This page provides useful documents and publications that guide resource managers, government officials, policy-makers and others on conducting socioeconomic monitoring. In some cases contact information on where documents can be obtained is given.
If you have a document or a publication to share with us, please email: iwanyonyi@cordioea.org, socmon@cordioea.org.
Socioeconomic Monitoring Guidelines for Coastal Managers of the Indian Ocean (SocMon-WIO Manual), 2006
The Socioeconomic Monitoring Guidelines for Coastal Managers (SocMon-WIO Manual) was developed to help managers better understand coastal and marine user communities, so that they can more effectively incorporate socioeconomic information into the management process, determine the effects of management decisions and policies on coastal user communities, and demonstrate the value of the resources to the general public, stakeholder groups and policy-makers.
These guidelines provide a set of tools simplified and adapted from the GCRMN Socioeconomic Monitoring Manual for Coral Reef Managers (Bunce et al. 2000). The manual provides practical, step-by-step guidelines on how to conduct socioeconomic monitoring studies of the marine and coastal resource stakeholders, including: preparatory activities; planning and reconnaissance; field data collection; secondary methods, key informant and focus group interviews, data analysis, and feedback/communication. There are 52 suggested variables that could be used for monitoring and that should be tailored to suit the implementing projects objectives.
The target audience for this manual include coastal and marine resource managers, who include the staff managing coastal areas, local government authorities, non-governmental organizations and local people (e.g. community organizations, fisheries associations, local resource users), academics and international and regional organizations in developing countries to help them initiate and conduct socioeconomic monitoring programs in their communities.
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SocMon WIO Trainers’ Guide
This guide is designed to help SocMon trainers who train SocMon site teams. It provides detailed step-by-step explanation on how to facilitate such trainings. It explains so well several important areas such as how to introduce the research to the community and how to work well with them, how to select key informants, how to conduct the interviews, and suggests some solutions to potential problems in the field etc. The guide is designed specifically for training others to conduct socioeconomic monitoring; trained practitioners administer it.
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SocMon WIO Dissemination Guidelines
Socioeconomic monitoring is participatory, and its results need to be communicated to the communities involved. These guidelines provide recommendations on how feedback with the user communities should be held for effective dissemination to be realized. It also spells out who needs to be invited and the people to facilitate. These guidelines were formulated based on the experiences from the Diani-Chale SocMon.
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SocMon WIO Database and Database guidelines
A generic database for archiving and analyzing and reporting SocMon data was developed at the regional coordinating office in CORDIO, which needs to be integrated with other databases being developed in the region. A regional database to provide a common platform for regional comparisons of summary data and trends and analyses, and sharing of information among the participating sites throughout the region will be developed. This will assist projects with data entry, management, analysis and reporting results.
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The GCRMN Manual and other manuals
The GCRMN Socioeconomic Manual for Coral Reef Management is also available for use in the region. This is the mother of all SocMon guidelines in the region, and the SocMon-WIO manual should be used as a complementary tool to the GCRMN guidelines.
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Other socioeconomics publications
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