Assessment of the Cross Border Trade in Sole.
29 Fatou Janha, Executive Director of TRY was sponsored by the Banesto Foundation of Spain
through the Association of Small Scale Enterprise and Tourism in The Gambia in November 2011 to attend a training program for Leaders in Social Entrepreneurship at the INSEAD
Business School of the World in France. It was attend by 38 participants from 18 countries and will continue to serve as a network for TRY and a forum for sharing the co-management
experience. She was also
interviewed on Spanish radio .
Dick Day, Peace Corps Regional Director for Africa visited the TRY Center in January. Twelve TRY women attended the meeting and shared the skills and experience they have gained over the
last several years with TRY. TRY has been invited by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to be one of the lead
bloggers on a new blog they are initiating around the theme of information technology for development used by women and girls in developing countries.
The TRY Executive Director and the newly elected TRY President participated in the USAIDCOMFISH Gender workshop held in Senegal the week of March 20th. At the
workshop, many women from various regions of Senegal exchanged ideas and those who are involved in oysters and cockles have requested an exchange visit with TRY.
The TRY Executive Director also attended a two-day Regional Validation Workshop held by the West African Association for the Development of Artisanal Fisheries WADAF in Dakar at the
end of March. This was attended by fisheries professionals from Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, and Guinea Bissau. The purpose of the workshop was to identify
priorities for the capacity building of professional fisheries organizations for their involvement in fisheries management.
Between these two workshops, Fatou traveled to Saint Louis in Senegal, where she visited processing sites for drying fish managed by hundreds of women. These fish are eventually
exported. She learned about the drying process and the women’s involvement in export marketing.
TRY was notified in March 2012 that it has been selected as one of the top 25 winners of the
UNDP Equator Prize , with a 5,000 award. TRY was selected from 800 applicants. The
Executive Director will Travel to Rio+20 in Brazil in June to accept the prize and to participate in sessions with the other winners. TRY is also eligible to be selected as one of the top 10
winners with an award of an additional 15,000. USAID is cited as a key partner of TRY on the Equator Prize website.