1. AN APP THAT CAN HELP TRANSFORM SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES GOVERNANCE
WHY ABALOBI?
Work with students and fishers mainly to develop the app
Make use of various monitoring programs to inform development
Working with fishers - their requests
AN APP THAT CAN HELP TRANSFORM SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES GOVERNANCE
“from hook to cook”

3. TRACEABILITY IN VALUE CHAIN
SEAFOOD WITH A STORY FOR CONSUMERS
ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL BENCHMARKING
GRASSROOTS DRIVEN, COOPERATIVE EMPOWERMENT

4. What is ABALOBI? How many people have smart phones?
Who knows what an app is?
How many of you have ever used an app?
What is ABALOBI?

5. What is ABALOBI? isiXhosa for ‘fisher’
An integrated catch management system for SSF - one-stop shop
ABALOBI is an app & process
Free, at no cost to SSFs
Using low-cost smartphones
Fishers/users own the data
Different to many citizen science projects
What is ABALOBI?

6. Fisher rights are paramount, but we need all capacity and tools we can use
Past systems: blue books and monitors: problems and feedback?
Knowledge for co-management: trust & legitimacy in information
SSF Policy implementation tool: local specifics & needs
Safety-at-sea
Empowerment in market
LEK, changes in the environment, etc.
Practical and more deep rooted problems
What is in the basket, turf, who fishers, etc
Talk about market – loan-servitude, etc
Importance of LEK in data limited context
Why?

7. How is ABALOBI different?
Concept & development are fisher-driven
Fishers own data
Instant feedback
Proudly SSF
Proudly SA
Open access source code
How is ABALOBI different?

8. Data recording & reporting

9. Adapted from Venturelli et al
Who fishers- record for family and for government, what is caught, how much, where, when
Knowledge base towards defining the size of the pie
At local level ‘manage the species histogram- stock rebuilding
Adapted from Venturelli et al

10. ABALOBI’s Phase of Operations A stepped-approach using ICT4D towards sustainable livelihoods
Co-design, co-ownership and ongoing engagement
Building an inclusive ‘Eco’system
Organic SMME/ CO-OP Development
Value chain upgrading
Morphing into cashless, enabled through fintech services
Empowerment in market through financial inclusion, product brand
Tech: beyond platform into interoperability
Climate smart livelihoods
Fully traceable fisheries
LOGBOOK & Co-production of knowledge
Economic literacy, financial training, savings
Collective action, collective accounting
Stock offer building
Improved capacity to take risks and coping mechanism
Stimulates the formation of community & restaurant supported fisheries
Social indicators & SASSI
Open data fisheries
Opportunity for complex fisheries supply chains
People choose to participate in structured process
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE stimulating social capital
VOICE/ bona fide status
Safety at Sea
Towards more sustainable livelihoods and services for small-scale fisheries
Towards legitimate knowledge base and transformative governance
Towards traceable, transparent, benchmarked fisheries

11. # incentives
Legitimize livelihoods

12. Fishers have a voice in science and fisheries management
Fishermen and women can be more empowered in the market
Fishers can play their stewardship role of our marine resource (aggregated trends)
Consumers can access ‘fish with a story’
Abalobi is a multi-actor collaboration & impact model based on measurable results
ABALOBI as catalyst for community wellbeing and LED
Summary vision

13. Fishers have a voice in science and fisheries management
Fishermen and women can be more empowered in the market
Fishers can play their stewardship role of our marine resource (aggregated trends)
Consumers can access ‘fish with a story’
Abalobi is a multi-actor collaboration & impact model based on measurable results
ABALOBI as catalyst for community wellbeing and LED
Summary vision

14. Facebook: abalobi.info App: abalobi_app
Web:
Facebook: abalobi.info
App: abalobi_app
Key principles
PHONES