Increasing the Effectiveness of Coastal Zone Management Coastal Management Projects

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Increasing the Effectiveness of Coastal Zone
Management (Coastal Management) Projects

• Brian Shipman (PAP)

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Coastal Management as a PROCESS.

• No time limits
• Goals change
• Respond to the unforseen
• Continuous budgets
• Multi Level

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Coastal Management as a PROJECT.

• Time limited
• Predetermined Objectives and Process
• Predetermined Outputs
• Fixed Budgets
• Single level

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The Challenge for Projects.

• Demonstrate practical concrete results in the
  short term.
• Create the conditions for effective coastal
  management to continue in the long term.

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How.?

• Engage...
• with local reality
• with local aspirations

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Effective Coastal Management Projects
Issue-led
People-centred
Locally-specific
realism - pragmatism - practical psychology
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• Governance
• Information and Knowledge
• Participation and Partnership
• Indicators

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GOVERNANCE

• Political will

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GOVERNANCE

• Political will
• Resources
• financial
• human

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GOVERNANCE

• Political will
• Resources
• financial
• human
• Legal frameworks

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GOVERNANCE

• Political will
• Resources
• financial
• human
• Legal frameworks
• Institutional capacity maturity

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GOVERNANCE
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INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE

• Information Gap
• "Data does not equal information,
• information does not equal knowledge
• and knowledge does not equal wisdom.
• We have oceans of data, rivers of information,
  puddles of knowledge and the odd drop of wisdom."
• Nix H. "A National Geographic information - an
  Achievable Objective? AUSISA Conference. 1990.

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INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE

• Data collection should be strategic and
  transparent, issue led, with a user focus
• Technologies should be designed to be fit for
  purpose and match the of capabilities and needs
  of end users
• Information and knowledge flows should be
  facilitated by consistent use of simple metadata
  records through internet-based and other
  gateways
• Awareness-raising and capacity-building to
  enhance understanding between providers, users
  and their needs.

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INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE

• FIT FOR PURPOSE
• meaning, relevance and purpose

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INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE

• Models and Decision Support Systems

"if you kick a stone, the result is predictable
in principle, one can calculate the trajectory of
the stone before actually kicking it......
Kicking a dog, however, is a different
matter.Gregory Bateson 1972
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INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE

• Smart Communities

The quality and presentation of information
should be related to the decision making process
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PARTNERSHIPS PARTICIPATION
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PARTNERSHIPS PARTICIPATION
1 Recognise Diversity ? 2 Agree a shared
vision ? 3 Understand motivation
? 4 Design the process
? 5 DEMONSTRATE SUCCESS
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PARTNERSHIPS PARTICIPATION
1 Recognise Diversity ? 2 Agree a shared
vision ? 3 Understand motivation
? 4 Design the process
? 5 DEMONSTRATE SUCCESS
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INDICATORS

• Selection?
• Top Down Bottom Up

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CONCLUSIONS
PROJECT DESIGN

• 1 Tools

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CONCLUSIONS
PROJECT DESIGN

• 1 Tools
• 2 Instruments

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CONCLUSIONS
PROJECT DESIGN

• 1 Tools
• 2 Instruments
• 3 Techniques and Structures

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CONCLUSIONS
PROGRAMME DESIGN

• 1 Flexibility?
• 2 Evaluation
• 3 Global vs. Local objectives

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