EU-African Stakeholders Declare Support for women in artisanal fisheries

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African women play prominent roles in artisanal fisheries ranging from pre-harvest to post-harvest activities. Despite their roles, women face with multilevel gender problems; from decision making to access to funding. Hence, representatives from Africa and the European Union (EU) economic and social actors have made a global call to support women in coastal African countries.

Recently, in Brussels, Belgium, representatives of African- European Union (EU) Economic and Social Stakeholders’ Network called for access to funding for women in African artisanal fisheries because of their role in food security, job creation, and resource management.

The call is one of the priority areas of the Africa-EU economic stakeholders’ final declaration that held in Brussels, Belgium.

Also, these stakeholders have pointed attention to river basin regions on the African continent where cooperation, infrastructure development, environmental protection, and livelihood issues are of key concerns.

The African-EU economic and social stakeholders, in the perspective of sustainable development, highlight the importance to invest in strengthening the cross-border governance of natural resources at the scale at river basin organizations level, as well as in the conservation and restoration of natural infrastructures, such as wetlands.

Additionally, representatives of the African-EU economic and social stakeholders stressed the importance of investments in the conservation of Africa’s many wetland areas and Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) which are being developed on the continent in both land and marine environments.                                              “In the Transfrontier Conservation Areas, shared natural resources are sustainably co-managed and conserved to foster socio-economic development and regional integration for the benefit of people living within and around those areas,” said the stakeholders.

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