Creating an enabling environment for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries This project is nested within the FAO Umbrella Programme for the Promotion and Application of the SSF Guidelines (PGM/MUL/2015-2018/SSF) - Enhancing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and sustainable livelihoods (FAO SSF Umbrella Programme), which is implemented by FAO in collaboration with partners and is intended to host projects by multiple donors supporting the same overall goal and outcomes. This project complements and supports activities already being implemented under the programme. Therefore, the projects expected impact is the same as for the programme:

Improved governance of small-scale fisheries contributes to the eradication of hunger and poverty, to sustainable development and to the sustainable use of the environment.

The project will contribute to food and nutrition security and poverty eradication through the application of the principles and provisions of the SSF Guidelines in the context of the SDGs. Accordingly, the project will play a part in achieving the objectives of the SSF Guidelines themselves: 
?	to enhance the contribution of small-scale fisheries to global food security and nutrition and to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food, 
?	to contribute to the equitable development of small-scale fishing communities and poverty eradication and to improve the socio-economic situation of fishers and