The State Department of Fisheries, Kenya Wildlife Service, BMU’s and community groups, beach residents, private investors, research institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) The EAWLS, WCS, Coastal Rural Development Organization (CRDO), COMRED, LamCOT, Wiomsa, Cordio, and Africa Nature Organization (ANO) Kuruwitu conservation and welfare association (KCWA), Ocean sole, Bridge international, WMA, Safaricom, IUCN, Nema, Kemfri, Ocean Sole, the LMMA network.
Research
In order to be effective in understanding and consequently helping existing and future CCA’s one of the initial steps will be to send a team to establish some of the following;
PHASE 1 – CONCEPTUALIZATION
- Did the community and key stakeholders understand the CCA process?
- Were champions for the CCA process during this phase identified?
- Was the general area for the CCA identified?
- What was the origin of the initial interest for the CCA?
- Who were the stakeholders?
- Did the stakeholders endorse the CCA idea with a signed agreement?
- What was the time frame to reach this stage?
- Who financed this stage?
- What were the challenges and successes faced?
PHASE 2 – INCEPTION
- Was the specific CCA area identified agreed on by stakeholders?
- Did preparation of a management plan by key stakeholders begin?
- Was an EIA undertaken?
- Was an education and awareness plan prepared?
- Was a needs assessment for training and resources undertaken?
- Was there an understanding of the institutional framework and legal requirements of the CCA?
- Was the process participatory?
- Were the goals and objectives of the CCA defined and understood by all?
- Were roles and responsibilities of stakeholders defined, and understood by all?
- Was the exact location of the CCA, size and boundaries known to stakeholders before implementation?
- Was a financial plan to manage the CCA put in place?
PHASE 3 – IMPLEMENTATION
- Was the CCA established with buoys, patrol and management plans?
- Was there a signed agreement by community on establishment of the CCA, ready for management and monitoring?
- Was the draft management plan adopted?
- Which management interventions were adopted by the CCA?
- What enforcement and compliance tools/methods used?
- Were there challenges of land ownership?
- Were members trained on how to manage the CCA?
- Was a monitoring plan put in place and adopted?
- What was the estimated timeframe for adoption, implementation of the management plan?
- What was the estimated cost of implementing this phase?
- What is the estimated cost of implementing this phase?
PHASE 4 – MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT
- Does the community endorse the monitoring plan?
- Is a biological, socio-economic, and livelihood assessment undertaken annually in a participatory manner?
- Is a quarterly review of the finances/budget reviewed?
- Is a marketing/awareness strategy reviewed quarterly/biannually?
- Are the resources reviewed on a quarterly basis?
- Is there a management structure/organogram in place?
- Have the communities’ skills been improved?
- Are the ecological resources/fisheries/habitats in a better condition?
- Are the boundaries maintained?
- Are available equipment used efficiently for management?
- Is the CCA self-sustaining?
- What is the estimated cost of implementing this phase?
PHASE 5 – ONGOING ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
- Has the CCA management plan been reviewed?
- Is the information garnered from the monitoring plan used to improve management?
- Is the marketing/awareness plan/strategy reviewed?
- Is training and capacity building reviewed to ensure management is improved?
- Is a resource review/assessment carried out regularly?
- Is the financial/sustainable plan reviewed regularly to guide management/income?
- Are lessons learned documented and shared?
- Have new CCA’s been developed as a result of this CCA’s impact?
- What organizations/individuals help ongoing adaptive management?
- What is the estimated cost of implementing this phase?
- What does it cost to run the CCA per annum/month?