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Securing Child Rights in the Fisheries Sector Consultancy Services to Develop Database for Monitoring Child Labour and Victims of Trafficking
Background Securing Child Rights in the Fisheries Sector in the Central Region and along the Volta Lake of Ghana (SECRIFISE) is a three-year project funded by the European Union and implemented by Hen Mpoano, CEWEFIA and Challenging Heights. SECRIFISE is focused...
Project Brief: Preventing CLaT through Peer Learning and Exchange
SECRIFISE facilitated a learning visit by community leaders to a model community (Kpando- Torkor) along the Volta Lake, where anti-CLaT initiatives have proven successful and sustainable in reducing the practice to the barest minimum and where structures exist to...
Transcript of Facebook Live Text Interview on ‘Saiko’ with Cephas Asare
On June 18, 2020, Cephas Asare was hosted by Gideon Commey to a Facebook interview on the #StopSaikoNOW campaign. Read the full-text transcript here.
A Success Story: Economic Empowerment through VSLA
Joseph E. Kwamena a member of the Koyele VSLA group in the Jomoro district, took a loan of 500.00 GH Cedis (US$86) to start a piggery project. He started with two pigs and within a year, he has over 26 pigs and piglets on his farm worth about 1300 GH Cedis (US$224).
World Day Against Child Labour: End Child Labour Now More Than Ever
Today, we join the rest of the world to call on all to end child labour and secure a better future for children. Our SECRIFISE project will continue to work with stakeholders to address this canker and ensure government’s commitment to eradicate the worst form of labour is achieved.
Cape Three Points CREMA Engages in Reforestation Exercise
The Cape Three Points Forest Reserve (CTPFR) is located in the Ahanta West Municipal of the Western Region. It is the only coastal forest in Ghana and among the few remaining coastal rainforest reserves in West Africa. Since 1999 the forest has been recognized as a...
World Ocean Day 2020: Innovation for Sustainable Ocean
As the challenges to the ocean continue to grow, so does the need for novel solutions and the people driving them. To that end, the theme of UN World Oceans Day 2020 is “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean.” Innovation—relating to the introduction of new methods,...
Small-Scale Fishermen and NGOs Call on the President of Ghana to End Saiko Fishing
Today marks the International Day Against IUU. To mark this day the Ghana National Canoe Fishermen's Council and eight other NGOs in Ghana have written an open letter to the President, HE Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to end Saiko. Saiko is the...
Securing Child Rights in the Fisheries Sector (SECRIFISE)
This is a three-year project funded by the European Union and implemented by Hen Mpoano, CEWEFIA and Challenging Heights. The overall objective is to secure child rights in the fisheries sector by increasing public support for eliminating child labour and trafficking...
Hen Mpoano gives cross-sectoral responses to Covid-19 pandemic in coastal communities in Ghana’s Western Region
Hen Mpoano is working in collaboration with district health directorates, as well as population health and environment (PHE) champions, to strengthen community resilience amidst Covid-19 pandemic in remote small-scale fishing and coastal communities in Ghana....
Esiama Community Health Nurses Training College Gets New Pregnancy Simulation Machine
Fisheries and coastal governance NGO, Hen Mpoano has presented a set of medical training equipment including a pregnancy simulation machine to the Community Health Nurses Training College, Esiama. The equipment which also included a nicotomy bed and an artificial...
Gender analysis: Ghana’s Artisanal Fisheries 2019
In Ghana, fishing is a highly gender-segregated occupation with fishermen catching and landing the fresh fish, and women taking responsibility for processing and marketing. The role of women is significant because they add value to fresh fish through processing, while...
Roundtable discussion
The aim of the roundtable was to bring together decision makers and stakeholders to explore how implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) could help...
The Problem with “Saiko” An Ecological and Human Catastrophe
In 2017, an estimated 100,000 tonnes of fish were landed through saiko, 80,000 tonnes of which were landed in the Central Region port of Elmina alone. This equates to around 40% of the total landings of Ghana’s artisanal fishing sector, and more than twice the...
