SocMon Monitoring Site

Bunaken National Park

Southeast Asia : Indonesia
Year completed: 2006

Measuring socio-economic impacts of full closure of fish spawning aggregation sites in and around Bunaken National Park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia in the Sulu Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion

 

Objectives

Enhancing local capacity through a training workshop on the socio-economic methodology described in the GCRMN/NOAA/WCPA/AIMS Socioeconomic Manual for Coral Reef Management; Implementation of on-site socio-economic assessments using the aforementioned methodologies in and
around Bunaken National Park; and Designing a long-term regular monitoring program to assess actual impacts of full closure once effective