Enhancing Stewardship in Small-Scale Fisheries through Ecosystem Approaches and Other Means
Too Big to Ignore Latin America and the Caribbean joint workshop with Working Group 4
6 - 9 August 2013
Curitiba, Parana - Brazil
August 7th, Wednesday
August 6th, Tuesday
The following programme is subject to changes.
PROGRAMME
08:30 – 09:00
Registration and distribution of workshop documents
09:00 – 10:30
Opening Session
Don’t miss the boat: Small-scale fisheries (SSF) and the need to work together
• Welcome remarks
• Introduction and objectives
• Overview of TBTI
• Overview of SSF in LAC
• Overview of TBTI WG 4
• Some Brazilian perspectives on TBTI
• Questions for clarification and expectations (participants)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Let’s talk about it
• First impressions, potential and real connections – people, projects, institutions, networks – how to meet objectives and expectations
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Panel session 1:
Living the change in ecosystems and fisheries (SSF)
• Introduction to the topic
• Social-ecological system concepts and issues
• Experience from LAC
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break (flexible timing)
15:30 – 17:00
• Experience from Brazil
Let’s talk about it
• How fisheries are changing ecosystems, and how ecosystems are changing fisheries … Who or what is causing change or being impacted by change? Which of the impacts are negative or positive? Why? Do the impacts change over time? How?
19:00
“Fishing for caipirinhas”: exploring ideas and opportunities to work together
07:00 – 08:30
Bus trip and breakfast on the road from
Curitiba to Matinhos
08:30 – 09:00
Reflections on Day One and burning issues
09:00 – 10:30
Panel session 2:
Monitoring the change: strategies and methodologies to assess and to monitor the change
• Introduction of the topic
• SocMon and other methods for monitoring SSF
• LAC experience with monitoring in SSF
• Brazilian experience with monitoring in SSF
Let’s talk about it
• What do we know about measuring change? How can we learn together by participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E)?
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Panel session 3:
Enhancing the stewardship: sharing and learning by experiences
• Introduction of the topic
• Why stewardship and how?
• Experience from LAC
• Experience from Brazil
Let’s talk about it
• How are fisherfolk organizing and collective action enhancing stewardship? What would help to improve stewardship?
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 16:30
Field trip: Pulling it all together and experiencing the stewardship
• Interaction with Matinhos fisheries and fisherfolk while discussing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches from identifying, monitoring and evaluating impacts, to enhancing the stewardship through networks, organizations and collective action
16:30 – 18:00
Bus trip from Matinhos to Curitiba with informal review of learning
09:00 – 10:30
LAC: Planning actions
• Planning strategies, in coordination with WG4, including products, communications, timelines and mobilization of resources to move forward and implementation
• Working plan for students applications – criteria of selection
• Contribution of LAC members to the 2nd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
LAC and WG4 integrating and closing: Let’s move together
• Determine the key areas for integration and networking among regions, groups, participants and others
• Closing remarks
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch and departures
08:30 – 09:00
Reflections on Day Two and burning issues
09:00 – 10:30
Discussion Forum
Riding the WG 4 wave: planning strategies for WG4
• Outline work plan for WG4 in the LAC region
• Participant small groups develop WG4 plans (all 3 components) for Brazil/LAC
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Discussion Forum
Final session focused on WG4: Let’s move together
• Participants present the draft plans and discussion follows on how to integrate the plans with each other and with other initiatives
• Decisions on leadership, responsibilities, communication, timelines and mobilization of resources to move towards implementation
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Who’s doing what, what has been done, and what’s next for SSF research in LAC
• Speed presentations (5-min) from participants about their research
• Brainstorming and discussion about key issues that need research and the kind of research that need to take place in order to address them
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee break (flexible timing)
15:30 – 16.30
Fishing for solutions: definitions and meanings of SSF and EAF
• Presentation 1. Conflicting definitions of SSF in the LAC region: problems for monitoring
o Discussion on how to find a common ground – on definitions for monitoring and official statistics
• Presentation 2. What an “ecosystem approach to SSF” really means?
• Open discussion
16:30 – 18:00
LAC: Putting together our capacities for building knowledge
• Panel presentation: Reflection and feedback from partners and collaborators
• Open discussion
August 9th, Friday
August 8th, Thursday