During the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 (IYAFA 2022) the International Planning Committee (IPC) Working Group on Fisheries, General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), Small-Scale Fisheries Resource and Collaboration Hub (SSF Hub) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) joined forces to organise a Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) Summit on 2-4 September 2022 in Rome, Italy.
The organising committee made up of the above groups plus SwedBio has drafted the below preliminary draft concept note for discussion after reviewing the input and feedback received after the first SSF Summit. In the participatory spirit of the SSF Guidelines, this draft concept note is presented for discussion and feedback as part of a collective planning process for the SSF Summit 2024.
SSF Summit Updated Concept Note and Detailed Agenda
Please review the concept for this event and the detailed agenda.
Check photos of the event here
About the 2nd SSF Summit
This event is designed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) to advance priority actions for sustainable small-scale fisheries and to assess the current status of the SSF Guidelines implementation at the national, regional and global level to inform future actions. Participants will focus on Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 of the SSF Guidelines, per consultation with small-scale fishers, their organizations and/or representatives, and relevant stakeholders during the design phase of this event.
The SSF Summit will serve as a global platform for small-scale fisheries movements to engage with governments and other small-scale fisheries advocates in an accessible and non-technical forum to collaboratively address governance and development challenges in small-scale fisheries while proposing and sharing solutions to foster and strengthen the implementation of the SSF Guidelines.
- More than 300 people are expected to join the 2nd SSF Summit! These will be primarily representative of small-scale fisheries organizations and movements, but also inter-governmental organizations, NGOs and governments, taking into account regional, gender and age balance. If you are a country representative participating in FAO’s Committee on Fisheries and would like to participate on Saturday, July 6 and/or Sunday, July 7, please register here by June 14 at the latest. Please note that no funding support to attend the SSF Summit can be made available. We have limited capacity, and will confirm your attendance by June 21.
- Following the previous edition, the 2nd SSF Summit 2022 will take place over the course of three days. The first day of the SSF Summit is reserved for small-scale fisheries organizations and movements only to meet and engage in dialogue. The second and third days are open to other invitees to discuss priority topics. To review the preliminary agenda, please click here.
The SSF Summit is an inclusive event: Interpretation will be made available in the plenary sessions in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese (tbc) and Arabic and, depending on funding, also for the parallel session in selected language.
