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Vth World Parks Congress - 7-17 September 2003, Durban, South Africa

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WORLD PARKS CONGRESS RECOMMENDATIONS

List of recommendations approved at the World Parks Congress

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All WPC Recommendations - PDF Format - Word Format
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Title
Lead / Stream
01
Strengthening Institutional and Societal Capacities for Protected Area Management in the 21st Century
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Julia Carabias /
Capacity Building: Developing the Capacity to Manage
02
Strengthening Individual and Group Capacities for Protected Area Management in the 21st Century
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Julia Carabias /
Capacity Building: Developing the Capacity to Manage
03
Protected Areas Learning Network
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Julia Carabias /
Capacity Building: Developing the Capacity to Manage
04
Building Comprehensive and Effective
Protected Area Systems
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Mohamed Bakkarr/
Gaps: Building Comprehensive Protected Area Systems
05
Climate Change and Protected Areas
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Mohamed Bakkar /
Gaps: Building Comprehensive Protected Area Systems
06
Strengthening Mountain Protected Areas as a Key Contribution to Sustainable Mountain Development
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Larry Hamilton /
Mountains
07
Financial Security for Protected Areas
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Carlos Quintela /
Financing: Building a Secure Financial Future
08
Private Sector Funding of Protected Areas
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Carlos Quintela /
Financing: Building a Secure Financial Future
09
Integrated Landscape Management to Support Protected Areas
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Peter Bridgewater /
Linkages in the Landscape/Seascape
10
Policy Linkages between Relevant International Conventions and Programmes in Integrating Protected Areas in the Wider Landscape/Seascape
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Peter Bridgewater /
Linkages in the Landscape/Seascape
11
A Global Network to Support the Development of Transboundary Conservation Initiatives
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Peter Bridgewater / /Jim Johnston / Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend /
Linkages in the Landscape/Seascape
12
Tourism as a Vehicle for Conservation and Support of Protected Areas
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Jeff McNeely /
Building Broader Support for Protected Areas
13
Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas
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Jeff McNeely /
Building Broader Support for Protected Areas
14
Cities and Protected Areas
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Jeff McNeely /
Building Broader Support for Protected Areas
15
Peace, Conflict and Protected Areas
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Jeff McNeely /
Building Broader Support for Protected Areas
16
Good Governance of Protected Areas
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Jim Johnston / Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend /
Governance: New ways of Working Together
17
Recognising and Supporting a Diversity of Governance Types for Protected Areas
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Jim Johnston / Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend /
Governance: New ways of Working Together
18
Management Effectiveness Evaluation to Support Protected Area Management
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Marc Hockings /
Management effectiveness: maintaining protected areas for now and the future
19
IUCN Protected Area Management Categories
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Marc Hockings /
Management effectiveness: maintaining protected areas for now and the future
20
Preventing and Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflicts
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Peter Bridgewater /
Linkages in the Landscape/Seascape
21
The World Heritage Convention
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N. Ishwaran /
World Heritage
22
Building a Global System of Marine and Coastal Protected Area Networks
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Bud Ehler /
Marine
23
Protecting Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes through Marine Protected Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
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Bud Ehler /
Marine
24
Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas
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Ashish Kothari /
Indigenous/Local Communities, Equity, and Protected Areas
25
Co-management of Protected Areas
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Ashish Kothari /
Indigenous/Local Communities, Equity, and Protected Areas
26
Community Conserved Areas
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Ashish Kothari /
Indigenous/Local Communities, Equity, and Protected Areas
27
Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Conservation
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Ashish Kothari /
Indigenous/Local Communities, Equity, and Protected Areas
28
Protected Areas: Mining and Energy
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Peter Bridgewater /
Linkages in the Landscape/Seascape
29
Poverty and Protected Areas
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Jeff McNeely /
Building Broader Support for Protected Areas
30
Africa’s Protected Areas
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31
Protected Areas, Freshwater and Integrated River Basin Management Frameworks
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Peter Bridgewater /
Linkages in the Landscape/Seascape
32
Strategic Agenda for Communication, Education and Public Awareness for Protected Areas
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Jeff McNeely /
Building Broader Support for Protected Areas

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To guide the Secretariat and participants through the recommendations process, a Congress Recommendations Committee was formed at the beginning of the Congress. This Committee was tasked with making decisions on points of procedure relating to the recommendations process, in close consultation with the Secretariat and Workshop Streams, Cross-Cutting Themes and Motion leads.

The members of the Committee were:

1. Alfred A. Oteng-Yeboah (Ghana). – Chair;
2. Nikita Lopoukhine (Canada) – Member;
3. Paul Mafabi (Uganda) – Member; and
4. Juan Mayr Maldonado (Colombia)

Prior to the Congress, 29 motions that had been submitted to the WPC Recommendations Preparatory Committee were made available for online comment. In the course of the Congress, three new motions were approved for consideration by the Recommendations Committee, namely:

Motion 20: Preventing and Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflicts;
Motion 31: Protected Areas, Freshwater and Integrated River Basin Management Frameworks; and
Motion 32: Strategic Agenda for Communication, Education and Public Awareness for Protected Areas.

List of approved recomendations

All 32 motions were discussed in the relevant discussion groups, then reviewed and approved in Workshop Stream/Themes plenary sessions. The recommendations will be published in the Congress proceedings, and noted and acknowledged in the plenary where Congress outputs are reported.

All WPC Recommendations - PDF Format - Word Format
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This section contains a breakdown of the programme per day, details of the workshops, side events and short courses. It also provides information about the exhibition, the field trips and pre / post congress tours.
Les résultats prévus au COngrèsLos resultados previstos del Congreso
The Durban Accord is a high level vision statement for PAs in the 21st Century - a message to the world from the Congress.
The WPC Recommendations are 30 stand-alone recommendations linked to WPC workshop streams and cross cuts themes.
The Inputs into the CBD process will provide input from the WPC to the Conference of the Parties (COP) 7. This COP will be held in Malaysia in February, 2004, and will focus on protected areas.
WPC Emerging Issues
Strengthening Protected Areas: Ten Target Areas for Action in the Next Decade
A number of other outputs are planned, which will relate to Tourism, Transboundary initiatives, Protected Area Categories Review, Extractive Industries, the Spiritual values of Protected Areas, Mountains and African protected areas.
Managing Protected Areas in the 21st Century will be a handbook for PA practitioners collating the learning from Durban. Rich in case studies, models, lessons learned and drawn mostly from the IUCN World Parks Congress Streams and Cross Cutting Themes, it will be the 'User Manual' for the Durban Accord.
Non Material Values of Protected Areas Outputs
PALNet - Protected Areas Learning Network
The United Nations List & State of the World's Protected Areas (PAs) Report will be the global report card for the world's PAs.
World Parks Congress Outputs from the Transboundary Protected Areas Task Force of the IUCN-WCPA

For more information, please contact
David Sheppard,

Head, Programme on Protected Areas, IUCN

 
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