Women Empowerment in Coastal Fisheries Project

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN COASTAL FISHERIES IN NIGERIA:
Increasing Resilience to Climate Change Adaptation through Films and Dialogues (2023 – 2024) With funding support from Africa Centre for Energy Policy

 

The project aims to empower women in coastal fisheries through targeted interventions that can help enhance their resilience and promote sustainable adaptation to climate change. Also providing training for alternative income-generating activities, such as eco-tourism, aquaculture, or value-added fish processing, so they can diversify their livelihoods and reduce their dependence on climate-sensitive fishing activities and provide the women fishers with opportunities that will help them challenge gender norms and stereotypes, gain recognition for their contributions, and participate in decision-making processes in innovative solutions considered in climate change adaptation strategies, policy development, and resource management.

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN COASTAL FISHERIES IN NIGERIA:
Increasing Resilience to Climate Change Adaptation through Films and Dialogues (2023 – 2024) With funding support from Africa Centre for Energy Policy

 

The project aims to empower women in coastal fisheries through targeted interventions that can help enhance their resilience and promote sustainable adaptation to climate change. Also providing training for alternative income-generating activities, such as eco-tourism, aquaculture, or value-added fish processing, so they can diversify their livelihoods and reduce their dependence on climate-sensitive fishing activities and provide the women fishers with opportunities that will help them challenge gender norms and stereotypes, gain recognition for their contributions, and participate in decision-making processes in innovative solutions considered in climate change adaptation strategies, policy development, and resource management.