CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems - FISH

Overview: FP2-1 - Resilient coastal fisheries

FP2-3 - FP2-2


Leader Philippa Jane Cohen, WorldFish - WF
Coleader: Alexander Tilley, WorldFish - WF

Team members: 27
Partner organizations: 7

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Activities/Products:  5


  Description
    
The cluster focuses on coastal systems of Solomon Islands, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and scaling country of Timor-Leste (with activities and investment to be determined in Philippines and Cambodia) with an emphasis on developing, refining and scaling management, fishing technology and livelihood innovations. These countries demonstrate high levels of livelihood, food and nutrition security dependence on coastal systems and a policy environment (consistent with trends throughout the broader Asia-Pacific region) that strongly promotes decentralized co-management. The opportunity is to increase the performance of co-management models to realize productivity, food security and poverty alleviation potential (Activity 1.1). Simultaneously, this requires a strong focus on situating co-management (with its strengths and limitations) within a range of management, governance and livelihood innovations responsive to contemporary challenges (e.g. demographic change, competition for and limits of fisheries resources and climate change) (Activity 1.2). Improved opportunities for fishers to generate income, maximise benefits from ecosystem services and strengthen livelihoods and resilience will be tested within fisheries value chains and, where appropriate, through complementary livelihoods outside the sector (Activity 1.3). To achieve impact at scale, innovations are spread through learning and governance networks – yet simultaneously this Cluster will challenge and progress the dominant narrative and narrow understanding of scaling as “dissemination of technologies” – and will build an understanding of scaling of processes, principles, governance norms and develop response or adoption typologies and outcomes. To ensure innovations are relevant, legitimate and effective, they are developed and taken up through partnership with governments, regional bodies, development agencies and civil society.
  Atlas
    
   Key Results
    

Blog Outcome Impact Case Report Policy

Innovations

The Nijhum Dwip Management Plan led by WorldFish now approved by the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL) in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2021

Research and application of co-management strategies enhance the biodiversity conservation while providing socio-economic resilience for over 46,486 fishers in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2021

More than 300 households living in coastal fisheries communities are improving their livelihoods conditions thanks to complementary participatory aquatic foods farming in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2020

15,690 km2 marine area under improved fisheries management through the real-time monitoring of fishing activities and catch in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2020

Research and application of co-management strategies enhance the contribution to sustainable increase in hilsa production while providing socio-economic resilience for over 34,676 fishers in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2020

The Fisherwomen Community Savings Groups (CSGs) in Bangladesh empower 6,000 poor women by providing visible economic and social benefits while conserving the biodiversity

Reporting year: 2020

Research on hilsa conservation incentives provides strong evidence to the government of Myanmar in designing a fisheries management mechanism that promotes livelihood diversification and resilience

Reporting year: 2020

Illuminating Hidden Harvests study led by FAO, Duke University and WorldFish, in the spotlight at Committee on Fisheries (COFI) virtual dialogues

Reporting year: 2020

Increased recognition and support for sustainable national and sub-national Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) programs by the governments of Kiribati, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands

Reporting year: 2020

World-first monitoring system for small-scale fisheries adopted by the Timor-Leste government at a national scale

Reporting year: 2020

USD 7.92 Million grant by the World Bank allocated to promote the aquaculture development in the State of Odisha, India, based on FISH research and technical inputs

Reporting year: 2020

WorldFish strengthens its support to the Government of Myanmar in the design and implementation of an incentive-based hilsa management in the Ayeyarwady Region

Reporting year: 2020

Contribution to the development of an inclusive, evidence-based National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste that sets the direction for future fisheries and food security investments

Reporting year: 2020

Revision of the legal regime for the management and regulation of fisheries in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2020

Operationalization of the Hilsa Conservation and Development Fund (HCDF) in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2020

Allowable mesh size for hilsa gillnets recommendations now officialized by the Government of Bangladesh through a gazette notification

Reporting year: 2020

WorldFish supports the Government of Bangladesh to develop a national management plan as a legal instrument for the management of Nijhum Dwip Marine Protected Area

Reporting year: 2020

LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR FISHERIES RESEARCH IN MYANMAR

Publication year: 2020

The declaration of Nijhum Dwip Marine Protected Area (MPA) to generate more sustainable fishing and livelihoods while protecting the marine biodiversity in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Contribution of FISH research to global fishery policy through the FAO International Symposium on "Fisheries Sustainability: strengthening the science policy nexus"

Reporting year: 2019

Inclusive, evidence-based development of a National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste that sets the direction for future fisheries and food security investments.

