Description
During the last decade, there has been a shift in the governance and management of fisheries to a broader approach that recognizes the participation of fishers, local stewardship, and shared decision-making. Through this process, fishers are empowered to become active members of the management team, balancing rights and responsibilities, and working in partnership with government. This approach is called co-management. This handbook describes the process of community-based co-management from its beginning, through implementation, to turnover to the community. It provides ideas, methods, techniques, activities, checklists, examples, questions and indicators for the planning and implementing of a process of community-based co-management. It focuses on small-scale fisheries (freshwater, floodplain, estuarine, or marine) in developing countries, but is also relevant to small-scale fisheries in developed countries and to the management of other coastal resources (such as coral reefs, mangroves, sea grass, and wetlands). This handbook will be of significant interest to resource managers, practitioners, academics and students of small-scale fisheries.
Chapter
1.1. What This Handbook Is
1.2. What This Handbook Isn’t
1.3. Who This Handbook is For
2. What is Community-based Co-management?
2.1. Co-management Defined
2.2. Co-management as a Process
2.3. Stakeholder Involvement
2.4. Equity and Social Justice
2.5. Co-management and Common Property
2.6. Institutional Arrangements and Collective Action
2.7. Community-based Management
2.8. CBM and Co-management
2.9. Advantages and Disadvantages
3. What is a Process for Community-based Co-management?
3.1. A Process of Community-based Co-management
4. Who are You and What is Your Role in Community-based Co-management?
4.2. Stakeholders in Community-based Co-management
PART II: PRE-IMPLEMENTATION
5. ‘Beginnings’ or Pre-implementation
5.1. External and Internal Beginnings
5.2. Problem Recognition and Consensus
5.5. Community Meetings and Discussion
5.6. Assessing the Need, Feasibility and Suitability of Co-management
5.7. Preliminary Plan and Strategy
5.11. Moving to Implementation
6. Community Entry and Integration
6.1. The Community Organizer
7. Research and Participatory Research
7.1. Participatory Research
7.2. Indigenous Knowledge
8. Environmental Education, Capacity Development and Social Communication
8.1. Environmental Education, Capacity Development and Social Communication
8.3. Environmental Education
8.4. Capacity Development
8.5. Social Communication
9.1. Components of Community Organizing
10. Co-management Plan and Agreement
10.1. Adaptive Management
10.2. Preparing for the Planning Process
10.3. Establish a Co-management Body
10.4. Agreeing on Rules and Procedures for Negotiation
10.5. Meetings to Review the Situation and Develop Priority Issues
10.6. Developing a Mission Statement
10.7. Establishing the Management Unit
10.8. Negotiating Co-management Plans and Agreements
10.9. Co-management Plan – Goals, Objectives, Activities
10.10. Evaluation and Monitoring Plan
10.11. The Co-management Agreement
10.12. The Co-management Organization
10.13. Revenue Generation and Financing
10.14. Legal and Policy Support
11.1. Conflict Assessment
11.2. Typology of Conflicts
11.3. Approaches to Conflict Management
11.4. Selecting an Approach
11.5. A Process of Conflict Management
11.6. Conditions for Conflict Management
12. Co-management Plan Implementation
12.2. Management Measures
12.3. Community and Economic Development and Livelihoods
12.4. Enforcement and Compliance
12.6. Annual Evaluation, Workplan and Budgeting
12.7. Networking and Advocacy
PART IV: POST-IMPLEMENTATION
13. ‘Turnover’ or Post-implementation
13.1. Turnover and Phase-out
13.4. Replication and Extension