Workshop Stream III Governance of Protected Areas

“New ways of working together”

Jim Johnston

Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend

Governance— what is it about?

• Who holds information?

• Who decides? How?

• Who has influence?

• Who exercises power?

• How are decision-makers held accountable?

• How do citizens or other stakeholders have their say?

Power… Relationships… Accountability

• U.N. Secretary General

• World Resources 2002-2004

• The WSSD Plan of Implementation

• Communities around the world

...building upon

Universal Declaration of Human RightsRio Agenda 21

Convention on Biological DiversityUNESCO’s MAB programme

Arhus Convention, Resolution ILO 159

from obscurity to fame…

Governance of protected areas

• system level or individual PA

• affects policy and practice, behaviour and meaning, investments and impacts.

• affects achievement of conservation objectives (management effectiveness)

• determines sharing of costs and benefits (equity)

• influences ability to generate and sustain community,financial and political support (sustainability)

Stream focus “good governance” of PAs

PA governance “types”

– in light of history & global change

– regional peculiarities

– international mechanisms

– customary and legal contexts

– issues of scale

– specific marine focus

– community empowerment focus

Good governance• Draw from the work of the

United Nations and other bodies

• Review what it means for individual protected areas, for specific regional contexts

• Customary and legal perspectives, “rights” perspective

• Participatory governance evaluation!

• Good governance principles and possibly a charter?

Governance “Types”

• Who holds authority, responsibility and is held accountable?

– A. Governments

– B. Several actors and partners (Co-managed PAs)

– C. Private and corporate owners (Private Protected Areas)

– D. Indigenous and local communites (Community Conserved Areas)

What are the lessons learned in these different governance experiences?

Day 1 – Thursday September 11 • Keynote : why is governance such a hot topic? • Overview panel: history, “good governance”, institutional

change, governance “types”

• Governance exemplars: CCAs in India; indigenous conservation recognised as National Park in Colombia, collaborative management in Canada, land restitution in South Africa...

• Regional lessons learned in PA governance• The international governance dimension• The governance of the high seas• Governance and customary law

• Pre-discussion of recommendations on indigenous peoples and PAs and on mobile peoples and conservation

Day 2 – Friday September 12 • 2.1 Indigenous & local communities as conservation

managers-- Community Conserved Areas & Co-managed Protected Areas

• 2.2 Mobile peoples and conservation • 2.3 Transboundary protected areas• 2.4 PAs managed by NGOs• 2.5 PAs managed by private landowners

• 2.6 Globalisation and decentralisation– the legal frameworks

• 2.7 Governance of coastal and marine PAs• 2.8 Fisheries and marine PA issues

• Discussion of CCA and CMPA recommendations

Day 3 – Saturday September 13 3.1 Community Empowerment for Conservation-- Joint

session with stream 1 and 23.2 Innovative governance of large scale PA systems

+ continuing sessions on transboundary PAs and private PAs

• Synthesis workshop on “good governance” of PAs• Synthesis workshop on PA governance “types”• Synthesis workshop on communities, equity and PAs• Synthesis workshop on governance in Durban Accord

and Action Plan• Synthesis workshop on governance in CBD and WCC

2004• Synthesis workshop on mobile peoples and conservation

• Final plenary: approval of 6 WPC recommendations

NSENDEMILA! an original theatre piece produced by the renowned SEKA Malambo Drama Group of Zambia, illustrating key PA governance issues from the perspective of a real African community

And sometimes … ….the day ends dramatically!

Thabani Theatre11, 13 and 16 September

18:00-20:00

Special events• Pre-WPC organising

meeting on mobile peoples and conservation6-7 September

• Short course on participatory governance evaluation14-15 September

• 12:30-14:00

room 3B book

launching

luncheons--

eleven new

publications +

special issues of

journals

(including

Guinness

nominee!)

Every day:

EVALUATING GOVERNANCE

A HANDBOOK

TO ACCOMPANY A PARTICIPATORY PROCESS

FOR A PROTECTED AREA

by Peter Abrams, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Julia Gardner and Pippa Heylings

PARKS CANADA and TILCEPA—Theme on Indigenous and

Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas of IUCN CEESP /WCPA

DRAFT FOR FIELD TESTING July 2003

Expected results: • exchanges with peoples, exposure to case-materials and insights from all over the world, many new publications, short course…

• opportunity to help develop an inter-commission Task Force on Governance (CEESP/ CEL/ WCPA) currently being discussed

Review issues, provide inspiration, tools and networking options

Synthesized policy statements on governance issues

• the Durban Accord and Action Plan and the report to the CBD will include provisions on governance, and especially on capacity building and participatory evaluation processes

• agreed principles on good governance for protected areas

• a governance typology— to be tested/ used as complementary to the IUCN category system

• two specific WPC recommendations on protected areas governance (no. 5.16 and 5.17)

• recommendations on Indigenous Peoples and

Protected Areas (5.24), Co-managed Protected Areas (5.25), Community Conserved Areas (5.26) and Mobile Peoples and Conservation (5.27)

Expected results (cont’d):

How can you participate?• come to the workshops!

(ROOM 3B and adjacent rooms)

• interactive space available + direct link with stream rapporteurs

• six participatory synthesis workshops on Satuday 13

• subscribe to the participatory governance evaluation course

• ask questions about governance in your field trips!

The stream Chairs, Speakers, Discussants and Rapporteurs are invited to meet tonight at a welcome cocktail at 18:30-20:30 at the Beach Hotel. Please come, and especially so if you have not yet met your panel chairs!

Many thanks to:Peter AbramsJanis AlcornBruce AmosAlejandro ArgumedoChuck Bezancon Charles Ehler Tamara GuhrsTaghi M. FarvarAshish KothariJeff Langholz Tom LeeAndres Luque Juan Mayr MaldonadoClaudio MarettiAroha Mead

Maryam Niamir FullerGonzalo OviedoJeanne Pagnan Diane PanskyNeema PathakArthur Paterson Maryam RahmanianTrevor SandwithJohn ScanlonVivienne Solis Andrew TillingSarah TitchenMarie France WatsonWebster WhandeWendy Weisman

And see you in the governance stream!