Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme SFLP Programme pour des Moyens dExistence Durables de la

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Sustainable FisheriesLivelihoods
Programme(SFLP)---Programme pour des Moyens
dExistence Durables de la Pêche(PMEDP)
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SFLP - Intro .

• Regional programme in West Africa
• Partnership between
• FAO
• DFID
• 25 countries
• (with access to the sea and landlocked)
• Implementation 1999 - 2006

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SFLP - Intro ..

• Overall goal Poverty reduction
• Objectives
• Improve livelihoods of small scale fishery
  communities (through the SLA)
  
• Improve practice and policies for responsible
  fisheries - sustain fishery resources (based on
  the principles of the CCRF)
  

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SFLP - Intro ...

• Micro level fishery communities
• Coastal and continental
• Meso level
• Local administration
• Bodies of local governance
• CSO
• Macro level policy
• Fishery departments
• Departments in charge of PRSP, decentralization,
  education, health, agriculture, environment, etc.

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SFLP - Intro ....

• Fishery communities are characterized mainly by
• Marginalization
• Policies and institutions
• Access to socio-economic services and
  infrastructures
  
• High vulnerability
• Seasonality, tendencies, chocs
• Influence on their risk perception and behaviour
• High incidence of migration
• Poor formal education and high level of illiteracy

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SFLP - Capacity building
... concerning multiple areas

• Technical (TVET)
• Fisheries and diversification of IGA
• ... Concerning the various elements of the value
  chain
  
• Socio-economic
• Organization (socio-professional and
  co-management structures)
  
• Negotiation
• Financial (microfinance)
• Health (HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis)
• Policy related (information about new
  opportunities)
  
• PRSP, decentralization, rural development, NRM,
• Fisheries, CCRF, etc.

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SFLP - Capacity building ... using multiple
communication channels

• Technical information and training workshops
• Based on the principles of adult education
• Using interpersonal communication tools
• FM radio, especially community radio
• Informing the decisions of the community
• Linking communities (horizontal communication)
• Giving a voice to the voiceless (ownership)
• ICTs facilitated by community radios becoming CMC
  (UNESCO)
  
• Research for relevant information on the web and
  radio broadcasting

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SFLP - Capacity building ... using multiple
communication channels

• Exchange between communities on special issues
• Study tours, exchange visits
• Supported by interpersonal communication tools
• Community drama
• Forum theatre about HIV/AIDS in fishery
  community
  
• Other subjects poor income management, gender
  iniquity, etc.
  
• Peer education
• Traditional communication channels

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SFLP - Capacity building
... in view of literacy

• Functional literacy classes
• Adolescents and adults
• Fishermen, fish processors, fish mongers, ...
• Study about the vicious circle of illiteracy and
  poverty in small scale fishery communities
  
• Burkina Faso, Niger, Republique de Guinée, The
  Gambia, São Tomé e Principe (partnership between
  Education and Fishery Departments)
  
• Launched in march 2005, results expected at the
  end of 2005

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SFLP - Literacy study
... intentions

• Find out (gender specifically)
• Linkages between illiteracy, poverty, gender,
  livelihoods
  
• Appropriateness of existing systems to
  fisherfolks literacy needs
  
• Impact of literacy programmes on livelihoods of
  households
  
• Diversification, commercialization, access to
  socio-economic services and infrastructures,
  implication in decision making processes and
  local govern.
• Recommendations on improvements of literacy
  programmes for reaching the marginalized
  
• Feed back the results
• Inform governments in order to adapt literacy
  programmes
  
• Contribute to the normative work of FAO

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SFLP - Literacy study ... first
findings (Burkina Faso)

• Some causes of illiteracy
• No or poor formal education because of illiteracy
  of parents
  
• Lack of a positive reference, lack of success
  stories
  
• Lack of access
• Habitat of fishery communities is often separated
  from the rest of the rural community
  
• Migration of fisherfolk
• Child labor
• High fallout because of inappropriate literacy
  programmes
  
• Literate turn to illiteracy because of
• Lack of opportunities to use the new knowledge
• Lack of / or inappropriate post literacy material

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SFLP - Literacy study ... first
findings (Burkina Faso)

• Appropriateness of literacy programmes
• Inappropriate content and support material
• Inappropriate timing
• Poor preparation of facilitators
• Difficulty of access
• Poor post-literacy opportunities
• Poor knowledge about the specific sector

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SFLP - Literacy study ... first
findings (Burkina Faso)

• Impact of literacy (1)
• People become more open minded
• Monitoring and management capacity are enhanced
• (fishing, post-harvest, participatory resource
  management)
  
• Health practice is improved with impact on
  productivity and sustainability of livelihoods
  
• Participation in decision making within
  socio-professional organizations and local
  development is enhanced
  
• A step forward to gender equity women are
  talking about their concerns and are listened to
  by their male collegues
  
• How to deal with the prevailing pockets of
  resistance?

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SFLP - Literacy study ... first
findings (Burkina Faso)

• Impact of literacy (2)
• Social communication and reporting systems are
  enhanced through written communication people
  are taking notes
  
• Written monitoring and memory are improving
  organizational capacity
  
• Social status of literate people is improving -
  more self-esteem
  
• Improved access to socio-economic services and
  infrastructures
  
• Micro finance access to credits, improvement of
  recovery
  
• Health services
• Social communication
• Hypothesis generating experience of positive
  impact of literacy on livelihoods may open up
  parents to enroll their children in formal
  education systems

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SFLP - Literacy study ... first
findings (Burkina Faso)

• Opportunities (to be transformed into broader
  recommendations)
  
• Strategic Framework of Fight against Poverty
  (PRSP)
  
• One of the priorities is education
• National Literacy Programme is a priority
• A main principle of this Programme
• be adaptive and take into account the needs of
  specific groups
  
• Ongoing activities
• Literacy needs assessment within fishery
  communities
  
• Appropriate curriculum development
• Training of facilitators

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• Thank you
• Günter Heidrich Norbert Zigani
• Information / Communication Officer
  General Director of Fisheries
  
• Regional Support Unit, Cotonou Burkina
  Faso
  
• SFLP
• Joint contribution to the working group 2
•  Strengthening rural communities through non
  formal education 
  
• of the Ministerial Seminar on
• Education for Rural People in Africa Policy
  Lessons, Options and Priorities
  
• Addis Ababa, 7 - 9 September 2005