manuals and through the SUCCESS knowledge management system. Targeting an even broader audience and applying a more long-term capacity-building strategy, SUCCESS is also working in both regions to
implement certification programs that will advance the “practice” of ICM including marine protected area management in the “profession” of ICM.
Inequality—by promoting stakeholder participation especially of the disenfranchised, including women. SUCCESS works with local citizens, organizations, and government to address their conservation challenges
and identify actions to reduce or eliminate impacts on marine resources and biodiversity. Also, drawing on local resources provides a low cost approach to solving problems, taps local knowledge of the ecology of the
place, and helps ensure best practices are sustained after the Program end. Local and global health crises of HIVAIDS—by identifying alternative income-generating activities that
acknowledge victims’ loss of stamina for more traditional and energy-demanding jobs. Research shows those suffering from HIVAIDS are often “driven” to destructive use of marinecoastal resources primarily
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because they perceive this as the only way to reduce the time required to secure their food or income through more traditional means.
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SUCCESS is helping raise communities’ awareness that there are other options available.
1.2 Program Description
SUCCESS comprises four key synergistic elements: capacity building, applied research toward a learning agenda, development of learning networks and knowledge management systems to share this learning and
other experience, providing global leadership in key issues of concern to ICM, and generating on-the-ground results living laboratories of applied research and action to inform the global practice of ICM and related
subtopics e.g., small scale fisheries management, low-impact mariculture, non-extractive income generating livelihoods, etc.. Each Program elements builds from and supports the others.
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Capacity Building
There is international recognition that the lack of human capacity is a, if not the, key factor limiting forward progress in ICM. While SUCCESS and its partners will continue to conduct in-the-field mentoring and
limited training, it is now going a step further and expanding its capacity building strategy to include a professional certification scheme—designing and delivering certification programs for individuals working
in coastal management, including in marine protected area MPA management, starting with regional programs in Latin America and the Western Indian Ocean Region see section 4 of this report for details.
Both certifications follow a core program structure focused around four “E”s of education, experience, examination, and ethics and share the goal of seeking to advance what is now the practice of coastalMPA
management into the profession of coastalMPA management. In the Western Indian Ocean region, this certification initiative targets individuals working in marine
protected areas, while in Latin America it targets those working in coastal management at the municipal scale. These certification programs are designed to be replicated in other regions.
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Bishop-Sambrook, C. and Tanzarn. “The Susceptibility and Vulnerability of Small-scale Fishing Communities to HIVAIDS in Uganda” p. 8
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ABCG, HIVAIDS and Natural Resources Management Linkages: Workshop Proceedings. Conservation International: Washington, DC. 19 pp.
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1.2.2 Regional Networks, Knowledge Management, and Learning
