Inception phase | PANORAMA

Collaborative management of all stakeholders

Establish a management body reflecting the collaboration between local government and communities ensuring transparency and accountability. In collaboration with all stakeholders, including partnerships with local enterprises, set up a joint patrol teams composing members of local government, National Waters Guard, National Navy, community groups, traditional security guards, dive operators and the CTC.

• Commitment from local government • Partnership between stakeholders • No conflicts between resource owners and dive and tour operators

To be provided by solution provider.

Inception phase

Local

Consultative development: zoning and management plan

Formalise and enhance local customs and institutions legally. Conduct consultations (in the case of Nusa > 30) with community groups, government, and private dive operators with specific attention directed to each stakeholder group’s context. Identify core zones of high resilience, thus high conservation value. Core zones have high coral reef biodiversity serving as spawning sites, and no coral bleaching during temporarily high sea-surface temperatures.

• Commitment from local government on MPA establishment • Community support and culture that respects nature and acknowledges peoples’ dependence on coastal and marine resources • Location of the MPA close to the mainland (access) and not too large in terms of size for management reasons

Planning and developing an MPA should involve a range of central and local government agencies, the local community(ies) concerned, marine tour operators and other marine users.

Inception phase

Local

Nusa Penida: Establishing an MPA Learning Site, Coral Triangle Center

MPA Curriculum: 12-part series designed to teach The Principles of Marine Prote…

Coral Triangle Center: Tools for an overall LMMA strategy

Insertion in the community

A requirement to a community led participatory monitoring program is the prior development of strong relationship with the community leaders. The nature, objectives and methods to be used were discussed and agreed with the community before its implementation. Awareness on the lack of and the great value of fisheries landing data was clearly established within the community at the onset of the monitoring program.

Keeping the same staff interacting with the communities so that trust is generated among people representing each party. Prior negotiation on how projects were going to be undertaken and which role the community will have in the activities. Maintaining constant communication with community representatives. Periodically reporting the results of the projects being implemented in the community.

Set in advance the "rules of the game" with community representatives creates an environment of trust. The community involvement in the identification and design process, as well as in the activities, is also very beneficial. The return to the community of the information that was generated and the conclusions drawn from the data collected enables community ownership of the process. The development of this confidence and joint work allows MarViva to be inserted in the community and to be perceived as part of it, facilitating the implementation of processes.

Planning, designing and implementing an awareness campaign

We took a stock of all the existing activities that SGNP was doing relating to outreach and education. I have been working in this space for all my career and I could provide valuable input with the plans I presented. This was easy as I had already proven myself with the website and Facebook page responsibilities. We looked at a multiple range of activities to engage with the people visiting SGNP. I lead a number of pilot nature trails, to demonstrate how these walks can be used as effective medium for biodiversity as well as conservation communications. I drew up small plans for events ranging from half day events to overnight camps. I personally became involved a diversity of topics, from biodiversity, history, archaeology to adventure sports in these activities. SGNP had a campsite (with permanent tents) which they upgraded and made available for longer events. When this plan was ready and agreed on, we invited the print and electronic media and invited them to be a part of these programs. We organised our events for the media free and managed to win their support and participation. Constant engagement and training with SGNP staff happens about backend management and (standard operating procedures) for these events.

Not Applicable

1. Diversifying your means to achieve your objective. 2. Working in close and constant coordination with the regional as well national media. 3. Demonstrating success rather than explaining it. 4. Setting up day-to-day processes and monitoring them.

Inception phase

Implementation

Local

Stakeholders involvement through consultations and meetings

Gathering of specific local knowledge, issues, and circumstances; Reconnaissance trips made on site by experts, various meetings with local and national stakeholders (tourist operators, rangers, selected tourists, government officials), gathering of (scant) existing ecological and socioeconomic background information, understanding technical and logistic constraints to consider for visits.

Government intervention and facilitation

Local stakeholder contributions were often chaotic; information provided often unsubstantiated or contradictory, in attempts to protect personal interests. In situ investigations by experts are essential.

Inception phase

Local

National

Creating media and popular momentum

Collection and publication of scientific discoveries on the ecological importance of the Ligurian Sea and the unusual level of cetacean mortality attributable to driftnet fishing; engagement of the media; circulation of a petition to the Italian Government to stop driftnet fishing in the area with the collection of large number of signatures.

Onset of ecological field research in Italy and France in the mid-1980s promoted by scientific and advocacy NGOs; onset of a volunteer-based cetacean stranding monitoring network which revealed the extent of cetacean mortality; attention of the general public to marine mammal conservation in the 1980s; availability of the media to cover the story.

Press can help create momentum at governmental level.

Planning phase

Inception phase

Multi-national

Capacity-building of local people in agroforestry

Rehabilitation of coastal areas through agroforestry reforestation

Gervais Munyororo Yade

Embers production from trees planted by the project - modern carbonization technique

Gervais Munyororo Yade

Formation on chicken breeding techniques

Gervais Munyororo Yade

Agricultural technicians formed the population in the sustainable use of land, tree planting, charcoal production and crop management.

Only available in French. To read this section in French, please download the document "Blue Solution Template in French: ‘Réhabilitation des espaces côtiers par le reboisement agro forestier” from the bottom of this page, under 'Resources'.

