In support of the Kiribati National Fisheries Policy 2013-2025, the ACIAR project "Improving Community-Based Fisheries Management in Pacific Island Countries" aims to develop and nurture the structures, processes and capacity to implement and sustain national programs in Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. This report contains the Kiribati component of the project and is being implemented through a partnership between the Government of Kiribati Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resource Development (MFMRD), the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) --with support from the WorldFish Center.