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Hen Mpoano’s Deputy Director Selected to Join the Edinburg Ocean Leaders Programme
Hen Mpoano’s Deputy Director, Stephen Kankam has been selected to join nine others as a Global Ocean Leader under the Edinburg Ocean Leaders Programme. The overall goal of EOL is to create and sustain a life-long network of ocean change-makers. Towards this, the...
How to Make a Podcast in 318 Days
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Ahead of Hurricane Florence, ProFund Briefs Officials in North Carolina and South Carolina
As the Southeast prepares for Hurricane Florence, GoFundMe is also making preparations and working with state and local officials to ensure that the money raised on GoFundMe will get to those who need it most. Our giving community always steps up in times of need, and...
Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black” Brings Lasting Change to Criminal Justice System With New ProFund Initiative
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ProFund and 60 Second Docs Launch New Short Video Series
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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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