Announcement: ICSF-FSSF Sri Lanka Workshop on Strengthening Collaboration and Capacity-Building in Small-Scale Fisheries, 24-26 February 2025, Sri Lanka

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) is pleased to be organizing a strategic international SSF workshop in Sri Lanka from 24 to 26 February 2025, in collaboration with the Forum for Small Scale Fisheries (FSSF), Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lanka Workshop builds upon the four IYAFA (International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture) regional workshops ICSF hosted in 2022 and 2023 in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Europe, and the two SSF Summits held in 2022 and 2024 in Rome.

The objectives of the Workshop are:

• Strengthening collaborations and alliances between ICSF and its SSF allies, and enhancing its capacities as a support entity.

   

• Creating a space for global and regional SSF movements and organizations, to embrace and be strengthened by our diversity, and collectively move toward a common goal.

   

• Reflecting on ICSF’s strategy and programme of action, and gathering inputs from SSF representatives on how ICSF programmes can best meet their needs and respond to their requests for capacity-building at global and regional levels (including in relation to key international spaces and processes).

The workshop will include 60 participants from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe – including ICSF members, representatives from global, regional and national SSF organizations, participants from the IYAFA regional workshops, and civil society organizations.