Capacity-building: key to reducing vulnerability of artisanal fisheries and small-scale aquaculture to climate change in Chile

Both of these components are addressed in the project "Strengthening the adaptive capacity to climate change in the fisheries and aquaculture sector of Chile", which has been executed by the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SUBPESCA) and the Ministry of the Environment (MMA), and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Design and implementation of a training programme on climate change adaptation in fisheries and aquaculture for public officials, national experts and decisionmakers at the national, regional and community levels Aware of the importance of actively involving decision-makers, this programme contemplated two training areas and target groups: (i) experts and regional and community authorities; and (ii) officials linked to public institutions who manage fisheries and aquaculture at the central, regional and communal levels. In order to prepare public institutions at the national level to promote greater adaptation of artisanal fisheries and smallscale aquaculture to climate change, within the framework of the project, the University of Concepción supported: (i) the execution of seven workshops with experts from the regions of the north, center and south, registering more than 120 attendees; (ii) carrying out eight face-to-face awareness/training workshops throughout the country, registering the attendance of 122 community authorities and regional governments or their representatives; and (iii) intensively training 159 public officials at the national, regional and communal levels from Arica in the north to Punta Arenas in the south.