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Regional CBFM Workshop (2024)

Implementation of the Pacific Framework Action for Scaling Up Community-based Fisheries Management

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Background

For Pacific people, coastal fisheries are fundamental for supporting their livelihoods, nutrition and health, culture, and economies. However, it is only in the last 30 years or so that fisheries policies in the Pacific Islands region have come to recognise the significant contributions of coastal fisheries and only in the last decade has this translated to the need for management underpinned by community-based fisheries management (CBFM) approaches.

The Future of Fisheries Roadmap and the Noumea Strategy provide the regional context for managing coastal resources in ways that are underpinned by CBFM. The need to scale-up CBFM has led to the approval and endorsement of the Pacific Framework for Action on Scaling up CBFM: 2021 – 20253 by the Heads of Fisheries and Fisheries Ministers, respectively.

Next year marks the final year of the current CBFM Framework for Action, and subsequently, it is timely to now bring together Pacific Islanders experiences in CBFM to share experiences and lessons learned. These experiences will assist with scaling up CBFM in the Pacific Islands region, identifying and prioritising key areas and associated priority actions. This is to ensure that the Pacific people will continue to have healthy coastal fisheries and sustainable and resilient livelihoods which are critical to the wellbeing in an uncertain future.

Official contacts

Watisoni Lalavanua, Community-Based Fisheries Adviser
email: [email protected], [email protected]

Framework:

• Pacific Framework for Action on Scaling up CBFM 2021-2025

Agenda and participants

• Final Agenda Regional CBFM Workshop

• Participants of the workshop

   

Papers and outcomes

Day 1 - Monday 29 April 2024

• Presentation 00 - Introduction: Purpose and objectives of the workshop
• Presentation 00 - Introduction: Status of coastal fisheries resources

Session 1: Status of Scaling up CBFM in the Pacific

• Information Paper 01
• Presentation 01 - Status of CBFM

Session 2: Defining CBFM and CBFM scaling in the Pacific Context

• Information Paper 02
• Presentation 02 - CBFM and Scaling up

Day 2 - Tuesday 30 April 2024

Session 3: CBFM Monitoring

• Information Paper 03
• Presentation 03a - Monitoring CBFM
• Presentation 03b - Tracking CBFM

Session 4: MCSE for CBFM

• Information Paper 05
• Presentation 04 - MCSE

Day 3 - Wednesday 1 May 2024

Session 5: Information and awareness

• Information Paper 06
• Presentation 05 - Information and awareness

Day 4 - Thursday 2 May 2024

Session 6a: Addressing external and non-fisheries threats

• Information Paper 07
• Presentation 06 - Ecosystems threats and hazards

Session 6b: Gender and Social Inclusion

• Information Paper 08
• Presentation 07 - GESI

Session 7: CBFM Networks

• Information Paper 09
• Presentation 08 - Networks

Day 5 - Friday 3 May 2024

Session 8: Synergies and Mismatches between Conservation and Fisheries

• Information Paper 10
• Presentation 09 - Synergies and mismatches

Session 9: Looking forward to and beyond 2025

• Information Paper 11
• Presentation 10 - Looking forward

Session 10: Forums for promoting Scaling up of CBFM

• Information Paper 12
• Presentation 11a - Forums: CBFD
• Presentation 11b - Forums: SSF Summit
• Presentation 11c - Forums: Online community of practice

This workshop is financially supported by the European Union, the Government of Sweden, the Australian Aid Programme and the New Zealand Aid Programme. Its contents do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union, the Government of Sweden, the Government of Australia, and the Government of New Zealand.​