Social protection for fisheries and aquaculture (SOCPRO4FISH): Tunisia
28/06/2024
The “Social Protection for the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector” (SocPro4Fish) project seeks to enhance adequate social protection coverage in the fisheries sector to address these risks, vulnerabilities, and challenges. This infographic captures the main results of the SocPro4Fish project in Colombia.
Social protection for fisheries and aquaculture (SOCPRO4FISH): Colombia
28/06/2024
The “Social Protection for the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector” (SocPro4Fish) project seeks to enhance adequate social protection coverage in the fisheries sector to address these risks, vulnerabilities, and challenges. This infographic captures the main results of the SocPro4Fish project in Colombia.
Social protection for fisheries and aquaculture (SOCPRO4FISH): Paraguay
28/06/2024
The “Social Protection for the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector” (SocPro4Fish) project seeks to enhance adequate social protection coverage in the fisheries sector to address these risks, vulnerabilities, and challenges. This infographic captures the main results of the SocPro4Fish project in Paraguay.
Plan of action for enhanced safety, decent work and social protection in the fisheries sector of the Bay of Bengal Programme region (BOBSAFE)
18/10/2023
This plan addresses the safety of vessels and equipment, underscoring the importance of standard designs and construction plans for fishing vessels. It advocates for vessel registration and licensing; inspection of vessel yards to ensure adherence to safety standards; adoption of international codes and guidelines for fishing vessel safety; provision of decent working conditions and social protection to fishers; formalizing labour contracts; and enhancing search and rescue capabilities.
Social protection for fisheries and aquaculture (SocPro4Fish) in Colombia
01/10/2023
This brochure provides a comprehensive overview of social protection, introduces the SocPro4Fish project, outlines its objectives, and highlights the achieved results in the context of Colombia's fisheries and aquaculture sector.
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Protecting Lives and Improving Livelihoods: Enhancing Social Protection through Occupational Health and Safety in WECAFC's Dive Fisheries
10/08/2023
Divers from the WECAFC region come in all profiles, nationalities, and ages. In Honduras and Nicaragua, most of an estimated total of 9,000 divers are Miskitos, an Indigenous People living along the eastern coast of the two countries. In large part, divers are male with ages ranging from 15 to 60. All face occupational health and safety issues and vulnerabilities due to their work.
Expanding social protection coverage for fishers and fish workers in Tunisia
27/07/2023
Meet Abdessalem, Taher, and Marbouka, fishers from Tunisia. Through their voices, discover their work, challenges, and the obstacles they face in accessing social protection. Find out more about FAO's social protection initiative for the fisheries and aquaculture sector (socPro4Fish) in Tunisia.
Social Protection in the Fisheries and Aquaculture sector
12/05/2021
This video is part of the “Social Protection in Rural Areas: building responsive systems in the context of Covid-19” series at the FAO e-learning academy. This session gives us an introduction to social protection in the fisheries and aquaculture sector.
Self-paced course on addressing the climate change and poverty nexus
15/03/2023
This course is intended to strengthen awareness, motivation, understanding and capacity among regional and national partners (IGOs, governments, NGOs, sectoral organizations) to implement climate and poverty reduction actions, with specific consideration of the fisheries sector, and in a more integrated, cohesive way, delivering co-benefits to the achievement of the Paris Agreement Targets and SDGs.
Colombia's sea women net a better deal
09/03/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, and its partners including the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, NORAD, are supporting the Platoneras to strengthen their livelihoods and improve their access to social protection schemes - all the while boosting the community's food security.
Podcast - Social protection, sustainability and fisheries
09/09/2022
The UN General Assembly has declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) to enhance global awareness and promote collaboration around the theme. To provide guidance for related initiatives, the IYAFA Action Plan was structured around seven pillars, including social and environmental sustainability. Social protection can provide valuable contributions to all of them.
Strengthening coherence between social protection and fisheries policies. Diagnostic tool.
05/10/2022
This FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper is aimed primarily at policymakers, development partners, civil society organizations and practitioners managing the design and implementation of fisheries policies and social protection interventions and providing technical and/or financial support to both sectors.
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Socioeconomic impact evaluation of unemployment insurance for small-scale fishers in Brazil (Seguro-Defeso)
09/02/2023
For the first time since the benefit was introduced 30 years ago, a study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), evaluated the socioeconomic impacts of this social protection programme on small-scale fishers and their families.
Evaluation of the impact of unemployment insurance on the socioeconomic conditions of small-scale fishers
02/02/2023
Seguro Desemplego do Pescador Artesanal, or insurance-defeso, is a program related to one of the management measures for fishing in Brazil, the Defeso, which seeks to guarantee the conservation of exploited stocks and the sustainability of fishing by restricting the permitted fishing period for certain species. The Safe-Netting is a benefit intended for artisanal fishermen, in the amount of one minimum wage, during the months of the closed fishing season.
Strengthening coherence between social protection and fisheries policies: Framework for Analysis and Action
01/10/2022
The Technical Paper provides a method for mapping and understanding the state of coherence between fisheries policies and social protection within a given context, and aims to assist countries in the development of coherent interventions. It also offers a methodology for conducting the assessment and guidelines for implementing the methodology in the field.
Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication
01/01/2015
The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) represent the first ever international instrument dedicated to small-scale fisheries. They represent a global consensus on principles and guidance for small-scale fisheries governance and development.
Economic inclusion and social protection to reduce poverty
01/08/2020
This action sheet is part of a series of action sheets developed under the seven key priority areas of the FAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery programme, the FAO umbrella programme designed to proactively and sustainably address the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic.
Promoting greater coherence between small-scale fisheries and social protection policies, mechanisms and programs in Cambodia - Research Summary
01/01/2019
The aim of this document is to make policy-relevant suggestions related to the following questions: 1) How can vulnerable fisher-farmers' access to social protection be enhanced; and 2) What potential exists for social protection and fishery-related policies, institutions, mechanisms and programs to mutually reinforce poverty reduction and incentivize conservation and sustainable use of fisheries and related natural resources.
Promoting rural development for all
01/01/2017
FAO Social Protection Framework presents the Organization’s vision and approach to social protection. FAO recognizes the critical role social protection plays in furthering and accelerating progress around food security and nutrition, agriculture development, rural poverty and resilience building.
Social protection in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in Latin America and the Caribbean
01/01/2015
In this publication, FAO presents a diagnosis of the risks and specific needs of artisanal fishers and fish-farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean, makes a compendium of the main programs and existing social protection initiatives in the region for this collective, and proposes a comprehensive agenda of public policies for strengthening the coverage and adequacy of social protection for these populations aimed at the achievement of sustainable development goals.