The Social and Economic Resource Centre (SERC) represents the Federation at district level. It is managed by the district board. SERC has three different divisions as follows.

All the village organizations and its development sub committees fall under Social development Council. The District Social Development council is the network centre of all the village organizations. All the chairpersons of the village organizations are represented in the District Social Development council. They will elect one of their senior members as chairperson of their Council.  District social council chairperson is one of the board members of the SERC. The Social Development Council is responsible for village level development process under all the programmes implemented by Small Fishers Federation. They will be participated from pre-planning to plan implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reap the benefits. Once a month this council meets for its programme review and makes decisions. The Council secretary is the Social Development Manager of Small Fishers Federation. The reports will be sent to Director (Programme) of the Small Fishers Federation. There will be programmes for early childhood development, Children development and women development. The programmes are implemented under the management of Early Childhood Resource person, the social development manager and the district Manager of the Small Fishers Federation (DM). The DM is fully responsible for implementation and reporting of all the programme activities.

The business councils and the production groups are operating under the Business Development Centre of the SERC. The district chairpersons of the 4 production groups are also represented at the SERC board of Management.

The micro-finance centre is the “bank” of the members of the Federation. The Micro-finance centre was previously run by members of the fisher communities. However, as the savings credit and business programmes have been expanding rapidly both financially and in number of members, the MFC needs to be run by a professional micro-finance staff to keep the bank financially viable. The micro finance centre operates under a Micro finance manager.

Staff of the SFFL at district level is responsible for the restructuring of the village organisations and the implementation and monitoring of all activities by the SFFL in the respective district. The district manager of the SFFL coordinates all activities. The programme managers of the Small Fishers Federation are represented in the SERC board of management. They are the District Manager, Social development Manager and Micro-finance manager. The Board of management of SERC is responsible for the monitoring of the different activities of the SERC, but also the village organisations. District staff is working under the line divisions of Small Fishers Federation head quarters. All the activities of Small Fishers Federation is run under the co-management principles.