Evaluating Management Effectiveness:

1. Evaluating Management Effectiveness: Maintaining Protected Areas forNowand theFuture Workshop Plenary

2. 1. Workshop report • 2. Panel response • 3. Plenary Discussion • Contributions from the workshop to • WPC outputs: • 5. Close • Durban accord • Message to CBD • Recommendations 18 & 19 Format of Proceedings

3. Workshop Report Geoff Vincent Parks Victoria, Australia

4. Overview • 13 workshops in 20 sessions • Nearly 1200 participants • Comprehensive examination of • contemporary work on MEE • Demonstration of widespread development • and application of MEE globally

5. Workshop Themes • Evaluation systems and processes • Indicators • Threats • Work in Progress

6. Key Messages Theme: Evaluation systems and processes • Evaluations being conducted widely • Ecological integrity emerging as necessary concept for MEE • Monitoring and reporting, indicator development, public awareness under-emphasized • Capacity issues

7. Key messages Theme: Indicators • Plethora of frameworks • Need to improve information sharing and monitoring for management actions • Perspectives of indigenous and local communities • Challenges in developing social, cultural and ecological indicators

8. Key Messages Theme: Threats • Increasingly complex (e.g. climate change, invasives, unsustainable harvesting) • Need to raise public awareness • Ecosystem Approach and science basis for actions • Local and traditional knowledge • Need for minimum standards • Capacity issues

9. Key Messages Theme: Work in Progress • Amalgamation of frameworks (e.g. simplification) • Need for common language • Generate public support and ownership • Incorporate new science • WCPA to investigate options for verification of Pas • Integration of resilience options into PA management plans, assessment and restoration (eg climate change)

10. Common Threads • Establish clear goals, objectives and • purposes for MEE at all levels • Vertical integration of MEE in planning and • business processes • Strong alignment between systems and • synergy with management cycles • Use and apply best practice principles • Seek out and employ simple, easily • measured and understood indicators

11. Optimise utility of evaluation data through • standardised collection, storage and • management • Optimise benefits of investment to date by • making best use of existing Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) systems • Engage local and indigenous communities in MEE • Build capacity by applying current knowledge – don’t wait for the perfect system Common Threads

12. Major and Emerging Issues • Threats are becoming more complex • Improve use of science in the management of protected areas • Local community needs and perspectives need to be integrated in goals and objectives • Assessments need to be more rigorous • Communities, stakeholders and local staff need to be involved in design, conduct and communication of results

13. Major and Emerging Issues • Ensuring that differences between NGO and Government agency agendas doesn’t lead to a fracturing of approaches • Raise awareness of the utility of new tools such as Ecological integrity evaluations for management effectiveness • Move from development of methodologies to implementation at sites • Transparent reporting

14. Key Workshop Outcomes • Widespread recognition of MEE as an • essential component of effective PA • management • Strong commitment to action from all • sectors to move from systems development • to implementation • Commitment to work together to harmonise • and move forward rather than compete • Recognition of the benefits of a diversity of • methods • Results used to improve management actions

15. Where to from here?

16. Panel • Mavuso MsimangCEO South African National Parks • Marija Zupancic-Vicar,Senior Advisor -, WCPA • Leonardo Lacerda,WWF International • Nik Lopoukhine,Director General, National Parks • DirectorateParks Canada • Pedro Rosabal,Protected Areas Program, IUCN • Geoff Vincent,Deputy CEO Parks Victoria, Australia