Co-management

Traditional co-management refers to shared decision-making with government devolving (i.e., transferring or delegating) some of its power to others. The term has been used in a broader sense to refer to a variety of arrangements, with different degrees of power sharing, for joint decision-making by the state and community or user groups, about a set of resources or areas. No single standardized definition is used for fisheries or other natural resource sectors.