Building Capacity for Protected Area Management in the Pacific

An Program OverviewMike Lameier: NOAA PIMPAC Co-coordinator

What is Pacific Island Managed and Protected Area Community (PIMPAC)?

1. Community of on-the ground managers collaborating to enhance protected area management

"Sense of Community is a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members' needs will be met through their commitment to be together.“-Psychological Sense of Community: Theory of McMillan & Chavis (1986)

What is Pacific Island Managed and Protected Area Community (PIMPAC)?

1. Community of on-the ground managers collaborating to enhance protected area management

2. Long term catalytic capacity building program

Catalytic Capacity-Building “I learned that highly effective capacity-building is . . . about creating an environment that encourages and supports continuous learning and improvement in individuals, organizations, networks, and eventually, the communities and societies they seek to change. . . . It is about consciously creating conditions so that each success sparks many others. It is about starting chain reactions for change. This is what I call catalytic capacity-building.” -Audrey Newman, Built to Change: Catalytic Capacity-Building in Nonprofit Organizations.2001

Why PIMPAC?

• 2004: Pacific Managers faced similar problems• Limited Resources• Isolated from each other and

trainings• Lead to the 2005 workshop

• 2006: The Micronesia Challenge (MC)

• Two Samoa Initiative other regional initiatives

• Greater need for protected areas/management= greater need for training

Where PIMPAC Works

Services Provided:

• Funding and Coordination

• Training and Technical Support

• Learning Exchanges

• Partnership Building

• Information Sharing

• List serve and www.pimpac.org

• Youth Engagement

• MC Young Champions

• TNC Marine Fellows

• Communities• All island national and state fisheries agencies

and NGOS

Micronesians in Island

Conservation-(MIC)

Coordination: All About Partnerships!

Integration of Networks=Success

Community Level: Locally Managed Marine Area Network

Executive Directive Level

Manager Level

Micronesians in Island Conservation-

(MIC)

Head of State Level Micronesia Chief Executive Summit

PIMPAC TrainingApproach

• Ecosystem Based Approach to Management (Ridge-Reef)• Tailored trainings• Training of Trainers• PIMPAC Mentors

PIMPAC Mentors/Trainers

(*only possible through partnerships and collaboration)

Berna Gorong

• Nimpal Conservation Area Management

• Trainer:• CCA• Management

Planning• SEM Coordination

• TNC Partnership and Communication Coordinator

• Trainer for:• Adaptive

Management• CCA and • Enforcement

• Alliance of Palau Conservation Officers

Wayne Andrew

Brooke Nevitt (MINA/CNMI), Shirley Koshiba (PICRC/Palau) and

Marybelle Quinata (NOAA CRCP)

Socioeconomic Monitoring– Leads SEM trainings, Building SEM

Teams, and support SEM POCs– data coding, management, and

quality control– quantitative data analysis– analyzed data in conservation

planning and adaptive management

– effectively communicate data visually

– See SEM section PIMPAC website

Pete Houk (UOG)/Yim Golbuu (PICRC/Palau)

Marine Monitoring• Train monitoring teams• Data collection• Monitoring design• Data Analysis• Data Management• Database development• Data sharing, reporting• Communication

Sgt. Mark A./ Capt. Joey Terlaje/ Michael

Reyes: Guam

•MPA Patrol• Education and Outreach•Arrest Procedures•Vessel boarding•Arrest Report Writing• Court Appearances• Issuing Citations•Officer Survival Tactics• Self defense

Guam Enforcement Trainers

Steven Victor/Liz Terk

• Conservation Action Planning (CAP)

• Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness (MPAME)

• Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management

• CCA

PIMPAC Advisors

• Continual guidance, training and leadership to trainers/mentors

• Biological Monitoring: Yim Golbuu and Pete Houk• SEM: Supin Wongbusarakum (NOAA PIFSC)and Peter

Edwards (NOAA CRCP)• CCA: Meghan Gombos/ Scott Atkinson/Art Web/Doug

Ramsey• Enforcement/Behavior Change: Mike Guilbeaux/USCG• Adaptive Management: Meghan Gombos /Scott A.• Program Management/Leadership: Trina Leberer Mae

Adams and Willy Kostka

Training Focus Areas

• Determined by Strategic Planning• Established training programs for:• Management Planning• Socioeconomic Monitoring • Biological Monitoring• Enforcement • Climate Change Adaptation(CCA)• Behavior Change

• Institutionalization is the goal• Enforcement Certificate at Guam

Community College(in the works)

Adaptive Management Planning

•First area of Focus•Link to biological and socioeconomic monitoring•Planning Resources:• PIMPAC Guidebook• TNC CAP• New Tools: CCA-VA

LEAP/LMMA•Retraining is a reality

PIMPAC Community Based Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)

• Focus to support communities’ CCA needs•2010-regional CCA workshop•2011-Trainings in all Micronesian FAS, CNMI and American Samoa and Guam •Tools and Reports on www.pimpac.org• Coastal Change Tool kit • Yap and Kosrae

Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit

MPA Enforcement

•Palau Guam Exchange•Key Partnerships with Guam • Palau Alliance of Conservation Officers•2012 Trainings:• Pohnpei• Hawaii• Marshall Islands• 2013: Kosrae, CNMI, A. Samoa.•2014: Chuuk•Shark Sanctuaries/Pew Trust• Enforcement Tool Kit(2015-16)

PIMPAC Socioeconomic Monitoring (SEM) Program

• MPA=sacrifice• Need Monitor and adapt management• 2008- SEM Pasifika Program formed

– SEM Pasifika Guidebook– Standard user friend methods for Pacific

• Two Annual Trainings focus on:– Training managers – Work with communities to do

assessments• 2014: Laolao, Rota, • 2015 Yap, Helen’s Reef and Guam

(Sept)• Next: Chuuk and Pohnpei

What’s Next ?

• Model site designation• Implementing Coastal Change

Tool Kit• Enforcement Toolkit• Strategic Plan evaluation• Annual self assessments to

inform planning• Environmental Courts (HI-July)• Enforcement Certificate

Program

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