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Tourism facilities: hotel/restaurant associations
Finance and commerce agencies and organizations
Special areas commissions and boards
Engineering and surveying (coastal and other)
Land trusts and conservancies
School and school administrations
International conventions and treaty organizations
8.7
LINKING INFRASTRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Which infrastructure units have the most appropriate and needed roles or resources
to accomplish the tasks identified in the plan? In order to answer this, a decision
maker should:
• Identify and inventory existing and potential mechanisms and tools needed
to accomplish the goal
• Identify and select participants and infrastructure according to which
functions are performed both by government at various levels and by
stakeholders
• Identify and clearly communicate roles and responsibilities
• Emphasize continual communications among all groups
•
Identify any gaps or future needs that may require additional structure to
meet functional requirements
Lagoon management infrastructure is capable of enlisting significant financial
and human resources and can, therefore, be a worthwhile organizational and planning
effort. The structure of the program needed to implement the long-term sustainable
management should directly address the tasks and needs identified in the ILSMP.
Unless an entity's function matches a specific need and task, it may be superfluous
and the process would thus be better served by a different or simpler infrastructure.
It is always important to recognize the power of incumbent and established
structures in the implementation process. It is also, however, important to design
specific integration and accountability tools because such established structures and
entities are often the most entrenched and unlikely to accept change. Any structural
entity and its role or function should be designed to specifically address a stated
need in the plan. Accordingly, customized accountability and incentives need to be
built into the process. This section describes how the process, structure, and function
of the infrastructure that evolves to sustainably manage the lagoon ecosystem should
lead to effective land use.
The value of including both government and NGOs (both private and public) is
that it provides a system of checks and balances throughout the ILSMP process.
Government plays the crucial role of developing policy, regulation, and legislation,
while the NGOs and private interests provide for the implementation link into the
community structure. Inclusion of a diversity of public and private entities maximizes
integration and community participation.
The infrastructure created to implement lagoon management should be as simple
or complex as the local situation and needs dictate. It could be that the existing
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