Capacity building workshop on Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small‐Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication For Raigad and Ratnagiri districts, Maharashtra, India, 21st January 2016 the workshop was held at the Sanskar hall, Malvan, it was attended by 46 participants including 30 women and 16 men from fishing communities, Fisheries cooperatives, community organisations, government representatives (Malvan Municipal corporation) and NGO’s participated in the workshop.