The goal of the Coastal Resources Management Project (CRMP) is to increase existing capabilities within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region to develop and implement comprehensive, multidisciplinary and environmentally sustainable CRM strategies through: analyzing, documenting and disseminating information an CRM policies and identifying and where possible, strengthening existing management capabilities; providing technical solutions to coastal resources use conflicts; promoting institutional arrangements that bring multisectoral planning to coastal resources development.