Session 1: Introduction to management effectiveness Session 2:

1. Management effectiveness assessments – a tool for maintaining high standards in protected area managementSue Stolton, Equilibrium Research, UK

2. Session 1: • Introduction to management effectiveness Session 2: • Sharing experiences: site, system and portfolio assessments • Using a simple ME system – the METT Session 3: • Discussion, recommendations and how to find out more

3. Introduction to management effectiveness?

4. Presentation overview • Management effectiveness: why we need to assess it • WCPA Framework: a global approach to assessment • Management effectiveness targets and experiences

5. ‘…the assessment of how well a protected area is being managed – primarily the extent to which it is protecting values and achieving goals and objectives’ (WCPA, 2006)

6. Management Effectiveness a tool for managers • Are we achieving our management aims or could we manage better? • How can we report how we are doing? • How can we make sure we have the resources we need? • How can we build a supporting constituency for our work?

7. A little bit of history

8. Issue of management effectiveness was first raised at Bali World Parks Congress (WPC) in 1983 • Further call for action at Caracas in 1992, where effective management was identified as one of four major protected area issues of global concern • Independent systems developed during 1990s (Parks in Peril, WWF/CATIE, various park management agencies)

9. Developing the Framework • WCPA Working Group 1996 and Task Force 1998 • Publication of WCPA Best Practice Guidelines in 2000 • Revised Best Practice Guidelines in 2006 • 2008 Global Study on Management Effectiveness

10. Presentation overview • Management effectiveness: why we need to assess it • WCPA Framework: a global approach to assessment • Management effectiveness targets and experiences

11. A wealth of experience has been developed in undertaking assessmentsthe assessment of management effectiveness has many variables

12. Many types of assessment • scale – assessment site level or over entire protected areas system/ region/biome/portfolio • frequency – from a one-off study or monitoring and assessment carried out on a regular basis • resources – organisational capacity, knowledge and enthusiasm • adaptability – site specific, country/management authority specific, portfolio specific

13. Many Systems Simple questionnaire approaches relying on expert judgement Complex data-driven approaches relying on regular monitoring

14. Diversity but a need for consistency • Need for appropriate evaluation standards • Avoid re-invention of “wheels” • Harmonisation of data to enable: • Learning across sites/regions • Identification of common needs/challenges • Development of global and regional responses

15. The WCPA Framework

16. Framework publication • Defines terminology • Develops a framework of evaluation criteria • Detailed advice on carrying out an assessment and using the results • Case studies concentrating on the process of carrying out an evaluation

17. ‘…the assessment of how well a protected area is being managed – primarily the extent to which it is protecting values and achieving goals and objectives’ (WCPA, 2006)

18. looking at design issues; • the adequacy and appropriateness of management systems and processes; and • the delivery of protected area objectives including conservation of values

19. Management follows a process

20. Contents of evaluation Context Where are we now? Planning Where do we want to be? Inputs What do we need? Process How do we go about it? Outputs What were the results? Outcomes What did we achieve? Criteria Significance Threats Vulnerability National policy Partners PA legislation and policy PA system design Reserve design Management planning Resourcing of agency Resourcing of site Suitability of management processes Results of management actions Services and products Impacts: effects of management in relation to objectives Focus of evaluation Status Appropriate-ness Economy Efficiency Effectiveness Effectiveness Appropriate-ness

21. Presentation overview • Management effectiveness: why we need to assess it • WCPA Framework: a global approach to assessment • Management effectiveness targets and experiences

22. Global Uptake • Over 40 different systems for assessing management effectiveness • Evaluations have taken place in over 6,000 sites in 100 countries • 90 per cent of the site assessments carried out with/or using systems that can be related to the WCPA Framework

24. Experiences in Europe • 100 PAs – German Nature Parks Quality Campaign and 14 PAs – National Parks quality criteria and standards • 70 PAs and agency – Finland ‘State of the Parks’ • 40 PAs – Lithuania • 365 PA sub-units – Catalonia and 42 PA’s in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain • 9 PAs – National Parks, England, UK • 900 PAs – the Carpathian region (WWF Mava project) • 13 PAs in Bulgaria, 26 PAs in Romania, 18 PAs in Georgia have used WWF’s RAPPAM • Also systems in France, and in development in Austria, Italy and Scotland, UK

25. The 2004 CBDProgramme of Work on Protected Areas aims, by 2010 (for terrestrial ecosystems) and 2012 (for marine), to establish: “comprehensive, effectively managed and ecologically-representative national systems of protected areas” • 4 programmes • 16 goals and associated targets • 92 activities for Parties

26. Goal 4.2 - To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of protected areas management Target: By 2010, frameworks for monitoring, evaluating and reporting protected areas management effectiveness at sites, national and regional systems, and transboundary protected area levels adopted and implemented by Parties

27. Suggested activities of the Parties 4.2.1. Develop and adopt, by 2006, appropriate methods, standards, criteria and indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of protected area management and governance, and set up a related database, taking into account the IUCN-WCPA framework for evaluating management effectiveness, and other relevant methodologies, which should be adapted to local conditions. • 4.2.2. Implement management effectiveness evaluations of at least 30 percent of each Party’s protected areas by 2010 and of national protected area systems and, as appropriate, ecological networks.

28. Towards Effectively Managed Protected Areas UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

29. Thank you

30. Sharing experiences and lessons learned from Protected Area ME Assessments Information not easily available… nor widely shared… http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/me/