Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London

Programme Overview

This five-day professional training programme delivers critical competencies in marine resources governance, focusing on the management of artisanal fisheries and coastal ecosystems.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Held in London, the course equips public sector professionals with rigorous methods to balance biological conservation with the socio-economic needs of coastal communities. Delegates evaluate contemporary governance arrangements, examine international statutory instruments, and assess proven administrative models designed to reinforce institutional authority across small-scale fishing operations and industrial maritime zones.

Delegates review fish stock monitoring methodologies, landing site hygiene management, and community-based co-management frameworks. The curriculum addresses operational vulnerabilities in marine oversight by grounding delegates in empirical data gathering, sanitary standards, and stakeholder engagement structures. Through structured analysis of administrative protocols, participants learn to strengthen fish handling value chains and institute collaborative resource management plans that respect the customary rights of coastal communities whilst maintaining national conservation objectives.

The programme provides specialised technical knowledge to design monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) strategies to curb illegal fishing in coastal waters. Participants analyse risk-based patrol planning, digital vessel tracking mechanisms, and inter-agency intelligence sharing. By aligning enforcement practices with the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and international maritime regulations, the course prepares public officials to secure national exclusive economic zones against illicit extraction and protect vulnerable nearshore marine resources.

Coastal developing states are undertaking significant public sector interventions to protect marine biodiversity and secure artisanal livelihoods.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ This programme directly targets the operational capacities required to administer the Liberia Sustainable Management of Fisheries Project, addressing the institutional requirements of major donor-funded fisheries initiatives funded by bodies such as the World Bank. Effective project implementation requires regulatory personnel to modernise landing site infrastructure, implement catch traceability, and enforce maritime governance to protect artisanal waters from unchecked industrial encroachment.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in London, United Kingdom, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• International legal architecture: UNCLOS provisions, FAO compliance agreements, and national jurisdiction over coastal zones
• Implementation of the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in national contexts
• Property rights, territorial use rights in fisheries (TURFs), and customary tenure systems in coastal management
• Institutional roles of statutory authorities in balancing artisanal sector security with commercial licensing
• Reviewing fisheries management plans: balancing biological yield, socio-economic stability, and marine conservation
• Principles of data-limited fish stock assessment for artisanal multi-species marine fisheries
• Catch and effort data collection systems: enumerator deployment, digital logbooks, and landing surveys
• Biological sampling protocols: length-frequency distribution, maturity indices, and species identification
• Fraud risk assessment and fraud risk registers
• Design and testing of internal controls
• The Three Lines model and the role of oversight
• Audit planning, evidence and documentation

It is designed for fisheries officers from the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority, marine inspectors responsible for port control and vessel clearances, coastal resource managers and marine protected area administrators and others who want practical, current skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

The Growing Importance of Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London

Public bodies and donor-financed projects are expected to show that funds are used for their intended purpose. Auditors, oversight bodies and financiers increasingly look beyond the financial statements to the controls, records and behaviours behind them.

Fraud and control weaknesses rarely come from one failure. They grow where roles are unclear, records are incomplete and warning signs are not followed up. Teams that understand how fraud happens, and how controls stop it, protect both their institution and the people it serves.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design controls that are proportionate and testable
• Gather and document reliable audit evidence
• Recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly
• Turn findings into practical, agreed actions

Strong fraud, audit and internal control systems help organisations:

• Reduce losses and ineligible expenditure
• Pass external audits with fewer findings
• Strengthen trust with financiers and citizens
• Respond to allegations in a fair and documented way

This Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Fisheries officers from the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority
• Marine inspectors responsible for port control and vessel clearances
• Coastal resource managers and marine protected area administrators
• Monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) operations coordinators
• Artisanal fisheries extension officers working with coastal landing sites
• Quality assurance and sanitary inspectors supervising fish handling facilities
• Policy analysts drafting maritime and coastal zone regulations
• Project implementation unit staff managing donor-funded marine investments
• Internal auditors and audit managers
• Finance managers and accountants
• Compliance and risk officers
• Procurement officers and managers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Training, participants will be able to:

• Analyse marine governance structures aligned with the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries
• Formulate community-based co-management frameworks that integrate local fishing communities into statutory decision-making and territorial use rights schemes
• Evaluate artisanal and commercial fish stock monitoring methodologies to establish sound total allowable catch limits and closed season regimes
• Implement international food safety and hygiene protocols for fish landing sites, following Codex Alimentarius and European Union sanitary import requirements
• Design risk-based monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) strategies to deter illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities in inshore exclusion zones
• Deploy vessel monitoring systems (VMS), automatic identification systems (AIS), and community surveillance networks for coordinated maritime enforcement
• Structure institutional monitoring mechanisms to support the execution of national investment programmes and donor-financed fisheries development projects
• Explain how and why fraud happens, using recognised fraud risk models
• Carry out a fraud and control risk assessment for a real process
• Map controls to risks using the Three Lines model

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Training Methodology

The programme utilises interactive adult learning methods including policy analysis, technical scenario planning, and case reviews of marine governance systems.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Delegates work through practical exercises to draft landing site sanitary plans and evaluate coastal patrol strategies using genuine institutional parameters. Facilitated peer discussions enable participants to benchmark national fisheries management approaches against international standards. Each module culminates in applied problem-solving tasks, where delegates prepare structured operational frameworks for their home institutions.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Training, participants will be able to:

• Produce integrated fisheries co-management agreements that delineate statutory authority and local community responsibilities
• Apply rigorous landing site inspection protocols that comply with international sanitary and phytosanitary criteria
• Formulate operational risk matrices to deploy fisheries surveillance assets efficiently against coastal incursions
• Establish reliable catch data sampling programmes for artisanal landing points with limited historical datasets
• Draft formal standard operating procedures for maritime inspection officers handling suspected IUU fishing vessels
• Strengthen institutional readiness to administer donor-financed coastal resources programmes and reporting mechanisms
• Assess fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design and test proportionate controls

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Fraud and corruption risk management
• Internal control frameworks
• Audit and oversight arrangements
• Follow-up of audit findings
• Integrity and reporting channels

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Risk registers and control maps
• Audit planning and testing
• Evidence and documentation
• Reporting to management and boards
• Prevention of ineligible expenditure

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply fraud, audit and internal control within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in fraud, audit and internal control increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on fraud, audit and internal control. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to fraud, audit and internal control that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in London, United Kingdom brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how fraud, audit and internal control is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – United Kingdom

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Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Readiness Assessment
• Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London Training Manual
• Fraud Risk Register Template
• Control Mapping Matrix
• Audit Evidence Checklist
• Findings and Follow-up Tracker
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Fraud Risk Self-Assessment Guide
• Control Testing Checklist
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Marine Governance Frameworks and Sustainable Artisanal Fisheries Policy), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions design controls that are proportionate and testable?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Fish Stock Assessment and Catch Monitoring Methodologies), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions gather and document reliable audit evidence?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Landing Site Infrastructure, Hygiene, and Value Chain Improvements), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Community Co-Management and Stakeholder Institutional Structures), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions turn findings into practical, agreed actions?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (MCS) and Counter-IUU Strategies), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Sustainable Artisanal and Marine Fisheries Governance in London programme take place?

It runs from 12 Jul 2027 to 16 Jul 2027, in London, United Kingdom. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for fisheries officers from the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority, marine inspectors responsible for port control and vessel clearances, coastal resource managers and marine protected area administrators, monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) operations coordinators, and others who want practical skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in fraud, audit and internal control?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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