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The Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network is a group of practitioners involved in various community-based marine conservation projects around the globe who have joined together to learn how to improve their results. The LMMA Network is a "learning network,' meaning that participating project teams use a common strategy and evaluation process to learn about the conditions under which using an LMMA approach works, doesn't work, and why. We believe that working together will allow us to learn collectively, improve our marine management activities, and increase the impact of our conservation efforts.

The Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network is a cooperative program of sites and practitioners in countries of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. The LMMA Network is collectively trying to determine the conditions under which a LMMA is successful and why. Each site team uses a LMMA strategy in an attempt to reach their goal; this will often be a learning process, requiring an adaptive approach. The site collects data on their measures of success (target or response variables) and on factors that may affect success. The data are maintained and analyzed, then summarized in reports on lessons learned to the Country and Network levels.