Family Planning for People and Planet
Gender
Population
Physical Health
Location
Women
Men
Traditionally the ones who fished.
Poor physical health among fishers were more likely to use illegal methods of fishing in the LVB
Traditionally handled the offshore operations of processing, transporting and selling the fish.
Hinges on gender equity
The protection of Lake Victoria's ecosystem can directly benefit human health.
Once fishing became illegal in the LVB, men travelled farther to continue to fish, and those unknowingly carrying HIV would pass them along to people they were sexually active with in other shore communities.
Women need to have control over reproductive health (contraceptives, avoid disease, safe child birth)
Expansion of Nile perch market (1980s) attracted migration to Lake Victoria
People living along the LVB originally benefited from fishery.
Economic
Infrastructure
Health
Fishery directly impacted the every day lives of people who lived along the LVB.
People living along the LVB are directly impacted by economic consequences of fishery.
Communities along other bodies of water are negatively impacted due to the diminishing fishing population in Lake Victoria.
Family planning education.
Providing contraceptive access for women.
Empower's women to feel more involved within their communities.
Educate men on the use of contraceptives
More appropriate family sizes.
By having less children families can provide more realistically for their families bettering the health of their children.