The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) organized a workshop titled “Enhancing Women’s Roles in Fisheries in India” during 1-3 February 2010 in Navi Mumbai, India. The workshop was meant to discuss and analyze the role of women in fisheries, and reflect on issues facing women in fishing communities and organizations in contemporary India.
Not only did the workshop expose the participants to women’s issues, organizational strategies, policies, schemes and legislation relevant to fishing communities, but it also stimulated discussions and exchange of views, which helped them explore a vision of a fisheries that sustains both communities and livelihoods.
The workshop strengthened the linkages between diverse groups, and helped them search for strategies to protect the spaces of women in fisheries and their sources of livelihood.


Contents

• Preface
  
• Introduction
  
• Report of the workshop
  
• Group Session
  
• Situating issues in the context of fisheries and coastal development
  
• Review of first day
  
• Government schemes for women in post-harvest
  
• Unorganized workers social security act, 2008 and the national policy on urban street vendors
  
• Implementation of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification and the Draft Marine Fishing (Regulation and Management) Act, 2009
  
• Strategies and next steps for enhancing women's roles in fisheries in India
  
• Appendix 1: Programme
  
• Appendix 2: List of participants
  
• Appendix 3: Statistics on fisheries production, trade and fishing communities
  
• Appendix 4: French summary
  
• Appendix 5: Spanish summary