Orientation cum Workshop on Mainstreaming Gender among Fishing Community in Bitung

Start: 19 June 2019
End: 19 June 2019
Status: Confirmed
TBD

About This Event

Rationale

·     Bitung is home to multiple tuna canneries that purchase fish landed at Bitung (including from pole-and-line and handline operators) as well as import frozen product from the Philippines and Papua New Guinea (PNG).  Some canneries operate their own purse seine fleet, largely fishing in the western Pacific Ocean around PNG. (Source: https://www.seafdec-oceanspartnership.org/learning-sites-indonesia/ 

·     Primary tuna processing operations in Bitung focus on: (1) fresh or frozen tuna products, primarily for high-value international markets (Japan/Northern Asia, Europe, and the United States.); or (2) canned products for domestic and regional export markets. In 2015, most of Indonesia’s export products were either prepared/preserved (43%) or frozen (41%). (Source: https://www.seafdec-oceanspartnership.org/learning-sites-indonesia/ 

·    The flourishing tuna or seafood industry can be accounted to the men who have been tirelessly catching fish or hauling their catch to the market. But, women are an equally important part of the trade. Women are opening their way to fishing industry, working alongside men to provide for their communities and contribute to sustainable fisheries.  

·    But there is the need to understand and appreciate the gap with regard to women’s involvement in the fishing industry in Bitung. 

·    Raising gender awareness among women in the fishing community of Bitung is one step towards making them informed and involved in contributing to the livelihood of their family and community, and economic development of Bitung in general.

 

 

Objectives

The aim of the activity is to sensitize women on their roles in contributing to the family livelihood and their coastal community.

 Specifically,

1. To raise awareness on CT day and its relation to gender

2. To provide an understanding of gender and development as well as on their important role in family livelihood and their contribution to their coastal community (and coastal fisheries)

3. To identify critical or issues on gender in fishing community they want to address

4. To identify who are the targets (people, agencies, policies, programme) that need to be reached in order to address the issue? 

5. To identify ways to reach said targets and their role on this

 

 

Provisional Agenda

Please refer to attached document.

Documents and Attachments

List of Attendances

(*) Need Confirmation

Venue

Oceanic Fishing Port Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia