Participatory monitoring in community-based fisheries management through a gender lens.

ABSTRACT: In small-scale fisheries management, the significance of participation is widely recognised but we are still learning how this can be better operationalised to include different groups, such as women or Indigenous peoples. Participatory monitoring is one tool which has been used to increase participation in fisheries management. The aim of this review is to use critical interpretive synthesis to examine the literature on participatory monitoring within community-based fisheries management from a gender perspective. The synthesis identified and discussed several key areas: reasons presented in the literature for engaging with the themes of gender or participatory monitoring, gendered aspects of participatory monitoring, knowledge valuation and prioritisation in management, replicability and

SUBMITTER: House J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9755429 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature