It focuses on strengthening the resilience of livelihoods and supporting small-scale fishing communities in their role as stewards of natural resources. Grounded in the human-rights based approach of the SSF Guidelines, the project emphasizes biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and co-management, but also aims at improving market access and gender equality. 

The project is part of the FAO Global Partnerships Blue Transformation Umbrella Programme, which operationalizes FAO’s vision for aquatic food systems. The Blue Transformation vision fully embraces the SSF Guidelines and shares its guiding principles. 

Transformed aquatic food systems sustainably provide enough food for a growing population, ensure the availability and accessibility of safe and nutritious foods, improve the livelihoods of vulnerable communities and support enhanced resilience of societies and ecosystems.