Fishery livelihoods
Improving access to micro-finance for small-scale fishers in Sri Lanka
2013
The context, strategy, and process followed by the RFLP to improve access by fisher communities around Negombo, Chilaw and Puttalam lagoons in Sri Lanka to micro-finance services (including savings, credit and insurance) is detailed. Lessons learned, unexpected benefits, results and recommendations are given for an innovative initiative, which the Minister for Fisheries has requested be replicated nationwide.
Case study: Boosting incomes of fisher households in Negombo, Sri Lanka through handicrafts production.
2013
This case study presents an overview of the context, details the RFLP intervention, gives the results, implementation problems, and recommendations and key lessons learned when RFLP supported handicrafts production as an alternative livelihoods option for fisher households in the Negombo lagoon area of Sri Lanka.
Case study: Developing Village Regulations to support community-based Marine Protected Areas in Indonesia.
2013
This case study presents an overview of the context, details the RFLP intervention, gives the results, implementation problems, and recommendations and key lessons learned of RFLP supported the supported the development of pilot village regulations in two districts of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, Indonesia in order to provide the foundation for community-based management of local marine resources.