WP 9: 1 st Planning meeting summary

1. Fundación Malpelo WP 9: 1st Planning meeting summary • Clarification between WP members of common objectives: • Workshop planning and logistics with time-line • Planning for deliverables and publications • Next steps

2. Refining objectives • 1. Fundamental definitions, concepts and development of adaptive management mechanisms for marine eco-tourism (criteria). • Determine marine tourism activities that favour conservation criteria and generate socio-economic alternatives. • To determine the most appropriate criteria for evaluating the effects of marine ecotourism practices in reserves (carrying capacity and/or LAC) • Development and testing of these models with appropriately designed and defined indicator categories • Elaborate and implement efficient, cost-effective monitoring and evaluation protocols (integrating biophysical, socio-economic, user perceptions and governance metadata) • 2. Explore cost – benefit and reciprocation mechanisms wrt conservation values - with more emphasis upon social and economic interdependencies. • Develop and evaluate mechanisms to mitigate negative impacts, encourage positive impacts and examine interdependencies • Assess human impacts on biological communities at specific case study sites and the implications of environmental variability (ENSO, PDO, global warming etc) upon sustainable business practices in the Equatorial Pacific. • 3. Application, outreach and constructing sustainable management frameworks

3. Workshop schedule(and agreement in presented work plan) Workshop 1 “CONCEPT AND ORIENTATION: CREATING ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS FOR ECOTOURISM” (Site TBD : Colombia January 2006): Suggestions: Planning and discussion forum: (a) to share WP member and MPA stakeholder experiences (b) develop WP strategy, definitions and fundamental concepts (i.e. Management model definitions (LAC vs. Carrying Capacity)) (c) evaluate existing indicators and monitoring methods (d) design candidate indicators (transversal and specific for WP MPA case studies) (e) design monitoring approach/ protocols. Workshop 2 “EVALUATION, COST/BENEFIT AND RECIPROCATION MECHANISMS TOWARDS CONSERVATION VALUES” (Galapagos, Ecuador, November 2006): Suggestions: Evaluation forum : (a) share WP member progress and lessons learned, revisit conceptual questions to evaluate and modify indicators and monitoring methods if necessary, (b) integration of WP criteria and data between other INCOFISH WP’s (1,5,8 etc). Discussion forum : (b) cost benefit analysis of reciprocation of ecotourism and conservation initiatives to ensure sustainable ecosystems, coastal marine interactions (c) develop strategies to integrate WP recommendations into decision making processes within MPAs (eg. Participatory forums, conservation initiatives within the tourism sector) Discussion forum : (d) how might we implement long term improvements in sector group perceptions w.r.t sustainable activities? Workshop 3 “MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND FUTURE STEPS” (Machalilla, Ecuador Sept 2007): Suggestions” Plenary: (a) integrating technical recommendations into management processes (b) summary of WP advances (c) strategies to develop WP objectives beyond the life of the project Work groups (c) continuation of publications and diffusion of project results

4. Planning for deliverables and publications Suggested Topics: • Concept MS with global perspective and summaries/ comparisons between case reserves. • Participatory processes for developing indicators with stakeholders. • User perceptions and socio-economic considerations • Outreach materials for Reserve managers and local communities etc.

5. WP 9: Work Plan

6. WP 9: Deliverables

7. Milestones

8. WP 9:Time table Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

9. Next steps and synergies. • First meeting to explore the relative methods (LAC criteria etc) is tonight. • First approach to stakeholders and managers upon return to host countries • Still need to meet with WP 8 – involvement in the second workshop & more emphasis on socio-economic issues? • Possible synergy with WP 6 – development of decision making tools