The National Plan of Action on Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security.

The National Plan of Action on Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security is a national policy with a cross-sectoral approach. The goal of this policy is to manage marine and coastal resources in a sustainable manner in order to ensure food security, sustainable economic development, biodiversity conservation and adaptation to emerging threats through community-based resource management approaches supported by the government agencies and other partners. This policy aims at having half of coastal, watershed and inshore area under improved management through community-based resource management (CBRM), ecosystem-based management and integrated coastal management approaches by 2015.
In order to achieve an integrated ecosystem based management approach that relies on a core of community based management as a national strategy to deliver food security, vulnerability and adaptation planning and protection of key species and habitats, this Plan provides for designing a system of community based resource management appropriate to Solomon Islands (CBRM+); implementing CBRM+ widely and establishing long-term support systems at the national and provincial levels; and establishing and operationalising systems for achieving integrated management building on CBRM+.
A national strategy will be developed for the implementation of CBRM detailing institutional structures and staffing, phased geographic approach, networking opportunities, capacity building and institutional strengthening, awareness campaign, basic monitoring etc. Best practice, guidance and model will be developed for implementation of community-based approaches to fisheries management and protected areas which include ecosystem approaches and community strategies for adaptation to climate change and early warning of threatened species. Capacity building activities will be conducted through specific training and guidance for community managers, traditional leaders, local enforcement officers, police or courts. Wider ecosystem approaches will be implemented through sectoral coordination at the national level. Furthermore, assessments and planning will be carried out with provincial stakeholders making use of networks and covering ecosystem, and local ecosystem approaches in key clusters of communities or districts will be supported. The support networks for information sharing, capacity building, community involvement and the linkages for ecosystem approach will be developed. The social and economic viability, including market and value chain, will be assessed relating to supplementary livelihoods, and livelihood options will be tested in the context of community management plans and appropriate to local context and issues.
The legal and policy frameworks in the fields of wildlife protection, protected areas, fisheries and resource management will be developed. Data and information management will be established and developed for effective coordination and decision-making. More detailed monitoring of environmental and social impacts of CBRM implementation will be carried out at selected key sites as indicator of overall progress. Surveys and stock assessment of priority threatened and target species will be conducted. Local knowledge of threatened or decreasing stocks of species will be incorporated as early warning on status of threatened species and critical stocks. Public awareness will be raised on rationale for size limits, restricted gear, community management plans, sale of undersize fish, reproductive ecology, vulnerability and adaptation strategies, ecosystem and watershed issues, key species and management options. Awareness strategy will be implemented at the national and provincial levels and environmental education opportunities will be integrated into the school curricula.