SocMon Monitoring Site

Columbus Landfall National Park (CLNP)

Caribbean : Turks and Caicos Islands
Year completed: 2013

Socio-economic monitoring at the Columbus Landfall National Park, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands.
TCI SocMon Project
GCFI/NOAA-funded

 

Objectives

1. To assess uses of the National Marine Park and identify threats and problems to the natural resources; 2. Evaluate stakeholder awareness of, and compliance with, regulations and policy and their enforcement; 3. To determine stakeholder capacity and willingness for collaboration in CLNP stewardship and management, and promote participatory monitoring and evaluation as part of stewardship and management; 4. To assess trends in the extent to which CLNP management bodies are contributing to the achievement of NMP goals (objectives).