Ghana’s Fishing Communities: Chronicles of Artisanal Fishers
This documentary, aired on ATL FM, explores the challenges faced by artisanal fishing communities in Ghana and the measures they have resorted to in the face of declining fish stocks. The show was produced by Mary Ama Bawa from ATL FM, with Hen Mpoano and EJF under...
Synthesis of Scientific and Local Knowledge on Sardinella species in Ghana
Scientific information about the Sardinella species in Ghana is scattered throughout many hard to find journals, workshop reports and grey literature. Much of the scientific literature is dominated by information about the northern West African Sardinella stock, not...
Picture Book of Some Elasmobranchs and Billfishes Caught in Ghana
This picture book catalogues some species of elasmobranchs and billfishes landed during the implementation of the project “Enhancing the Management and Conservation of Elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays) and Billfishes through improved fisheries data collection...
Sustainable Fisheries Management Project makes Stride in Mangroves Replanting
The roles of mangroves to the management and sustainability of fisheries resources cannot be over emphasized for which reason government would have to take steps towards ensuring conservation of mangroves. However, the efforts of some non-governmental organizations to...
PRESS RELEASE: World Wetlands Day 2018
INITIATIVE TO CONSERVE THE GREATER AMANZULE WETLANDS (GAW) LAUNCHED ON WORLD WETLAND DAY TAKORADI, GHANA: Hen Mpoano, a fisheries and coastal governance Ghanaian NGO and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded and United States Forest...
Knee Deep: A Ghanaian village faces the rising tide of climate change
Coastal fisheries contribute $400 million annually to the economy of West Africa. In Ghana, USAID works with partner organization Hen Mpoano to mitigate the impact of climate change on the livelihoods of 100,000 women and men involved in the local fishing industry....
New Publication: Comparative Assessment of Mangrove Biomass and Fish Assemblages in an Urban and Rural Mangrove Wetlands in Ghana
Mangrove wetlands are one of the most important ecosystems on earth, providing habitats for both marine and terrestrial organisms as well as supporting essential human services. However, high dependence of humans on these systems is leading to significant...
Contributions of Community Based Groups Towards Sustainable Forest Management in Western Ghana: A Case of Communities Fringing Cape Three Point Forest Reserve
The roles of the Community Based Groups (CBG’s) and their impact on the development of communities cannot be under-estimated, but with current emergence of these groups, there are doubts as to whether they are well structured and their roles being clearly defined in...
Community Participation in Forest Management in the Bleih Community Forest, Nimba County, Liberia
Community participation in forest management has gained popularity as one way of ensuring sustainable forest management and so the Bleih Community Forest management was assessed for its adherence to the principles of participation. The study was done in the...
Fisheries Commission Ghana Recognizes Contribution of Hen Mpoano and BUSAC
Western Region, Ghana – November 4, 2016 – Fisheries Commission Ghana on Friday awarded a joint citation to the Business Sector Advocacy Challenge, BUSAC Fund and Hen Mpoano, as recognition of their significant efforts towards a sustainable fisheries sector. The...
Fisheries Policy Advocacy Training
As part of SFMP’s effort to increase women participation in fisheries co-management decision-making process, and also improve their livelihood and well-being, capacity of women within the fisheries sector are being built to take leadership roles and be much involved...
Media Advocacy
Promoting Sustained Compliance and Enforcement of Fisheries Regulations through Media and Stakeholder Engagements In the last 3 years, prosecution of fisheries infractions and enforcement of fisheries laws have witnessed significant improvement, thanks to donor...
Boeing Awardee
First year Masters student, Hannah Russell, has been awarded the highly competitive Boeing Fellowship to support her fieldwork in Ghana this coming fall. Russell will be working with Hen Mpoano to study food security amongst fish consumers in Takoradi, Ghana in...
Women’s participation
Enhancing women's participation in decision-making in artisanal fisheries in the Anlo Beach fishing community, Ghana Abstract We describe a participatory action research journey with the Anlo Beach fishing community, Ghana, to promote women's participation in...
Combating IUU Fishing
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing violates conservation and management measures currently in place in many countries. IUU is recognized as a serious threat to sustainability of capture fisheries due to its negative impact on the ecology of the...

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