Webinar - Sustainable Fisheries in the Context of COVID
Published: 2020
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USAID staff can view an internal recording of the webinar.
COVID is impacting wild fisheries around the globe. There have been and continue to be impacts on (1) seafood demand, supply chains, and fishing activity, (2) fisherfolk livelihoods and health, including women, youth, indigenous peoples, and migrant groups, and (3) fisheries enforcement and policy.
As part of USAID’s Marine Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries Community of Practice webinar series, this interactive webinar on August 26, 2020, shared global and USAID experiences about COVID’s impacts on wild fisheries. USAID Malawi and USAID Philippines shared examples of the current impacts on their fisheries and how USAID programs are responding. Participants engaged in small groups to discuss 1) how their USAID programs are currently responding to COVID or opportunities to do so; 2) current or anticipated barriers to responding; and 3) anything that would help their teams respond better to COVID.
This webinar was for USAID staff, but some future webinars, including the Building Forward in Fisheries: Opportunities for Transformation Post-COVID webinar, are available to implementing partners.
In addition to this webinar presentation, the webinar included:
COVID and Wild Fisheries Resources
- COVID-19 and its impact on the fisheries and aquaculture sector, Food and Agriculture Organisation
- Seafood traceability in a time of COVID, Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability
- COVID-19, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
- The COVID-19 Pandemic, Small-Scale Fisheries and Coastal Fishing Communities, Bennett, et. al article
- Fisheries Aquaculture and COVID-19 Policy Responses, OECD
Gender, Gender-based Violence, and COVID Resources
- Internal USAID resource on gender, gender-based violence, and COVID across sectors
- Gender-based violence and environment linkages during COVID-19: Information note, IUCN
- Framework for a Gender Analysis: COVID-19 Crisis Response
- From insights to action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19. This UN Women report is a summary of the work to date, through the Women Count programme, on the gendered impacts of COVID-19, including new estimates and forecasts of the pandemic’s impact on extreme poverty, as well as the latest data and information coming out of recent Rapid Gender Assessment surveys.
USAID Philippines Examples
Recordings from the Bluer Normal forum, July 15–22, 2020, hosted on the Kumusta Mangingisda Facebook page:
- Bluer Normal Day 1: Post-Pandemic Recovery
- Bluer Normal Day 2: Impact on the Fisheries Sector
- Bluer Normal Day 3: Opportunities to Build Back Better
