Primary survey of Beach Management Units (BMU) in the Kenyan coastal marine fisheries
Beach Management Units (BMUs) are the backbone of fisheries co-management in Kenya, led by the Fisheries Department, Ministry of Fisheries Development. Enactment of BMU Regulations, 2007 has provided necessary legal framework for the BMUs to operate and about 73 BMUs have been formed in the Coastal region of Kenya since their introduction in 2006. Implementation of Regional Fisheries Strategy for ESA-IO, commonly known as Smart Fish has initiated a BMU Evaluation Framework in the Kenyan coastal marine fisheries as a pilot project, in its quest to accompany the BMU process in the ESA coastal and riparian countries. The overall objective of the evaluation was to assess the performance of BMUs in the Kenyan coastal marine fisheries. Specific objectives were: i) to assess the organisational performance of BMUs, ii) to verify critical conditions for BMU success, iii) to assess individual BMU member achievements and iv) to assess lead institution governance performance. Sampling targeted 34% of coastal BMUs situated along the 600 km Kenyan coastline. The coastline is traversed by five counties namely, Kwale, Mombasa, Kilifi, Tana River and Lamu. Structured interviews (Likert six-point scale) and Focus Group Discussions were held with BMU representatives, including executives and individual members. Structured interviews were also done with senior Fisheries Officers in each county. Standard evaluation criteria approaches of effectiveness, efficiency, relevance and other factors such as governance, socioeconomic benefits, human resource development and sustainability were employed. In particular, factors considered included organisation performance, performance assessment, critical factors for success, authority, leadership, political vision and adequacy of resources among others. Aggregated indices (arithmetic mean and 3.5 benchmark) on each item were calculated and plotted in bar graphs while descriptive data was analysed thematically. BMU performance findings were groupe d into four major categories namely; organisation profile, organisation performance, critical success conditions and individual BMU led achievements. A further breakdown of the last three factors resulted into 22 key performance, namely; jurisdiction (satisfactory), adaptability (satisfactory), organisational adequacy (satisfactory), democratic practices (satisfactory), social-cultural considerations (satisfactory), cooperation (satisfactory), collaboration (satisfactory), communication (satisfa ctory), mutual trust (moderately satisfactory), participation (moderately satisfactory), networking (moderately satisfactory), leadership (moderately satisfactory), conflict resolution (moderately satisfactory), representativity (satisfactory unsatisfactory), cohesion (moderately satisfactory), inclusion (moderately satisfactory), effectiveness (moderately satisfactory), resources (moderately unsatisfactory), efficiency (moderately unsatisfactory), relevance (moderately unsatisfactory), enforcem ent (moderately unsatisfactory) and cost/benefits (unsatisfactory). These former nine factors can be considered as major constraints to BMU survival.
| Format: | Book (stand-alone) biblioteca |
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| Language: | English |
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FAO/IOC ;
2012
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/AZ093E http://www.fao.org/3/a-az093e.pdf |
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