Empowering Local Communities: Case Study of Votua, Ba, Fiji

Veitayaki, Joeli; Aalbersberg, Bill; Tawake, Alifereti

doi:10.1163/221160003x00177

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“…To address this problem of learning languages, the LMMA projects have trained individual community members in scientific methods and approaches in order to ensure that they were better able to convey community concerns to their NGO/university counterparts, and to help communities to understand the ideas, logic and assumptions behind these methods. In addition, only researchers/NGO people who were able to speak the local vernacular and had a sound understanding of the local context were engaged with the communities, in an attempt to ensure that the projects were context sensitive (Veitayaki, Aalbersberg et al 2003).…”

Section: Learning Through Knowledge Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning in Sustainable Natural Resource Management: Challenges and Opportunities in the Pacific

Keen

Mahanty

2006

Society & Natural Resources

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Section: Learning Through Knowledge Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning in Sustainable Natural Resource Management: Challenges and Opportunities in the Pacific

Keen

Mahanty

2006

Society & Natural Resources

115

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“…The quantitative criteria used in our case study also limited the inclusion of many lessons reported by Pacific authors on the importance of Indigenous knowledge for managing small‐scale fisheries (Benyei et al., 2020 ; Kakuma & Kitolelei, 2018 ; Vave, 2022 ; Veitayaki, 2000 , 2002 ; Veitayaki et al., 2004 ) and hence furthering SDG 11.4 (strengthening efforts to protect and safeguard the world's cultural heritage). For example, Veitayaki ( 2002 ) presents the knowledge, wisdom, and experiences of Indigenous Fijian communities that relate to sustainable resource management, including fisheries.…”

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Linking small‐scale fisheries co‐management to U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

Smallhorn‐West

Cohen

Phillips

et al. 2022

Conservation Biology

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Small‐scale fisheries account for 90% of global fishers and 40% of the global catch. Effectively managing small‐scale fisheries is, therefore, crucial to progressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Co‐management and community‐based fisheries management are widely considered the most appropriate forms of governance for many small‐scale fisheries. We outlined relationships between small‐scale fisheries co‐management and attainment of the SDGs, including evidence for impacts and gaps in dominant logic. We identified 11 targets across five SDGs to which small‐scale fisheries co‐management (including community‐based fisheries management) can contribute; the theory of change by which these contributions could be achieved; and the strength of evidence for progress toward SDG targets related to various co‐management strategies. Our theory of change links the 11 SDG targets by qualifying that progress toward some targets is contingent on others being achieved first. We then reviewed 58 case studies of co‐management impacts from the Pacific Islands––a region rich in local marine governance––to evaluate evidence of where, to what degree, and with how much certainty different co‐management strategies conferred positive impacts to each SDG target. These strategies included access restrictions, permanent area closures, periodic closures, and gear and species restrictions. Although many studies provide evidence linking multiple co‐management strategies to improvements in resource status (SDG 14.4), there was limited evidence of follow‐on effects, such as improvements in catch (SDG 2.3, 2.4), livelihoods (SDG 1.2), consumption (SDG 2.1), and nutrition (SDG 2.2). Our findings suggest that leaps of logic and assumptions are prevalent in co‐management planning and evaluation. Hence, when evaluating co‐management impacts against the SDGs, consideration of ultimate goals is required, otherwise, there is a risk of shortfalls between aspirations and impact.

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“…The latter include mangrove ecosystems that were often governed by strict protocols intended to sustain productivity, solutions now lost in many contexts (Argyriou et al, 2018;Pearson et al, 2019Pearson et al, , 2020Veitayaki et al, 2017). Much recent emphasis has been on marine-protected areas (MPAs) that are not only a common contemporary solution for sustaining key marine ecosystems but also have ancient precedents in the Pacific Islands region, making them more acceptable to local communities (Friedlander & Gaymer, 2021;Halpern et al, 2013;Johannes, 1978;Robertson et al, 2020;Veitayaki et al, 2003).…”

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Traditional knowledge for climate resilience in the Pacific Islands

Nunn,

Kumar,

Barrowman

et al. 2024

WIREs Climate Change

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Pacific Islands, many relatively remote and small, have been occupied by people for more than 3000 years during which time they experienced climate‐driven environmental changes (both slow and rapid onset) that challenged human survival and led to the evolution of place‐based coping strategies expressed through traditional knowledge (TK). In today's globalized Pacific Islands region, into which western worldviews and global adaptation strategies have made significant inroads, most plans for coping with climate‐changed futures are founded in science‐based understandings of the world that undervalue and sideline TK. Many such plans have proved difficult to implement as a consequence. This paper reviews the nature of extant Pacific TK for coping with climate change, something that includes TK for anticipating climate change (including climate variability and climate extremes) as well as ancillary TK associated with food and water security, traditional ecological knowledge, environmental conservation, and settlement and house construction that represent coping strategies. Much of this TK can be demonstrated as being effective with precedents in other (traditional) contexts and a compelling plausible scientific basis. This study demonstrates that Pacific Islands TK for coping with climate change has value and, especially because of its place‐based nature, should be central to future climate‐change adaptation strategies to enhance their uptake, effectiveness and sustainability. To this end, this paper proposes specific ways forward to optimize the utility of TK and ensure it has a realistic role in sustaining Pacific Island communities into the future.This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Ideas and Knowledge Paleoclimates and Current Trends > Modern Climate Change Assessing Impacts of Climate Change > Observed Impacts of Climate Change

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Empowering Local Communities: Case Study of Votua, Ba, Fiji

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Learning in Sustainable Natural Resource Management: Challenges and Opportunities in the Pacific

Learning in Sustainable Natural Resource Management: Challenges and Opportunities in the Pacific

Linking small‐scale fisheries co‐management to U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

Traditional knowledge for climate resilience in the Pacific Islands

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