Policy instrument | Inclusion | Consistency | Weighting | Reporting | Resources |
Coastal Zone Policy (CZPo) 2005 | Improving people’s capacity by creating awareness, ensuring participation and enhancing gender equity. | Having harmonised aims to uplift socio-economic developments as well as contribute national development. | Receives an important attention under the heading of “empowerment of communities”. | No guidelines for monitoring and assessing performances are provided. | No information reported on funding rather stated that “Coastal Development Strategy” will present financial strategy. |
Coastal Development Strategy (CDS) 2006 | Empowering people’s through knowledge management as well as sustainable livelihood approach. | Observing coherent features as proper management of natural resources, e.g., agro-biodiversity. | Discuss as a significant programme “investment in human development” for adaptive farming, e.g., soil-less and bio-saline agriculture. | Formulates three aspects of governance, e.g., legal frameworks that states to perform monitoring and assessment with a set of inputs, outputs and outcome indicators. | Provides concrete five financial strategies, e.g. public and private investments as well as said to facilitate small and medium enterprises by NGOs. |
National Programme of Action (NPA) for the Protection of the Marine (Coastal) Environment 2007 | Includes as a major strategy entitled “promotion of awareness and capacity building”. | Diversified coastal cropping systems are stated as an important approach for sustainable livelihood. Judicious use of agro-chemicals is crucial strategy of NPA. | Significantly discussed the key issues of HRD, e.g., training, awareness, research and monitoring. | Reviewing and monitoring is done by a steering committee, consisting of 18 members. Little information on ex-ante or ex-post evaluation and particularly on indicators. | Inadequate funding information. The UNEP and Global Programme of Action partially provide project based funding. |