Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission

Small-scale fisheries

This document is a Sinhala translation of the users' manual for Garmin GPS operation. The translation of this users' manual from English into Sinhala was supported by the Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme, in Sri Lanka because many fishers were unable to read and understand the English users' manual. 
Workshop proceedings of the RFLP regional lessons learned and best practices workshop on co-management, held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2012.
Takahashi, B. & van Duijn, A. P. 2012. Operationalizing fisheries co-management: Lessons learned from lagoon fisheries co-management in Thua Thien Hue Province, Viet Nam. FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok. RAP Publication 2012/02, 131 pp.   natural resources is of the utmost importance for national governments to achieve their resource management objectives. This is especially the case in the absence of...
A scoping mission was conducted by the Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA) to assess the current status of micro-finance services (including savings, credit and insurance) in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. This document is a consolidated report based on reports from six different APRACA teams which surveyed all six RFLP countries.
RFLP Sri Lanka conducted a gender analysis in Negombo, and Puttalam districts of Sri Lanka and used the main findings to provide direction and recommendations for implementing RFLP activities in the field.