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UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES

Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that woor people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadththeir impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitionthemselves guiding the narrative.

To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser

that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succeto scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Yearsthe Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.

Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.

EditorsEditor-in-Chie: Joseph CorcoranManaging Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding

Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver HugheWen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma,Mary McGraw, Gabriele Orlandi, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu

DesignOliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la ParBrandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.

AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the guidance and inputs o the Arnavon Community Marine Conservation ArManagement Committee. Cover photo courtesy o Thomas Murray/VSA; other photos courtesy o Alexander Vogel ( https://picasawgoogle.com/103911052924562030010/SolomonIslands), Gary King/VSA, A. Wijonarno/TNC-CTC, Wade Fairley/The Nature ConservanDjuna Ivereigh, Pieter van Beukering, and Jordan Plotsky. Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and van Beukering et al, 2007.

Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2012. Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area Management Committee, Solomon Islan

Equator Initiative Case Study Series. New York, NY.
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PROJECT SUMMARYThe Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area wasestablished in 1995 as the rst community-managed marineconservation area in the Solomon Islands. The 157-km areais home to nesting grounds o the endangered Hawksbillsea turtle. This Marine Protected Area, created to stem theoverexploitation o dwindling marine resources, attractsecotourism that provides a valuable source o income orlocal communities. Local youth are employed as monitorsand high school students are brought on tours to learnabout the groups conservation eorts. A managementcommittee that represents the three ounding villages Kia,Wagina and Katupika helps resolve resource conicts.

In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, this initiativehas led attempts to diversiy sources o income and nutritionor the villages shing communities, including makinghandicrats or visiting tourists, seaweed harvesting, andsmall-scale agriculture.

KEY FACTS

EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2008

FOUNDED: 1993

LOCATION: Arnavon Islands

BENEFICIARIES: villages of Kia, Wagina, and Katupika

BIODIVERSITY: Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbrica

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ARNAVON COMMUNITY MARINE CONSERVATIONAREA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEESolomon Islands

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Background and Context 4

Key Activities and Innovations 6

Biodiversity Impacts 8

Socioeconomic Impacts 8

Policy Impacts 9

Sustainability 10

Replication 11

Partners 11


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he nation o the Solomon Islands is made up o a double chain o22 islands covering more than 835,000 square miles o the Pacic

Ocean, string out southeast o Papua New Guinea. The islands areome to a staggering degree o biological diversity; much o this

was rst catalogued in 2004, when a scientic assessment led byhe Nature Conservancy showed that the Solomon Islands has coraliversity greater than most places on Earth and the country is one o

he worlds top ve or sh diversity.

An island archipelago rich in biological diversity

hese results led scientists to extend the boundary o the Coral

riangle o marine biodiversity to include the Solomons archipelago.he survey ound that the Solomon Islands is part o this area theegion o the worlds richest marine lie which was previouslyhought to extend no urther than Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.he team recorded 494 species o corals in the Solomon Islands,

ncluding several species that were previously unknown, and morehan 100 corals thousands o kilometres beyond their known range.n addition to the countrys remarkable abundance o corals, theurvey conrmed that the Solomon Islands has one o the richestoncentrations o ree sh in the world. With at least 1,019 shpecies, the islands rank with Indonesia, the Philippines, Australiand Papua New Guinea as one o the big ve or ree sh species. On

and, with the exception o Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands

as the greatest diversity o terrestrial vertebrate species o all Pacicsland nations.

ike other emerging Pacic Island nations with ast growingpopulations, the Solomon Islands ace the challenge o preventinghe rapid depletion o these natural resources to provide basicecessities including schools, roads, and clinics or its mostly rural

people. In particular, sedimentation rom logging, overshing, andestructive shing practices are impacting the marine environment.

As a result, large tracts o native lowland orest have been lost andome o the worlds richest coral rees are at risk. Until 1998, when

world prices or tropical timber ell steeply, timber was the SoloIslands main export product, resulting in dangerous leveoverexploitation o orests.

Background and Context

Green Sea Turtle, Derawan. Photo: A. Wijonarno/TNC-CTC.


