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THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2018
BOX 23
PROMOTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS–BASED APPROACH IN SMALL-SCALE
FISHERIES AT MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, 2016–2017
„ „ Side event “Human Rights, Food Security and
Nutrition and Small-Scale Fisheries” at the 2016
session of the Committee on World Food Security
(CFS), discussing entry points for applying HRBA,
how to identify good practices and the roles and
responsibilities of various actors, in particular
States as duty-bearers
„ „ Side event “SDGs and Small-Scale Fisheries:
Meeting Commitments and Realizing the Right to
Adequate Food” at the 2017 session of CFS
„ „ Side event “Joining Forces for Sustainable Small-
Scale Fisheries through a Human Rights–Based Approach to Ocean Conservation” at the UN
Ocean Conference in 2016, stressing
interlinkages among SDGs, particularly between
target 14.b and SDGs 1 and 2
„ „ Sessions on “Human Rights in Small-Scale
Fisheries Governance and Development” and
“The Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines: Global
Implementation” at the MARE Conference in
2017, the latter based on an analysis produced
through the Too Big To Ignore research
partnership (Jentoft et al., 2017) which includes
three chapters specifically addressing HRBA
Povert y eradication efforts through governance of
small-scale fisheries need to empower fishing
communities and make them gain more control
over the basic conditions that determine their
well-being. Collective action can take the form of
organizations that help empower small-scale
fishers. Once such organizations are in place,
collective action – which may otherwise be
spontaneous and ad hoc – becomes coordinated,
directed, routinized and more powerful and so
can actively contribute to governance processes.
Governance of small-scale fisheries should follow
the “subsidiarit y principle”, which allows fishing
communities to be more in control through
collective action within a supportive and
enabling environment where the government and
CSOs also have a role to play. in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) (Biswas, 2017),
developed in a participator y way, highlights
experiences, concepts and g uidance for moving
towards gender-equitable small-scale fisheries
governance and development in support of the
implementation of the SSF Guidelines (FAO,
2015a).
Participation in fisher organizations offers
women an important pathway for engaging in
management. FAO supports gender
mainstreaming to improve gender equalit y
through the participation of women in fisher
organizations. However, research on women in
fisher organizations is still scarce.
Case studies on fisher organizations in Barbados,
Belize, Costa Rica, Indonesia and the United
Republic of Tanzania (Siar and Kalikoski, 2016)
revealed that women participate as members and
leaders in fisher organizations, but much less
than men. Ongoing FAO analyses focus on how
women’s participation and leadership in fisher
organizations have an empowering effect on
women and contribute to balancing the power
relationships between men and women. Findings
to date (Alonso-Población and Siar, 2018) indicate
that the barriers to women’s participation and
leadership in fisher organizations include: »
Achieving gender equality and women’s
empowerment
The 2030 Agenda calls for gender equalit y and
the empowerment of all women and girls
(SDG 5), which is particularly relevant to the
fisheries sector. Lentisco and Lee (2015) have
demonstrated the extent of women’s participation
in fisheries and the importance of their
contributions to fish supply. A handbook recently
produced by FAO and the International Collective
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