Community-Led Ocean Decisions

A guided way to discuss marine priorities, local roles and the difference between a national policy, a future milestone and permission at a particular site.

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THE GUIDING QUESTION

Who should participate in a marine decision, and who actually has authority to make it?

Practise a respectful, non-prescriptive first conversation and avoid mistaking a classroom process for real consent.

A CONNECTED FOUR-STEP LEARNING SEQUENCE

From understanding to responsible questions.

Each step opens the original free resource. This collection supplies the sequence and facilitator connection, not a duplicate of each existing lesson.

Academy lesson · 13 minutes

Plan with the Community

Identify why legitimate local authority and community knowledge are prerequisites.

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Teaching pack · 60 minutes

Who Decides What Happens at the Coast?

Lead the fictional role-mapping lesson with evidence and date checks.

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Facilitator tool · 25 minutes

Who Has a Voice or Responsibility?

Map generic rights-holders, affected users, agencies and expert advisers.

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Country workshop · 60 minutes

A Marine Plan Is Not a Local Permit

Use Samoa's dated official implementation example to distinguish legal effect from announced future enforcement.

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FACILITATOR DISCUSSION SHEET

Three questions to bring the group together.

These responses are local to your browser and can be included in a downloadable text briefing; they are not uploaded to Apollo.

01. Whose customary, community or statutory responsibilities matter?0/1200 characters02. Which source records a decision, and which merely announces a planned next step?0/1200 characters03. How could a facilitator invite different views without deciding the outcome?0/1200 characters

ACCESS & INCLUSION

Include more ways to participate.

Use anonymised, invented stakeholder roles; do not collect real community disputes.

Invite different learner perspectives without claiming any represents an actual village.

WHAT LEARNERS MIGHT PRODUCE

A fictional inclusive meeting agenda and a source-status timeline.

Learners can distinguish proposed action, existing authority and consultation obligations.

EXPORT A FREE FACILITATOR RECORD

Keep the questions moving.

Download your selected collection's resource links, discussion notes, inclusion guidance and evidence boundaries as a local text document.

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