Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) in India
Institution
Integrated Coastal Management (ICM)is a development consultancy firm offering a wide-range of services (policy development, project planning and management, research & development, training, monitoring and evaluation) to international and national development organisations in the areas of coastal poverty and livelihoods, environmental and natural resource management, trade and migration since 1998. Focusing particularly upon sustainable livelihoods for the coastal poor, it supports research to fill the gaps in the current understanding about poverty, livelihoods and policy linkages in the coastal environment, besides developing conceptual models for providing meaningful support to the poor. ICM's work has included: planning and management of development and research programmes; undertaking feasibility and appraisal studies; developing and managing programmes for sustainable livelihood enhancement and diversification; fish loss assessment and reduction methodologies; community participation in research; community-based and -led coastal zone- and fishery resource-management; development and institutional strengthening of community-level organisations; training; research on traditional systems (organisations and institutions)in coastal communities and their relevance to current development concerns, documentation and dissemination; monitoring and evaluation; and impact assessment.
Keywords: PARTICIPATION, SOUTH PACIFIC
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