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KNOWLEDGE AREAS
Lighthouse provides short-term technical assistance across a range of knowledge areas critical to any successful coastal management initiative. Within these knowledge areas Lighthouse delivers a range of skills and functions that are critical to any successful integrated management program.
Lighthouse can provide full service consulting, or be used as a plug-in module to augment current staff, to fill short-term gaps, and to play a specific and highly specialized role that ranges from research, analysis and knowledge building to actual field implementation and management of discrete tasks and projects.
Knowledge areas are the combinative professional and academic disciplines Lighthouse offers. These include:
- Integrated
marine and coastal planning
- Community
and stake holder engagement
- Outreach,
education and training
- Sustainable
mariculture development
- Recreational
boating and marinas
- Management
of estuaries and coastal watersheds
- Marine
protected area management
- Private-public
partnerships
- Coastal poverty analysis and livelihood development
Within these knowledge areas, Lighthouse provides the following services that include the most advanced and current approaches::
- Program
and project design
- Strategic
planning
- Performance
monitoring and evaluations
- Program
and project evaluations
- Design
and delivery of capacity building initiatives
- Workshop
design and facilitation
- Design
and delivery of stake holder processes
- Work planning
- Field
survey design and quantitative methods
- Analysis
of causes, consequences, and solution to coastal poverty and marginalized
groups
- Integrating
social sciences and marine science
- Applications of spatial information to management
We are well equipped to manage small to medium projects that fit within a larger program. Experience has shown us that utilizing our core of shared time administrative support services is frequently a more cost effective alternative for research and business support. These projects are generally discrete elements unto themselves but are a clear sub-part of a larger program. For example, Lighthouse could provide the technical expertise to run a mariculture development project within a larger coastal management program.
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