Increasing Capacity for Stewardship of Oceans and Coasts A Priority for the 21st Century (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Capacity-building, however, is not usually the primary focus. Capacity-building efforts typically are fragmented, lack standards for monitoring and evaluation, and are planned for too short a period to achieve and sustain effective ocean and coastal management.
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More than a billion people rely on the oceans and coasts as their primary source of food protein, and ocean and coastal environments support the livelihoods, economies, and quality of life of many communities. Many alterations of ocean and coastal ecosystems have brought substantial benefits to society and improved the lives of billions of people.
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There is little coordination among efforts that have similar goals or overlapping geographic coverage, and programs become isolated geographically and temporally. That fragmentation inhibits the sharing of information and experience, reduces opportunities to maintain new programs through consecutively funded efforts, produces gaps in governance, and makes it more difficult to design and implement management approaches that are consistent with the scale of the affected ecosystems.
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THE GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS OF ECOSYSTEM STEWARDSHIP Effective and long-lasting ocean and coastal stewardship can occur only when a predict able, efficient, and accountable governance system is in place. Successfully executed governance initiatives establish dynamic processes that are maintained by the active and sustained involvement of the public and stakeholders who have an interest in the alloca tion of coastal resources and the mediation of conflicts.
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• Support of dynamic and committed leaders, usually local, to develop a culture of stewardship and to work with the community to develop and implement a plan of action to sustain or improve ocean and coastal conditions. Effective leaders also serve as mentors and role models that can motivate future leaders.
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RECOMMENDATIONS Seven critical actions are recommended to establish sustained capacity-building that can adapt to the changing conditions in ocean and coastal ecosystems. RECOMMENDATION: Future investments in capacity-building should be anchored by periodic needs assessments used to develop regional action plans.
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Well-structured networks help communities to envision the bigger picture and reduce members' sense of isolation by building solidarity and a common purpose with each other. Networks associated with periodic regional assessments of needs and progress The Global Environment Facility is used here only as an example of a large organization, not to single it out.
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Information sys tems designed to support the creation, capture, and dissemination of knowledge and directed specifically at enhancing capacity in the practices of ecosystem-based manage ment to overcome the "implementation gap" could provide practitioners with the material to analyze successes and failures, to identify and resolve specific technical and policy issues, to recognize opportunities for transboundary collaboration, and to gain access to public education materials and meeting summaries produced by participating programs. RECOMMENDATION: Regional centers for ocean and coastal stewardship should be established as "primary nodes" for networks that will coordinate efforts to fulfill action plans.
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One factor that has limited past efforts is that capacity-building is usually treated as an ingredient of programmatic efforts on specific topics. It has been identified as an ingredient of plans for the Global Ocean Observing System and is addressed in Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessments.
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The summit should involve governments, nongovernmental organiza tions, intergovernmental organizations, academe, and the private sector. CONCLUSION Ending the fragmentation of current programs that seek to grow capacity for ocean and coastal management and to improve stewardship will require a new, broadly adopted framework for capacity-building programs that emphasizes cooperation, sustainability, and knowledge transfer within and among communities.
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