Description
The MiCOAST project aims to address the scaling-up challenge of community-based fisheries management (CBFM) in Micronesia by engaging stakeholders, empowering communities, employing inclusive approaches, and facilitating effective networking and mainstreaming. MiCOAST will mobilize coastal fishing communities, non-state actors, and traditional and state authorities in the Marshall Islands, Nauru, the Federated States of Micronesia (Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Yap States), and Palau to collaboratively design and support climate-resilient measures and CBFM improvements. These improvements in fisheries management will be articulated within a Nature-based Solution (NbS) framework and well-aligned to support existing local, national, regional and international public policy.
Objectives
Overall Objective: Strengthening the implementation of community-based fisheries management and supporting ecosystem-based interventions as a nature-based solution approach to enhancing climate adaptation and resilience, improving food security, and maintaining ecosystem services and biodiversity within the four Micronesian nations of the Marshall Islands, Nauru, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.
- Objective 1: CBFM/NbS Actions: Strengthen the implementation of CBFM-related Nature-based Solution (CBMF/NbS) actions at twelve (12) sites in four Micronesian countries.
- Objective 2: Regional Understanding and Capacity in CBFM/NbS: Increase regional capacity to assess the results and outcomes achieved from a range of CBFM/NbS activities and investments
- Objective 3: CBFM/NbS Promotion and Scaling-Up: Establish forums for sharing lessons on, increasing understanding of, and promoting the integration of CBFM/NbS within relevant local, national, and regional policy discussions and plans.