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The Arnavons

he Arnavon Islands lie between the islands o Santa Isabelnd Choiseul in the north-west o the country. Surveys by theovernment since the 1970s established that these islands were a

egionally signicant hawksbill turtle rookery. In the early 1980s,he government had attempted to protect the rookery rom thencreasing trade in turtle shell (known by the Japanese word bekko,sed to describe the particularly ornate hawksbill turtle shell) by

eclaring the area a wildlie sanctuary, but this eort ailed in theace o resistance rom local communities.

he Solomon Islands government ofcially owns the Arnavonslands, but customary rights over its rich marine resources have

been the subject o dispute between three neighbouring tribesor several decades. Local people have long regarded the three

Arnavon islands as a storehouse or important subsistence resourcesnd traditionally visited the islands only in times o need. Ater

large immigrant population o Gilbert Islanders rom Kiribatiwas voluntarily resettled nearby in the 1960s, overharvesting and

ommunity conicts precipitated a dramatic decline in the Arnavonsnce abundant resources, particularly the hawksbill turtle. The Sisigand Volaikana tribes rom the villages o Kia (on the island o Santa

sabel) and Katupika (Choiseul) both claimed customary rights overhe area, leading to conicts with the Gilbertese community on

Waghena Island (Choiseul).

An innovative solution to ending resource conict

Discussions between government ofcials, The Nature Conservancy,nd these three communities in the early 1990s ound the Kia andosarae people willing to support a conservation project in therea, provided that their rights to use its resources were recognisednd that they were actively involved in managing the project.

Village workshops in all three communities subsequently led to thestablishment o the Arnavon Management Committee in Honiara

in December 1993. This meeting was attended by representarom each o the three villages, key government ministries, andprovincial government. The committee that emerged includedrepresentative each rom the Ministry o Forests, EnvironmentConservation, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and provincial shofcers rom Isabel and Choiseul, as well as two representatives each o the Kia, Waghena, and Katupika communities.

This committee established the Arnavon Community M

Conservation Area in 1995. This Marine Protected Area (Mencompasses 40,000 acres (157 km), three small uninhabislands, ourishing rees, sh-lled lagoons, and beaches thahome to thousands o hawksbill sea turtles. The communities oWaghena, and Katupika are home to approximately 2,200 pemost local livelihoods in the Arnavons depend on the menvironment. These include shing, sea cucumber harvestrochus shell collection (used to make buttons), and seawarming. Levels o human development in the Solomon Islandlow; the 2006 UNDP Human Development Index ranked the SoloIslands 128 out o 177 countries globally based on a composite io health, education and living standards. Socioeconomic condiare especially poor in the marginalised Arnavon communitiesaverage village member lived on the equivalent o USD 0.53 ain early 2007.

Since the establishment o this protected area, numbers o tcritically endangered species have increased by nearly 400%well as increases in populations o coral ree sh and commespecies o marine invertebrates. The conservation area, createstem the overexploitation o dwindling marine resources, attlow levels o ecotourism. Local youth are employed as monitorshigh school students are brought on tours to learn about the groconservation eorts. The Management Committee that represthe three ounding villages continues to help resolve reso

conicts.

he Arnavons lie in the north-west o the Solomon Islands 922-island chain. Photo: Wade Fairley/The Nature Conservancy.


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Key Activities and Innovations

ince 1995, the Arnavon Community Marine Conservation AreaManagement Committee has been central to all conservation and

evelopment activities in the Arnavon Islands and the communitieshat ormerly depended on them. As well as two representativesrom each o Waghena, Kia and Katupika, the committee bringsogether the Ministry o Forestry, Environment and ConservationMFEC), Department o Fisheries and Marine Resources (DFMR),he governments o Isabel and Choiseul provinces, and The Nature

Conservancy. Each community representative is elected accordingo their villages own customs. In addition to its role in takingecisions or marine conservation and livelihoods diversication, theommittee has helped to develop its members management skills

nd organisational capacities. All o the partners represented in theManagement Committee are bound by the ACMCA managementplan. The dierent constituents bring dierent areas o expertiseo the partnership: government involvement has helped withegal and policy related issues; community engagement ensuresocal community support or the on-the-ground managementnd compliance; and the support o The Nature Conservancy has

provided unding and technical expertise.

