Fish provide 3.2 billion people with about 20% of their animal protein and essential nutrients for growth and maternal health. The Coastal Fisheries Initiative, CFI, was developed to demonstrate and promote integrated approaches that support environmentally, economically and socially sustainable use and management of coastal fisheries.

The Programme takes a value-chain approach and aims to support the implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries, focusing on ensuring participation and capitalising on existing knowledge while developing capacity and supporting innovative governance partnerships. It will apply relevant international instruments, including the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication.

This initiative is a Global Environment Facility (GEF) -supported intervention that brings together partners that are at the forefront of efforts to improve coastal fisheries management and conserve marine biodiversity worldwide to support countries as they address coastal fisheries issues in a holistic way. The Global inception workshop will bring together the other four CFI child projects: Latin America (Ecuador and Peru), Indonesia, and West Africa (Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and Cabo Verde), as well as the Challenge Fund Project.

The inception meeting hosted by the CFI Latin America Project in Guayaquil, Ecuador will kick-off on Monday, 22 October with a one-day working session on Communication and Knowledge Sharing.

23-25 October, the organized working sessions will focus on various aspects, including the Regional Projects, Knowledge-sharing, the Fisheries Performance Assessment Instrument (FPAI), the Global Challenge Fund, Gender, Value-chain strengthening, Monitoring and evaluation tools and the CFI Road Map.

On Friday, participants will take part in an organized field trip to Santa Rosa de Salinas project site.

Learn more about the CFI on our Programme Brochure

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