The Coastal Resources Center (CRC) provided three years of technical assistance to the Ecuador Coastal Resources Management Program (PMRC) to implement the Program’s two key components:
- Special Area Management Zones (ZEMS), and
- Training, research, evaluation and education.
Over the life of its contract with this program, CRC carried out a total of eighteen tasks in support of these components. These included but were not limited to:
- preparation of annual program work plans and related progress reviews and monitoring
- assessment of elements of the management information system
- evaluation of local user agreements as a tool for coastal management
- studies and proposals for shoreline, mangrove, water quality and mariculture issues
- updating coastal law enforcement manual
- estuary management strategy in the Rio Chone
- support for in-country training capacity building with a focus on extension, as well as specific technical issues including shore management and aquaculture.