Site-based programs, many of which are already achieving significant progress, are proliferating within the Western Pacific. National and regional efforts are being developed to link field sites and to improve performance by learning from experience. A growing understanding that site management alone is not sufficient for achieving sustained biological or socioeconomic improvements at significant geographic scales has taken root. Through the support of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, CRC is undertaking a two-trac” approach to coastal management. This approach suggests that to achieve sustained progress, programs must simultaneously proceed with:
1) local level, geographically oriented site management programs;
2) framework policy initiatives at the next tier of government. (This project concluded April 2003)