Diversiying income sources to combat over-harvesting

he ACMCA employs young men rom all three partner communitiess Conservation Ofcers to enorce restrictions on harvesting marine

esources within the MPA. Beyond management o the conservationrea itsel, the Arnavon management committees chie prioritiesave been acilitating the development o alternative income-enerating livelihood activities or the Waghena, Kia, and Katupikaommunity members. In 1995, all three communities exhibitedigh levels o dependence on cash income derived mainly romelling marine resources such as sea cucumbers (beche-de-mer),rochus shells, and hawksbill turtle shell. These sales provided the

primary source o income or an estimated 79% o households; allhree o these activities were prohibited by the establishment ohe Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area. This need or

Monitoring o Hawksbill Turtle egg-laying takes place at night. Photo: Dju

Ivereigh.


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ash was in turn driven by a dependence on imported staple oods;2% o households in Waghena, 44% in Kia, and 11% in Katupikaespectively. The average household had one primary source oash income and three secondary sources. The situation pitted casheeds against sustainable resource management; the demand orlternative sources o income was thereore high.

n 1996-7, the rst eorts to meet these needs and adequately

ompensate the three communities or the loss o income romarvesting o marine species ocussed on expanding deep-

water sheries. Under the guidance o the Arnavon ManagementCommittee, an existing sh processing centre in Katupika was

xpanded and a new centre established in Waghena with nancialssistance rom international donors. A sh processing acility had

previously been built in Kai with unding rom the European Union.he sheries centre project aimed to encourage deep-sea bottomshing as a more sustainable alternative to ree shing. Training wasiven to all community members in harvesting deep-sea snapperpecies. The three centres then bought catches rom local shersnd sold them to export buyers in the Solomon Islands capital,

Honiara. In partnership with the Fisheries Department, prices werellocated or dierent species, with deep-sea varieties receivinghigher price compared to ree snappers, which are permitted

o be caught or subsistence purposes. Although initial resultswere promising, transport problems, lack o consistent access to

lectricity to power the rerigerator, and the low price o sh madehe centres unprotable. The sheries centre project closed in 2000

when ethnic conicts resulted in the collapse o the Solomon Islandsxport market. Currently these sheries centres remain closed,lthough discussions are continuing between the various partnerso Arnavon over a memorandum o understanding to be signed orheir re-opening.

ince the closure o the sheries centre, alternative livelihoodctivities have comprised making handicrats or visiting tourists,eaweed harvesting, and diversication into agriculture, althoughhis has been predominantly or ood security needs rather than as

livelihood activity. Ecotourism provides an occasional source oubsidiary income; visitors to the marine conservation area are ableo assist rangers in nightly monitoring o turtle egg-laying.

Early attempts to diversiy income sources or community members ocus

on deep-sea fshing. Photo: Djuna Ivereigh.

he Hawksbill turtle is listed as critically endangered. Photo: Wade Fairley/The Nature Conservancy.


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Impacts

BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS

An extensive marine assessment o the Solomon Islands in 2004provides the most comprehensive snapshot o the ecosystem healthwithin the conservation area. A total o 494 species o corals weredentied around the islands, including several new species. This

extraordinarily high diversity o coral species is second in the worldonly to Raja Ampat in Indonesia. While these rees were generally ingood health, many sites had above normal numbers o crown-o-horns starsh resulting in signicant coral mortality at a ew sites.

The survey also conrmed that the Solomon Islands has one o the

ichest concentrations o ree shes in the world and is an integralpart o the Coral Triangle. Over one thousand sh species wereatalogued, o which 786 (77%) were observed during the survey.

