South Africa: Pan African News­let­ter

Masi­fun­d­ise is build­ing a com­pre­hens­ive com­mu­nic­a­tions plat­form that en­com­passes print, elec­tronic and so­cial me­dia. On every sub­ject that af­fects small-scale fish­ing, Masi­fun­d­ise draws at­ten­tion.

Through reg­u­lar art­icles e.g. in the press, not only ar­tis­anal fish­er­men but also the gen­eral pub­lic should be provided with in­form­a­tion.

We have had very pos­it­ive feed­back from nu­mer­ous re­cip­i­ents of the news­let­ter, in­clud­ing NGO work­ers, gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, aca­dem­ics, donor agen­cies and, most im­port­antly, part­ner or­gan­isa­tions. It has already proven use­ful in stim­u­lat­ing dia­logue amongst part­ner or­gan­isa­tions where stor­ies of “ocean grabbing” (or “lake grabbing” in some in­stances) are start­ing to emerge. Many part­ners have re­ques­ted as many hard cop­ies as we can send, high­light­ing in their mo­tiv­a­tion just how im­port­ant these is­sues are in both a na­tional and re­gional con­text.