FFOU has limited resources to execute its mandate and the available ones are not always utilized effectively. To address this weakness and mobilize the resources needed to implement this strategic plan, seven resource mobilization strategies and core activities to implement those were developed.

Strategy 1: Identifying and engaging with donors: Donors play an important role in financing FFOU’s 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.

Strategy  2:    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 FFOUs mandate as an umbrella organization. FFOU will identify those organisations and their interest and engage them to agree on areas of collaboration.

Strategy 3: Membership contributions: FFOU’s 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.

Strategy 4: 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.

Strategy 5: Government engagements: Engaging with the governments is not only essential to achieving organizational goals and objectives but also generating non-financial and potentially financial resources. FFOU will strategically work with the government and identify synergies.

Strategy 6: Effective management of internal resources: Assessing the resources needed and available to achieve organizational goals and objectives and using those effectively is essential for effective operations. To achieve this FFOU intends to amongst others develop resource inventories and budgets, develop policies, and establish working groups and committees.

Strategy 7: Income-generating projects: A nation wide trend of many NGOs is to generate income from alternative sources to not be solely dependent on donor funding, which can be very restricted to project activities and of a short-term nature, making it difficult to finance core operational costs and being able to plan longer term. Common activities to generate income for network organizations could be to offer consultancy services or training for a fee. FFOU intends to tap into this opportunity and