User-Friendly Guidebooks for Designing Local Marine Protected Areas Released

A new set of user-friendly guidebooks for designing local marine protected areas is now available for local practitioners in Coral Triangle countries. Entitled  Designing Effective Locally Managed Areas in Tropical Marine Environments: A Guide Set to Help Sustain Community Benefits Through Management for Fisheries, Ecosystems, and Climate Change, the three-part guide consists of an 18-page laminated flipchart, a facilitator's guide, and booklets for community members.

The guide has been developed for facilitators in community-based activities to raise awareness, plan, and design effective and resilient locally managed areas (LMAs) and LMA networks. Lead facilitators and organizers can each work from a facilitator's guide that provides detailed instructions for outreach activities and specific steps on how to carry out zoning and rule development. When visiting communities, they carry with them the booklets to hand out to participating community members that provides illustrations, key messages, and zoning and rule recommendations.

The full guide set (in English and Indonesian) is available for download at the Resources Section of the CTI-CFF website: www.coraltrangleinitiative.org under the Training Materials and Marine Protected Areas category.