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


1
Sustainable FisheriesLivelihoods
Programme(SFLP)---Programme pour des Moyens
dExistence Durables de la Pêche(PMEDP)
2
SFLP - Intro .
  • Regional programme in West Africa
  • Partnership between
  • FAO
  • DFID
  • 25 countries
  • (with access to the sea and landlocked)
  • Implementation 1999 - 2006

3
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)

4
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.

5
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

6
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.

7
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

8
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

9
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

10
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

11
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

12
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

13
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?

14
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

15
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

16
  • 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
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