MPA Effectiveness Rating Workshop and Planning

1. MPA Effectiveness Rating Workshop and Planning [Insert date] [Insert name of Municipality]

2. MPA Effectiveness rating system • Suggested activity flow • Session 1: MPA Rating Assessment(2 hrs) • Preliminaries • Explain what is the MPA Effectiveness rating system • Explain why MPA rating system • Project the rating document or transcribe in a manila paper • Explain each of the categories • Ask the participants if the category is meet (M) or needing work (NW). • Mark all answers in the projected document or manila paper • Ask what evidences do we have if either meet or needing work. • The co-facilitator should document all answers in a separate manila paper. • Outline/highlight categories with NW answers in a separate manila paper but visible to all participants (this will be used for the planning session) • Go over all the answers and generate a RATING using the level criteria (show different levels with criteria) • Explain what their rating is and make sure all participants understand it. • Always ask clarifications and comments to verify answers. • Break/ice breaker

3. MPA Effectiveness rating system • Suggested activity flow • Session 2: Planning (1 hr) • Introduce the planning session and rationale • Do a recap on categories with NW • Process: Group categories into major components (i.e. trainings, I.E.C., enforcement, infrastructures etc.) • Export groupings into a template (see next slide) • Start your planning session • You can do small groups depending on the number of components you identified. • Ask someone from the group to present their output • Ask the participants to observe and critique on the presentation • Ask clarifications for verifications

4. Session 1 [60minutes] • Objective • At the end of the activity, the ManCom or equivalent group will be able to: • Determine the rating of their MPA • Assess areas that needs work • Generate evidences to support answers (documents and accounts) • Output • Rating • Identify areas needing work • Narrative evidence and documents supporting answers • Process • Introduction: Powerpoint presentation • Plenary • Resources • Facilitator, participants (20-25), co-facilitator/documenter, MAO/MENRO, people who have substantial knowledge of of MPA

5. What is MPA Effectiveness Rating System • MPA effectiveness rating system is a harmonized report checklist of the Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation, Inc. as modified by the Philippine Environmental Governance Project 2 (EcoGov2). • This reporting document contains categories and elements that are used to gauge and highlight important threshold indicators and processes that help promote and achieve MPA management effectiveness outputs and outcomes. (Arceo et al. in prep), CCEF et al. 2004)

6. Purpose of MPA Effectiveness rating system • A tool to measure performance • A system intended to assist local governments and communities to improve MPA management • Minimum set of criteria/activities for every level needs to be satisfied first to be assigned that particular level • Based on the principles of functionality, participatori-ness, transparency, accountability and participatory decision-making • With this system – you can always add things at the different levels, but cant remove things – we may want to add later on based on our experience vis a vis SM at the end of the campaigns • (CCEF 2005)

7. Levels: MPA Effectiveness rating system

8. NOTE: • Minimum criteria/activities to be satisfied for each level are indicated by a star (). • Governance principle adopted for each activity shown as empty box/es in the right columns (i.e. functionality [F], transparency [T], accountability [A], participatory-ness [P]) to be checked if satisfied. • To help tie this framework into Rare’s Theory of Change we have added a column identifying which ToC variable each criteria maps to.

13. Level 4 Continued

15. Level 5 cont..

16. Summary • Rating system • Identified areas that needs work

17. Session 2 [60minutes] • Objective • At the end of the activity, the ManCom or equivalent group will be able to: • Generate a plan • Output • MPA Management plan (1 year) • Process • Introduction: Powerpointpresentation (review the categories marked NW (needs work) • Plenary • Resources • Facilitator, participants (20-25), co-facilitator/documenter, MAO/MENRO, people who have substantial knowledge of of MPA

18. Introduction • Recap of the output [needs work] • Group categories needing work (i.e. components) see template next slide • Ask clarifications • Add comments to each category as you go through

19. Management Action Plan Template

20. Summary • MPA Management Plan

21. End