Brenda Katon

Background A key requirement of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Second Governance and Anticorruption Action Plan (GACAP II) is the preparation of governance risk assessments and risk management plans (RA/RMPs) to inform country partnership strategies (CPS), programs, and/or projects in priority sectors. This governance brief provides a concise conceptual introduction to the preparation of these RA/RMPs and presents selected cases that illustrate how RA/RMPs have guided the design of country strategies, sector road maps, and programs and/or projects. The brief concludes with an overview of lessons learned. It is meant primarily for ADB staff and consultants involved in carrying out RA/RMPs. Before the adoption of GACAP II in 2006, ADB prepared country governance assessments (CGA) using a framework that focused on five governance areas—legal and regulatory frameworks, public administration, public financial management, the judicial system, and civil society. The CGAs were successfu...

In 1994, the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) in Manila, Philippines and the Institute for Fisheries Management (IFM) at the North Sea Centre, Hirtshals, Denmark in collaboration with national research partners (NARS) in several Asian and African countries initiated the Fisheries Co-management research project. The collaboration between ICLARM, IFM and NARS was based on a mutual interest to gain practical experience in research in fisheries co-management, to demonstrate its applicability as a sustainable, equitable and efficient management strategy, and to develop models for use and adoption by governments, fisheries communities, NGOs and others. The first phase of the project ends in 1998 and a second phase is planned.

The local management of mangrove resources in Cogtong Bay, Philippines, dates back to the 1940s and 1950s when some families informally designated mangrove areas under their care and management. The 1960s and 1970s saw several exogenous events that led to ...

The purpose of this paper is to present results from the first five-year phase of a large fisheries co-management research project implemented by the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) and the Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM), with ...

The local management of mangrove resources in Cogtong Bay, Philippines, dates back to the 1940s and 1950s when some families informally designated mangrove areas under their care and management. The 1960s and 1970s saw several exogenous events that led to ...

The Cogtong Bay experience represents a bold attempt to pursue a shared responsibility between the government and local residents for rehabilitating coastal resources. Some of the factors thai provided the impetus to co-management arrangements ...

This paper aims to accomplish two tasks: One, it presents a framework to help analyze the devolution of the use, management, and governance of resources. It does so by bringing together several strands of work on institutional analysis and property rights, and building on theories of ...