Linking sustainability to human rights and cultural heritage issues 

CREDETIP is a Senegalese NGO specialising in fisheries. It was set up and recognised by the Senegalese Ministry of the Interior in 1989. Its areas of expertise are as follows :

  • Promoting sustainable endogenous technologies for catching and adding value to fish products
  • Evaluation and strengthening of fisheries governance (obviously including public policy);
  • Institutional diagnosis of fisheries organizations and social movements, capacity-building and institutional support for their inclusion in the process of drawing up public fisheries policies;
  • Social mediation between public authorities, development agencies, scientists and SSF communities in the field of resource governance, more specifically in the search for the best arrangements to ensure real co-management of marine and coastal resources and promote a real inclusion of Stakeholders in fisheries Policies framing;
  •   Capacity building and support for the appropriation by SSF communities of scientific knowledge and legal instruments for sustainable fisheries management;
  •  Capitalization and valuation of endogenous experiences regarding best practices for sustainable fisheries including in the field of social protection (including maritime safety) with a view to taking them into account in public policies specific social security and maritime safety;
  • jSocial analysis of SSF communities: themes of space and power relationships/social relationships within SSF fishing communities.

Aliou Sall is a researcher specializing in the development studies in the field of fisheries. He is the director of the NGO called CREDETIP, formed in 1989 and based in Senegal whose purpose is to provide support to fishing communities. Aliou is also serving as the vice-president for Mundus maris, a non-profit organization that provides scientific and relevant indigenous knowledge and encourages artistic expression about the sea in order to promote its restoration, conservation and sustainable use.
He is involved in artisanal fisheries and has been conducting research in social anthropology of artisanal fishing for over 25 years. During this period he worked with trade unions and social movement’s fishermen in Senegal and other countries in West Africa such as Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Benin, Togo and Ghana. Through his collaboration with the social movements of artisanal fishermen he provides necessary expertise to help conduct negotiations with the policy makers. He has worked as a consultant on a number of national and regional SSF projects on issues related to the socio-anthropology of artisanal fisheries.
From January 2020 to June 2020, he was recruited as a consultant by the Minderoo Foundation to assess fisheries governance in the following countries: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Mauritania, Tunisia, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti and Angola.

“As part of its specific mission to preserve the cultural heritage of seafarers, CREDETIP is developing and maintaining collaboration with players in the art world. ”

— Aliou SALL

Sport at the rendezvous for the protection of the ocean  in the municipality of Hann Bel Air

The celebration of World Ocean Day has become a regular part of their annual calendar for the soccer training schools in the municipality of Hann Bel Air. Indeed, for several years, in collaboration with Mundus maris these schools have not missed a single edition.

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