24 enhance their living standards. Also, Sixty 60 MSMEs were trained in Business Skills,
Advocacy and Healthy Fish Handling. The permanent DAA Center in Kokorbite is under construction and slated for completion in
September 2017.
IR 5: Gender Equality and Empowerment
5.1 Development of a Gender strategy for the Fisheries Commission
After adopting the gender strategy developed in collaboration with the SFMP project in Quarter 1, the Fisheries Commission has moved forward quickly to incorporate the new gender policies
into its day-to-day management. Promotion of women’s participation in all activities coupled with sustainable strategic interventions will greatly improve the fisheries sector. A first step
towards implementing the Fisheries Commission’s Gender Mainstreaming Strategy was a training workshop for zonal fisheries officers and partners. The 18 participants – including four
men—were drawn from the Volta, Greater Accra, Central, Western, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Eastern Regions of Ghana. The two-day training was carried out on 9
th
and 10
th
February, 2017 at Ampomaah Hotel, East Legon. During the training, the participants reviewed the MOFAD and
FC structure and applied a gender marker to help improve gender equity and empowerment within the two institutions. The participants developed their own gender mainstreaming action
plan with implementation options. The action plan sets out how the Commission will address gender issues in the fisheries sector and serves as a basis and referral document for monitoring
and compliance.
5.2 Implementation of the SFMP Gender Strategy and Action Plan
The success of SFMP is in part hinged on addressing gender and leadership issues within its implementing partner organizations. In Quarter 2, USAIDGhana led a workshop to develop
capacity among all of its project partners to mainstream gender and apply gender frameworks used by USAID. Project Managers and Gender Focal persons from SFMP partner organizations,
were trained on the Womens Empowerment in Agriculture Index WEAI, the Gender Parity Index, and the Feed the Future Gender Integration Framework. The two-day training took place
in February 2017. The participants appreciated learning about these tools and frameworks – enhancing their understanding of the constraints and opportunities to women’s empowerment in
agriculture and discussing the similarities and differences between the agricultural and fisheries sectors. The training will enable SFMP implementing partners do a better job in contributing and
communicating their results within the common USAID framework.
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Figure 12. Cumulative number of new stakeholders engaged in SFMP events, November, 2014 through September 2016, by gender
Encouraging the engagement of both men and women in policy discussions, capacity building and livelihood projects is an important cross-cutting objective of the SFMP. See Figure 12 A
recently completed analysis of 150 stakeholder events of all types held by SFMP and its implementing partners during project Years 1 and 2 sheds some light on the effectiveness of the
gender strategy in engaging women in project activities. The overall trend for cumulative stakeholder involvement in SFMP training, policy, advocacy and livelihood events is 2,304 men
40.4 and 3,403 women 59 . The cumulative proportion of women as new individuals involved with the SFMP has increased substantially and steadily since the beginning of the
second year of project. The number of unique individuals which the SFMP reached through these events was 3,574, including 1,472 men 41.2 and 2,102 58.8 women.
IR 6: Strategic Private Public Partnerships
6.1 Millennium, UT Life Insurance Partnership Fishers Future Plan
