Originating in a French political commitment to contributing to the development of the Pacific Island states, the Initiative for the Protection and Sustainable Management of Coral Reefs in the South Pacific was prepared by the French Development Agency as part of an inter-ministerial arrangement as from 2002, in
The monitoring and evaluation system of CRISP programme is semester based with 2 reports describing activities from the 1st of January to the 30th of June and the 1st of July to the 31st of December respectively. Actions occurring on the field are classified according to the type of activities, which are explained according to projects comprised into different compo-
The Initiative for the Protection and Sustainable Management of Coral Reefs in the South Pacific is now known by the acronym "CRISP" (Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific). Initially sponsored by France, this project seeks to develop partnerships with the English- speaking countries and institutions in the Pa-
cific, as the use of an English title shows.
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The goal of the sub-component 2A is to improve knowledge, monitoring, management capacity and development of the resources of these ecosystems to ensure of the sustainable development of corals. C2A program gathers several institutes from four different countries that are working together within 5 different broad projects and 25 activities. The main technical partners of C2A are Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) - Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de la Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) and The University of the South Pacific (USP).
CRISP program is a South Pacific regional initiative, which "aims to develop a vision for the future of [coral reefs] and the communities that depend on them and to introduce strategies and projects to conserve their biodiversity, while developing the economic and environmental services that they provide both locally and globally. Also, it is designed as a factor for
This consolidated report, for the first semester of 2007, comes out one month late because of the programme coordinator participation and involvement in the preparation of the Towns- ville Forum co-organised by Australia and France in September 2007 (see CRISP Enlightnings and CRISP Partnerships chapters further in this report).
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Solomon Islands is one of the seven countries of the South West Pacific Node of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN). The country coordination is carried out by the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) Gizo Office in the Western Province. All coral reef monitoring activities are carried out by WWF Gizo staff with very little interaction with other stakeholders in way of information sharing.
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The main purpose of SEM-Pasifika is to improve site management of the coastal and marine areas in the Pacific region. It should guide interested communities in the region (including communities who have used existing methods and new communities without experiences in socio-economic assessment), management and project staff, researchers, and other practitioners, to understand important steps involved in a socioeconomic assessment and to be able to conduct the monitoring.
La zone est extrêmement variée et les enjeux le sont donc également. Toutefois
certains dentre eux sont présents dans presque tous les sites où le programme
intervient :
Pêches récifales de plus en plus problématiques
Travaux sur létat de santé des récifs, leffet des pêches, leffet des AMP,
éparpillés et peu coordonnés,
Coopération régionale très limitée malgré la similitude des problèmes et
probablement des solutions
Possibilité de renforcer la couverture des AMP dans le Pacifique
FSPI CCP program has recognized the need of applied research and capacity building to support community based activities. FSPI has been researching the development of low-tech coral reef restoration techniques as a viable management tool for local communities. FSPI, through its affiliates, PCDF and Solomon Island Development Trust, have conducted coral reef restoration
The Millennium Assessment for the Ecosystems was another big step towards the development of studies relative to reef economic value. Chapter 2, thus, offers a standard method to assess ecological services and goods provided by ecosystems that will allow the multiplication of this kind of studies (Millennium Ecological Assessment, 2003). At this time, first semester 2008, economic or socio-economic valuation of coral reefs has become a priority issue for many funding agencies and
In 2000, the Fiji Islands was at the northern edge of a large pool of unusually warm water, and suffered extensive hard coral death due to coral bleaching. A paper composed of a collection of studies from across the Fiji islands, linking this coral
death to elevated sea temperatures at the time, was published (Cummings et al 2000). The difficulty of gathering data from very different sources, and which had been recorded using many different methods, established the need for standardised