Townsley, Philip

The Participatory and Integrated Policy (PIP) process has been designed to reduce conflicts over the formulation and implementation of development agency policies in the three areas of : support for private sector development, poverty alleviation and environmental protection and the impacts they can have on the fisheries sector. This document explains the PIP process, why it is important and how it can be used.

This article reports on research carried out to examine the impact of customary tenure systems on marine management and to determine the appropriateness of incorporating such systems into more formal systems of fisheries management. The article critically examines the use of mapping exercises during the research and argues that while the mapping stimulated discussion of the research issue it actually constituted an intervention in the situation being researched.