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Kathy MacKinnon The World Bank, Washington DC. Reporting Progress at Protected Area Sites Developed for The World Bank- WWF Forest Alliance. WWF -World Bank Alliance. Targets : 50 million hectares of new protected areas 50 million hectares of more effectively managed protected areas
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Kathy MacKinnon The World Bank, Washington DC Reporting Progress at Protected Area SitesDeveloped for The World Bank-WWF Forest Alliance
WWF -World Bank Alliance Targets: • 50 million hectares of new protected areas • 50 million hectares of more effectively managed protected areas • 200 million hectares of sustainably managed forest
Management Effectiveness • How to monitor progress to achieving targets for PA management? • What are we monitoring - trends? • Simple, replicable tool. • Relevant to WB task teams, WWF projects, PA managers
Strengths of the tool - 1 1. Simple, quick and dirty 2. Minimal training, resources 3. Relies on input from PA manager and project staff not outsiders i.e. sustainable beyond project 3. Does not invalidate other monitoring 4. Basic minimum monitoring
Strengths of the tool - 2 5. Objectively subjective - choose appropriate category 6. Comments section - if not achieving objectives, why not 7. Leads to next steps - adaptive management 8. And who needs to take action (PA manager, Bank etc).
Findings 1. Tested on Bank projects: Philippines (10 PAs); Indonesia, Cambodia, India, Central Asia,Laos 2. Effective if used annually. 3. Minimum start, mid-term, end of project
Experience 1. PA managers like it 2. Facilitate/not threatening 3. Score immaterial - trend 4. Useful justification to assess project meeting objectives, e.g. India Ecodevelopment 5. Effective supervision tool
Next Steps 1. Revisions for clarity 2. Agreement with WWF to test at all project sites 3. GEF adopting for GEF projects