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By promoting gender-responsive policies, challenging harmful stereotypes, and empowering women as agents of change, we can advance both climate and gender justice, creating more equitable and resilient communities for everyone.๐ฃA meeting to present the assessment of the Small Scale Fisheries Guidelines Implementation and status in Latin America and the Caribbean Region to be held in Belize City 22nd April to 27th April 2024.
๐The Regional Advisory Group in Latin America and the Caribbean (RAG-LAC) was established to facilitate and support the promotion and advocacy for implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines (SSF Guidelines) and the rights of small-scale fishers. The RAG-LAC is presently funded by the Centro Internazionale Crocevia (Crocevia) and SwedBio (SU) to support social movements leading to the implementation of the SSF Guidelines at the regional level through the FAO SSF-GSF.
๐Caribbean Network Fisherfolk Organization (CNFO) is one of the members of the RAG-LAC and is the convener for the second regional meeting to be hosted in Belize.
๐ขThe objectives of the meeting are to discuss the findings resulting from the assessment of the implementation of the SSF guidelines in the region, report of the situation in each country, and declare the position of the group.
๐ฃCNFO will be hosting๐ฃ
๐Nestor Edgardo Roche Argentina
๐Lider Farias Gongora Ecuador
๐Josana Pinto Da Costa Brazil
๐Alejandro Avalos Bravo Peru
๐Francisco Javier Villegas Paredes Mexico
๐Pablo Solis Green Panama
๐Zoila Bustamante Chile
๐Jorge Icaza Stanley Panama
๐ฃAnnouncement: the CNFO Chair Mr. Devon Stephen is attending EU IICA CAHFSA Workshop โStrengthening regional and national Agricultural Health and Food Safety (AHFS) Policy Coherence through Advocacyโ (April 11th โ 12th, 2024; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
L-R Mr. Devon Stephen, CNFO Chair of Saint Lucia
Mr. Milton Haughton, Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism CRFM Executive Director
#InImages | ๐๏ธ This is how we live and accompany the VI Latin American Artisanal Fishing Congress in #Tolรบ. More than 25 organizations of artisanal fishermen participated in this congress, which constitutes ULAPA (Latinoamericana Union of Artesanal Fishing) among them representatives of Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, Honduras, Brazil, Santa Lucia, Guyana, Ecuador, St. Kitts & Nevis, Costa Rica, Peru, El Salvador and Panama.
โ๏ธ The purpose of the meeting was to share experiences and articulate efforts related to the various problems faced by coastal and artisanal fishing communities, especially with regard to advancement of fossil fuel exploitation and climate change.
๐ Our #ColombiaAzul ๐จ๐ด #ModoPescao ๐ #PotenciaAgroalimentaria #MejorColombiano
๐ค 25 delegations participated in the VI Latin American Congress of Artisanal Fishing in ๐๏ธ #Tolรบ. At this congress, spaces for dialogue and articulation were promoted to implement good practices and care for our oceans from the impacts of fossil fuels.
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Mr. Jainarine Pamashwar of Guyana, Mr. Devon Stephen of Saint Lucia and Mr. Valon Glasgow of St. Kitts and Nevis are participating in a meeting on Fossil Fuel in Colombia from 2nd to 4th April 2024. Today they visited Isla Mucura to learn about the push on fisherfolk by the tourism sector.
Sod-turning ceremony!
Micoud jetty on the East coast of #saintlucia. This community has never had a jetty before, except for a few weeks in 2021 when a floating jetty was installed.
The Latin American Union of Artisanal Fisheries (ULAPA) and the Global Gas and Oil Network (GGON) invited the CNFO to the Regional Meeting of Artisanal Fishermen: For a Clean and Fossil Fuel Free Sea.
Mr. Jainarine Pamashwar of Guyana, Mr. Devon Stephen of Saint Lucia and Mr. Valon Glasgow of St. Kitts and Nevis are participating in the meeting in Colombia from 2nd to 4th April 2024.
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The CRFM is seeking to fill a vacancy for ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐ข๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ข๐ฅ under the CAF/FAO/CRFM/GEF - BE-CLME+ Project - Promoting National Blue Economy Priorities Through Marine Spatial Planning in the Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem Plus.
Submit your application today!
Email to: secretariat@crfm.int and delmar.lanza@crfm.int
Details at crfm.int/
#jobs #fisheries #blueeconomy #Caribbean
CNFO's Mr. Mitchell Lay (Antigua and Barbuda) and Ms. Vernel Nicholls (Barbados) attended the 2nd Regional Technical Workshop on the Ratification and Implementation of the World #Trade Organization #Fisheries #Subsidies Agreement in CARICOM: Caribbean Community Member States opened this morning in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Hon. Kerrie Symmonds, M.P., Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade of Barbados, delivered the keynote address.
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and the Turks and Caicos Islands are among the #caribbean countries represented at the workshop.
The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism thanks our collaborators Caribbean Development Bank, CARICOM: Caribbean Community and World Trade Organization - WTO, as well as our Member States, stakeholders and other partners for making this possible.