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Negotiating Fisheries co-Management in Aceh Province, Indonesia - Notes on Process

Year of publication 2010

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Author John Kurien;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

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Synopsis (short abstract) The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) with the financial assistance of the American Red Cross implemented a fisheries and aquaculture project in Aceh Province of Indonesia between 2007 and 2010. The focus of this project was on capacity building initiatives for a wide range of stakeholders involved in the sector. The aim was to facilitate the creation of a mind set which would be conducive for moving towards sustainable and responsible marine fishery and aqu aculture practices. One of the components of this project aimed at instituting co-management arrangements in the coastal fisheries of four districts of Aceh which were the worst affected by the tsunami. Conventional project reports most often focus on the tangible outputs of the project. These outputs are normally measured on a continuous basis through the life of the project using various monitoring and evaluation methods. These reports tell us what has been achieved during the li fe of the project. However, the process by which these outputs were achieved is not always clearly articulated. Detailing the process by which certain outputs are achieved can be a challenge as it requires a diachronic description of events. This is time and space consuming and often not relished by the readers. As a consequence, this usually gets left out by those who write project reports. What we provide below is a compilation of notes about the process of negotiating fisheries co -management arrangements. These notes are unlikely to be included in the formal reports of the project. These notes are an attempt to reflect on ¿how we did it¿ and what were the approaches taken in doing so. The final output of the fisheries co-management component of the project was the formation of five co-management centres along four districts of west coast of Aceh covering about a third of that coast line. These notes will provide a brief understanding of the process by which thi s was achieved. The first note (FAO/ARC/Co-Mgt/1/2010) provides a brief summary of the strategy adopted and how it was implemented with respect to the three primary stakeholders involved in the co-management initiative ¿ the coastal community; the fisher organisation and the officials of the fisheries department. The next three notes (FAO/ARC/Co-Mgt 2-4/2010) are a more detailed elaboration of the way we went about getting each of the three stakeholder groups engaged into the pro cess of negotiating the co-management arrangements. The final note (FAO/ARC/ Co-Mgt/5/2010) discusses briefly the role of women. As these notes are about the same process, some repetition in their contents is inevitable.

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