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Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
Framing the flow: Innovative Approaches to Understand, Protect and Value Ecosystem Services across Linked Habitats
Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2010-04-29 05:04Year:
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"This publication highlights the interconnectivity and linkages between coastal ecosystems (mangroves, coral reefs, seagrasses, estuaries, and lagoons) across environmental, economic, social, and management contexts.
Lessons Learned from Community-Based Adaptive Marine Resource Management in Solomon Islands
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2010-03-15 03:26
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This brief presents a review of lessons learned and good practices in developing management plans within the context of community based resource management (CBRM) in Solomon Islands. The lessons are based on work done by the WorldFish Center, the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International (FSPI) and the Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources.
Lessons Learned from Community-Based Adaptive Marine Resource Management in Solomon Islands
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2010-03-15 03:18Summary:
This brief presents a review of lessons learned
and good practices in developing management
plans within the context of community based
resource management (CBRM) in Solomon
Islands. The lessons are based on work done by
the WorldFish Center, the Foundation of the
Peoples of the South Pacific International (FSPI)
and the Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries
and Marine Resources. The document is
intended to complement other initiatives in the
country and through the Solomon Islands
Locally Managed Marine Area Network add to
lessons learned by other organizations in order
to help the people and the government of the
Solomon Islands meet their marine resource
management goals.
WorldFish lessons are a compilation from two
ACIAR funded projects: (1) Improving
sustainability and profitability of village sea
cucumber fisheries in the Solomon Islands; and
(2) Improving resilience and adaptive capacity
of fisheries-dependent communities in Solomon
Islands (the
Adaptation Experience:
Through the 'Resilience' project, WorldFish has adopted the overarching 'Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries' (EAF) management, within which work is structured around a Participatory Diagnosis Adaptive Management (PDAM) framework (Figure 1, Andrew et al., 2007, Evans and Andrew 2009).
Results and Learning:
Key lessons:
- Initiatives in community resource management that develop from genuine requests for participation from entire communities, have realistic expectations, secure stakeholder access to land and sea, and compensate for language barriers can successfully identify risks and threats to communities in order to guide adaptation planning and the assessment of possible supplementary livelihoods.
- Good community management institutions must be created and/or strengthened, provincial and national fishery officers should be brought on board, and research-for-development partnerships should be sealed with formal agreements and facilitated with effective communication.
- Management plans and monitoring methods should be simple and straightforward, tailored to local conditions so that they build on existing community norms and are realistic and sustainable.
- Decision-making tools and skills for adaptive community resource management enhance stakeholder capacity in general, improving community governance, cooperation and cohesion.
Sustainability:
Investment in strengthening management institutions within communities may be necessary. This may include training on tools for adaptive management, or helping community members to clarify local mechanisms for resolving (or preventing) conflicts and misunderstandings. A management institution that can effectively manage their resources and/or solve problems will be stronger for not needing to be dependent on outside institutions, will gain the community's trust and assist in general community governance. This supports the Solomon Islands government's initiative to empower communities to be able to manage their resources effectively with little outside intervention and is envisaged as a mechanism to enable the sustainability of management plans and thus, help improve livelihoods of rural people.
Replication:
Replication was not explicitly discussed, but refer to attached document for further details.
Savaia Marine Conservation Project
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Summary:
The Savaia Marine Biodiversity Conservation Project is a village based, owned and operated protected area. Marine resources are managed in a sustainable manner for the benefit of village people now and in the future. The aim is to sustain the momentum and success of the existing reserve by extending its boundaries to accord protection of a wider area of the village marine environment and to reintroduce certain marine species that were once abundant in the area.
Contacts:
UNDP Contact:
Easter Galuvao
Email: easter.galuvao@undp.org
Tel: +68523670Project Status:
Completed, 2007Primary Beneficiaries:
Village Council of Savaia Village
Adapting to Coastal Climate Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2009-07-07 20:45Summary:
A new publication entitled “Adapting to Coastal Climate Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners” is now available.
Democratic Republic of the Congo - National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2009-06-22 23:29
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National adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change – those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The following summarizes the NAPA for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Project Components:
Objective 1: Initiation and Management of NAPA Process
Objective 2: Assessment and Priorities
Objective 3: Priority Activity Proposals
Objective 4: Design, validation, adoption and dissemination of NAPA Document
Expected Outputs:
Objective 1: Establishment of a NAPA Task Force, Establishment of a Steering Committee, Establishment of a Multidisciplinary Team, Development of a National Consultative Mechanism
Objective 2: Assessment of priority sector vulnerability to current climate change, to extreme meteorological phenomena and to climate change; Synthetic report on vulnerability assessment; and Adaptation measures and priority action selection criteria.
Objective 3: Restricted list of priority activity proposals; and Identification and selection of priority activities.
Objective 4: A preliminary draft of NAPA; Revision and finalisation of NAPA; and Adoption and diffusion of NAPA.
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GEF Operational Focal Point:
His Excellency Mr. Salomon Banamuhere Baliene
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Environment and Tourism
Climate Change Focal Point:
Mr. Kasulu Seya MAKONGA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nature Conservation
B.P. 16137 Kinshasa 1
Tel.: +243 - 9905957
Fax: +243 – 8843675 (UNDP-DRC)
E-mail: kaseyamak@yahoo.fr and seyamak@hotmail.com
Cook Islands - National Communication
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-19 20:25
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Cook Islands - National Communication - 30 October 1999
Key Vulnerabilities
- Water Resources
- Coastal Zones
- Natural Resources
- Agriculture/Food Security
- Health
Potential Adaptation Measures
Agriculture and Food Security
Information Gaps
- Understanding of areas most vulnerable to changes in weather patterns
- Understanding causal factors leading to insect and disease outbreaks
- Identification of most suitable plants, crops, varieties and cultivars to climate change
- Additional methods of quarantine to reduce further pests and diseases
