This IFAD/WorldFish project builds on WorldFish knowledge and experiences on fish genetic improvement, and dissemination activities across Asia and Africa, including earlier projects funded by IFAD/EC, providing a combination of support to accelerating fish breeding and improvement programs and increasing the impact dissemination of improved fish breeds to national breeding programs and farmers. The present report deals only with the period September 2018 – September 2019. In 2019 a further 11 papers were published and eight more are under review or being developed for publication.