1. Data Collection, Analysis, Reporting:
Experience from NGOs
NOVEMBER 29, 2017

2. What are the Right Questions?
What is the management question we are trying to answer?
What is the best and/or most cost-effective method to collect that data?
Who is the target audience(s)?
Who is the best organisation (people) to collect the data?

3. Monitoring vs. One-off Assessment?
Sangeeta Mangubhai

4. Monitoring by NGOs FISHERIES Catch per unit effort Market surveys
In-water fisheries surveys (e.g. BDM)
FLMMA Monitoring and Evaluation Three-Tiered Approach
OTHER
Turtle monitoring
In-water surveys (e.g. coral reef)

5. One-off Assessments by NGOs
FISHERIES
Value Chain Analysis
Impacts of cyclone on fisheries-dependent communities
Spawning Potential Ratio (SPR)
Women in Fisheries
ECOLOGICAL
Impacts of cyclone on coral reefs
Rapid assessments of coral reefs (for community management planning)
SOCIOECONOMIC
Impact of LMMAs
Impact of Payment for Ecosystem Services schemes

6. Monitoring: Analysis & Reporting
Challenges
Keeping clean databases
Safe data storage
Capacity to analyse data
Capacity to write reports
How to feed into management
Funding (for regular monitoring)

7. Protection of Data Data sharing agreements
All social research requires Institutional Review Board Approval
Social data has personal information removed
Limited access to key staff
Secure system for any data provided by government

8. Don’t make data storage complex !!
Storing Data
WWF
Microsoft Excel
WWF server
FLMMA
Stored in GIS
WCS
Held with Country Director
Kept on Cloud (backup)
Don’t make data storage complex !!

9. Analysis
Analysis
Microsoft Excel
R / R Studio
Standardise Analysis !!

10. Reporting Community Factsheets / Presentations Technical Reports
Policy Briefs
International journals

11. Fisheries Training for Local Communities
Then once we have finalized our data analyses, we will be looking to develop communications products for local communities to help answer their questions about what are the most sustainable harvest regimes and how large should PHCs be relative to their fishing grounds. For me, this is the most important part of the project. While it has been fun to be a part of doing cool science, the entire point of the project is use the science to influence behaviour change to improve sustainability.

12. How much data is enough? There is never going to be “enough” data
Don’t need data to make a good management decision
Get SMART with the data we have
Get your partners to help you collect data
Let scientists know the questions you want answered
Provide a mechanism to respond to data when you get it

13. Is management making a difference?
How is our management making a difference? For people? For fish?
What creates success?
Fundamentally, MacMon wants to answer bigger questions, like