Aware, informed, empowered, capacitated
To achieve the recommendations in the SSF Guidelines, one must know about, understand and apply them. Therefore, raising awareness about them is a key part of implementing them. It is also important to understand the situation, challenges and opportunities facing small-scale fisheries around the world, and to use this knowledge to inform policies and decisions to support sustainable fisheries and community livelihoods.
Change has to happen at national and local levels. For that, fishers and fish workers need to know their rights and have ways to realize them. Organisations to carry the voice of fishers and fish workers to policy- and decision-makers must be supported and empowered. Likewise, policy- and decision-makers need the tools and capacity to engage small-scale fishers. All actors need a supporting structure that makes it easy for them to exchange ideas and concerns, and collaborate to make a difference. There is also a need to measure and keep track of progress.
The SSF Guidelines promote a human-rights approach, which goes beyond the fisheries value chain to address gender, social development, employment, climate change, disaster risks and trade. Implementing the SSF Guidelines is therefore also contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In FAO efforts to implement the SSF Guidelines include: Raising awareness; Strengthening the science-policy interface; Empowering stakeholder; Supporting implementation.
Raising awareness
Events
The implementation of the SSF Guidelines is supported through awareness raising at events around the world. This outreach highlights the important role that small-scale fisheries play in the context of food security and poverty eradication. It also raises visibility of the SSF Guidelines as a tool to secure sustainable small-scale fisheries, and supports the integration of small-scale fisheries in relevant global agendas. Learn more about events on the News and Events page.
Guidance material and communication tools
Awareness is also raised through handbooks, compilations of good practices, and other guidance material that help explain what it means to apply the SSF Guidelines in practice. In addition, FAO is producing various communication tools to inform the global community about the SSF Guidelines. For instance, overviews of the themes in the SSF Guidelines can be found on the SSF Guidelines page. All of the SSF Guidelines guidance materials and communication tools can be found on the Resources page.
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