, Eastern region of Ghana. The workshop aimed to secure the buy-in of key decision-makers in the sector, in terms of how the GMS can be implemented.
read moreHen Mpoano organized a 2-day training from 22nd to 23rd August, 2017 on advocacy in fisheries management and a 1-day conflict management training on 24 August, 2017, for the CBFM committee members. The advocacy in fisheries and conflict management training workshops were organized in Fante/Twi language for the benefit of the participants with limited working knowledge of the English language.
read moreThe Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP) organized Fisheries Communication summit in Accra on September 13-14, 2018. Key partners from the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Fisheries Commission, Environmental Justice Foundation, CARE, CEWEFIA, Friends of the Nation, Resonance Global, Netherlands Development Agency (SNV), Hen Mpoano and Development Action Associate participated. Discussion at the summit were focused on issues of communication that bind together preparation for fisheries closed season next year and Supporting the effort of Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development/Fisheries Commission in the implementation of the National Fisheries Management Plan.
read moreDAA is a local women’s organization targeted for capacity building and organizational development. This report is a gallery of DAA’s communication interventions with its beneficiary groups in the Greater Accra and Central Regions. These communications activities cut across various task areas such as those undertaken in CLaT, post-harvest improvements, Morison oven promotions. Also captured are the various public advocacy campaigns such as World Rural Women’s Day celebrations, the Ghana Farmer’s Day Celebration, and monitoring for progress of all DAA activities.
read moreThe objectives of this consultancy by the TRY Oyster Women’s Association, were to further develop the enabling environment for and capacity of CSOs representing small scale actors in the fisheries value chain (especially women) to take a leadership role in sustainable fisheries management in Ghana. It also was to help in the demonstrate an applied case of community-based fisheries management planning in Ghana led by women. It provided follow up with Ghanaian women-led and oriented membership CSOs in the fisheries sector (CEWEFIA, DAA, DQF, NAFPTA) and Fisheries Commission Post Harvest Unit and the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MOFAD) to implement lessons learned from the FY16 Regional Gambia and Senegal Study Tour. Finally, the consultancy supported DAA to lead development of a Community-based Fishery Management Plan for the oyster fishery in the village of Tsokomey where oysters are harvested from the estuary/mouth of the Densu River as an alternative livelihood.
read moreThis work plan provides an overview of activities scheduled for the terminal phase of the project including amended activities in the last part of Year 5 and extending into the No-Cost Extension period. Year 5 work was heavily impacted by two slow down notices from USAID that restricted funding availability in the first three quarters of the workplan year. With the no-cost extension approval and receipt of funds up to the agreement ceiling in the third quarter, some Year 5 activities that had been delayed previously have now been refined and captured in this amended Year 5 workplan period below (June – Sept, 2019). Work for the No-Cost Extension Period (Oct 2019 – Sept 2020) is also included. A portion of the work covered in this workplan is also part of the USAID’s Learning Initiative on Women’s Empowerment, Access to Finance, and Sustainable Fisheries.
read moreThis progress report details activities, results, and lessons learned during the third quarter of Project Year 5 (FY19). It also explains how partners contributed to the achievement of targets and how these achievements will be sustained to meet the overarching goal of SFMP.
read moreThe General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) of the TUC implemented the Torkor Model at Kpando Torkor in the Volta Region which focused on fishers (fishermen and processors). The model put in place systems that promote decent work and community development, using Child Labor as an entry point. The Model is hinged on organizing and mobilizing fish workers (including fishermen and fish processors) and employers (boat/canoe owners) by equipping them with the relevant knowledge, skills and motivation to combat child labor, enhance their productivity and share their experiences with national and international partners.The Child Labor and trafficking partners’ team of the SFMP wasinterested in understanding how the Model was implemented and assess the possibility of replicating the learnings in the respective pilot communities. It is in this regard that the team decided to embarkon a tour to Kpando Torkor to experience the changes on the ground and learn from the beneficiaries.
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