2007
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.
Our founding story has started with a master’s degree thesis. With this theses, Women Fishers Project has come into being.
Women Fishers Project became a civil society project with the supports of the Underwater Research Society (Sualtı Araştırmaları Derneği - SAD).
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.
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);
With the support of UN GEF SGP COMDEKS, Mediterranean Conservation Society and Vehbi Koç Foundation, we performed studies for;
With the support of UN GEF SGP COMDEKS, Mediterranean Conservation Society and Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work;
With the support of UN GEF SGP COMDEKS, Aquaculture Cooperatives Central Union (SÜRKOOP),
We established the first “Women Fishers Commission” within SÜRKOOP (which has 30.000 male stakeholders).
Joined ASHOKA international social entrepreneurship network.
Project won İbrahim Bodur Social Entrepreneurship 2018 Award.
WOMEN IN FISHERIES 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.
Kadın Balıkçılar Derneği
Bizi Takip Edin
Güzeltepe Mah.
Abidin Daver Sok. 7/1
Çankaya – Ankara