This training program is designed for the purpose of providing awareness of basic
gender concepts and gender mainstreaming in fisheries sector to key officers of FiA at national, provincial and local levels. Their knowledge of gender equality issues, gender analysis and gender mainstreaming is critical so that they can plan downstream training and other fisheries development programs to make sure that gender equality concerns are reviewed and mainstreamed into planning, implementation and monitoring of fisheries program. This target group of each training consists of approximately 15-25 key staff and who are responsible for field work and routinely train fisheries teams and members of Community Fisheries, fish farmers at provincial and local levels. Hence, it is both required and very useful for them to understand general principles of gender equality, as well as to apply gender analysis and gender mainstreaming in their training and day to day work. It is especially important for them to have this knowledge so that they can contribute to the achievement of implementation of the Gender mainstreaming Policy and Strategy in Fisheries.