ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations CBD UN Convention on Biological Diversity CBO Community Organization. CFTRI Council for Scientific and Industrial Research CIFR Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute CMFRI Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Civil Society Organization CSO.
Opening of the Regional Gender Dialogue
As part of the Regional Gender Study, SEAFDEC staff had the opportunity to conduct field research on gender perspectives in the coastal communities of Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. She concluded that all participants should reflect on these three knowledges throughout the work of the Regional Dialogue.
Background, and Objective of the Regional Gender Dialogue
If they are not adequately supported by capital resources, skills and market opportunities, the food security and economic benefits of fisheries will remain unstable, and fishing households will continue to be impoverished and located at the extreme end of the fish supply chain. Nightingale concluded the review by describing the purpose of the regional gender dialogue was to bring together all stakeholders involved in the study, and reflect on the findings and recommendations to find practical solutions that can be applied in their programs and projects, while the profile of gender interest in management of coastal and marine resources.
Overview of the Regional Gender Study Synthesis Report
The second phase of the project focused on delivering a regional synthesis report and a refined gender analysis toolkit. To undertake a critical gender analysis in the coastal and fisheries sectors in South and South-East Asia (Part 4 and Part 5 of the regional synthesis report).
Key Findings from the Regional Gender Study
The consideration is mostly to mainstream gender in fisheries and coastal resource management agencies, but it may make sense to also consider mainstreaming fisheries and coastal resource management in ministries of women's affairs and other gender bodies.
Countries in the region are largely falling short of adequate gender mainstreaming
Women have diverse roles and responsibilities, yet their contribution is often
Project Level: Facilitating training in gender analysis with a focus on the intersectionality of gender and other axes of power. Provide gender awareness materials in simple and easy to understand local language. Finding 3 – Women's participation in decision-making remains negligible at all levels. One of the key findings of the study is that reproductive work and caring work make it difficult.
Women‟s participation in decision-making remains negligible at all levels
Nisha Onta, WOCAN wanted to emphasize that conflicts can also lead to an enabling environment for women to participate in decision-making. She also stated that capacity building exercises should include the formation of women's groups or women's networks to increase decision-making capacity.
Old and/or poorly implemented laws and policies, economic processes, lack of
Prasertcharoensuk and SDF added that unless rights-based approaches are mainstreamed, there will be no room for women to engage. Torre noted that bridging this gap requires a comprehensive analysis of how structural issues impact women's circumstances. After the war, women leaders emerged in the north of Sri Lanka because of their involvement in the conflict.
Access to employment is highly discriminatory in the Maldives, where it is not culturally acceptable for women to work in the tourism industry, even though it is a growing sector. Torre noted that the diverse gender analyzes did not particularly point to customary law, e.g. However, it may make sense to have a separate section on customary law in the regional gender synthesis report.
A representative from Indonesia mentioned East Java, where customary laws are weak, while in Bali women do not have land rights.
Social norms and gender roles are not fixed. Gender discriminatory norms can
During the development of the policy, the discussion revolved around the acceptance of water rights as individual rights or community rights, when the rights of women were not considered, even though they are the ones fetching water. In relation to usual practice, women do not receive fishing ID cards and therefore cannot access certain schemes that benefit fishing families. Ensure that women's work, both reproductive and fishing work in pre- and post-harvest stages, is always recognized and valued.
Ensure that implemented activities do not increase women's time burdens and hardships – by redistributing gender roles. Resurrección added that the recommendations should consider the quality of work, especially in the case of paid work. She added that in some cases, the women surveyed admitted that they were part of the productive work.
However, they were not part of the decision-making process on how to spend the income they generated.
Women and young girls‟ self-esteem and ability to partake in community activities
Torre commented that there was insufficient material to draw conclusions on these issues, however, informal work was often cited as an entry point for economic empowerment. Iva, one of the respondents told the story of Panna from Nijhum Dwip Island, Bangladesh. Torre claimed that the "tortured" appeared many times in the testimonies of respondents from the various gender analyses.
Although English is not the first language of translators involved in facilitating the fieldwork, it can still be interpreted as a sign of bad conscience. Clara Park, FAO, commented that changing women's considerations in the home through economic empowerment can also lead to increased domestic violence and that this potential trade-off needs to be considered when projects are implemented. She added that it is difficult to go against the norm and increase women's participation in conservation.