Conservation o key marine species

One o the key ndings o the survey conrmed that the ArnavonCommunity Marine Conservation Area had achieved a signicantmpact in allowing commercial marine species to regenerate. On

many Solomon Islands rees, numbers o sea cucumbers, Trochushell, craysh, tridacnid clams and large commercial sh species

were very low. The most valuable species such as maori wrasse,bumphead parrotsh, Trochus, larger species o tridacnid clams

nd some sea cucumbers (Holothuria nobilis, Holothuria uscogilva,Thelanota ananas) were oten absent. In contrast, the report oundhat in the Arnavon area where commercial shing and collecting is

banned and only subsistence collecting o some ree sh species isllowed, there were many sea cucumbers, Trochus, tridacnid clams,raysh, as well as large commercial sh species particularly the

bumphead parrot sh. Also, ater more than 10 years o protection,pearl oyster, especially black lip Pinctada margaritiera, were

bundant. This shows that the conservation area has achieved itsgoal o protecting important sheries species (TNC, 2006.)

Protecting the Hawksbill turtle

The chie biodiversity impact o the Arnavons project has beenconservation o the islands turtle populations. The Arnavon Islhave been recognized as the most important nesting ground oendangered Hawksbill turtles in the Western Pacic and are o gimportance to their survival. Prior to the establishment o the mconservation area in 1995, local communities reliance on the islmarine resources led to over-exploitation o Hawksbill, GreenLeatherback sea turtles or their shells and meat. Since then, howthe recovery o these species has been dramatic. MonitorinHawksbill turtle nesting has shown signicant increases in ne

numbers, and returning emales are now common.

The success o the marine conservation area has also binstrumental in increasing community awareness o the neemarine conservation. Awareness-raising activities have ocuon the islands youth population. Environmental issues have included in the curriculum or local schools, while school chilare taken on excursions to the marine conservation area. Thewidespread acceptance that children should be educated athe conservation o resources, while there is also a high levacceptance o the importance o this among local adult residA socioeconomic survey conducted in 2007 ound a high deo conservation awareness and commitment to sustainable ma

resource management among respondents, and especially amcommunity leaders.

SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS

As well as its impressive achievements in conserving the ArnIslands rich biodiversity, the ACMCA Management Committeehelped to bring substantial social and economic benets tocommunities o Waghena, Kia, and Katupika. The ormation oconservation area was a catalyst or achieving greater social cohe


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and interaction between the previously divided three communities.The project has also gradually improved trading opportunitiesbetween the villages, and has helped them to work together toaddress common social and economic issues. Specically, theACMCA has resulted in the employment o many young men romeach village as Conservation Ofcers, bringing consistent sources oncome to their households.

Compensating loss o fshing income

The primary cost o conservation to local people has come throughhe loss o revenue rom the sale o sh caught rom the reesurrounding their islands. Ree shing is still permitted withinhe conservation area or subsistence purposes; the Fisheries

Department has set low prices (SI$2/kg, or approximately USD0.54/kg at current prices) or these species to discourage theiroverexploitation or commercial purposes, however. Moreover, sincehe closure o the sheries centre project, local shers are no longer

able to receive higher prices or deep-sea bottom snapper speciescaught in a more sustainable manner through deep-sea shing. Thecost involved in equipment or this and storing and transporting the

sh caught are prohibitively expensive without the assistance o thesheries centres. The loss o revenue rom selling sh has negativelympacted households in the three Arnavon communities who had

previously relied heavily on marine resources as a source o cashncome. This negative impact has been oset to an extent by two

processes. First, diversied sources o income have been exploredwith the support o the ACMCA Management Committee. Second,agriculture has been more widely adopted by these households,complemented by a more diversied range o crops. This hashelped to decrease reliance on imported ood staples, which in turndecreases the need or cash income.

The pristine quality o the marine conservation area has becomea draw or luxury cruise boats visiting the Solomon Islands, whichprovide an occasional source o income in the orm o visitor eespaid or the ACMCA. These visitor ees have been used or employinghe MPAs Conservation Ofcers. Kia village residents have also

benetted rom visits by tourists, as women have been able to sellartisanal handicrats. This is reected by an increase in weaving omats, baskets and traditional costumes or dancing, all o which canalso be sold to visitors.

