TDA-IME Project Final Report June, 2013 106 Recommendations Share lessons learned about co-management from different countries in national and regional workshops. Develop a mangrove co-management training manual with focus on key conditions for successful co-management, guidelines and principles while emphasising the local, smallscale character of this site-specific solution to mangrove protection and management. Promote networking among co-management practitioners in the region (including comanagement trainers, consultants, project managers). 6. Sharing and replicating successful livelihood enhancement opportunities, to reduce poverty among traditional coastal communities and make them less dependent on mangrove resources). There is growing repository of information from MFF small grant projects implemented by IUCN and UNDP, plus many other NGO- or CBO-led projects that provide good examples of effective livelihood interventions, including analysis of the reasons for their success. Recommendations: Provide case studies of successful project interventions on livelihood enhancement (although these will be country-specific and implemented at local level, it is expected that critical analysis of case studies would provide incentives for others to replicate the approaches). Conduct livelihood project evaluations to demonstrate impacts on the quality of life of local people, especially women. Document and share sustainable livelihood ventures arising specifically as a result of comanagement initiatives; document other best practices related to community livelihood improvement and share lessons learned. Provide opportunities for community to community learning. 7. Assessing the impact of climate change/climate variability on mangrove ecosystems at a local to regional scale as part of a region-wide mangrove ecosystem monitoring program. Because mangrove forests are confined to the intertidal fringe of mainly tropical coastlines, they are indisputably amongst the most vulnerable forest ecosystems to climate change, their response and resilience to the multi-factorial consequences of climate change have been far less widely studied than those of many other forest ecosystems. Similarly, the potential values of mangrove ecosystems for climate change adaptation and mitigation have been mentioned, but rarely quantified. The responses of mangroves to climate change, and therefore their capacity to provide climate adaptation and mitigation benefits are likely to be highly site specific, depending on local geomorphology and hydrology, on adjacent land use and human activity, and on the species richness and functional diversity of the ecosystem. Recommendations It is recommended that an integrated region-wide mangrove ecosystem monitoring program be established to assess local and regional scale vulnerability/resilience of mangrove ecosystems to climate change. The program should be designed to monitor at both representative and regionally significant mangrove sites, as well as at selected sites with special characteristics, such as small populations of rare or endangered species; and in selected areas with a high livelihood dependency on mangrove resources among the local communities. The program should be developed with a common approach and standardized methodologies to enable the assessment of regional and vulnerability and responses.
Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis of Indochina Mangrove Ecosystems
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