Accounting a decade or so of CBCRM: Impacts, trends and challenges

Allan Vera, Jovelyn Cleofe and Benedict Balderrama

Presented during the 2003 CBCRM Festival held in Subic, Zambales in the Philippines, the report was intended primarily to initiate discussions during the festival regarding the various impact and outcomes of the community-based approach in coastal resources management in the country. The study draws on the results and conclusions of a previous evaluation sponsored by the Ford Foundation on the current state of community-based natural resource management in the Philippines, a perception survey and discussions with CBCRM practitioners. More ...

Affirming the forces that give life and energy: Revisiting the theory and practice of CBCRM in the Philippines

Elmer M. Ferrer, Randee Cabaces and Lenore Polotan-de la Cruz

Using appreciative inquiry to highlight best practices and systems in CBCRM, the paper re-examines the roots of the community-based approach in the earlier social movements for economic justice, political freedom and cultural identity in the country. It discusses how the key concepts and principles of CBCRM, as well as its practitioners' understanding of the environmental and socio-political context, have been developed through years of practice and theory-building. Towards the end, it confronts the question of what makes CBCRM work. More ...

Historical overview of community-based coastal resources management

Elmer M. Ferrer

Part of the Coastal Team Report for the study commissioned by the Ford Foundation in the country entitled "State of the Field: Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) in the Philippines". The paper presents a review of the Philippine fisheries sector from the pre-Spanish period up to the present, and contextualizes the emergence and growth of CBCRM in the early social and political movements of the 60s and 70s that questioned mainstream development paradigms and a centralized approach to natural resources management. More ...

Policy challenges in CBCRM (A grassroots perspective): Preliminary results of the consultations held with small fisherfolks on the review of the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 (RA 8550)

Belinda de la Paz

Presented during the 2003 CBCRM Festival in Zambales, Philippines, the paper synthesizes the results of preliminary consultations with small fisherfolks and comes out with several policy challenges for inclusion in a "CBCRM policy agenda". Belinda de la Paz is the current chairperson of the NGOs for Fisheries Reform (NFR), a national coalition of Philippine NGOs doing policy advocacy work in the fisheries sector. The coalition has recently held a series of regional and national consultations in preparation for the mandated review of the Philippine Fisheries Code or RA 8550, the country's governing policy on the fisheries and aquatic sectors. More ...