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Liberia’s small-scale fisheries are the backbone of coastal livelihoods, but they face mounting threats from coastal erosion, mangrove destruction, and insecure land rights. Fishing communities’ rights are at risk without urgent action.

This brief updates EJF’s report Levelling The Playing Field: Assessing the impact of Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) in Liberia’s coastal communities, which was published in 2024. The report assessed the impact of VSLAs on increasing women's participation in small-scale fisheries (SSF) decision- making processes and evaluated the effectiveness of VSLAs as a tool for empowering members of fishing communities.

This report evaluates Liberia’s progress in implementing the ten principles of the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency, a set of low- or no-cost steps to ensure sustainable, legal and ethical fisheries.

The European Union-funded Communities for Fisheries project aims to create skilled, capable and effective community co-management associations (CMAs) to secure legal and sustainable fisheries in Liberia. This brief summarises the project’s activities during the first half of Year Six, January to June 2025.

This sample constitution for a Collaborative Management Association (CMA) is intended to be read as Annex 3 of the EJF report "Building it bottom-up: Collaborative Management Association formation guide and lessons from Liberia".

The European Union-funded Communities for Fisheries project aims to create skilled, capable and effective community co-management associations (CMAs) to secure legal and sustainable fisheries in Liberia. This brief summarises the project’s activities during the first half of Year Five, January to June 2024.

The small-scale fisheries sector in Liberia relies on informal governance structures with multiple stakeholders at different leadership levels. This report analyses how these structures play an important role in addressing issues like overexploitation and unsustainable fishing practices.

This report uses the experiences of the Grand Cape Mount County Collaborative Management Association to present the challenges, achievements, and lessons learned from practising co-management in Liberia.

Small-scale fisheries in Liberia play a critical role in food security and the national economy. This policy briefing explains how co-management can make an important contribution to the sustainable management of these fisheries.