Developing an auditing tool to measure community capacity of using market based instruments

Community capacity is essential for the design, development and implementation ofMBIs, therefore it is important to be able to measure and monitor it over time. Community MBIscapacity audit is a means to identifying, developing and harnessing a community’s capacity tostrengthen and develop stakeholder’s MBI awareness, and support local groups in achievingpositive NRM and environmental outcomes.In this paper, an auditing tool is proposed to profile and increase communities’ capacity of usingMBIs. The assessment provides sound quantitative results and graphic outputs that are easy forcommunity individuals, groups and organizations to access and interpret. The profile allows awide range of stakeholders to self-assess their MBIs capacity, from which will form the basis forcommunity MBIs capacity-building strategic planning (eg, initiating relevant and targetedtraining and education programs).