Wongbusarakum, S., Edwards, P. E. T., Sigrah, B., Nevitt, B.

Yap, Federated States of Micronesia Tamil Municipality training and assessment report: Socioeconomic monitoring guidelines for coastal managers in Pacific Island countries (SEM-Pasifika)

2015

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration; Micronesia Conservation Trust; the Packard Foundation; Micronesia Islands Nature Alliance; and Pacific Islands Managed and Protected Area Community (PIMPAC)

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Workshop Summary Report

"SEM-Pasifika is a set of community-based socioeconomic monitoring guidelines developed specifically for coastal managers in Pacific Island countries. Since its launch in 2008, several SEM-Pasifika trainings have been conducted throughout Micronesia. Assessments have taken place in the CNMI, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae and Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. Between January 19-30, 2015 Yap was host to the states second SEM-Pasifika training. Trainees included participants from Tamil communities, other Yap municipalities, local NGOs and government agencies. In addition, participants came from other Micronesia jurisdictions, Guam and CNMI to learn about SEMPasifika, its methods and gain experience in socioeconomic monitoring. Finally two participants from Hawaii joined the training to learn about the tool and plan how they can incorporate it into their work with fishing communities in their state. For the training, the following objectives were identified: To build socioeconomic monitoring capacity of the participants based on SEM-Pasifika Introduce quantitative data analysis using EXCEL, provide hands-on exercises of collected data when possible To understand principles of qualitative research and data analysis To communicate results of data analysis and effectively communicate data visually To be able to use analyzed data in conservation planning and adaptive management Complete a socio-economic assessment for Tamil villages: Meerur, Tab, Aff, and Bugol Produce an assessment report for Tamil Pilot MC Indicators as appropriate for Tamil Develop socio-economic assessment objectives, indicators, and action plans for participant sites."

FY2015 CRCP Project ID 30091; Project Title: Strengthening Sustainable Socioeconomic Monitoring of Reef-Dependent Communities in Micronesia (Guam and CNMI); Principal Investigator: Supin Wongbusarakum ~ FY2014 CRCP Project ID 427, Project 1307; Project Title: Pacific Islands Managed and Protected Area Community and Micronesia Region Implementation Activities; Principal Investigator: Michael Lameier ~ FY2015 CRCP Project ID 427; Project Title: Pacific Islands Managed and Protected Area; Principal Investigator: Michael Lameier