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Our history

Start Off - Master’s Degree Thesis

Our founding story has started with a master’s degree thesis. With this theses, Women Fishers Project has come into being.

Civil Society Project

Women Fishers Project became a civil society project with the supports of the Underwater Research Society (Sualtı Araştırmaları Derneği - SAD).

Individual Support

Through individual support, women fishers who were engaged in family fishing practices and were relying on fishing for livelihoods in Gökova Gulf were provided with the trainings and fishing tools for the sustainable use of the ecosystem.

Institutional Support

With the support of Strengthening the System of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas of Turkey Project, which was carried out by UN GEF SGP COMDEKS, The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, Mediterranean Conservation Society, and United Nations Development Programme(UNDP);

  • Women fishers were provided with trainings on the safety of life at sea, microcredit practices, marine biodiversity, the status of women fishers in both Turkey and the world, and invasive species.
  • Press releases, documentaries, posters, flyers, and banners were created in order to improve the visibility of women fishers.
  • Women fishers were donated the required materials for fishing and safety of life at sea.
Institutional Support

With the support of UN GEF SGP COMDEKS, Mediterranean Conservation Society and Vehbi Koç Foundation, we performed studies for;

  • Economic capacity development by ensuring the continuity of women fishers in small-scale fishing/family fishing and encouraging women entrepreneurs.
  • Identifying alternative livelihoods that economically support the women fishers’ existence.
  • Creating organizational models that support women fisher entrepreneurship.
  • Improving the visibility of women fishers.
Institutional Support

With the support of UN GEF SGP COMDEKS, Aquaculture Cooperatives Central Union (SÜRKOOP),

  • We carried out Fishers Support Project. In this project, we created an online training platform called “e-library” for ensuring the access of fishers and vulnerable groups ( women, disabled fishers, refugee fishers etc.) to the timely information on fishing.
Women Fishers Comission

We established the first “Women Fishers Comission” within SÜRKOOP (which has 30.000 male stakeholders).

ASHOKA Fellowship

Joined ASHOKA international social entrepreneurship network.

Women Fishers Society >> Founding

Women Fishers Society, named after this successful project, is founded by women (women fishers, academicians, biologists, political scientists; aquaculture, ecosystem and planning experts) specialized in conservation areas (especially marine and coastal conservation) and in fishing.

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Kadın Balıkçılar Derneği

Bizi Takip Edin

Güzeltepe Mah.
Abidin Daver Sok. 7/1

Çankaya – Ankara

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