Pacific Integrated Island Management - synthesis / La gestion insulaire intégrée en Océanie

Abstract

Further recommendations The ten principles for designing and implementing new Integrated Island Management (IIM) activities, coupled with the following additional lessons learned, can help to create larger scale and longer term outcomes. These innovations are important to Pacic Island communities and countries facing increasing pressures from modern development, population growth and climate change. Planning Dene, at the project design stage, the resources and policy requirements necessary to sustain, generalise and replicate outcomes beyond project completion Include strategies to maintain the human and nancial capacity needed for legacy activities beyond the initial project lifespan Plan to integrate into local and national policy, planning and management systems and across sectors Use social and learning networks to help scale up management models across islands, countries and regions Establish effective cross-sectoral integration processes that consider socio-ecological issues, eg., within climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and water, sanitation and health Utilise climate smart planning, evaluating how project actions will inuence key vulnerabilities caused by climate change and/or build adaptive capacity Implementation Build on cultural foundations to empower communities and increase successful outcomes Utilise cost-benet analyses and other economics tools to support local decision-making, assessing value of maintaining intact ecosystems and choosing implementation options Establish locally appropriate and enforceable sanctions, and record their implementation, so that participants can track their benets Design equitable mechanisms for benet-sharing to minimise conict Adaptive management Incorporate traditional and local knowledge into monitoring and evaluation Consider low-cost, low-tech monitoring, analysis and reporting, appropriate to local capacity and resources Engage early and frequently with decision makers and resource users to ensure timely adaptive decision making Include the costs, resources required and relative cost-effectiveness of the different actions implemented in monitoring plans and pilot project reports Document processes, costs, successes, failures and potential replicability, using the ten IIM principles as a guide Use economies of scale to improve cost-effectiveness and leverage at larger scales, when replicating approaches For more background and guidance, refer to: Jupiter SD, Jenkins AP, Lee Long WJ, Maxwell SL, Watson JEM, Hodge KB, Govan H, Carruthers TJB (2013) Pacic Integrated Island Management – Principles, Case Studies and Lessons Learned. Secretariat of the Pacic Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). 68pp. The guidance document and this supporting synthesis document are available in electronic format at: www.sprep.org/ library-information-resource-center/publications , www.unep.org/publications , www.unep.org/ecosyste