Improve economic resilience and food security of the artisan fishers in the northern Sudanese Red Sea Coast.

PROGRESS:
 

15 %

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• 3 Community Leaders Orientation meetings held from 9th to 11th August 2020

• Recruited Project Manager, Project Officer and Admin & Finance Officer and other staff

• Meeting with Ministry of Production and Economic Resources and Humanitarian Aid Commission

• Purchase of IT equipment

• Launching of project at state level in October 2020

• Baseline survey in progress

• Assessment of  Fish Landing Sites in the Project target Area

• Village Community Profiles of the target Area

• Assessment of Private Sector Suppliers related to fishing gears business

IMPLEMENTER:

SOS Sahel Sudan      

EXPECTED OUTPUTS:

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• At least 75% of the target artisan fishers are trained in improved fishing practices and techniques.

• At least 200 women are trained in fish processing (value-added), net-making/maintenance & equipped with basic tools.

• 80% target artisan fishers supported with basic fishery package (nets, lines, hooks, ropes and ice-boxes).

• 20% target fishers equipped with fishery assets and technologies (e:g: boats, outboard engines, fish finders, GPS).

• At least 6 fishery associations (4 for fishermen and 2 for women friends of fishermen) are fully established, formally registered and recognised by government authorities to be engaged in the management of the fishery sector along the northern coast.

ACTIVITIES:

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• Skills training of artisan fishers in improved practices and techniques (deep-water fishing, onboard handling techniques, fish preservation, fish preparation and filleting, use of marine navigation devices, fish-aggregating, use of new fishery inputs and technologies.

• Orientation training and sensitisation in ‘international standards’ on sustainable fisheries management for environment/biodiversity conservation in restricted fishing grounds (marine parks).

• Tailored skills vocational training packages for women in fish products value-adding, fish processing, filleting and packaging), nutrition value of fish (awareness).

• Supply of artisan fishers with subsidised packages of fishery inputs and technologies (fishing gears, fishery assets, navigation devices, safety tools), and transportation means.

• Capacity building of fishery and women associations in organisational management, entrepreneurship, marketing (value-chain), lobbying, micro-finance, protection and safety.