Building up Assembly of the Cambodian Fishers around Tonle Sap: Cambodian fisheries and fishing communities have suffered through many years of over-exploitation, accelerating environmental degradation and escalating conflicts between stakeholders. This has in part resulted from a lack of fisher organizations, little political space, and weak civil society.

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Building Community Based Organization (CBO), Mekong Fishers: This new programme has been recently operating since the beginning of 2009. This programme focuses on building up the fishers and NGOs network in the Mekong region by providing them the capacity building related to the national resources management and rights for improve their livelihood in fisheries sector.

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Build up fishers and NGOs network, and finding any funding support for Coastal Team: Following significant changes in fisheries management, in particular the 2000 fisheries reform, coastal fishing communities do not fully understand the reforms policy as they lack access to information and lack the capacity to take advantage of the reforms. In general, local people still do not take full control of their fishing grounds to support their livelihoods. Powerful people, armed forces and commercial trawlers are therefore always taking advantage of this situation.

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This program focuses on strengthening a coalition and network of NGOs around Tonle Sap, Coastal, and Mekong provinces through promoting a collective working culture among NGOs. It will also help for advocacy to improve small fishers rights of access to and control over fishery resources through our NGOs coalition's research finding, and supports the formation of the community fisher networks into the Assembly of the Cambodian Fishers.

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