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Evaluating Management Effectiveness for Protected Areas: Insights from Global Workshop

This report provides a comprehensive overview of a workshop focused on evaluating management effectiveness (MEE) for protected areas, held in Durban, South Africa. With nearly 1200 participants across 13 workshops, the event highlighted key themes such as evaluation systems, indicators, emerging threats, and ongoing work. The findings emphasize the need for improved ecological integrity assessments, local community engagement, and the integration of science in management practices. Recommendations include standardizing data collection, building capacity, and ensuring transparency to enhance MEE.

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Evaluating Management Effectiveness for Protected Areas: Insights from Global Workshop

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  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

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