A virtual discussion to set the scene for a series of events on gender and women’s empowerment throughout fisheries and aquaculture supply chains.

Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Time: 18:00-19:30 (UTC+8)

Acknowledging the role women play in fisheries, and the deep-rooted challenges they face is essential to constructing gender-based approaches to management, allowing and incentivizing women to engage in responsibilities all along the supply chains.

In celebration of the 2022 International Women’s Day, the Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) Hub and Norway hosted a virtual event to highlight the role of women in small-scale fisheries in Africa and feature actions to break the gender bias in small-scale fisheries as part of the 2022 International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA2022).

The invited speakers came together to share the progressive implementation and use of relevant international instruments, such as the WorldFish-pioneered innovation 'Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs)', to design and guide gender-sensitive government policies that ensure women's access, agency and inclusion over resource, market and leadership roles in fisheries and aquaculture sectors.

Follow WorldFish and the hashtag #aquaticfoods, #IWD2022 and #InternationalWomensDay to check out past conversations on Twitter.