SEAFDEC : Training Department

The program is progressive impetus to promote co-management and rights-based fisheries for coastal fisheries management in the Southeast Asian region. Two strategies are institutional building and participatory mechanism taken an emphasis to encourage the program implementation. The institutional building is strengthening the practice of the regional guidelines for co-management using group user rights for small-scale fisheries in Southeast Asia. The institutional building is to gather all stakeholders to construct an enabling environment of sharing power, responsibility and function for fisheries management. All stakeholders exercise participating in decision-making process to formulate and regulate function, responsibility and authority for fisheries management through training workshop. The knowledge gained from the training workshop will be useful to stakeholders to apply the concept of co-management and rights-based fisheries which relies on their national fisheries legal framework to promote coastal fisheries management. Other strategy is participatory mechanism of co-management highlighted to promote the regional guidelines on the use of indicators for the sustainable development and management of capture fisheries in Southeast Asia. The appropriate participatory mechanism of co-management fosters interested parties participate in making decision process to either select best available information or adapt policies and management framework to obtain more responsible and sustainable future condition of fisheries resources.

          1. To promote the applicable practice of rights-based fisheries and co-management towards institutional building of stakeholders for coastal fisheries management

          2. To introduce the appropriate participatory mechanism of co-management to foster the use of indicator for coastal fisheries management

Project/Activity Title

Duration

Activity 1: Promotion of strategic implementation of fisheries co-management and right-based fisheries for enhancing good governance in coastal and inland fisheries management
Regional workshop will be organized to present, share and exchange means and strategies of implementing fisheries co-management and right-based fisheries in fisheries management. Comment and recommendation gains from the workshop will be synthesized and formulated as strategic implementation. In addition, the workshop will provide considerable criteria to select a proper strategic implementation respond to good governance in coastal and inland fisheries management, respectively. An output of the workshop will be published as guidebook distributing to fisheries officials and local user organizations.

Activity 2: Development of alternative fishing activities for small-scale fisheries in Southeast Asia

Sub-Activity 1 Literature review
Gathering information regarding problem of small-scale fisheries by illegal fishing in Southeast Asia, searching from document of Southeast Asia, and combine to be the secondary data, this activity will be carrying at the first quarter of year 2011.

Sub-Activity 2 Contact and interview fishery administration officers, local researchers, fisheries authorities, small-scale fisheries and commercial fisheries
This sub-activity will operate at the first quarter until the fourth quarter of year 2011 with 7 countries of SEAFDEC Member Countries, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar respectively. SEAFDEC plan to contact coordinator of SEAFDEC Member Countries before and discussing on the best community of each countries to collecting data, and sent 50 copies of questionnaire to each countries to follow up these questionnaires, after these questionnaires return to coordinator of each countries, SEAFDEC’s team will be assigned to each country to elaborate and finalize the country status paper in a way of interviewing the fishermen in the community.

Sub-Activity 3 Analysis and report preparation
All questionnaires from SEAFDEC Member Countries will input and analysis by SPSS method, and report preparation and publication are to be made at the fourth quarter and the first quarter of year 2012.

5 days

2 months

8 months

2 months