Abstract

Within the region (and globally) there is a persistent data and knowledge gap on gender in fisheries despite the existence in some countries of national gender action plans (draft or implemented); national fisheries policies (draft or implemented); and the inclusion of gender equality and equity as a guiding principle in FAOs Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries, that all attempt to mainstream gender in these Social Ecological Systems (SES). A number of socio-economic assessments have been implemented at coastal management sites and communities throughout the Caribbean as components of Global Socio-economic Monitoring Initiative for Coastal Management (SocMon) projects implemented by the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. While these assessments have not deliberately investigated gender aspects of regional fisheries, a significant amount of socio-economic data on small-scale and subsistence fisheries have been collected that may be disaggregated along the lines of gender. This poster aims to provide gender insight from selected SocMon fisheries-related assessments and complements applied interdisciplinary research and outreach being conducted by the Gender in Fisheries Team

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