Key issues in CBRM Community Based Resource Management

Key issues in CBRM (Community Based Resource Management) • • Why What Who How (and When)

Resource management • What is it? • Could be: Information, Decisions, Actions relating to a resource

Top down and bottom up management Top-down State decides and acts Negotiated Shared decisions and actions Co-management Local management Community decides and acts Community-based Management “Bottom up”

What kind of management appropriate for the Pacific? (coastal resources) Governments and agencies • lacking money and staff • remote from communities Top-down State or agency control Local communities • Often own resources • Depend on the resource • Have rules and management practices already • Have deep knowledge Negotiated Shared control Co-management Local Full control by “community” Community-based management

The strengths of tradition…

…combined with other knowledge and analysis

Community steps for improving resource management

Community steps for improving resource management 1. What is our situation?

Community steps for improving resource management 1. What is our situation? 2. Why these problems and what can we do?

Community steps for improving resource management 1. What is our situation? 2. Why these problems and what can we do? 3. Can the community agree a way forward?

Community steps for improving resource management 1. What is our situation? 2. Why these problems and what can we do? 3. Can the community agree a way forward? 4. How can we tell our plan is working?

Community steps for improving resource management 1. What is our situation? Things we have and things we do Things that are good and things that are bad - problems Changes that have taken place 2. Why these problems and what can we do? Modern ecological and traditional information Traditional and modern solutions What are our options? 3. Can the community agree a way forward? Which options are possible and agreeable to the community Agree how and who will do what to solve the problems Make a public agreement to follow the community plan 4. How can we tell our plan is working? Agree things we could check to see if our plan is solving the problems – check them