Donor funded fisheries development projects frequently procure and donate fishing boats to fishers. The process however is often fraught with issues and difficulties which go far beyond boat design. This document provides lessons learned  (good and bad) from the field activities of an FAO executed fishery project on boat procurement in Cambodia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. These lessons...

An international boat building consultant who conducted a safety at sea assessment for Cambodia identified that the traditional 12 m wooden vessel typically used in Cambodia for inshore fishing was unstable. RFLP arranged a hands-on training course for boat builders on the construction of an improved and more stable design of wooden inshore fishing boat. This illustrated manual documents the...

This document which is aimed at government, NGOs and donor agencies involved in rural development, provides lessons learned (good and bad) and recommendations based on three years of field activities to facilitate co-management of inshore fisheries across six south and southeast Asian countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. 

This illustrated document provides lessons learned (good and bad) in a succinct readable format from a regional fisheries development programme which conducted field activities on information and communications technology (ICT) for small-scale fishers across six south and southeast Asian countries over three years.

This document which is aimed at development practitioners including government, NGOs and donors involved in rural development, provides lessons learned (good and bad) from three years of post-harvest and marketing activities in the field across the six south and southeast Asian countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The document gives recommendations to increase both likely...