This volume is the help partners further enhance their theory and practice of community based coastal resources management through exchanges of ideas and lessons from the field. The case studies strive to focus on a component or aspect of their respective programmes so that the hard lessons can be shared with others. Community organizing and livelihood by SIKAT focuses on microcredit as well as fisher friendly community management programmes. CERD’s work on community based management in the context of industrialization, and the need of fishers to protect and rehabilitate their common fishing grounds. Activities of NFR (NGOs for fisheries reform) in working with the small scale fisherfolk, the media and the government in their campaign for a new fisheries code is detailed in a chapter. One chapter in Filpino is on stories about CBCRM training programmes. Mainstreaming gender provides details of gender issues. ELAC’s work on assisting indigenous and fisherfolk communities gain tenurial security over their natural resources forms one chapter. Finally, gleanings from working for a decade with fishers by Oxfam GB concludes the volume.