SEM-Pasifika is a set of socioeconomic monitoring guidelines developed for sites in the Pacific. These guidelines were developed by the Community Conservation Network (CCN) with the input from the Pacific Socioeconomic Monitoring Steering Committee.

The main purpose of SEM-Pasifika is to improve site management of the coastal and marine areas in the Pacific region. It should guide interested communities in the region (including communities who have used existing methods and new communities without experiences in socio-economic assessment), management and project staff, researchers, and other practitioners, to understand important steps involved in a socioeconomic assessment and to be able to conduct the monitoring. The socioeconomic information collected will help the stakeholders at a site in management, monitoring, policy making, development and research.

Download: Report (PDF File, 16 MB)

This collection contributes to the work of the ReefBase Pacific project which aims to improve accessibility and availability of information to support effective management of reef resources in the Pacific. Impacts of marine protected areas, that extend beyond biodiversity and habitat conservation tend to receive less popular attention, and yet are of significant importance. The aim here is to highlight, in particular, impacts on fisheries and livelihoods attributed to coral reef marine protected areas in Pacific Island Countries and territories. Report (PDF File, 1.1 MB)

Participation of the CRISP to the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS)

Through the release of a specific funding from the French Pacific Fund, the CRISP programme was able to support researchers (4 students and 12 researchers) to present the results of their CRISP related studies and to have a booth sat the symposium exhibit. Full report of the participation of the CRISP to the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium (PDF File, 6.6 MB)

Mid-Term Review of the Programme

• Executive Summary (PDF File, 253 KB)
• Full report (PDF File, 2.70 MB)

CRISP Mid Term Report

The CRISP Coordinating just release the CRISP Mid-Term Report. This report evaluates the results obtained within the programme. Download:

• English version (PDF file, 7.50 MB)

• French version (PDF file 5.79 MB)

CRISP at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium

The CRISP programme will have a booth (# 503) at the exhibit of the 11th ICRS. CRISP publications and material from CRISP partners will be available. We are looking forward seeing you at the ICRS. For more information about ICRS, visit: http://www.nova.edu/ncri/11icrs/index.html

CRISP Contribution To The Scientific Knowledge Progress On Coral Reefs (2005-2007)

This report presents the results obtained within the framework of the CRISP programme in terms of progressing knowledge on the structure and functioning of coral reefs for the years 2006 and 2007. It gathers newly achieved understanding of coral reefs on a general level and at the scale of the Pacific. It is not a report on CRISP activities per se but a report on its contributions to fundamental knowledge on coral reefs.
Download the report (PDF File, 1.47 MB)

Pacific Year of the Reef

The CRISP is a major partner in the SPREP's 2008 Pacific Year of the Reef campaign. CRISP attended the official launch of the campaign at the French Embassy in Vanuatu.

For more information about the Pacific Year of the Reef visit: www.sprep.org/PYOR or more information about the International Year of the Reef visit: www.iyor.org

In the photograph, from left to right: Eric Clua (CRISP), Caroline Vieux (SPREP), Touasi Tiwok (Vanuatu Environment Unit), and Jean-Francois Marini (French Embassy, Vanuatu)

CRISP supports the creation of the world's largest Marine Protected Area in Pacific Ocean

As part of its contribution to the CRISP, Conservation International, in partnership with New England Aquarium, supports the creation of the World's Largest Marine Protected Area Created in Pacific Ocean (410,500-square-kilometer (158,453-square-mile)). More information