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

International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) is committed to promoting and defending equitable, gender-just, self-reliant, and sustainable small-scale fisheries around the world. We believe in strengthening fishing communities and SSF organizations, protecting their local and ecological knowledge, enhancing their social development, and sustainable fisheries, based on a human rights-based approach embedded in the principles of the SSF Guidelines. ICSF prioritizes working in a spirit of diverse dialogue and cooperation, to influence the decision-making processes of multilateral bodies, governments and organizations in favour of small-scale fishing communities, particularly in order to cope with the multiplicity of accumulated and new threats. Based on the experiences of its members and allied SSF organizations, ICSF focuses its work around four key themes: tenure rights, access and use; food security and nutrition; marginalization within the blue economy; environmental crises and climate change; and social protection and social development.

Forum for Small Scale Fisheries (FSSF), Sri Lanka, is a platform that is inclusive (all relevant stakeholders), participatory, integrated (all sub-sectors are present) and holistic (looking at fisheries as a component of the coastal ecosystem).

Building upon the four IYAFA 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; ICSF is pleased to be organizing a strategic international SSF workshop in Sri Lanka from 24 to 26 February 2025, in collaboration with FSSF.

Objectives

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

Participants

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.

Workshop Materials

 

 

Links to ICSF’s IYAFA workshops

 

Resources

SSF-LEX Country Profile: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda

FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profile: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

SDG Voluntary National Reviews: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda

 

 

National Plan of Action for Small-Scale fisheries (NPOA-SSF)

SSF Guidelines translations in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Bengali, Chichewa (Chewa; Nyanja), Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Portuguese, Burmese, Sinhala (Sinhalese), Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tumbuka, Turkish, Yao, Marathi and Gujarati

SSF Guidelines summary translationsEnglish, French, Kannada, Swahili (Kiswahili), Marathi, Portuguese, Urdu, Vietnamese, Bahasa, Bengali, Burmese, Khmer, Thai, Hindi, Telugu, Odia, Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Laos and Spanish

GLOBEFISH Market Profile – 2020: A snapshot of production, trade and other data for fish and fish products by country or territory – Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda

World Bank Climate Change Country Profile: Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri LankaThailand and Uganda

CBD National Reports: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

CBD National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

Human Development Report Country Profile: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, PhilippinesSpain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

Universal Periodic Review: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

 

Articles from SAMUDRA Report: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand  and Uganda

Articles from Yemaya Newsletter: Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

News articles from Samudra News Alerts and South Asia News Alerts: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Senegal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda

 

 

ICSF’s Publications
Index of all ICSF’s publications

SSF Summit Reflections Articles from SAMUDRA Report No. 92, December 2024

CBD Reflections Articles from SAMUDRA Report No. 92, December 2024 

Publications

 

 

Other Resources

 

Palk Bay Maritime Transboundary Issues

 

Other Resources

 

 

Useful Website Links

Films and Infographics

  • Infographics video on SSF guidelines: Social development, employment and decent work

  • SSF Guidelines: Governance of tenure and resource management

  • Empowering small-scale fisheries: the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication