Involving Local Fishing Communities in Policy Making: Addressing Illegal Fishing in Indonesia

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing has been identified by the UN as one of the seven major threats to global maritime security; it causes loss of economic revenue, severe environmental damage, and far-reaching livelihood implications for coastal communities. Indonesia, by far the biggest archipelagic state, faces enormous challenges in all aspects of IUU fishing and addressing those is one of the current Indonesian Government’s top priorities. This article addresses the under-researched dimension of how IUU fishing affects fishing communities. With the use of collage making focus groups with fishermen from different Indonesian fishing communities, the research highlights the interrelated environmental (depletion of resources), socio-economic (unbridled illegal activities at sea), cultural (favouritism) and political (weak marine governance) dimensions of IUU fishing as experienced at the local level. However, the research also indicates a strong will by fishermen to be seen as knowledge agents who can help solve the problem by better dissemination of information and cooperation between the local government(s) and the fishing communities. The article concludes by arguing for the involvement of local fishing communities in national and international policy making that addresses IUU fishing

Global voices : the future of ICT for development

Global Voices is currently exploring how internet and communication technologies can assist human development, supported by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

The Kano COVID-19 Deaths: Stories untold (Part I)

This article details the COVID-19 outbreak in the state of Kano, Nigeria and the misinformation and response of the Kano State Government (KNSG). Issues such as suppression of news, false information, political rivalries. media narratives, and social media response are included in the article. Tensions between science and Islam, specifically around government response to death and dying, is discussed. The Health Minister of Nigeria, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, youth activist Dr. Zainab Mahmoud, professor of hematology-oncology Usman Yusuf, investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo, and activist and “self-proclaimed” atheist Mubarak Bala are featured in the article

The Kano COVID-19 Deaths: Forced relocations and disinformation creates widespread confusion (Part II)

Part two of this two article series details the response of the Kano State Government to the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to issues such as the ethnoreligious tension and the relocation of Almajirai children from their Islamic boarding schools to their home states and villages in Nigeria. The article discusses the deaths of Sheikh Goni Modu and Emir of Rano and the fake videos and fake news surrounding the number of attendees at the burials. The tension the fake news and videos caused between Muslims from northern and southern Nigeria are detailed in the article

"Together we move a mountain": celebrating a decade of the Emerging Voices for Global Health network

[Extract] It was otherwise an unremarkable November bus ride from Antwerp to Montreux; cold, but in the rather warm company of early career researchers who were to soon become the first cohort of Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH; http://www.ev4gh.net). On that ride, 52 early career health system researchers from 30 countries began a journey. Little did they know it would continue for over a decade, gathering in its wake, 208 more early career researchers from 60 countries, overwhelm-ingly from the global south. The EV4GH programme has come a long way, from the first meeting at the 2010 annual colloquium of Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, and the subsequent road trip from Antwerp to the first Global Symposium on Health Systems Research at Montreux, Switzerland

Responsible Adults-in-the-Making: Intergenerational Impact of Parental Migration on Indonesian Young Women's Aspirational Capacity

In the developing economies in Southeast Asia, labour migration is increasingly seen not simply to generate income to meet short-term livelihood needs but to secure the family's future, often by investing in children's education. While much work has been done studying the impact of parents' remittances on children's wellbeing including education access, the impact of parental migration on children's (educational) aspirations has received less attention. Viewing youth as social actors, this paper interrogates how they make meaning of their parents' migration, and how this consequently influences their decisions to activate, delay or reshape their hopes and plans for their own educational and work trajectories. With the increasing feminisation of labour migration in Southeast Asia where gendered regimes in care and domestic work make it easier for women to work overseas, this paper focuses attention on the aspirations of young women at the cusp of adulthood from a migrant-sending area in rural East Java, Indonesia. These young women's 'navigational capacity' (Appadurai, 2004) is not only shaped by tangible obstacles such as the lack of sufficient resources, but is also more subtly moulded by an emerging discourse of self-responsibilisation in the making of 'dutiful daughters'. Drawing on conceptualisations of multiple 'logics of aspiring' operating within spatial contexts (Zipin et al., 2015), we show how young women unsettle, inflect and challenge the normative linear education-work transitions by expressing their desire to replace their parents in accessing labour migration as a livelihood option, and reflect on the dialectical relationship between agency and aspirations