The Solomon Islands is a part of the global center for marine diversity. CTI region exemplifies the worlds marine richness, uniqueness and beauty of coastal and marine environment.
Communities are the key actors in achieving sustainable management of marine and coastal resources to ensure food security, sustainable development, biodiversity conservation and adaptation to emerging threats (SINPOA 2009).
A local framework is developed and tailored to match social and cultural context and enables good practices in developing and implementing appropriate solutions for issues facing coastal communities.
What is CBRM+?
Community Based Resource Management + is a Solomon Island approach to providing essential information and support to communities in order to promote wise resource management decisions and build links between communities and government. The aim is to support improved management in at least 50% of Solomon Island communities by 2020 (4000+ coastal communities in SI)
In order to secure the long term improvement of the livelihoods of Solomon Islanders CBRM+ is intended to cover the following aspects:
Marine and coastal resources management including Protected Areas
Integrated coastal management and ecosystem approaches
Climate change adaptation planning including disaster risk reduction
Food security and livelihoods
Community Based Resource Management (CBRM+) as the basis of resource management to achieve a variety of goals covering climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment, ecosystem approaches, food security, management of key species and habitats and appropriate use of protected areas. CBRM is most suited to the land and sea tenure context of Solomon Islands and the relatively weak central government capacity. Over the last 15 or so years the numbers of communities known to have carried out some sort of Community Based Resource Management (CBRM) has increased from a handful to around 400+ and much has been learned in terms of best practice in facilitating community processes (Govan et al, 2015).

This forms the foundation for national efforts on Protected areas, Marine Protected areas, and conservation areas, EBSAs etc aligned with regional and global targets.