Produced for the UK Government’s Climate and Ocean Adaptation and Sustainable Transition (COAST) programme, provides practical reflections on the barriers and enablers to effectively balancing stakeholder needs and priorities in multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for effective and equitable coastal resource management (CRM), particularly related to:
- foundations of partnerships
- relational and power dimensions
- governance and operational structures
- knowledge, learning and communication
CRM includes all activities aimed at managing and sustainaing resources in coastal areas which have economic and ecological value.
If implemented equitably, CRM has the potential to contribute significantly to sustainable poverty alleviation, improving food security and mitigating climate change through nature-based solutions.
However, CRM solutions are too complex to be designed, implemented, managed and sustained by a single organisation or set of actors. As a result, MSPs have gained increasing importance in the context of coastal and marine conservation and protection.
Stakeholders come to an MSP with their own resources, priorities, values and needs. A careful balance of these needs and priorities is essential for sustainable management of coastal and marine resources.
This evidence review explores the barriers and enables to doing this for equitable and effective CRM.
