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The fishing community of Moree, Ghana, comes out to meet boats returning with the day's catch, buy fresh fish and help unload and maintain nets. - - Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (SFLP): GCP/INT/735/UK. The Sustainable Fisheries Livelihood Programme (SFLP) is a partnership between 25 West African governments, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID). The Programme was launched in 1999 for a period of seven years. It uses two main tools in its holistic approach to alleviate poverty: the sustainable livelihoods approach to development and the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, adopted by FAO member governments in 1995.