Building Engagement With Stakeholders
The ecosystem approach explicitly recognises the central importance of people in natural resource management. It aims to facilitate cooperative stakeholder engagement and will feed into the development of the EAF Management Plans.
This Work Package seeks to:
- Identify EAF stakeholders’ groups and their representatives including fishermen, coastal communities, fisheries scientists, ecologists, resource managers and economists, governance institutions, general public and lobby groups;
- Conduct a stakeholder mapping exercise which goes beyond identifying stakeholders to clarify their interrelationships and their roles in the decision making process;
- Engage with representatives of all stakeholders (scientific and industry in particular) in promoting awareness of project activities;
- Identify key figures, particularly in the fishing community, who would wish to actively participate in the ongoing project and help shape its progress;
- Develop decision support tools to facilitate effective stakeholder participation in and understanding of EAF;
- Build and manage an accessible, interactive website to communicate programme progress and results to stakeholders;
- Run awareness raising workshops transferring the new knowledge and understanding to different stakeholder communities such as fishermen, practitioners, coastal communities, managers, policy makers etc.;