Abstract

The global initiative, Socio-economic Monitoring for Coastal Management (SocMon), was established 20 years ago in 2000 as the socioeconomic monitoring arm of the International Coral Reef Initiative’s (ICRI) Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN). In its formative period from 2000-2009, six regional SocMon nodes were established in the Caribbean, Central America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Western Indian Ocean to provide region-specific technical guidance for establishing site level socioeconomic coastal and marine monitoring programmes for improved coastal management and policy influence; the main purpose of SocMon (Bunce et al. 2000; Bunce and Pomeroy 2003). These assessments were primarily implemented at Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) or Marine Managed Areas (MMAs) in the region due to directed interests in coral reef initiatives. As such, international funding strategies (e.g., NOAA CRCP International Strategy 2010-2015) tailored grant funding to support socioeconomic monitoring at these sites.

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