Take action

Identify or establish a small group to make the management plan work 

Although community resource management is ideally supported by all people in the community, there needs to be some smaller group of people to take charge of the planned actions. This group may be thought of as a committee to administer the required actions and monitor progress. It also may need to penalize people who break management rules.

An existing group may be used or a Community Resource Management Committee could be established. The community may be made up of cultural leaders, or people appointed by them, or they could be elected by the people. The committee should include representatives from women’s groups and fishers’ groups. Ideally, it should also include representatives of the co-managers, either from government authorities or NGOs. They must meet regularly and work hard to keep the momentum of community resource management going.

Do it! – apply the actions in the management plan

Actions, rules or tools are used by community managers to achieve the goal.