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
11 June 2021
Following a busy week with over 30 sessions of the SSFOpenHouse to highlight the importance of small-scale fisheries and celebrate their unvaluable contributions, the last day was dedicated to “Capacity and Prospects”. The fifth day was dedicated to seven events, [...more]
SFC
08 June 2021
During the webinar series on Unpacking the SSF Guidelines – One chapter per day, featured in the context of the Too Big To Ignore, the SFC team will lead the session Developing guidance and sharing lessons on co-management in Asia. The webinar will showcase co-management experiences in [...more]
SFC
24 May 2021
Co-management is defined as a management arrangement whereby government and user groups share responsibility for the management and utilization of fisheries resources, with the goal of achieving a balance between economic and social goals, within the framework of preserving the [...more]
SFC
07 December 2020
Myanmar, one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia, has a coastline of about 3 000 km and extensive marine and freshwater fisheries resources. The whole fishery and aquaculture sector provide opportunities for employment to 2.3 million people and fish is [...more]
SFC
24 November 2020
24-25 November 2020 Myanmar Project Area Identification Meeting| Fisheries Co-management Capacity Development for Blue Communities   A two-day virtual meeting will bring together all fisheries stakeholders in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to discuss how fisheries co-management systems may [...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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