DAA Fisheries Training Center

32 focusing on women fish processors and marketers. DAA will scale up support to existing and additional MSMEs in the targeted communities with a package of training programs and extension services including gender advocacy, campaign against IUU fishing, leadership training, and boycott of fish caught illegally, marketing development, and financial and business skills development. DQF will also demonstrate use of raised platform DAA will engage qualified artisans and take the lead in constructing demonstration improved drying sheds for women in post-harvest process salted fish especially in Apam. This intervention will mainly be implemented in communities with groups with large women processes in salted fish processing in support of the production of healthy fish for local consumption. Beneficiaries contribute up to 50 of the cost of construction in the form of cash and kind. DAA will contribute to the healthy fish campaign through local community radio sensitization and education on good post-harvest practices in Apam and Winneba. Continuing from Year 2 IFSS Promotional activities, DAA will gather support for the adaptation of IFSS among fish processors in Apam and Winneba. Public campaigns such as durbars, Street Floats and Fish Smoking Competition will be used to gather support. SNV-led Fisheries value chain improvements and livelihoods. SNV will also start to implement direct value chain improvements with processors in either the Volta or Greater Accra region, to be determined at a later date. These activities will include training on business development, improved handling, and promotion of the new fuel efficient fish smoking stoves. Organizational Capacity Development. DAA will continue to work with SNV to implement priority recommendations based on the assessment completed in Year 1. DAA will coordinate with SNV on coaching, mentoring and technical assistance based on needs identified in the assessment. DAA will organize a quarterly review meeting among women groups in Apam and Winneba to share experiences and draw from the lessons learned from the past months. This meeting will serve as the platform to solicit suggestions from group leadership for smooth SFMP implementation in Apam and Winneba communities. DAA will continue to strengthen the capacity of its community liaison officers in Apam and Winneba. Training will focus on basic report writing, group membership mobilization, identifying and writing success stories of fish processors applying business skills new technology. Stakeholder Engagements will be held with MMDAs in Apam and Winneba on project activities to strengthen coordination between DAA and MMDAs at the district level.

4.6 DAA Fisheries Training Center

The DAA fisheries training center is taking shape with much progress occurring to date. This has included the development of a business plan for the Center, development of an architectural plan and bill of quantities for bidding the construction contract. A Temporary Center Training Staffingrecruitment, equipment, training courses was successfully established in Tsokomey, near the Kokrobite site of the permanent center. SNV recruited qualified staffs as well as stocked the building with required furniture. SNV and DAA developed fisheries training packages and training materials to be used at the center and these trainings are on-going at an interim center establish. The DAA fisheries training center will be constructed in Year 3 at the site and parcel of land acquired by DAA. SNV is securing all local permits required prior to construction actually takes place. The scope of work and budget for construction of the DAA Fisheries Training Center DFTC is contained in a separate amendment to SNV’s sub-grant agreement; and will be implemented as per that scope of work prepared and added to their sub-agreement in Year2. Additional training modules will also be developed and training conducted. In Year 3, DAA will manage the activities of the training center. Its aim is to be self-sustaining after the life of SFMP. DFTC will start to engage in some income generating activities that will secure the core objective of providing fisheries based training and as a hub of improved post harvest knowledge exchange. In line with that, the Interim DFTC will embark on feasibility study of production and packaging of fish products to some local premium markets in the country. Such production will meet healthy fish production protocols. The DFTC will start to undertake a comprehensive program of activities which will include promotion of improved fisheries value added products, business, literacy 33 and numeracy training for women processors, and other interventions and trainings on IUU fishing promotion of Improved Fish Smoking Stoves IFSS. Once the building is constructed a launch event will be held with invited dignitaries. SNV will also provide support to design the CEWEFIA Model Training Center based on learnings from the DAA model center.

4.7 Community-Based Management of the Women