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Monitoring and Evaluating Municipal/City Plans and Programs for Coastal Resource Management

Global fish catch estimates show a downward trend,declining by about 360,000 tonnes every year since 1988. This is a result of the degradation of coastal areas, from detrimental human activity and overexploitation of resources in the Philippines, where more than 50 percent of the population depends on fish for dietary protein, there has also been a significant drop in the fish catch. Fishers who caught 20 kilograms per fishing trip 30 years ago are nowo catching less than 2 kilograms per trip.
Philippine mangrove areas, nursery grounds for many marine and brackish water fish and shellfish species, have declined from 450,000 hectares in th e1920s to about 120,000 hectares today. Coral reefs have suffered a similar decline that contributes to a decreasing natural prodution of coastal marine resources.
These figures point to an ever increasing  threath, that of national food instability and increasing malnutrition, especially among the less privileged. There is a tremendous need in the country for each coastal minucipality and city to initiate and implement a coastal resource management program. This is a pre-requesite to stabilize the condition and productivity of our fisheries and valuable coastal habitats.
This manual, Monitoring and Evaluating Municipal/City Plans and Programs for Coastal Resource Management, will guide local government units in effectively managing our coastal and marine resources. Coastal resource planners and ?managers, using this manual, will be able to effectively monitor, evaluate and improve thir coastal management program. This will provide greated stability to over one million municipal fishers and their families. 
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, through its Coastal and Marine Management Office and its Coastal Resource Management Project, wishes to thank our partners - the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources,, other government agencies, non-government organizations and members of the academe - for their valuable contributions to this manual.

Author: 
Coastal Resource
Subject: 
Coastal Resources
File: 
PDF icon CRM M&E_guidelines.pdf
Project Title: 
Monitoring and Evaluating Municipal/City Plans and Programs for Coastal Resource Management
Publication Type: 
Guidelines