SEM Assessment Tools

SocMon (Socioeconomic Monitoring) was developed via collaboration among social scientists and coastal managers in the region in recognition of the need for a greater understanding of the human dimension of coastal and marine resource management.

SocMon is a set of guidelines for establishing a socioeconomic monitoring program at a management site in the Caribbean. The guidelines provide a prioritized list of socioeconomic variables useful to managers as well as the questions for data collection and the tables for data analysis.

Released in March 2003, SocMon provides a simpler, more structured set of guidelines, which can then be tailored to site needs. SocMon is part of a continuing regional program to enhance understanding of communities and their relationship to coastal and marine resources.

The socioeconomic monitoring guidelines are available here.

SocMon Spatial is a tool developed by the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

It was developed to complement the existing SocMon methodology by providing an alternate means of storing, analysing and representing the socio-economic data collected. SocMon Spatial merges the robust power of a Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PGIS) approach with the analytical framework provided by the SocMon methodology.