About us
Building lasting support toward rights recognition and more secure tenure.
Vision
Local communities, small-scale fishers and fish workers, and Indigenous Peoples fully experience their tenure, and associated rights and agency in the allocation, use, conservation, management and development of coastal lands, shorelines, oceans, lakes, rivers, and associated resources – toward better environmental and societal outcomes.
Goal
Implement and champion new approaches to funding that center power with, and provide resources directly to, local communities, small-scale fishers and fish workers, and Indigenous Peoples, and the groups that legitimately serve them. With more appropriate and equitable resourcing, actors – across scales – can build rights recognition and conditions that ensure tenure security.
What we support
Turning Tides engages with a diversity of partners – across multiple levels – who are affecting governance of oceans, coasts, rivers, lakes, climate responses, conservation actions and food systems improvements. We work most closely with local communities, small-scale fishers and fish workers, and Indigenous Peoples, and their allies in their efforts to secure tenure and fully experience their rights.
“We stand behind our partners in their efforts toward more sustainable and equitable governance of oceans, coasts, lakes, rivers and shorelines”.
