Author : Dumadaug, Cristeta R.

Summary : The research was focused on the assessment of GO-NGOs extent of implementation in terms of compliance to institutional mandates in CRM based on selected provisions of major environmental laws. The study aimed to identify the stakeholders' resources; their awareness with the CRM program, and analyze the problems and issues confronting the coastal resources as well as the actions/approaches applied in addressing them. It also aimed to analyze the processes methods and activities that took place under the program, the sources of information, type, sources and levels of linkage mechanisms among stakeholders and the different forms of institutional support that evolved along with the CRM program. The study further assessed the management styles of stakeholders in the implementation of CRM and their perception of past and present productivity of the coastal resources in terms of catch/harvest rates and fish food adequacy derived from these resources. Descriptive analysis such as measures of central tendencies and measures of dispersion were used. Inferential statistics such as the Fisher's Exact Test was applied in the test for quality or proportions of the variables in the study. The study analyzed a total of 43 variables consisting of 23 independent (input) variables, 6 effect and 14 dependent variables. Most of the variables were of the nominal type. Data revealed that only two pairs of variables using Fisher's Exact Test showed significant relationships to effect implementation performance in CRM. One variable was participatory training which was found to be highly significant as a method or strategy in enforcing fishery laws and ordinances. Paralegal and warden training, significantly supported the implementors of the CRM program on their exercise of police powers in guarding the coastal resources. the other variable was political institutional support in terms of the ordinances promulgated by the municipality of El Nido.