Shoring up: linking social protection and early warning systems for the fisheries sector

Hybrid Event, 22/06/2023

Dear Colleagues

It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the upcoming webinar, Shoring Up: Linking Social Protection and Early Warning Systems for the Fisheries Sector. This webinar focuses on how social protection can improve the design and delivery of targeted and more cohesive climate responses and poverty reduction efforts for the fisheries sector. It includes some preliminary results from a new global database and supportive tools and knowledge resources.

Small-scale fisheries (SSF) based in coastal communities around the world are facing unprecedented increases in the frequency and severity of acute and sub-acute climate shocks and slower-onset stressors. Interlinked with this are challenging social dimensions that inhibit efforts to build resilience, including socio-economic vulnerability and limited access to services (e.g. healthcare and social protection). Urgent action is needed as the livelihoods of millions of small-scale fishers are at risk, along with the food security of millions of people who rely on fish as a primary source of protein. Social Protection is an essential tool in addressing this climate-poverty nexus, and linkages with Early Warning Systems are key to improving preparedness and reducing vulnerability (FAO, 2022).

Speakers will include:

Angélica María Jácome Daza, Director, FAO Office of SIDS, LDCs, and LLDCs
Daniella Salazar Herrera, Fisheries Officer (Social Protection), FAO
Ian S. Horsford (Caribbean SIDS), Menka Vansant (African SIDS), and Vijay Naidu (Pacific SIDS), Research Associates with the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Patrick McConney, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, University of the West Indies (CERMES/UWI)

The event will be live streamed, will be held in English, and it can be followed exclusively online.