Locally-based organization providing sustainable technical support
The active engagement of UniLúrio in all the phases of the process, especially in the education and monitoring, was essential to keep the community involved. The local people don’t know reading or writing, and few know how to speak Portuguese (national language). Unilúrio obviously is the one keeping records and publishing the most important information related to the LMMA.
Classifications
Category
Alliance and partnership development
Collection of baseline and monitoring data and knowledge
Scale of implementation
Local
Phase of solution
Implementation
Monitoring
Enabling factors
Local University (UniLúrio) involved from the beginning with the LMMA monitoring, turtle conservation, fisheries monitoring and shark education.
Lessons learned
International organizations normally come and go. Unless the support is given through a local organization (UniLúrio) there is no stability to the technical support.