Disseminating the SUCCESS Experience
• An improved understanding of the factors that lead to successful and not successful
livelihood components of ICM initiatives. The learning agenda intends to take these findings to achieve another set of outcomes:
• A set of recommended strategies are formulated that improve the probability of achieving
successful livelihood activities as part of marine conservation and resource management initiatives.
• Improved capacity built among our local partners for integrating successful livelihood
strategies into on-going ICM initiatives. •
Information, including a training module, is made available to donors and practitioners on how to design and implement better livelihood strategies.
A second component of the SUCCESS learning agenda is to conduct biodiversity threats assessments for each of the SUCCESS field sites. Working with partners in the field, the
assessments will identify existing and anticipated direct and indirect threats to biodiversity in each site and current biodiversity conservation efforts that are addressing these threats. This
information will be used to recommend conservation goals and targets related to the priority threats, suggest investmentsactivities to fill gaps, and address the priority threats, and if
necessary, recommend adaptations to the current SUCCESS goals and activities in each site. A third SUCCESS learning component is to revisit the governance baselines for Ecuador and
Nicaragua. Although the baselines were completed for all sites in Year 2, they fall short of serving as models. For the purpose of creating model baselines that could be used to showcase the
method, the decision was made to revise the Ecuador baseline and one of the Nicaragua baselines Estero Real. The Estero Real baseline is revised already and the Cojimies baseline will be
finalized this year.