Community Fish Sustainability and Market Inclusiveness

Countries:

Cambodia

Start project:

2016

Donors:

Kerk in Actie

Partners:

Integrated Sustainable Livelihoods Program

This project aims to improve organizational capacities of Community Fisheries ( CFi) management, sustain fisheries finance through capacity building for Community's Revolving Fund (CRF) committees and increase the income of fishers' families through promoting 'adding value' and access to markets.

Background

This project is implemented by Morodok, a Cambodian NGO supported by ICCO and Kerk in Actie. The current project is an extension of a previous project (2013-2016) which aimed to contribute to poverty reduction through promoting poor villagers' business cooperatives, setting up small business enterprise networks, and building the capacity of community leaders to establish networks on natural resource management and to discuss alternative livelihood options. As the results from the previous project indicated a further need of strengthening capacities, access to finance and access to markets for fishers, the current cycle (2016-2019) focuses specifically on these interventions.

The Fisheries Project focuses on providing technical assistance to fishers families in 5 Community Fisheries: Chikhor Krom, Chrouy Svay, Andoug Tek and Thmor Sar (all in Koh Kong Province) and Tumnop Rolok (in Preah Sihanouk Province) to improve their production techniques, and packaging and marketing of seafood products, to effectively manage their fishery resources in a sustainable way.