CLPA Capacity Building Strategies Bottom-Up Stakeholders and DPM Consultative Association for Sustainable Fisheries

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3.5.2. CLPA Capacity Building Strategies Bottom-Up Stakeholders and DPM

WWF organized a second workshop on CLPA capacity. The workshop started by assessing CLPA strengths and weaknesses and then identified proposals to strengthen fisheries management structures through the creation of Local Conventions based on stock management both in one or several CLPAs. The benefit of this approach was to proceed to stock management in the entire stock distribution area, including areas exploited by industrial fleet. Experience with stock based fisheries management in other countries Philippines, USA, and The Gambia was shared. During these workshops, many interactions with journalists occurred interviews and documentaries and were distributed through radio, television and newspapers.

3.5.3. Consultative Association for Sustainable Fisheries

The WWF and the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries organized a constitutive General Assembly of the “Alliance for Sustainable Fisheries in Senegal” on November 26 th 2009, chaired by the Director of Marine Fisheries. The Alliance’s legal framework, which gives it the identity of “association,” was finalized in 2011 as a result of USAIDCOMFISH project assistance. The Alliance objectives are to: • Create space for consultations and political dialogue • Support the adoption of measures and policies to achieve good governance and sustainable development of fisheries • Contribute to policy and intervention consistency in the fishery sector • Share information • Watch, awaken and alert on fisheries and aquaculture sector • Promote good practices in the fisheries sector In this context, “coffee-talks” are organized to discuss major topics so as to submit recommendations to fisheries authorities to better take into consideration stakeholders’ concerns. The workshops organized on women and CLPAs ended in a coffee-talk, which was the first public demonstration of the role of the Alliance for Sustainable Fisheries. This coffee-talk was about CLPAs and stock-based fisheries management planning UGD concept and recommendations to submit to the relevant Ministry authorities in charge of Fisheries in Senegal. 28 Picture 15: The USAIDCOMFISH Director talking to CLPAs workshop participants

3.5.4. Study on Gender and CLPAs Strategies