There are a variety of methods and approaches to lead participatory processes and build and exchange knowledge. Find methods and approaches to help stakeholders organize, share information and communicate key issues to small-scale fishing actors.

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Legislating for sustainable small-scale fisheries

This document, Legislating for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries – A guide and considerations for implementing aspects of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication in National Legislation, is a tool for States to strengthen their fisheries legislation in order to establish conditions for inclusive and sustainable small-scale fisheries development, taking into account the interrelatedness of social, economic and environmental sustainability, while focusing on marginalized groups.
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Traditional and local ecological knowledge
Monitoring and reporting
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Co-management
Fisheries management
Tenure rights
Illegal fishing and enforcement
Human rights & gender equality
Gender in fisheries
Other resources & approaches
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement

A Tool for Rapid Assessment of the Business Capacity of Seafood Enterprises

The Financial Rapid Assessment tool provides an objective way to rapidly and efficiently quantify the key business attributes (organizational capacity and operational capacity) of a Seafood Enterprise.
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Science and assessments
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Value chains & post harvest
Value add and processing
Seafood handling and storage
Traceability
Market access
Other resources & approaches
Leadership
Capacity development
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement

Pescadores en México y Cuba: Retos y oportunidades ante el cambio climático

Este libro da cuenta de los retos que pescadores y pescadoras de México y Cuba afrontan frente al cambio climático: el cambio en sus artes de pesca, el conocimiento que tienen sobre los cambios que han sufrido los ecosistemas y el clima –desde la perspectiva de varias generaciones atrás en contraste con la generación actual, así como los cambios climáticos locales que son periódicos, como “El Niño”-, de las formas de organización social, de la participación de las pescadoras en la ciencia ciudadana y también, de los cambios que como científicos y científicas hacemos a nuestros marcos teóricos y a las bases de datos para el análisis de especies y capturas. En fin, cada vez es más evidente que la multidisciplina es una necesidad creciente para entender los problemas complejos, y la relación entre cambio climático, pescadores-pescadoras y pesquerías no es la excepción. 
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Science and assessments
Traditional and local ecological knowledge
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Human rights & gender equality
Gender in fisheries
Disaster risks & climate change
Climate change
Other resources & approaches
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement

Law and Governance Toolkit for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries: Best Regulatory Practices

"This Toolkit presents a methodology for assessing the reform needs to strengthen SSF governance, along with examples of model regulatory language for the core governance elements."
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Co-management
Fisheries management
Tenure rights
Illegal fishing and enforcement
Social development & employment
Fisher and fishworker organizations
Other resources & approaches
Capacity development
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement

Strengthening organizations and collective action in fisheries: Towards the formulation of a capacity development program

This document provides a summary of the presentations, discussions, working group sessions and recommendations of the workshop “Strengthening organizations and collective action in fisheries: towards the formulation of a capacity development programme,” held in Barbados on 4–6 November 2014. The document also includes the nine in-depth case studies presented during the workshop and a contributed paper.
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Co-management
Fisheries management
Social development & employment
Fisher and fishworker organizations
Other resources & approaches
Capacity development
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement

Reserved Parking: Marine Reserves and Small-scale Fishing Communities: A collection of articles from Samudra Report by ICSF, 2008

This dossier puts together a collection of articles from the pages of SAMUDRA Report, the triannual journal of ICSF. The articles show that conservation and livelihoods are closely intertwined, and that top-down, non participatory models of conservation can be counterproductive. Despite being poor and powerless, fishing and coastal communities can be powerful allies in conservation efforts, given their longstanding dependence on natural resources and their traditional ecological knowledge systems. As the examples in the dossier reveal, it is possible for fishing communities to protect and conserve the environment, while continuing with sustainable fishing operations.
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Traditional and local ecological knowledge
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Co-management
Fisheries management
Other resources & approaches
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement

Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change Empowers Coastal Communities in Timor-Leste

Community members and leaders in the coastal districts of Atauro and Batugade in Timor-Leste learn how to protect their livelihoods against climate change by using community-based adaptation processes.
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Co-management
Fisheries management
Disaster risks & climate change
Climate change
Disaster preparedness and response
Human-induced threats
Other resources & approaches
Leadership
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement

Participatory Market System Development (PMSD)

A market development tool based on multi-stakeholder collaboration for inclusive, biodiversity-friendly supply chains with long term scalable impacts. This resource provide detail guidance on the 10-step PMSD methodology. This ensure market actors (community, traders, buyers, exporters, end buyers) collaborate on addressing challenges for own benefits. Relevant for both agriculture and seafood supply chains. 
Value chains & post harvest
Market access
Other resources & approaches
Capacity development
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement
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