This website provides support to the Guidebook for evaluating fisheries co-management effectiveness. The Guidebook offers a process and a method to evaluate the performance of a fisheries co-management system and its plan. It does so with the goal of enhancing the effectiveness of co-management in delivering benefits and in contributing to environmental, social and economic sustainability and good governance. The Guidebook is to be used to evaluate the effectiveness of an existing fisheries co-management system operating at a fishery, community or sector level, or in a spatially defined area. It presents a flexible approach that can be used with many types of fisheries co-management systems and in different contexts.

The evaluation process is undertaken in three steps:

This section suggests tools and resources that can be used in the evaluation process that is described in the Guidebook. The tools and resources may be useful to the planners, evaluation team and participating stakeholders:

• Many of the tools and resources cover several tasks and steps. This helps to avoid or reduce the need for large volumes of reading that can take up time.
• Most of the tools and resources have been used many times across the world by experienced co-management practitioners. They have been recommended for the steps and tasks set out in the Guidebook
• There is an emphasis on tools and resources that are practical and easy to use. They are not technical, or academic or difficult to understand, but some advanced techniques are also presented.
• Several of the tools and resources are available online. Some are available in portals that lead to additional resources. This means they are easy to access and share and they can be used to facilitate searches for more specific information.
• The focus is on tools and resources that are already familiar to, and trusted by, fisheries stakeholders. They can be used for many other activities designed to manage fisheries social–ecological systems collaboratively