Evaluating Management Effectiveness

Maintaining Protected Areas for Now and the Future

Welcome to Workshop Stream 5

Session 2a

IUCN WCPA/CEESP Theme on indigenous and Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas

Chair: Hanna Jaireth (TILCEPA)

Our focus:

To share experience and lessons learned about the evaluations of management effectiveness, particularly with respect to meeting the needs of indigenous and local communities

To explore the concepts and principles of cultural and community indicators from the perspectives of indigenous and local communities

SESSIONS 2a AND 3a

To discuss the :

draft Durban Accord and Action Plan

Durban Accord: action 2 (p.2), action (p.4)

Durban Action Plan Outcome 4 & 5

draft WPC draft recommendations with respect to the evaluation of management effectiveness in meeting the needs of indigenous and local communities

WPC 5.1, 5.18, 5.19, 5.24, 5.25, 5.26

Our focus cont’d…..

To explore the concepts and principles of cultural and community indicators from the perspectives of indigenous and local communities, and to discuss:

Is further research and development needed on indicators and methodologies for assessing PA management effectiveness?

Should IUCN develop and endorse minimum standards for assessing management effectiveness?

Should we have a certification scheme for management effectiveness of PAs and CCAs WPC Rec 5.18 (9)?

Our focus cont’d…..

Input to the management effectiveness chapter in Managing Protected Areas in the 21st Century

Input to State of Knowledge Report on Management Effectiveness Evaluation

Input to the Durban Accord and Action Plan, WPC recommendations and Congress message to the CBD

Input to the TILCEPA cross-cut theme contribution to the report of the Congress

Outputs

Liz Alden Wily

Indicators for Community Tenure and Protected Area Management Independent land tenure and natural resources

management adviser, U.K.

Will propose 10 indicators for determining the extent to which community level interests are recognised in protected forest area management

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indigenous representatives Phillip Rist, Executive Officer, Girringun Elders and

Reference Group, Aboriginal Corporation, north Queensland, Australia

Claude Beeron, Girramay elder and Director, Girringun Elders and Reference Group,

Syb Bresolin, Dulgulburra Yidindji elder and Cultural Ranger, Centre for Tropical Restoration, north Queensland, Australia

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Dermot Smyth Consultant and Honorary Research Fellow, James Cook

University, North Queensland, Australia

Will explore and critique the concept of global or universal indicators concerning the management of culture in protected areas

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Perspective from the indigenous Peoples Ad Hoc Working Group Victorino Saway, Philippines

Will reflect on his experiences with evaluating the effectiveness of PA management from the perspective of indigenous peoples in the Philippines

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Levi Sucre

Evaluation of participatory management of forest areas in Costa Rica indigenous leader from the BRIBRI indigenous Group

in Talamanca, Costa Rica with experience of agroecological production of cocoa and who has worked with Acicafoc to realise indigenous peoples’ aspirations for the region

Will evaluate participatory management of forest areas in Costa Rica

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Neil Jens

Effective Management of Volunteers President, Conservation Volunteer Alliance and

Principal, Jens-Gaunt Real Estate Pty Ltd, Ballarat, Victoria

Will discuss the Alliance’s accreditation program for conservation volunteer organisations

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Vaijay Jadhari With translation by Seema Bhatt

Will evaluate participatory management of forest areas in Jardhar Gaon in Uttaranchal, India

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Tea break followed by questions and panel discussion

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