Expansion of Western Indian Ocean regional socioeconomic monitoring network in island countries, improvement of regional information sharing, data analysis and evaluation of SocMon project final progress report for the period October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2009 Expansion of WIO SocMon in island countries & project evaluation - CORDIO East Africa

"This is the final progress reporting for activities under the grant award number NA07NOS4630028 whose objectives were revised as follows: 1. a) To establish 2 new sites for Socio-economic monitoring bringing the number of sites participating in the SocMon WIO network from 12 to 14; b) To conduct a data analysis, training & writing workshop; 2. To strengthen sites capacity for the future sustainability of monitoring in SocMon WIO: a) To implement field-based training modules for SocMon through the soon to be established regional network of trainers; b) To implement SocMon WIO site databases at the new sites; 3. To develop regional and global Socio-economic information sharing systems a) To analysis of data from site databases at regional level to generate regional patterns and to provide information; b) To disseminate the regional information outputs in forms compatible to the global Reefbase socio-economic database and posted on the world wide web; 4. To consolidate the regions Socio-Economics working group at national nodes paying particular attention to increasing activities at one new national programme, the Comores to strengthen their national programme 5. To conduct a review and evaluation of SocMon, a) To assess SocMon WIO implementation and make recommendations for the ways forward for sustainability in the region b) To conduct joint programmes and evaluation/assessment with other regional SocMons"--Intro. 2010 CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System) Library Public Domain 1858