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Empowering Communities for Fisheries Resource Sustainability, Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Grantee Name: Fisheries Action Coalition Team

Hotspot
Indo-Burma
Location
Cambodia
Amount
$150,000
Dates
Dec 2024 – Dec 2025
Keywords
Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Fisheries, Freshwater, Gender, Livelihoods, Networks, Ramsar site, Tourism, Youth
Enhance the sustainability of community-based fisheries resources conservation around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. Establish green business hubs to improve local livelihoods, especially those of women, and diversify the funding sources of community fisheries management committees, through ecotourism, water-hyacinth-based handicraft production, fish processing and other activities. Strengthen the capacity and financial sustainability of two community-based organizations. Support participation of women and youth in national networks on community fisheries.
Strategic Direction : 4 Empower local communities to engage in conservation and management of priority key biodiversity areas

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