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On Gender Mainstreaming Strategies and Tools in Fisheries Development Projects: RFLP Gender Strategy and Lessons from the Asia-Pacific Region

Traditionally, most fisheries development projects have focused on technical aspects, lacking consideration of gender issues during the identification, implementation and monitoring stages. This paper highlights the importance of undertaking gender mainstreaming as part of fisheries interventions and summarizes, as an example, the gender strategy of the Spanish-funded FAO Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme for South and Southeast Asia (RFLP). As part of this strategy, RFLP developed a handbook for gender mainstreaming in fisheries project cycle management and organized a workshop to discuss and validate the tools contained in the handbook as well as to come up with best practices for gender mainstreaming in fisheries project management and policymaking. Participants agreed on factors that should be in place for effective gender mainstreaming in the fisheries sector, like the improvement of social networks, promotion of women’s leadership and business skills, improved access and control over resources and social capital, among others. The need for in-depth research during project design and flexibility during implementation were also highlighted as important for successful interventions. At the macro-level, of note is that amongst the participating RFLP countries, only Cambodia has a specific gender policy for the fisheries sector.

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ခေါင်းစဉ်များ
  • Agriculture and fishing
  • Fish farming and aquaculture
  • Fishing fisheries and aquaculture
  • SDG14 Life Below Water
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Published by the Asian Fisheries Society and accessible through Research Gate open access journals.

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Angela.Lentisco@fao.org

ပူးတွဲရေးသားသူ (တစ်ဦးချင်းစီ) Angela Lentisco and Enrique Alonso
ISSN နံပါတ် 0116-6514
ထုတ်ဝေသူ Asian Fisheries Science, The Journal of the Asian Fisheries Society
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်ရက်စွဲ 2012
စာမျက်နှာခွဲ 14
အဓိကစကားလုံးများ aquaculture,fisheries
တင်ခဲ့သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဇန်နဝါရီ 30, 2018, 16:44 (UTC)
ပြန်လည်ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ 11, 2018, 11:10 (UTC)