Assessing fishers' empowerment in inland openwater fisheries in Bangladesh

Abstract

The Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) approach has made a significant contribution towards improvement of fishers' empowerment of inland openwater fisheries in Bangladesh aiming to manage their resources efficiently. This arrangement introduced CBFM approaches named fisher-led, community-led and women-led approach. A wider range of local institutional arrangements as community based organizations (CBOs) have been established through participatory process with legal entity. Now, the CBOs as local institutions and fishers are more empowered in participation of fishery management under comanagement arrangement. The study reveals that there is still lack of institutional arrangement to be achieved at optimum level. This paper presents and assesses the empowerment status of the fisher communities in inland openwater fisheries under comanagement arrangement in Bangladesh through Factor analysis and regression model. This study might have policy implication to replicate the community based fishery management approach to promote empowerment for better management.

Does the gender composition of forest and fishery management groups affect resource governance and conservation outcomes? A systematic map

“…Of the quantitative studies, the unit of analysis for all but three was the group, and the average sample size was 132 groups. Two studies used households as the unit of analysis [57,58], and one used fish ponds ('beels') [59].…”

“…Of the included studies, four were primarily qualitative [49][50][51][52] and 13 were primarily quantitative [8,17,18,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]. Of the quantitative studies, the unit of analysis for all but three was the group, and the average sample size was 132 groups.…”

“…There are, for example, no included studies that cover reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), reforestation, or fisheries co-management, and there is only one looking at fisheries protection [61], and two looking at the regulation of fishing [51,59].…”

“…Among the quantitative studies, seven use regression models with governance indicators as dependent variables and gender composition of groups as the explanatory variable [17,18,[53][54][55][56]59]. Among the remaining quantitative studies, the designs comprise before-after, control-impact quasi-experimental designs from a single site [57,58], a before-after, control-impact quasi-experimental design across multiple sites [8], a before-after comparison [61], a control-impact comparison [60], and a frequency distributions of response for women's, men's, and mixed-gender groups with a least significant difference test for group averages [62].…”

POLA USAHA MASYARAKAT NELAYAN DI DESA MAJAKERTA, KECAMATAN BALONGAN-KABUPATEN INDRAMAYU (Business Pattern of Fishermen in Majakerta Village, Balongan District-Indramayu Regency)

“…Aksi kolektif terbangun sesuai dengan level kapasitas diri dan kelembagaan secara individu dan kelompok. Hal tersebut mencerminkan keberdayaan masyarakat yaitu ketika nelayan secara individu dan kelompok mampu berpartisipasi dan bernegosiasi secara sederajat dengan individu dan kelompok lainnya dalam mengelola dan memanfaatkan sumberdaya perikanan (Kabir et al 2011).…”