DFM Sri Lanka policy study

Status

PUBLISHED

Terms of reference

• The report should be approximately 20-30 pages, not including technical appendices.
• Should include the following elements:
  • An overview of existing policies on fish and dried fish
  • An identification of policy gaps
  • An evaluation of the policy formulation process, describing the participation of different stakeholders
  • An assessment of implementation gaps
  • A list of possible policy interventions
  • An assessment of key governance issues such as the role of local government, policies for common-property water bodies, and management structures
  • An assessment of the use of chemicals and the impact of policies concerning their import, sale, and use

Workflow

• 2020-02-20: Received from Oscar Amarasinghe.
• 2020-11-05: Copy-edited by Eric Thrift. DFM_RPT_LKA-policy-analysis_FINAL.docx
• 2020-11-15: Published online. DFM_RPT_LKA-policy-analysis_FINAL.pdf

Metadata

abstract

This document compiles relevant passages from policy statements, regulations, agreements, and conventions that concern fish processing and the status of women in Sri Lanka, arranged by type of instrument and the various articles under each instrument.

series

DFM Reports

title

National Policies & Regulations on Dried Fish in Sri Lanka

date

2020

author

Oscar Amarasinghe

series editor

Derek Johnson

license

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

address

Dried Fish Matters Project Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts 432 Fletcher Argue Building, 15 Chancellor Circle The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2 CANADA

dried.fish.matters@umanitoba.ca

acknowledgements

This work draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.