Pantelleria IslandA testing ground for a participatory approach aimed at fostering the creation of an MPA proposed and developed by local inhabitants

https://social-media-empowerment.com Gianpaolo Rampini - razman.jan@gmail.com

The future of MPAs should involve the active participation of local communities through the recovery and preservation of sustainable practices peculiar to local

traditions

41st CIESM Congress Kiel, Germany, 12-16 September 2016

The community’s cohesion takes place through the reactivation of interest (as feeling concerned and willing to care ) for the environment and the territory

The strengthening of the communities of interest’s identity and the participatory process are facilitated through multidisciplinary skills (social, anthropological, psychological and visual sciences)

used as tools for action (SME - Social-Media-Empowerment), as well as by proposing a lifestyle

based on a new sustainable relationship between man and the environment

Participatory Process of Pantelleria - Based on civil society started in 2013 to facilitate the local community in their access to the governance for the protection of the sea and the coast

A Participatory Process for MPA encompasses a whole series of a community of interest’s actions for the sea protection as common good

Step 1

gather all thestakeholders and listen totheir needs

(fishermen, divers,tour operators,Pantelleria dwellers)

Step 2

create aworkgroup ‘Tutela Pantelleria’

including eachcategory's representativesWith a supervisor(can't be a stakeholder)

Step 3

work out acommon proposal

based on LEK (Local Ecological Knowledge)

Step 4

submit theproposal tothe institutions

After submission - the workgroup as a link between the local community andinstitutions

Step 5

to play a role in MPA governance proposed tool will be the Participatory Budgeting

MPAs: A Participatory Process is Fundamental

Top-down processes are uneffectiveInstitutions are “far” from local communitiesNeed for sustainability

Social Media Empowerment to- (Re)activate the interest toward a common goal- facilitate Participation

WHY ?

HOW ?IN ORDER TO

Give an active role in the governance of MPA's to local community Rebuild local identities and sense of community (belonging)Strengthen confidence in institutionsDevelop a sustainable local economy