Blue Solution Template in French: ‘Réhabilitation des espaces côtiers par le reboisement agro forestier'

Network of Mediterranean Fisheries Cooperatives

Longline fishing boat in Morocco waters

Atelier Mediterranéen contre la peche à la Dynamite

Analyse des Indicateurs SDPIR

Goal

An informal network of Mediterranean fisheries cooperatives was established in the Mediterranean MPAs.

Process

Implementation of a workshop on the exchange and sharing of knowledge and MPA management methodologies, for the benefit of national Mediterranean artisanal fisheries cooperatives.

Implementation of an online forum for the exchange of knowledge, methodologies and impacts concerning the project.

Implementation and publication of a popular guide about the self-management of MPAs.

Implementation of an external evaluation on the capitalization of the project.

The exchange and sharing procedure followed the “Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation” formulated in 2007 by the Conservation Measures Partnership.

Informatics classes were organized to guarantee an effective use of the exchange forum.

It has been very useful to prepare two versions of a vulgarized guide regarding the self-management of MPAs: one simplified, destined for the fishermen and another one more detailed for the managers, project coordinators and institutions.

The forum must be established in consultation with the fishermen and the marine area’s respective administration.
Following the project, several fisheries cooperatives have asked for the establishment of a MPA according to the standards and approach used by AGIR.
Looking for financing to establish new MPAs
Implementation of an external evaluation on the capitalization of the project

Good Practice Handbook for Mediterraneen Fisheries-MPAs (in French) June 2015

Communiqué de Presse Réseau des Coopératives de Peche artisanale

Participatory research and planning through a systemic and prospective sustainability analysis

Open Standards Planification

Planification participative Pêcheurs Mar Chica

Goal

In order to engage the artisanal fishermen in natural resource conservation, the analysis carried out has included sociocultural, economic and ecological topics. The goal was to fill the lack of data to allow all the stakeholders to realize the initial decrease in biodiversity and the solutions brought by the project.

Process

The participatory approach used by this study has allowed for all the stakeholders to accept the results.

The study was carried out in accordance with a systemic approach including several components:

Scientific: “Sociocultural, economic, ecological indicators”
Participatory: the study has not only involved the project holder, but also the stakeholders
Prospective: the study has allowed to identify “current, potential and alternative scenarios”

The systemic analysis has led to an integrated action program for the sustainable management of the artisanal fisheries sector within the National Park’s marine area.

Artisanal fishery represents one of the main economic activities in the region. As a sideline, it also improves farmers’ quality of life along the Mediterranean coastline.
The main constraints to the artisanal fisheries’ economic growth have negative impacts on product quality, due to the lack of landing infrastructure and commercialization.
The flotilla’s fragmentation and isolation, which the fishmongers take advantage of, does not allow the fishermen to work under satisfying conditions.

It is necessary to minimize the growth constraints on artisanal fisheries confined to the National Park’s fishing grounds. The reinforcement of fishing gear and equipment has to serve as a motivation for fishermen to stick to our integrated management plan.

Defining the artisanal fisheries sector remains an essential step in the process of implementing a commercial organization plan, which has to be subjected to future project propositions.

In the sociocultural plan, the fishing villages are confronted with a high rate of analphabetism. The fear of losing their jobs, translates itself to the high frequency of poaching, the use of dynamite or chemicals and illegal fishing.

It would be desirable to define a new zoning plan for the National Park’ marine area, which responds to the ecological conservation concerns and not only to those of fisheries resources. This would guarantee a sustainable development for a future approach of monitoring and participatory evaluation.

Recherche et planification participative du secteur de la pêche artisanale à tr…

Sustainable commercial management of marine resources in MPAs

Pêcheur de Temsamane

To be added

Fabrication Nasses Coopérative des Femmes de pecheurs

Amélioration Capture PNAH

Goal

The artisanal fishermen’s quality of life has improved by approximately 30% within the MPA’s coastal zone through good resource management. The MPA contributes also to an income increase via the implementation of a participatory strategy aiming at the commercialization of fishery products.

Process

The fishermen cooperatives organize participatory workshops aiming at the definition of a commercialization strategy for the artisanal fishery products. The goal is to reduce the global pressure from fisheries in the National Park’s marine area.

Creation of “Rotating funds for fisheries” to support income generating activities. These funds are available to the fishermen cooperatives, operating in the marine zone of the National Park, but also to their wives.

The establishment of a climate of trust between communities as well as state and institution partners, prior to the actual project launch
The creation of a rotating fund aims to support the commercialization strategy of the fishery products from the National Park’s marine area
The fund allows to support the launch and mentoring of a price and quality valorization project, for the benefit of the cooperative of fishermen’s wives and daughters
Rotating funds for fisheries serve to assure the cooperatives' administrative and financial autonomy

The program’s activities aiming at the implementation of a commercialization strategy for the fishery products from the artisanal fishermen operating in the National Park’s marine area have to be prepared in consultation with the administration.
The involvement of the local population is also very important for the project’s success. At least twenty members of the artisanal fishermen cooperative’s executive office have been supported and trained to enable them to contribute to the commercialization strategy for fishing products coming from fishermen cooperatives operating in the National Park’s marine area. This has allowed a 30% poverty reduction for approximately 1200 artisanal fishermen.
The project’s financial viability is assured by the participatory planning and the local communities’ support for the sustainable commercialization strategy of their fishing products.