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Management Management effectiveness effectiveness evaluation: evaluation:

IntroductionIntroduction

What is management effectiveness evaluation ?Why is it an issue?

What can we gain by evaluating management?Why a Framework for evaluation?

What is management effectiveness evaluation?

‘..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 Guidelines (2006)

It includes consideration of• design issues• the adequacy and appropriateness of management

systems and processes• and the delivery of protected area objectives including

conservation of values

Why is management effectiveness an issue?

• Protected areas are critical for in-situ conservation• Most protected areas are subject to multiple serious

threats and many are degraded• 1992 review of protected areas found that three of

the five most common threats were management deficiencies rather than direct impacts on resources

• 1992 World Parks Congress identified effective management as one of four major protected area issues of global concern

• Management Effectiveness Evaluation was most popular workshop at 2003 World Parks Congress; 2003 WPC Delegate survey identified inadequate monitoring and evaluation as most serious barriers to effective management after inadequate funding

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Management is not easy

• Implement management strategies and processes

• Management objectives

• Systems of governance

• Adequate and appropriate resources

by recording, observing and talking about the changes we see in the environment and looking for their causes

by encouraging a culture where we look and reflect on our management

by helping us to learn from our mistakes and our successes

Why would we bother?

1. Evaluation can help us manage better

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Adaptive management

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by signalling global and local changes and threats     

showcasing management techniques for broader landscape management

It identifies priorities for actions Helps to show real resource needs

3. Evaluation promotes accountability and transparency The community see how their parks and

forests are managed Baselines can be established for

partnerships, agreements, trusteeships and contracts

2. Evaluation assists in effective resource allocation

Involving traditional owners, community members and scientists gives us more credibility and helps build good relationships

Increasing public action to support parks: Showing the community the need for better resourcing of the parks system and alerting them to threats

4. Evaluation can help involve the community, build constituency and promote protected area values

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Who wants to know about protected area effectiveness?

• Managers of individual protected areas

• Funding agencies: GEF, The World Bank

• NGO’s: WWF, TNC, CI• PA Agencies: Finland, Canada, India,

New South Wales, Australia• Conventions: UNESCO World

Heritage, CBD

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Why WCPA framework – why not one methodology?

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Diversity of needs and circumstances

Different purposes for evaluation

Different circumstancesDifferent spatial and

temporal scalesDifferent issuesDifferent audiencesDifferent capacities

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Diversity and ConsistencyNeed for appropriate evaluation

standardsAvoid re-invention of “wheels”Harmonisation of data to enable:

• Learning across sites/regions• Identification of common

needs/challenges• Development of global and regional

responses

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What do you think we need to consider?

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WCPA assessment framework

Effectiveness Appropriate-ness

Effective-ness

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 policyPA system designReserve designManagement planning

SignificanceThreatsVulnerability

National policy Engagement of Partners

Criteria

OutcomesWhat did we achieve?

OutputsWhat were the results?

ProcessHow do we go about it?

InputsWhat do we need?

Planning Where do we want to be?

ContextWhere are we now?

Elements

of evaluation

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