ALM UNDP

Summary:

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 'Resilience' project). FSPI lessons are from its work within the Communities and Coasts program in Solomon Islands. The key lessons learned and recommendations are discussed according to a conceptual scheme for diagnosis and management of small-scale fisheries that guides the WorldFish approach to community based adaptive management.