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Analyses  |  Institutional Analysis

The Institutional Analysis project was designed to recommend institutional and policy arrangements to implement ecosystem-based management (EBM) in the CIT region.

Part I of the Policy and Institutional Analysis for Implementation of the Ecosystem-based Management Framework report provides an analytical framework for examining policy and institutional issues based on a set of core functions—institutional oversight, standard-setting for EBM, multi-scale planning, implementation, adaptive co-management, funding, and dispute resolution. It also discusses lessons learned from three case studies: Clayoquot Sound, the Muskwa-Kechika, and the Gitga’at–Kitasoo Pilot Project (which is still under development).

Part II considers four key criteria for EBM (Aboriginal Title and Rights, funding mechanisms such as conservation financing, adaptive co-management, and the provision of local benefits), and recommends how each should be addressed in EBM institutions.

Part III applies the analytical framework developed in Part I to: (1) provincial strategic land use planning, including the new Working Forest and Sustainable Resource Management (SRM) Planning initiatives; (2) forest resources and management; (3) mineral resources; (4) tourism and recreation; and (5) fisheries and fish habitat.

Part IV contains recommendations for EBM institutional and policy design, including general and specific recommendations for the CIT region, and specific recommendations for each of the five resource regimes considered in Part III. Seven key recommendations are made for the CIT region:

  • Establish a regional steering body to monitor and assess the implementation of EBM institutions; resolve high level political disputes arising from such implementation; set priorities and objectives for adaptive co-management; appoint members to other regional institutions; and oversee the implementation, ongoing practices, and evolution of EBM.
  • Establish co-jurisdictional territorial land use decision-making bodies (i.e., involving at least equal decision-making authority between the Crown and First Nations).
  • Establish an independent regional science body to oversee the adaptive co-management of EBM and provide technical capacity support related to EBM planning and monitoring.
  • Establish ongoing public and private conservation financing, including the Coast Opportunities Foundation as proposed by the Conservation Investment and Incentives Initiative (CIII).
  • Make EBM objectives and management targets as set out in the tables of the EBM Planning Handbook and contained in EBM plans legally binding, to dovetail best with the provincial legal framework and to ensure effectiveness.
  • Establish an independent dispute resolution body to support EBM implementation.
  • Assess the analytical, financial, organizational, and human capacity requirements for implementing EBM in the region as soon as feasible.

Institutional Analysis Report
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