What can a small island carry before investment decides for it?

The system

A place of striking marine biodiversity and strong community identity, with a tourism profile growing faster than the social and institutional infrastructure beneath it. Investment interest and promotion were accelerating; the risk was the regional pattern of infrastructure before readiness, agencies without coordination, and a blue economy story not yet grounded in the island's ecology and economy.

Enzyme's role

Three of the five structural gaps at once. Governance: mapping the agencies, community organisations and departments with overlapping jurisdiction, and designing coordination that works across them. Readiness: asking not whether communities had been consulted but whether the conditions for taking part were in place, and what the preparation pathway looked like. Sequencing: making explicit the order of interventions, social and governance infrastructure first, investment and promotion second.

What they hold

A sequenced, evidence-based framework in which community readiness, governance, marine protection and economic development are one pathway rather than parallel strategies.

What is not disclosed

Programme figures, contractor arrangements and subsequent decisions.