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The governance-livelihoods-organisational-resilience-integration (GLORI) framework(Source: McConney and Medeiros 2014)
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The Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations was formed in 1999 under a fisherfolk organisation development project. The aim was for this national body in fisherfolk governance to strengthen the capacities of its local level organisation members. Its evolution from origin to the present illustrates the complexities of capacity developmen...
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... Efforts to implement the SSF Guidelines have resulted in increasing global and local attention to fisherfolk organizations, their strengthening and governance, and women's roles and participation in them both as members and leaders (McConney, Simmons, Nicholls, & Pereira Medeiros, 2017). Women, however, are scarce in fisherfolk organizations globally. ...
... While Kurien's (2013) global reflections on collective action and organizations included examples from these regions, the Caribbean was notably absent. The documentation and study of fisherfolk organizing in the Caribbean, not to mention, country-specific cases such as those in Barbados, are sparse (examples include CRFM, 2004, 2007a, 2007b, 2007c, 2007dGrant, 2004;Mahon, Blackman, Lee, & McConney, 2010;McConney, 1999McConney, , 2001McConney, , 2007McConney, Atapattu, & Leslie, 2000;McConney et al., , 2017McConney & Medeiros, 2014;McConney, Nicholls, & Simmons, 2011;McConney & Phillips, 2011;McIntosh et al., 2010;Tabet 2009). Therefore, this case is important as it adds to the limited information on fisherfolk organization-building in the region, and globally. ...
... The first component of this research, the poverty perspective, had recently been examined in another Barbados fisherfolk organization by McConney et al. (2017), so this research sought mainly to validate that those findings were applicable to the CFPA. The second and third components of collective action and organization-building were combined into an integrated analysis since early scoping revealed that the industry participants made little distinction between the two concepts. ...
Collective action and the diversity of forms it may take in fisherfolk organizing is complex. Efforts to implement the 2014
Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale
Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication
(SSF Guidelines) have resulted in increasing global to local attention
on fisherfolk organizations, their strengthening and governance.
These include women’s roles and participation in them,
both as members and as leaders. There is limited literature on
women in fisherfolk organizations in Barbados. Women in the
flyingfish postharvest sector are conspicuous, but how some work
through their fisherfolk organization is undocumented. The
Central Fish Processors Association (CFPA) formed to address challenges small fish processors were experiencing in their livelihoods. Through group interviews and document analysis, benefits to the women from participation in this all-woman organization, and the challenges they face, were explored by examining the links
between collective action, organization and gender. We document
the collective action of these women in preparing to make
practical interventions for improvements to their working and
domestic lives. It is the first research focused on organized women in the Barbados flyingfish fishery, deviating from the typical focus on men in its harvest sector.
This paper builds on lessons learned from case studies of organization-building and collective action as a means of eradicating poverty in small-scale fisheries. The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, endorsed by FAO Member States in 2014, recognize that addressing poverty depends in large measure upon the collective agency of small-scale fishers and fish workers themselves. We first discuss the nature of poverty in small-scale fisheries and argue that lack of rights and debilitating power relations are among the factors contributing to poverty. Secondly, the paper explores the possibilities of collective action and suggests that the support—but not the domination—of government and civil society is crucial. Finally, we look into the characteristics of fisher and fish worker organizations and emphasize the importance of autonomous decision making, and the need to address internal obstacles and opportunities, including those related to gender.
