Fiji

First harbour, not the whole sea

Conservation International’s Fiji programme is the first client. Learn here, then carry the method — not a branch.

Women crew of the Seakati II standing on the bow in a Fiji port
Seakati II, Fiji. Photo: Fiji Times / FFA — women entering the Pacific fishing industry.

Fiji is writing legislation to lift fishers’ conditions. ILO is working with Government toward C188. Solomon Islands has already ratified. Crew on Fiji-flagged, Taiwanese and other vessels out of Fiji ports remain in the constituency.

Awareness and founding-committee business are in English and iTaukei only.

  • Body to register. Fiji Fishers Union, under the Employment Relations Act.
  • Transitional GS. Banati Sefeti, with a GS Assistant to be appointed.
  • Neighbour. TCGWU Fishers Office exists. Meet it. Do not copy its mark.
  • Rooms. FLAG, MEPIR, FFIA, ILO, CI.
  • Home default. Named deputy covers family-care absences.
Pacific crew hauling a brail of tuna on deck
Pacific tuna deck. Photo: FFA TunaPacific.

Documents for CI

The pack

Offer letter, project proposal V3.6, and a draft constitution prepared by PIWR for the Fiji Fishers Union. The constitution is the Union’s instrument. It is not an instrument of PIWR.