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The specific purposes of this review are three-fold: First, the review provides a formal opportunity for project staff to better understand and assess what went well and what went awry in the project and better understand causes and effects to improve performance in future large, complex projects. The review may also allow Pacific Island Countries Program staff to communicate to donors, partners, and Conservancy leadership the effectiveness of conservation efforts in the Pacific Island Countries program. The review provides a similar opportunity for key partners, especially the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), in assessing the effectiveness of some of the fisheries management aspects of the Initiative.

Second, the review provides an opportunity to distill more general lessons of value to staff throughout the Conservancy (and potentially other conservation and natural resource management practitioners). These key findings and recommendations should improve how we conceptualize, plan, and implement projects at a similar scale and of comparable complexity.

Finally, the review is an opportunity to learn from, improve upon, and distill best practices on how the Conservancy conducts project reviews. This review is an early experiment in reviewing the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of a conservation endeavor within the Conservancy. We hope future review teams can learn from our process, improve on our efforts, and avoid mistakes we may have made.