A gender mainstreamed standard that aligns with the Environmental Farming Standard and provides producers with guidance on the minimum criteria required for both Compliant and Leader level farming operations.The ASIC Social and Gender Standard covers eight holistic fundamentals, addressing the industry's social challenges to support improving livelihoods for smallholder producers, promote human rights in the seafood supply chain, and foster access to equal opportunities and gender equality.

Through this initiative, ASIC continues to work with stakeholders to create a tool that will allow them to apply best practices, obtain new knowledge and skills, expand their market penetration both locally and worldwide, boost their earnings, and improve the well-being of their families and communities.

Initiated by discussion and training on how to do self-assessment and the standard's benefits, producers are then guided through a self-assessment process where data are added into our application system. ASIC reviews and construct gap analysis and needs assessment based on the provided data. ASIC implements data triangulation from producers and related stakeholders to ensure capturing social and gender challenges is performed well. To further construct an improvement plan, ASIC follows on-site verification in the actual operation, data and identifies place-based challenges and social norms issues faced. Together with producer or producer groups, an improvement plan and the timeline and stakeholders involved are created.