A comment from Indonesia confirmed this statement that men's role is visible along the entire supply chain, while women's role is most of the time limited to post-harvest, giving men the feeling that they are entitled to share their resource ownership. pressure.
Sharing the Knowledge on Gender Integration in Coastal Management and Small
Through a participatory process, a standalone document was developed to support gender equality in small-scale fisheries by increasing the understanding of their gender dimensions, and focusing on the specific role and circumstances of women in the small-scale fisheries sector. Fisheries development programs have focused on the needs and priorities of men, ignoring the differential impacts of policies and programs on each population category and paying little attention to the important role of women in the sector. The FAO has published two case studies on women's empowerment in aquaculture value chains in Indonesia, providing the evidence base to highlight issues at the local level.
Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) WOCAN is a women-led international membership network of women and men professionals and women's associations working to promote women's empowerment and collective action to address climate change, poverty and food insecurity within an enabling environment. WOCAN and partners developed the W+ Standard to increase the rigor and accountability of gender programs, stimulate new investments in women's empowerment, and create a market-based, results-oriented financing mechanism. The W+ Standard combines metrics and procedures to measure and verify the results of women's empowerment within projects.
It provides a framework for designing and monitoring results through the creation of methods, indicators and questionnaires for six areas of women's empowerment.
Group Discussion
Whenever women are involved in the fisheries supply chain, it is usually limited to post-harvest. Decision-making power is usually highly related to cultural/social norms Lack of gender experts in the political sphere Low level of education in rural/coastal areas. What are the possibilities and solutions (recommendations) to improve gender integration in environmental and fisheries programs from national policy to local level.
The inclusion and elimination of the worst form of child labor in the fishing sector is a very good sign. There are also cooperatives run by women, although they are not well recognized by the government. What are the commitments that individual organizations can make to improve gender mainstreaming in environmental and fisheries programs from national policy to local level.
Strengthening the knowledge of men and women should be planned and implemented separately - potentially using different participatory tools/.
Launch of Research Brief “Opportunities for gender equality in fisheries and coastal
The path towards gender mainstreaming in research and policy is described in the research summary.
Country Action Plans
Country Group Feedback and Wrap-up
Promotion of capacity building for women and men in Gender And Development (GAD) in the organizations. Identify the gender issues and key factors affecting women's participation in decision-making in the project cycle;. Recommendations for the formulation of a gender action plan integrated into the national fisheries strategies and for gender-specific environmental precautions for Tilapia cage culture.
It includes an action plan to promote gender equality and eliminate child labor in the fisheries sector, 2016-2020. capacity building of relevant stakeholders at all levels regarding gender equality and child labor in the fisheries sector; Improve monitoring and evaluation (M&E) mechanisms of gender equality and child labor in the fisheries sector.
Finding funds to implement a validated action plan to promote gender equality and eliminate child labor in fisheries, particularly at the community level, with 39 CFIs in coastal areas); The need for gender-disaggregated data collection and gender analysis guidelines in the fisheries sector, small-scale fisheries (CFi) for Cambodia; Influencing gender-integrated policies and using gender-sensitive language in government policies and schemes, particularly in fisheries and coastal resource management;.
Final Wrap-up
List of Participants
Pakistan Mr. Ghullam Qadir Shah Provincial Project Director [email protected] Pakistan Ms. Ruxshin Dinshaw Program Associate [email protected] Philippines Ms. Mildred M. Thailand Mrs. Siriporn Sriaram MFF Thailand Coordinator [email protected] Thailand Mrs. Wantana Chenkitkosol Fi sheries Biologist [email protected] UN.
Regional Dialogue Agenda
Nisha Onta, WOCAN – W+ Standard a framework and indicators to measure Women's Empowerment FAO and WOCAN will share information and knowledge on the integration of gender dimension in the FAO Small Scale Fisheries (SSF) policy and, what are the parameters, indicators, factors to achieved for the well-being of people and natural resources. Share your individual reflections on the key findings and recommendations of the Regional Gender Study in relation to your own country/experience. Reflect on your own experiences of gender integration in environmental and fisheries programs in your own respective countries.
What are the challenges in mainstreaming gender into environmental and fisheries programmes, from national policy to the local level in your respective countries? The Brief will be presented as part of a series of gender assessments across four sectoral areas. What are some commitments/actions that individuals and organizations can make to improve gender inclusion in coastal resources/environmental and fisheries policies/programs, from national policies to the local level in your respective countries.
