Developing a core set of indicators for decision-making and adaptive management at the Tobago Cays Marine Park, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Socio-economic Monitoring by Caribbean Challenge MPA Managers Project Report No. 5

The Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus was awarded a grant of just over USD 63,000 by The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to support Socio-economic monitoring by Caribbean Challenge MPA managers. The project’s long-term conservation outcome is increased capacity for effective MPA management among Caribbean Challenge (CC) countries through the use of social and economic monitoring data in MPA decision-making. The goal of this project is to build capacity for improved and effective MPA management among Caribbean Challenge countries by promoting the use of social and economic data in MPA management by: Training approximately 40 MPA managers/staff, from three Caribbean Challenge countries, in the practical use of SocMon Caribbean methods via three country-specific workshops

• Initiation of eight site assessment and monitoring programs for coastal management in each of the countries receiving the training via a small grant of USD 2,500
• Documentation of training and monitoring initiation processes, to make them available to a worldwide audience and CERMES communications for replication, with improvement, in future rounds of SocMon activity
• Submission of compatible data to the Reef Base Socio-Economic global database and CaMPAM database