Working Group 3: Policy, Governance, and Development

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DFM Working Group 3 investigates policy, governance, and development connections to dried fish value chains.

Detail on the theoretical approach and methods are provided in the DFM WG3 Guiding document.

Meetings

  • 2021-01-14. The Working Group discussed the Guiding Document prepared by Emdad, focusing on the logistics of research building on the work of the Research Teams. See the minutes of this meeting for details of the discussion.

Current action items

  • Derek and Emdad will meet to discuss next steps in RA-supported work.
    • Extended an offer of employment to Mahed Choudhury, PhD student at the Natural Resources Institute, who will work with Emdad on activities related to WG3.
    • SRA work plan to be presented at the next WG3 meeting.
    • Planning meeting 2021-04-07
  • Eric will get status updates on outstanding governance reviews from the Research Teams and request urgent submission. The governance reviews will support a synthesis study by the Working Group.
    • Thus far we have received dedicated policy reviews from Sri Lanka and Gujarat, as well as scoping reports from Mizoram & Manipur and Cambodia that address policy and governance issues.
    • We are also expecting policy/governance reviews from Bangladesh and West Bengal (both past due) and Thailand (due at the end of Scoping research).
    • Dedicated policy/governance reviews were not part of the work plans developed for Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh.
    • A governance and technical interventions report is due from Myanmar, but the future status of that research remains unclear.
  • Derek will formalize a plan for MARE contributions and solicit comments by email.
    • Draft proposals are posted on the page MARE conference 2021.
    • The deadline for submissions to the conference organizing committee has been extended to 12 February, 2021. Comments should be provided to Derek by FEBRUARY 5.
  • Prateep will develop a survey to be sent out to Research Teams, intended to gather data supporting a MARE conference contribution on policy, governance, and development.
  • The Working Group will reconvene in a month or so.
    • Query to Emdad and Prateep 2021-03-04
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