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Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
Management effectiveness assessments – a tool for
maintaining high standards in protected area management
Sue Stolton, Equilibrium Research, UK
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
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
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
Presentation overview
• Management effectiveness: why we need to assess it
• WCPA Framework: a global approach to assessment
• Management effectiveness targets and experiences
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
‘…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)
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
1. Are we achieving our management aims or could we manage better?
2. How can we report how we are doing?3. How can we make sure we have the
resources we need?4. How can we build a supporting
constituency for our work?
Management Effectiveness a tool for managers
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
• 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)
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
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
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
Presentation overview
• Management effectiveness: why we need to assess it
• WCPA Framework: a global approach to assessment
• Management effectiveness targets and experiences
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
A wealth of experience has been developed
in undertaking assessments
the assessment of management effectiveness has many variables
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
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
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
Many Systems
Simple questionnaire approaches relying on
expert judgement
Complex data-driven approaches relying on
regular monitoring
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
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
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
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
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
‘…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)
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
• looking at design issues; • the adequacy and appropriateness of
management systems and processes; and • the delivery of protected area objectives
including conservation of values
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
Effectiveness
Appropriate-ness
Effectiveness
EfficiencyEconomyAppropriate-ness
StatusFocus of evaluation
Impacts: effects of management in relation to objectives
Results of management actions
Services and
products
Suitability of management
processes
Resourcing of agency Resourcing of site
PA legislation and policy
PA system design
Reserve design
Management planning
Significance
Threats
Vulnerability
National policy
Partners
Criteria
Outcomes
What did we achieve?
Outputs
What were the results?
Process
How do we go about it?
Inputs
What do we need?
Planning
Where do we want to be?
Context
Where are we now?
Contents of evaluation
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
Presentation overview
• Management effectiveness: why we need to assess it
• WCPA Framework: a global approach to assessment
• Management effectiveness targets and experiences
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
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
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
Indicators with WCPA framework
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
RAPPAMTracking tool
EOHFinland MEEWWF Brazil
USA SOPNSW SOP
Catalonia MEEHow is Your MPA Doing
PROARCA/CAPASParks profiles
Mesoamerica MPAMarine tracking tool
PIPMARIPA-G
Central African RepublicAfrica rainforest study
CI METTPA Consolidation index
Qld Park Integrity
context input planning process output outcome
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
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
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
The 2004 CBD Programme 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
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
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
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008
Suggested activities of the Parties4.2.1. 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.
Management Effectiveness Training Seminar: Europarc 2008 UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Towards Effectively Managed Protected Areas
Sharing experiences and lessons learned from Protected
Area ME Assessments
Information not easily available…
nor widely shared…
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/me/