As part of its efforts to promote gender equity to improve fisheries livelihoods RFLP developed a field handbook that gives guidance on taking gender into account in all phases of small-scale fisheries development projects.
The handbook provides:
• An overview of the rationale, concepts and approaches concerning mainstreaming gender equality in development cooperation;
• An overview of the role of women in the fisheries sector, the problems they face and possible empowerment opportunities;
• Tools for gender analysis in fisheries development projects and guidance on how to integrate gender aspects at various stages in the project cycle.