FIJI COUNTRY PROGRAM 2015

LINKS TO NATIONAL PRIORITIES:
NBSAP Implementation Plan Thematic Area 6 (Protected Areas), Strategy 2: Expand protected
area network in priority sites at the national level and provincial level to achieve national
targets, Objective 2.2: By 2014, develop management structures and implement paths to
gazettal at highest priority sites, Actions 2.2b-c; and NBSAP Implementation Plan Thematic
Area 3 (Inshore Fisheries), Strategy 4: Design new ecologically relevant inshore MPAs,
Objective 4.6: By mid-2014, 25% of the communities will have established new management
structures for new MPAs, Action 4.6a: Consult with communities at priority regions outside of
existing MMAs to establish new MPA management structures. Climate Change Policy
Adaptation Strategy 5: Support the ecosystem based management approach throughout Fiji,
recognizing that ecosystem services, such as food security, natural hazard mitigation and
physical coastal buffer zones, increase resilience. Green Growth Framework Thematic Area 3
(Sustainable Island and Ocean Resources): (i) develop a natural resource management system
which is inclusive and integrated, and continue capacity building and awareness programmes
with all communities, emphasizing supporting resource owners on the importance of proper
environmental stewardship, (ii) government to continue to work with community and civil
society on initiatives such as the establishment of marine protected areas and community
based fish wardens.
Participants of the community planning workshops at Koro Island. ©Waisea Nasilisili/WCS
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