Local Area Management Project (LAMP)

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Local Area Management Project (LAMP)

• SSMR Inception Workshop
• Centre for Resource Management and Environmental
  Studies (CERMES)
• University of the West Indies, Barbados
• in collaboration with Fisheries Division,
  Dominica

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sponsoring partnership
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Context

• Only 4 of the Eastern Caribbeans marine shelf
  is under some form of protection
• Less than 20 of that small area is judged to be
  effectively managed
• Meet commitments to the Program of Work for
  Protected Areas (PoWPA) under the Convention for
  Biological Diversity (CBD)
• Result in an effectively managed network of
  marine protected areas (MPAs)

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Purpose

• Discover what we can learn from the experience of
  the Soufriere Scotts Head Marine Reserve (SSMR),
  and how lessons learned can be applied to improve
  the governance (management, planning, policy
  decisions and institutions) of the SSMR and other
  marine areas in the Caribbean through local area
  management authorities (LAMAs)

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LAMP study sites

• Dominica lessons learned

• Grenada lessons applied

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OverviewJanuary to September 2010
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Some expectations
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More expectations
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Some methods
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Historical matrix of SSMR
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Stakeholder identification for LAMA
Focus on the LAMA, not SSMR more generally
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Institutional analysis of LAMA
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SocMon swift

• Rapid application of SocMon Caribbean
• Key informant and household interviews
• Coastal and marine activities
• Attitudes and perceptions
• Governance
• Emphasis on livelihoods

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SWOT analysis of LAMA
Past and present
Future oriented
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Social network analysis of LAMA
Formal /official structure of people and
organizations
Functional structure of how things really link
and work
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Communication research/strategy
Images of the SSMR/LAMA that influence policy
decision-making
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Summary of approach
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tHANKS for your attention

• This communication was made possible by the
  generous support of the American people through
  the United States Agency for International
  Development (USAID) under the terms of its
  Cooperative Agreement Number 538-A-00-09-00100-00
  (Biodiversity Threat Abatement Program)
  implemented by prime recipient The Nature
  Conservancy and its partner the UWI Centre for
  Resource Management and Environmental Studies.
  The contents and opinions expressed herein are
  the responsibility of the Biodiversity Threat
  Abatement PROGRAM and do not necessarily reflect
  the views of USAID.
• Images of SSMR supplied courtesy of Derrick
  Theophille, Dominica Fisheries Division