Reporting year: 2019

Revision of the legal regime for the management and regulation of fisheries in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2019

Hilsa Conservation and Development Fund (HCDF) created and operational guideline formulated in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Allowable mesh size for hilsa gillnets determined and recommended in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Decentralized Fisheries Law and regulations to establish and legalize community fishery associations in Myanmar

Reporting year: 2019

Proposition of fiscal reforms to allow more sustainable and inclusive hilsa fisheries management in Myanmar

Reporting year: 2019

WorldFish contributed to the declaration of the Nijhum Dwip Marine Protected Area (MPA) in Bangladesh through S.R.O. No.211-Law/2019

Reporting year: 2019

Community Savings Schemes Financially Empower Coastal Fisher Women in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Hilsa Production and Fishers’ Income Increased due to co-management strategies aimed to enhance the socio-economic resilience of fishing communities in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Fiscal reform: Design of a incentive-based system of hilsa fisheries management in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta for more sustainable and inclusive fisheries

Reporting year: 2019

National adoption of small-scale fisheries data system in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2019

Inclusive, evidence-based development of a National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste that sets the direction for future fisheries and food security investments.

Reporting year: 2018

Inclusive, evidence-based development of a National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste that sets the direction for future fisheries and food security investments.

Reporting year: 2018

Model resilient fishing village: an approach of livelihood transformation of fishery communities in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2020

Big data technology and system (PeskAAS) to improve small-scale fisheries management in Timor Leste

Reporting year: 2020

Community-based green mussel production system in Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh)

Reporting year: 2020

Fish powder for new livelihood opportunities for women in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2020

Nearshore fish aggregating devices (FADs) for food and nutrition security and distributive justice in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2019

Smartphone-based Citizen Science Approach for Improved Fish Catch Monitoring in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Community Fish Guards (CFGs) enhanced compliance in coastal biodiversity conservation in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Four scaling approaches for community-based, co-management for coastal fisheries in Solomon Islands

Reporting year: 2019

Gender inclusive methodologies for co-management of fisheries

Reporting year: 2019

Gender-inclusive sustainable livelihood diagnostic tool

Reporting year: 2019

Coral Triangle (CT) Atlas database portal built upon open source geospatial solutions to enable its sustainability

Reporting year: 2019

Gangetic Hilsa ecotypes/races and its return to natal river for spawning discovered by genetic analysis

Reporting year: 2019

Solar-social innovations to reduce waste and loss, increase incomes and improve equity in capture fisheries systems

Reporting year: 2019

Big data technology and system (PeskAAS) to improve small-scale fisheries management in Timor Leste

Reporting year: 2019

Hilsa fisheries co-management and livelihood buffering strategies

Reporting year: 2018

Solar-social innovations to reduce waste and loss, increase incomes and improve equity in capture fisheries systems

Reporting year: 2018
  Activities/Products
    
Code Activity/Product Name Leader Co-leader Total Outputs Output types View
FP2-1.001 Management models reviewed, tested and refined Philippa Jane Cohen David Jonathan Mills 2
FP2-1.002 Tradeoffs between sustainability, resilience, food security and wellbeing understood Philippa Jane Cohen Edward (Eddie) Allison 1
FP2-1.003 Gender-sensitive alternative livelihood strategies assessed Hampus Eriksson 1
FP2-1.004 Catalysts identified and strategies to spread innovations prepared Philippa Jane Cohen 0
FP2-1.005 Cross-scale governance mechanisms identified to support the viability and spread of innovations Philippa Jane Cohen 1
  Projects
    
Acronym Project Title Year Section Leader Center Budget Start Date End Date View
  Outcomes and Impact
    
Code Outcomes and Impact Type Indicators View
001 Aquatic systems more sustainably managed and equitably managed development outcome 1
002 Improved opportunities and performance of fish based livelihoods for men and women development outcome 2
003 Food and nutrition security improved within and through SSF food systems development outcome 3
004 Public sector, development agencies and investment policies enable resilient SSF development outcome 0
006 Wider adoption of enhanced management models and livelihoods solutions research outcome 0
007 Innovation spread and supported through learning and governance networks research outcome 0
008 Increased capacity of national and regional institutions to implement SSF-supportive policies research outcome 0
009 Food security, fisheries, environmental polices transformed explicitly account for SSF research outcome 0
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