Quick Start Projects Yield Lessons for Gender-Responsive Aquaculture and Fisheries Activities

As part of its cross-cutting theme on Mainstreaming Gender Equity and Youth Inclusion, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish (Fish Innovation Lab) works with subawardees to develop resources, trainings, tools, and communications that will advance gender-responsive aquaculture and fisheries development. The Fish Innovation Lab administered the Gender-Responsive Aquaculture/Fisheries Development Assessment (GRADA-FIL) to inform these efforts and glean lessons from the lab’s one-year quick start projects.

A new brief highlights successes and challenges shared by the quick start projects in their GRADA-FIL responses. Common themes include successes in collecting gender-disaggregated data, recruiting women to participate in projects, highlighting gender issues in reports and policy recommendations, and increasing women’s access to resources. However, quick start projects also reported challenges in these same areas. These results suggest that respondents from the quick start projects may be able to share first-hand experiences with other Fish Innovation Lab subawardees to help them navigate common challenges in implementing gender-responsive aquaculture and fisheries activities.

To learn more, read the full brief.

GRADA-FIL RESULTS AT A GLANCE: FISH INNOVATION LAB QUICK START SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES

 

Published March 15, 2021