It has become clear that the challenges women face in fishing and fisheries needs to be addressed at various levels. There’s a need to challenge unequal gender relations within and outside the household, and within organisations. There’s also a...
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In Uganda, women make up 12% of people working in fisheries sector. However the number has been steadily increasing over the past two decades. Women also play a critical and significant role in small-scale fisheries. In 2010, they represented...
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WOFNET has established that Women from fisher households are involved in fish processing, aquaculture, small-scale fishing and fish selling, but less often in commercial fishing. The main problems faced by fisher women are: a) They’re confined to...
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Despite women’s significant role in fisheries, there’s a lack of attention to gender roles. This has resulted in policies or programmes failing to improve livelihoods or reduce vulnerability among fishing communities. WOFNET believes that...
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There are good reasons why effective and efficient development of fisheries must take the roles of both women and men in the sector into account, including the obvious concerns about fairness, equal opportunity and discrimination: a) Women make...
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