Management Effectiveness Workshop

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Management Effectiveness Workshop

• 25 participants
• How can category systems accommodate information
  on management effectiveness?
• Linkage to category assignment?
• Certification of effectiveness
• Verification of category assignment
• Data management
• Links to management
• Political dimensions of ME information

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Linking Management Effectiveness to Categories

• Caracas WPC defined issue - management
  effectiveness task force
• gt 5000 assessments in 80 countries using 40
  systems and 2000 indicators
• Indicators distilled to a minimum set (25) for a
  global data base
• Uptake by NGOs, donors, governments
• CBD calls for 30 of protected areas to have
  effectiveness evaluations by 2010
• Training underway

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A Range of Evaluations

• Whole system is the national system of
  protected areas effective at conserving
  biodiversity (Finland, Korea)
• Site assessment
• PA design
• PA management systems
• Biodiversity and other outcomes

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Management Effectiveness and Management Response

• Any management effectiveness rating needs to be
  useful and valued
• Issues of naming and shaming
• Need clarity on attribution of negative results
  wars, large-scale ecological change such as N
  deposition
• Good argument for increased resourcing

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Relationship between PA category, governance and
effectiveness
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Management Effectiveness and Certification

• Drivers World Heritage and CBD
• Who would be the market? Tourism, Governments,
  donors, public (but who pays?)
• 180 worldwide tourism labels already
• Some potential in tourism industry
• Require clear minimum baselines to be useful
• Categories are a tourism brand and brands need
  protecting
• Question the connection between effectiveness and
  visitor experience/tourism
• Question of funding and role of IUCN as
  certifying body

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Data Issues for Management Effectiveness

• Can data from the SSC Red List be used? 41000
  species (threats, ranges, trends)
• SSC data planned to be used as part of the
  Biodiversity Indicator Partnership for 2010 CBD
  report.
• Use red list species as focal species in
  effectiveness frameworks.
• Link to WDPA

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Capacity Issues

• For many countries resourcing will be necessary
  to be involved in any kind of management
  effectiveness assessment
• IUCN guidance is very flexible
• Diversity of tools available WWF Rapid
  Assessment, How is Your MPA Doing
• Management effectiveness implies the
  ability/capacity to adaptively manage

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Management Effectiveness and Category Guidelines

• Explicitly not part of 1994 Guidelines but
  considerable interest since then
• If biodiversity is the common goal of all
  categories (first amongst equals), there is a
  need to focus on biodiversity outcomes
• Linkage as a way to identify paper parks
• Research opportunities to answer conservation
  effectiveness by category

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Points of Agreement

• Effectiveness should not determine category but
  clearly there is a place for linkage
• Need to consider political implications -
• Most effectiveness criteria will to common across
  categories but there will be some unique
  sustainability issues in Category 6 are a
  challenge
• Flexible systems are available now