Advancing Inclusive and Sustainable Growth
Resilient Fisheries Initiative (RFI) is a non-profit organization that seeks to educate local communities in sustainable fisheries practices and develop employment alternatives that will enhance the quality of life.
About Us
RFI seeks to Create sustainable livelihoods for fishermen through Cold Storage Projects, Fisher’s & Farmer’s Gear Store and Craft Market, Food for the Poor funded boat initiatives, disaster assistance, and educational training for fishermen, including: entrepreneurship, seamanship, game warden, fish handling, first aid, and environmental sensitivity. We aim to Foster sustainable communities through food distribution, and community education, including business and entrepreneurial skills training.
Our Mission
To promote resilient fishery through supporting communities and vulnerable groups by boosting their entrepreneurship skills, grow their agri-businesses from subsistence to commercial farming, which can contribute to food security and
economic empowerment.
Our Vision
We envision empowered and climate-resilient communities with maximum utilization, management and development of resources in a manner that is sustainable, equitable and fair for all.
Our Goals
• All our projects must drive up the knowledge pyramid – from data to information to knowledge to wisdom, and
• At each level, outcomes must be derived from our work – from data to publishing, from information to awareness, from knowledge to management and from wisdom to policy.
Each project may work in just a sub-section of the pyramid, but these basic premises – upward and outward – guide all our work.
Regional Overview
Founded in 2018, Resilient Fisheries Initiative (RFI) is an organization that partners with communities around the Horn of Africa Region to promote sustainable fishery practices, preserve the natural environment and create sustainable livelihoods through entrepreneurship, seamanship, game warden, fish handling, first aid and environmental sensitivity. Working in 3 countries, Somalia, Kenya, Djbouti across Horn of Africa.
Our projects are designed in partnership with local communities and strategically address systemic issues in fisheries development and marine resources conservation and management, research and innovation. As such, RFI demonstrates technical expertise across a range of issues in this sector: livelihoods, entrepreneurship, seamanship, game warden, first aid, and environmental sensitivity, improving attitudes to fish consumption; fisheries infrastructures, fish handling, processing and marketing and enhancing the value of all levels of the fish value chain.
With extensive local networks and community reach, RFI drives positive change through broad community participation and meaningful engagement, achieving sustainable results by actively engaging and providing services to individuals, families, communities, and governments.