The Sustainable Coastal Communities and Ecosystems (SUCCESS) Program, funded by the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Coastal Resources Center (CRC) in partnership with the University of Hawaii Hilo (UHH) and several regional partners set out to test the premise that the general Fiji-style model for managing women-dominated small scale cockle fisheries using a co-management approach coupled with no-take
reserves has high potential for transferability worldwide. This article describes two initiatives for co-management of women-dominated cockle (Anadara spp.) fisheries—one implemented on Zanzibar Island of Tanzania and another implemented in Nicaragua—that were based on the Fiji model.