Gender strategy for the fisheries sector in Cabo Verde
In Cabo Verde, women in small-scale fisheries (SSF) are often trapped in cycles of poverty due to underpaid, informal working conditions, low educational levels, little or no social protection and no access to financing and technology. To help remedy this situation and to give women in SSF a voice in decision-making, the country recently launched a National Gender Strategy for Fisheries, the second of its kind in Africa, with support from the FMM/GLO/145/MUL project “Empowering women in food systems and strengthening the local capacities and resilience of SIDS” and the Coastal Fisheries Initiative in West Africa (CFI-WA). Endorsed by the Ministry of the Sea and the Ministry of Family, Inclusion and Social Development, the Strategy is the result of an inclusive and participatory process that brought all public and private stakeholders to the table – from women fish workers to the government. This report is aimed at national and international institutions and development agencies, policymakers and practitioners. The methodology included gender and legal assessments of SSF value chains, fisher and fish worker associations and existing institutional and public policy frameworks, as well as capacity building for public and private institutions and communities. This highly successful approach resulted in meaningful legal reform and can be adapted to any context where an enabling institutional and policy environment is needed to empower women in SSF.
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| Format: | Book (stand-alone) biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2024
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cd2830en |
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