CRC
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 moreThousands of fisher folks from Elmina and its environs gathered at the forecourt of the Elmina castle to witness and partake in the festive event. In attendance were the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Central Regional Minister, Members of Parliament, representatives from Fisheries Commission, Municipal and District Assembly, Paramount and Sub-Chiefs from within and outside Elmina as well as Chiefs from neighboring countries including Togo.
read moreThe USAID/SFMP project through its implementing partner, CEWEFIA, together with Opinion Leaders in Elmina agrees to: • Support a Marine Fishery Management Plan for Targeted Stocks, such as small pelagic stock and demersal fish stocks. • Support measures to reduce overfishing and illegal fishing such as the Fisheries Management Plan or ways to reduce fishing effort especially of the canoe fleet, add an additional fishing holiday, closed season or effective cap on new registrations. • Support co-management national policy to enable co-management initiatives to be realized. • Support Hygienic Fish Handling and processing in the fisheries Value chain. • The parties to this MOU agree to commit to improving the fisheries and adhering to best practices and sustainable fisheries management measures. This MOU outlines parties’ roles and responsibilities.
read moreThe purpose of the monitoring is to track the use of the knowledge acquired at the trainings document any changes as a result of the trainings and also for program planning.
read moreAn assessment of the donation of an Ahotor stove on fishing households vulnerable to child labor and trafficking was conducted in 2017. The purpose of the study was to test the validity of the USAID Ghana Sustainable Fisheries Management Project’s (USAID/Ghana SFMP) theory of change for this intervention.
read moreTo contribute to address the issue, FoN and partners under the SFMP project, rolled out a behavior change communication campaign and worked with stakeholders to build local community networks of advocates, including strengthened capacity of local government agencies and media on addressing Child Labour and Trafficking (CLaT) issues in the Central region.
read moreChild labor and trafficking has been on the forefront of social justice issues in the world for years, with poor countries in the most vulnerable and at-risk. An estimated 215 million children are reportedly engaged in several economic activities worldwide, and seventy percent (70%) of all child labor are found in agriculture (mainly fisheries and forestry).
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read moreThe objective of the media orientation program was to situate the seriousness of the local and global Human Trafficking situation for the media to appreciate how critical it is as a developmental challenge to Ghana in terms of livelihood, food and human securities. It was also intended to increase the media’s interest in investigating and covering issues of Child Trafficking and Trafficking (CLaT) as a developmental issue and shape public opinion and discourse in advocating for resourcing of law enforcement agencies to adequately combat the criminality.
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