Our Partners
Asasira Angel
Acting Executive Director
Advocacy
We exist to have informed fisheries communities on fisheries related policies, regulations and human rights. We sensitize communities on the existing polices and regulations in the sector and the benefits of being compliant. We promote human rights and fishing rights of the fisher folk through awareness campaigns. We collaborate with government and fisheries co-management bodes in provision of information relevant to fisher communities. We conduct legal clinics in partnership with law and human rights. We partner with research institutions for awareness on compliance implications. We carry out stakeholder’s dialogue on current issues in the sub-sector
Resource Mobilization
Identifying and engaging with donors: Donors play an important role in financing FFOU activities and to support in the implementation. FFOU intends to strategically and proactively engage with potential and current donors, build and maintain strong relationships, and to identify win-win opportunities. Partnering with local and international NGOs: Working in collaboration with like minded local and international NGOs to share knowledge and for joint project implementation to achieve common goals, is among FFOU mandate as an umbrella Organization. FFOU will identify those Organizations and their interest and engage them to agree on areas of collaboration. Membership contributions: FFOU core mandate is to serve its members and the members do in return provide resources to the Organization, which can be financial but also non-financial resources such as knowledge, networks they have or as volunteers. The members will be actively engaged to benefit from these resources. Organizing events: Events meet multiple purposes which are to achieve the mandate as an umbrella Organization, increase the visibility, and can also contribute to the generation of financial resources through sponsors, offering exhibition space for a fee, entrance fees, donations, etc. FFOU intends to organize a fish festival to achieve all those purposes. Government engagements: Engaging with the governments is not only essential to achieve organizational goals and objectives but also generating non-financial and potentially financial resources. FFOU will strategically work with the government and identify synergies.
Coordination
FFOU coordinates all non state actors (fisheries, Associations, organizations and cooperative societies) in the sector to enable them work together to effectively achieve their work together to effectively achieve their set planned goals for the development of the sector and national development goals.