This report proposes a development framework and associated strategies for diversifying and increasing funding to support the success of FIPs, with a particular focus on small-scale fisheries (SSF) and fisheries in the developing world context. In particular, the framework:
• Recognizes the key enabling conditions, drivers for impact, and requirements for investment, including both asset and enabling investments for a sustainable and profitable SSF;
• Introduces the concept of a multi-level action strategy, which connects FIPs with other initiatives to build collective impact and unlock greater financing; and
• Incorporates a blended finance and landscape approach (expanding impacts to include environment, economic, and equity (3E) considerations) in order to match funders with goals, identify entry points, and design a multiphased project that includes an investment readiness phase. The pathway starts with addressing barriers to finance and then progresses to attracting return-seeking investment in later stages.
