SocMon Monitoring Site

MBMPA – communities of Grand Mal, Mt. Moritz, Molinière, Happy Hill, Beauséjour, and Brizan

Caribbean : Grenada
Year completed: 2013

Assessing the feasibility of alternative livelihood options for communities of the Molinière/Beauséjour Marine Protected Area.
Caribbean Challenge SocMon project
NFWF-funded

 

Objectives

To assess how the MPA impacts livelihoods of the communities in the area; To strengthen community participation in MPA management and MPA ownership based on examining potential linkages between resource protection and livelihoods; To identify the socio-economic conditions that will enable alternative livelihood options: tourism and its related development.