Another main alternative source o income that has been promoteds seaweed arming. This began in 2003, and was initially a successulource o household income. More recently a decrease o SI$0.50/

kg in its selling price (rom SI$2.00 to SI$1.50 approximately USD0.40/kg) has made this a less protable enterprise. It remains awidespread activity, however, with many households still derivingupplementary income rom it.

Village amilies are currently ar more dependent on householdagriculture than prior to the ormation o the marine conservationarea. While this generates little income, it has improved oodecurity. Other livelihood activities that have been explored include

bee-keeping, pig-rearing, and sustainable timber elling, but asyet there are no market outlets or these products, or or surplusagricultural products. Improved access to markets would help

to make these activities more economically viable or Arnacommunity members.A study in 2007 ound that the substitution o these alternsources o income or shing revenues had helped amilies to aschool ees. About 60% o the students in the three communpay their school ees annually, while the remaining 40% pay ahal o the annual amount. In cases where students cant pay ull school ees, they typically continue to attend school in the h

that they will complete the payment the ollowing year.

Beyond income generation, one o the principal achievemo the MPA is its perceived impact on local governance and scohesion since the establishment o the Arnavon CommuMarine Conservation Area Management Committee in 1Despite the short distances between the three villages, they reculturally diverse and isolated rom one another. Bringing togethese three partner communities in the Management Committdiscuss marine conservation issues has helped to improve linkbetween them and overcome their traditional dierenceaddition, the Committee has helped to develop the organisatand management skills o its members. The committee is perce

to be unctioning well and to have provided the opportunitcommunity representatives to express their views and to bintegral part in the decision-making processes relating to the M

POLICY IMPACTS

The Arnavon MCA Management Committee has also enableddevelopment o relationships between resource-using communprovincial authorities, and the national government. This cross-interaction between interested parties has had a number o benThe involvement o national and provincial governmentshelped to engender supportive policies and legislative institutThe National Fisheries Act o 1972, or instance, supportedconservation o specic species such as turtles, blacklip and gopearl oysters, and certain species o bche-de-mer. While implementation o these restrictions was typically constrainelimited resources, such legal institutions were there to be harnein developing resource management strategies or the area.Provincial governments have also had a key role in supposheries development in the area. In Kia, the provincial authounded the development o a deep-sea sheries centre as an incogenerating venture. Isabel province also played an importantin supporting management arrangements or the Arnavons are

ormalising its management plan under provincial law.

The involvement o international bodies such as The NaConservancy (TNC), as well as the national government, has enathe Arnavons initiative to access international unding or vaproject activities. For instance, nancial assistance has been obtarom the Biodiversity Conservation Network, the South PaRegional Environment Program, and the Japanese governmTechnical assistance rom government and international partnevarious aspects o resource management and development hassupported the work o the management committee in various w

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Sustainability and Replication

SUSTAINABILITYhe operational sustainability o the initiative is grounded in theupport it receives rom the three ounding communities. In theolomon Islands, ownership and resource rights to land, rees, andsheries are enshrined in constitutionally recognized customarywnership. Any successul conservation initiative needs the support local clans and communities to be sustainable. The continuedonservation benets brought by the marine conservation area

more than teen years ater its establishment are testament tohe level o acceptance the project has attained within its oundingommunities. Coupled with this acceptance is also a high level o

pride in the success o the Arnavons project, which is recognizedationally and internationally as a model o community-basedmarine conservation, and is the agship case or conservation in the

olomon Islands.

evel o support within communities

upport or the MPA is predominantly based on its expected long-erm benets, however, rather than its impacts on household

wellbeing to date. As the results o socioeconomic surveys conductedn 2007 show, residents strongly agreed with the statements thathat the MPA is a positive orce or their amilies utures, that it is theiruty to protect the marine conservation area, that its destruction

would cause uture difculties or the communities, and that theyan inuence decisions about the MPA.

he respondents are also very positive about the contribution ohe MPA in terms o the maintenance and revival o local culturend traditions. In many other aspects, however, the surveyedommunity members were less positive about its impacts, especiallyoncerning local inrastructure, sh catches, access to markets, andousehold income. They also did not eel that the MPA managementommunicated eectively or had promoted the role o women

within the communities.

