WHO WE ARE WHAT WE DO and Why
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The WorldFish Center WHO WE ARE WHAT WE DO AND WHY Reducing poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture www.worldfishcenter.org Photo by: Dominyk Lever Reducing poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture WHO WE ARE WorldFish is an international, non-profit, non-governmental We’re one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group organization with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger by on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a group of improving fisheries and aquaculture. investors that include governments, development banks, philanthropic organizations and development institutions. We work in partnership with a wide range of government and Our annual budget is about US$0 million. non-governmental agencies at regional, national and local levels in the developing world, and with advanced research institutions worldwide. WHAT WE DO With support from the Rockefeller Foundation we began in With our partners, we carry out research-for-development 1977 as the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources to improve small-scale fisheries and aquaculture. Our key Management (ICLARM) based in The Philippines. In 000 competencies are in Policy Economics and Social Sciences, we shortened our name to The WorldFish Center and set up Natural Resource Management, and Aquaculture and our new headquarters in Penang, Malaysia. Genetic Improvement. This inter-linked set of disciplines work We have 50 staff members, including 50 Ph.D. scientists together to provide a wide range of research and analysis, based in twelve countries across Asia, Africa and the Pacific1. some of which are summarized in the diagram, next page. From these bases, we work in more than 5 countries with more than 00 partners representing 50 countries. 1 We currently have regional or country offices in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Malawi, Malaysia (HQ), New Caledonia, The Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Zambia. WOrldFisH KEY COmpETEnciES The key compentencies of WorldFish work together as an inter-linked set of disciplines to provide a wide range of research and analysis. Policy, Economics and Social Science Natural Aquaculture Resource and Genetic Management Improvement Natural Resource Management Policy, Economics and Social Aquaculture and Genetic Science Improvement • Bio-physical analyses to improve and support integrated • Strategic social and economic • Developing methods for assessment and management analyses to identify how fisheries breeding improved fish strains of small-scale fisheries and aquaculture can best for aquaculture contribute to poverty reduction • Design and management of • Identifying and adapting at local to global scales global information systems on aquaculture technologies for the aquatic resources (FishBase, • Policy and institutional analyses poor, including women and the ReefBase) to improve small-scale fisheries landless management and the broader • Post-disaster livelihood recovery • Integrating aquaculture with issues of governance of aquatic in fisheries-dependent regions terrestrial small-scale agriculture resources • Bio-physical analysis of the • Developing strategies, options • Social analyses of the impacts of built structures (e.g. and action plans for aquaculture relationships between human dams) on aquatic resources in production at regional and health and fisheries to identify river basins national level the best ways to increase • Analysis of external drivers benefits to health-impaired • Identifying and adapting such as climate change on populations (through HIV/AIDS technologies that improve water livelihoods of fishery-dependent and malaria) and reduce health productivity while protecting households risks among fishers and fish environmental goods and farmers services • Market analyses to connect small-scale producers to markets HOW WE WORK Our work uncovers basic principles that have international • South Asia utility and, as a result produce global impacts, with high • Greater Mekong returns on investment. Such knowledge, technologies, • Southern and Eastern Africa methods and tools, made freely available to all, are referred to as “international public goods.” • West and Central Africa Three communities of practice nurture our scientific We apply our expertise in ways that build human and capacities: Policy, Economics, and Social Sciences; Natural institutional capacities at all levels within partner agencies, Resource Management; and Aquaculture and Genetic for example by helping networks, advising partners on Improvement. institutional development, training, and learn-by-doing research partnerships. To achieve this we work closely with partners, and build Our VisiON connections between the developing and developed Our focus is on two interlinked agendas, one to ensure worlds. productive and resilient small-scale fisheries, the other to expand sustainable aquaculture. Our vision is to be the We organize our work geographically into six regional science partner of choice for delivering on those agendas portfolios: and creating a future for fisheries and aquaculture that, when • Pacific achieved, will improve the lives of millions. • East & Southeast Asia WOrldFisH FOcus WorldFish focuses and aims to deliver on two interlinked agendas that will improve the lives of millions Resilient Small-Scale Fisheries Sustainable Aquaculture that that • Deliver the full range societal and economic benefits they are capable of delivering and that people want from them • Provides food, nutrition and economic opportunity for those that need it most • Have stewards with the tools and skills to learn from experience and respond to threats and opportunities • Produces fish in ways that do not store up environmental problems for the future • Improve the chances that the benefits from fishery will be sustained and enhanced • Uses land, water, food and energy wisely and efficiently to deliver the full range of benefits it is • Have participants with the freedom of alternative choices capable of and economic opportunity outside fishing • Is integrated into national economies in ways that • Have all those whose interests are at stake fairly maximize its development impact represented in decision-making so that needed changes are accepted • Are governed effectively so that, at a minimum, fishers always leave enough fish to ensure fish populations are sustainable will will Secure and improve food access and Fisheries improve livelihoods and income for 20 million poor people nutrition for 1 billion poor people. dependent on small-scale fisheries. Photo by: Randall Brummett Expanding sustainable aquaculture Our WORK convening power that our partner network and international status provides A big picturE ApprOACH • We can better focus research to the poverty and We take a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach hunger reduction agenda due to the complete because the problems fisheries and aquaculture face are alignment of these goals with our mission complex and multi-faceted. There are many linkages and Along with this unique combination of attributes, one of the inter-dependencies and many points of entry. Failure to most important measures of our difference is the way we embrace this complexity has led to piecemeal efforts in the work – how we translate our values into practice. We strive past and undue faith in single technological or development to be: approaches – magic bullets. And research alone is not enough – we also catalyze partnerships that give the poor • innovative and dynamic in anticipating new challenges access to credit, inputs, markets, institutions and other and responses essential ingredients for transforming their lives. • adaptive in learning from our own experience and that of our partners WHAT MAKES us spEciAL? • responsive and efficient in delivering on our Our vision is to be the science partner of choice for delivering commitments fisheries and aquaculture solutions for developing countries. • trusted and transparent in our dealings and Realizing that vision requires us to be different in significant independent in addressing sensitive issues on the ways from others – without such strong differentiation there basis of science is no reason to choose WorldFish as a partner. Specifically, • nimble enough to seize new opportunities quickly we offer a unique combination of attributes: THE CGIAR AdvAntAGE • We can provide pro-poor technologies and tools in Through partnerships with our fourteen sister CGIAR areas that others do not focus on centers, we draw in a wide range of world-class capabilities. • We can add greater value to our partners’ efforts Example include collaboration on water issues (IWMI), policy through our capacity to synthesize and integrate and governance (IFPRI), farming systems and crops in knowledge at global and regional levels different environments and regions (CIMMYT, CIP, ICARDA, • We can more effectively help develop and implement ICRAF, ICRISAT, IITA, IRRI, WARDA), biodiversity (Bioversity the research for development agenda through the International), livestock (ILRI) and forests (CIFOR). 5 PROducts WE DElivER We deliver science-based services and solutions (knowledge, expertise, methods, tools, technologies) in aquaculture and fisheries management that help solve poverty, hunger and environmental degradation across Africa, Asia and the South Pacific.A s an international public institution, we deliver these in the form of “international public goods” that we make freely available to all.