province.
2. To develop policy recommendations for national, provincial and village governments
to support, maintain and develop effective community-based coastal resource
management institutions in the Maluku province and throughout Indonesia.
The specific objectives of the project are:
1. To identify the extent of operating sasi systems and practices in the central Maluku
province.
2. To measure the performance (i.e., impacts in terms of equity, efficiency, social and
biological sustainabilities) and investigate the resilience of the sasi system.
3. To undertake descriptive and comparative case study analyses of the sasi system and
its resilience in the Maluku province using the institutional analysis research
framework.
4. To make policy recommendations to the government to support, maintain, and develop
community-based coastal resource management institutions.
1.2 Research Framework
The Fisheries Co-management Research Project has developed an analytical framework which,
when applied in various research projects, will enable comparisons to be made among case
studies, country research and pilot-tested co-management models (ICLARM-NSC 1996). The
model allows data to be analyzed in a systematic way so that conditions that facilitate
successful co-management may be discovered. In conducting research on fisheries co-
management, we are essentially interested in understanding how rules affect the behavior of
fishers, and what outcomes fishers achieve when using fisheries resources.
Institutional analysis focuses on the rights and rules that make up the management institution.
These rights and rules may be formal (written down) or informal (unwritten code of conduct).
The purpose of institutional analysis is to separate these rules from the incentives and strategies
of the various players (individuals and organizations) involved in the institution. Once there
is a clear appreciation of what is cause and what is effect, we can start to understand how
different management structures affect behavior of resource users and subsequent outcomes
(Figure 1.1).
Exogenous
attributes
macroeconomic,
political, social
and natural
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Figure 1.1. Institutional Analysis Framework.
Adapted from Oakerson 1992
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