IFWC is a coalition of small-scale fisheries organisations across Africa and Asia that advocates working for genuine sustainability in fisheries under a pro-people development framework. The objectives of the coalition are to:
1. Support and coordinate fisher people and grassroots fisheries struggle;
2. Provide venues for collective discussions of issues pertaining or relevant to fisheries concerns and grassroots struggles;
3. Initiate or lead global and regional campaigns and resistance against neo-liberal globalization and other policies and programs detrimental or opposed to the collective rights of global fisher people especially those in the South; and
4. Contribute to capacity and movement building of small-scale fisherfolk groups towards the grassroots strengthening and engagements in a relevant regional and international or national intergovernmental bodies.
