Smart Fisheries Co-Management (SFC)

The Smart Fisheries Co-Management (SFC) project focuses on the design and implementation of contextualized fisheries co-management systems at national and local level.

Fisheries co-management knowledge tools

Guidebook for evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness

The Guidebook offers a process and method to evaluate the performance of a fisheries co-management system and its plan in order to enhance its effectiveness in delivering benefits and in contributing to environmental, social and economic sustainability and good governance. It is to be used to evaluate the effectiveness of an existing fisheries co-management system operating at a fishery, community or sector level, or in a spatially defined area. 

e-Learning course: Evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness

The course consists of 4 lessons: 

  • Lesson 1 – What is fisheries co-management? 
  • Lesson 2 – Why evaluate fisheries co-management?
  • Lesson 3 – How to evaluate fisheries co-management
  • Lesson 4 – Post-evaluation and adaptive management

Guidebook: How it works

This handbook, “How it works” complements the FAO Guidebook for evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness. It includes a brief synopsis of the main topics covered and an overview of the detailed evaluation process described in the Guidebook.

Tools for the Guidebook for evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness

The online collection of tools and resources can be used in the evaluation process that is described in the Guidebook. The tools and resources may be useful to the planners, evaluation team and participating stakeholders.

News

SFC
12 June 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Royal Government of Cambodia through the Fisheries Administration held an inception workshop marking the launch of a project which aims to contribute to economic, environmental, and social sustainability of [...more]
SFC
24 May 2023
In an effort to promote sustainable fisheries and diverse livelihoods, an upcoming meeting is set to mark the launch of the FAO SFC project (namely "Fisheries Co-management Capacity Development for Blue Communities: Sustainable Fisheries and Diverse Livelihoods") in Cambodia. The project [...more]
SFC
29 November 2022
FAO, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of the Republic of Korea (MOF), and the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) opened today the 3-days “Inter-regional Workshop on Fisheries Co-management Capacity Development” to launch the newly developed fisheries [...more]
SFC
21 November 2022
29 November–1 December 2022 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of the Republic of Korea (MOF) and the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) are jointly organizing a hybrid Inter-regional Workshop on Fisheries [...more]
SFC
17 November 2022
An online collection of tools and resources that can be used in the evaluation process of fisheries co-management effectiveness. The tools and resources may be useful to the planners, evaluation team, and participating stakeholders.
SFC
15 November 2022
Following the validation workshop held in Ponta do Ouro, Mozambique, in June 2022, which highlighted the challenges and opportunities for fisheries co-management and fishing communities’ livelihoods, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the Ministry of Oceans [...more]
SFC
24 October 2022
Evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness This course offers a process and method to evaluate the performance of a fisheries co-management system, in order to enhance its effectiveness in delivering benefits and contributing to environmental, social and economic sustainability and good governance.                           Audience   The primary [...more]
SFC
17 October 2022
The Guidebook for evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness offers a process and method to evaluate the performance of a fisheries co-management system and its plan in order to enhance its effectiveness in delivering benefits and in contributing to environmental, social and [...more]
SFC
15 June 2022
After the successful inception workshop to launch the Project “Fisheries Co-management Capacity Development for Blue Communities: Sustainable Fisheries and Diverse Livelihoods”, the collaboration between FAO and the Government of the Republic of Mozambique to enhance the fisheries sector in the [...more]
SFC
13 June 2022
Ponta do Ouro, the Republic of Mozambique, 13–14 June 2022  The two-day meeting is intended to bring together all stakeholders representing various interests around fisheries co-management in the Republic of Mozambique to review, discuss and validate the results of the feasibility [...more]
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Resources

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This document represents the final report of the FAO Virtual Global Expert Workshop on the Fisheries Co-management Evaluation Guidebook, held from 7 to 11 and 17 September 2020 using the Zoom platform. The objective of the workshop was to produce [...more]
2021
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