Conversations with the IFCA
Democratic decision making The democratic approach that IFCAs bring to balance in decision-making, which is dependent upon informed coastal stakeholders from the region, can contribute to more legitimate management outcomes via greater stakeholder buy-in and compliance with regulations. The IFCA injects high quality social-economic considerations from data (where it exists), which combines also with the lived experience of members who live in, or near to, the affected coastal area. The authority also mitigates the influence of elite capture over decision-making by one organisation, group of people, or individual with particular interests, through regulations for declaring self-interests, and from the inclusive engagement with stakeholders that IFCAs conduct. IFCA led consultations are rarely dependent solely on public meetings (that are easily hijacked by influential actors) or online participation (often inadequately engaged with), albeit IFCAs must continually monitor a risk of “elite capture”.
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