Background
Community-Based Management (CBM) is an approach which encourages local community’s adaptive participation in all phases of marine resources management, including those of the coral reef ecosystem. It is envisioned that through such approach, communities would be more involved in sustainable use of these resources thereby improving their welfare. CBM is one of the key components of COREMAP II that will determine its successful implementation.

Goals

• Enhance the economic empowerment of communities through alternative livelihood development;
• Enhance the capacity of communities to actively participate in the sustainable use and management of marine resources and prevent their further degradation;
• Develop social infrastructures and economic opportunities that are oriented towards the sustainability of marine and coastal resources.

Output

• Draft Coral Reef Management Plans (CRMP/RPTK) prepared through active community participation;
• Traditional use rights integrated into CRMPs;
• Destructive fishing activities eradicated;
• Communities with less reliance on usurious sources of funds;
• Livelihoods developed by community groups based on mutually agreed conditions;
• Effective bottom-up planning practiced by communities and government offices;
• Increased community understanding on the importance of coral reef ecosystems;
• Monitoring by community groups implemented;
• Increased infrastructure support for development of economies of coastal communities and prevention of further coral reef degradation.