Tools for the Guidebook for evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness
Task 1.8: Identify key criteria for the evaluation of the fisheries co-management system
Over the years, a number of good practices have been identified through experience with co-management. These should be used as benchmarks for the evaluation of the design and performance of the co-management system.
For more, please see Fisheries co-management good practices references.
Suggestions
- Add tools to ensure a gender, Indigenous People, right-holder and stakeholder balance.
- Add tools to allow for a basic comparison of the level of effectiveness of the evaluation criteria over time and across participating geographies, e.g. guidance on simple, standardized pre-test/post-test (i.e. baseline/pre-implementation) versus every two to three years after implementation.
- Agree on a citable period for the references.
Resources
- A systematic review of co-managed small-scale fisheries: Social diversity and adaptive management improve outcomes.
- Assessing the impact of fisheries co-management interventions in developing countries: a meta-analysis.
- Making monitoring and evaluation systems work: A capacity development toolkit.
- Conditions for successful co-management: lessons learned in Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the wider Caribbean.
- Results-based management handbook.
- Gutiérrez, N.L., Hilborn, R. & Defeo, O. (2011). Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries. Nature, 470: 386–389.
- Pomeroy, R.S., Katon, B.M. & Harkes, I. (2001). Conditions affecting the success of fisheries co-management: Lessons from Asia. Marine Policy, 25(3): 197–208.
- Pomeroy, R.S., Pollnac, R.B., Katon, B.M. & Predo, C.D. (1997). Evaluating factors contributing to the success of community-based coastal resource management: the Central Visayas Regional Project-1, Philippines. Ocean and Coastal Management, 36(1–3): 97–112.
- Tamura, M., Ishida, M., Sidman, C., Montes, N. & Lorenzen, K. (2018). Facilitating co-managed fisheries in the Caribbean region: Good practices and guidance from the CARIFICO experience. Florida, USA: Japan International Cooperation Agency & Florida Sea Grant, University of Florida.
- World Bank Independent Evaluation Group. (2006). Conducting quality evaluations under budget, time and data constraints. Washington, DC: The World Bank.