The Philippines has emerged as a well-documented success story in the management of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) or Community Protected Marine Spaces (CPMS) (as used in this paper) due to the achievements generated on community based approaches to management. But looking into the benefits, there are several attempts to explain whether effectiveness of these spaces is achieved in the context of conservation, maximizing stakeholders participation, poverty alleviation and sustainable development. This paper looks into how contextualization in the governance of community protected marine spaces in the island province of Catanduanes, Bicol Region by focusing on effective stakeholder management and managing stakeholder inputs. Two examples from Catanduanes are presented here: (1) Kalapadan Bay Area (KBA) Marine Fish Sanctuary in Baras and (2) Agojo Point Fish Sanctuary and Marine Reserve, San Andres (Masagca, Asetre & Vargas 2012, under review). Concepts on stakeholders’ identification, engagement and inputs are discussed here
and includes the presentation of an on-going program/project of the Municipality of Baras - Catanduanes State Colleges (CSC) comanagement or LGU-Academe Partnership contributing the effective community engagement in marine spaces protection of the island province anchoring on various MPA arrangements as suggested by De Santo et al. (2011) and Bradecina et al. (2008, 2006, etc.) on participatory approach and institutional agreements.
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