The Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) is expanding its membership and is looking for seven new members who are passionate about shaping the global agenda for transparency and multi-stakeholder participation in fisheries management. The FiTI is established as a collaborative effort among different stakeholders from governments, business, and civil society. Their…
5 July 2024. During its 25th meeting, the FiTI International Board – the global oversight body of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) – reviewed the lack of implementation progress in Senegal and issued a final request to the country’s national authorities to avoid delisting from the FiTI. Senegal initiated the…
4 April 2024. The Embassy of Ireland in Tanzania and the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) have agreed to continue their programme on "Strengthening climate actions through transparent fisheries management in African Small Island Developing States (SIDS)". This new phase of the programme will be implemented over three years (April 2024…
Marine fisheries are a critical resource that fulfil the economic, food security and nutrition needs of millions of people around the world. For millennia those who dedicated themselves to fishing for family consumption, recreational interest or as a commercial activity had no cause to worry about the sustainable management of…
The FiTI and People Powered - the Global Hub for Participatory Democracy - are collaborating on a pilot project to strengthen the link between transparency and stakeholder participation with the aim of developing a scalable global model that can be beneficial for other FiTI countries in the future. Public availability…
The FiTI would like to inform its members, partners and friends that while its headquarter offices in the Providence Industrial Area of Seychelles have been severely damaged by an explosion yesterday, all of its staff are safe and operations remain intact. The massive explosion happened just after 02:00 a.m. Seychelles…
A recent study, published by Naunet Fisheries Consultants, analysed the impact of improving government transparency in fisheries according to the FiTI Standard on eco-certification efforts, and whether existing certification efforts incentivise national authorities to improve transparency of fisheries management. In the late 1990s, voluntary third-party certifications of fish and seafood…
23 August 2023. The Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) announced today its founding membership in the Nature Crime Alliance, which was officially launched at an event at the Seventh Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The Alliance is a new global, collaborative and coordinated effort to build bridges across disciplinary,…
The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany (represented by the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, BMZ) and the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) will cooperate on the project "Sustainable marine fisheries through transparency and stakeholder participation". The project has a timeframe of 5 years (2024 – 2028) and a…
The FiTI International Board, the initiative's global oversight body, has established a dedicated Working Group to oversee the review of the FiTI Standard and make a recommendation to the FiTI International Board on how to update it to a version 2.0. The FiTI Standard is the only internationally recognised framework…