These results demonstrate that support or the MPA exists in o the relatively limited social and economic benets it has brothe communities o Waghena, Kia, and Katupika, in part due toailure o the sheries centre to adequately compensate local sor the decrease in the price o ree sh. The project has been to successully communicate the idea that the MPA will delong-term benets to its constituent communities; the delivethese benets is thereore integral to the uture sustainability oproject. The re-opening o the sheries centre and the developmo the Arnavons as an ecotourism destination would both he

Seaweed arming supplements household incomes or many amilies. P

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nsure uture economic gains or the communities households.wo processes are critical to ensuring this long-term impact.irstly the support o local government authorities and The Nature

Conservancy has helped to ensure the projects operationaluccess. These contributions have included training Conservation

Ofcers, biological monitoring, and nancial management, amongther roles. Ater more than teen years o involvement, The

Nature Conservancy is withdrawing its support. The ability o theACMCA Management Committee to continue its role in ensuring

ompliance with the MPAs restrictions, maintaining relationshipswith local authorities and other stakeholders, and monitoring andmanaging the MPAs resources will decide the initiatives long-termuture. To assist in this, in 2007 The Nature Conservancy established

USD 400,000 endowment to support the Arnavon CommunityMarine Conservation Areas core operational costs in perpetuity.

his was the rst instance o an MPA in the Pacic securing undsor an endowment. Between 2007 and 2010, this und was manageds part o the Conservancys larger endowment und; beyond this,

t is hoped that the interest earned rom the und will be sufciento support the annual recurring costs o managing the marineonservation area.

REPLICATION

Visits to the Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area by eldersnd leaders rom other nearby communities have led to increased

ocal acceptance o Locally-Managed Marine Areas (LMMAs) as a

model or conservation. LMMAs have subsequently been establiin several areas o the neighbouring provinces o Choiseul and Isspecically aimed at the protection o sh spawning areas vit

the maintenance o sustainable local sheries.

PARTNERS

The Nature Conservancy The Solomon Islands Government (including the Min

o Natural Resources Department o Fisheries and MResources and the Department o Forests Environment Conservation and the Ministry o Reorm and Planning.)

Provincial government agencies o the Solomon Isl(including The Lauru Land Conerence o Tribal Chies (LLCThe Isabel Council o Chies (ICC), the Ministry or NaResources in Isabel Province, and the Department o FisherChoiseul Province.)

WWF Biodiversity Conservation Network Conservation International (CI) Wildlie Conservation Society Australian scientic institutions (including the Austr

Institute o Marine Science (AIMS), CRC Ree Research CeQueensland Department o Primary Industries & Fisheries,APEX Environmental Pty Ltd.)

South Pacic Regional Environment Program Government o Japan Volunteer Service Abroad (New Zealand)

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MPA has improved the position o women

Helped to improve inrastructure and services

Made us less dependent on ishing only

Improved access to markets and market goods

Made us eel saer in diicult times

MPA management communicates well

Helped to increase amily's income

Has helped to increase ish catch size

My amily can inluence decisions about the MPA

MPA has improved access to natural resources

MPA has helped to maintain culture and traditions

Villagers are responsible or protecting the MPA

Destroying the MPA will cause uture problems

MPA is good or my amily's uture

Level o agreement/disagreement with statement

Fig. 1: Community perceptions of Arnavon MCA Management Committee

ource: van Beukering et al, 2007.


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FURTHER REFERENCE

Van Beukering, P. J. H., Scherl, L. M., Sultanian, E., Leisher, C. 2007. Case study 2: Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area (Solo

Islands): The Role o Marine Protected Areas in Contributing to Poverty Reduction

http://www.prem-online.org/archive/19/doc/Country%20Report%20Arnavons%20_Solomon%20Islands_.pd

Mahanty, S. 2002. Building Bridges: lessons rom the Arnavon Management Committee, Solomon Islands, Development Bulletin 58.

The Nature Conservancy. 2006. Solomon Islands Marine Assessment. TNC Pacic Island Countries Report No 1/06.

Plotsky, J. Home or Hawksbill (Film, 2010)

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