Description
IAS continues to pioneer the use of participatory techniques and adaptive management to assist communities adopt good governance practices in developing, implementing and monitoring resource management plans. It continues to work with the USP Governance Program to study how Fijian villages can best govern themselves and in developing case studies in environmental governance. The need for more effective village governance has been highlighted as one of the major needs for, among other things, better coastal management. The other needs are subregional master planning and a special coastal commission to provide permits for developments near the coast. Efforts were made in 2009 to set up mechanisms of cooperation with the Fiji government to achieve these ends. A leadership and training program for traditional chiefs was implemented in two provinces in 2009