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Empowerment mechanism and organizational performance of community fisheries in Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia
Thesis Abstract:
Community-based fisheries management is a tactical strategy toward a successful fisheries resource conservation and management. In line with this, empowerment plays a key role in community fisheries. Hence, the research was conducted to determine the empowerment mechanism implemented and its effect on the organizational performance of community fisheries.
A total of 86 respondents were selected using simple random sampling from
Phneat Kohpongsat in Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia. Data were analyzed, compiled, and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results showed that only some respondents understood empowerment but with limited knowledge. The empowerment strategy used in community fisheries was community organizing, which was a part of the process of national fisheries management plans and policy reforms. The training provided was not adequate. Less than half of the respondents claimed that community fisheries had network linkages with other organizations/institutions. Almost all of the respondents had positive perception on community fisheries empowerment.
The factors affecting empowerment in community fisheries were occupation,
length of organizational membership, knowledge of the Community Fisheries
Development Office (CFDO) vision, knowledge of protective legislations, resource provision, community organizing, training, and linkages. Meanwhile, the factors affecting organizational performance were gender, length of organizational membership, knowledge of the CFDO vision, knowledge of protective legislations, role of Community Fisheries Development Unit (CFDU)/CFDO, resource provision, frequency of meetings, community fisheries establishment period, current status of community fisheries, training, linkage/networking, and linkage ability of community fisheries. There was no significant relationship between community fisheries empowerment and organizational performance.