Guidelines for Learning and Applying the Natural Resource Governance Tool (NRGT) in Landscapes and Seascapes

This guide, which has been tested in eleven landscapes, provides one approach to identifying the most important groups with rights to manage natural resources within a landscape or seascape, characterizing a small set of factors believed to be essential elements of good natural resource governance, and assessing the governance strengths and weaknesses of each group. The guide describes an approach and a data collection tool that together constitute a relatively simple, low-cost, expert opinion-based, method for assessing governance strengths and weaknesses and how these change over time.