Tools for the Guidebook for evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness
Task 1.9: Locate the fisheries co-management plan
If there is a fisheries co-management plan, it will contain goals and objectives. These can be more or less detailed and cover environmental, social, economic and governance aspects. The clarity of the goals and objectives should be assessed. It should also be clear how the goals and objectives were agreed to, i.e. who prepared the plan, when was it prepared and what was the level of stakeholder participation? If there is no plan with goals and objectives, or if the goals and objectives are not clear, not formalized, or appear to have been agreed to through an inappropriate process, the focus of the evaluation should be on the good practices of the co-management system. It is strongly recommended that the goals and objectives in a co-management plan be developed in a participatory manner, together with fisheries co-management stakeholders, so that their degree of achievement can be assessed. However, this undertaking should be separate from the evaluation itself.
Suggestions
- Refer to the Guidebook to recall the wide range of governance arrangements that constitute co-management. They may be at various stages of development and may need to be documented.
- The plan should specify a baseline and direction of co-management to be clear on the scale and scope of the undertaking.
Resources
- EAF planning and implementation tools.
- Facilitating co-management in small-scale fisheries: processes and experiences of the Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme in Sri Lanka.
- Operationalizing fisheries co-management: lessons learned from lagoon fisheries co-management in Thua Thien Hue Province, Viet Nam.
Other resources — Task 1.9: Locate the fisheries co-management plan
- Costa Pereira, C., Pinto, R., Mohan, C. & Atkinson, S. (2013). Guidelines for establishing co-management of natural resources in Timor-Leste. Jakarta: Conservation International.
- Jupiter, S.D., Cohen, P.J., Weeks, R., Tawake, A. & Govan, H. (2014). Locally-managed marine areas: multiple objectives and diverse strategies. Pacific Conservation Biology, 20: 165–179.
- Matsuda, H., Makino, M. & Sakurai, Y. (2009). Development of an adaptive marine ecosystem management and co-management plan at the Shiretoko World Natural Heritage Site. Biological Conservation, 142(9): 1937–1942.
- Rivera, V.S., Borrás, M.F. & Quesada, R.C. (2014). Cabuya: Un pueblo con mar a la par de una Reserva [Cabuya: A seaside town next to a reserve]. San José, Costa Rica: CoopeSoliDar R.L.
- Rivera, V.S., Borrás, M.F. & Seager, J. (2010). Tárcoles +5 Línea de Base de la Comunidad de Tárcoles [Tárcoles +5 baseline of the community of Tárcoles]. San José, Costa Rica: CoopeSoliDar R.L.
- Rivera, V.S., Fonseca, M. & Cubillo, R. (2015). Dominicalito. Un pueblo de pesca artesanal en el Sur que despierta: de la resistencia a la incidencia [Dominicalita. An artisanal fishing village in the South that awakens: from resistance to action]. San José, Costa Rica: CoopeSoliDar R.L.