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September
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WPC
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World
Parks Congress Programme
 Introduction
to the Report of the WPC
Daily
Reports:
Monday 08
Sep. 2003 // Tuesday
09 Sep. 2003 // Wednesday
10 Sep. 2003 //
Thursday
11 Sep. 2003 // Friday
12 Sep. 2003 // Saturday
13 Sep. 2003 //
Tuesday
16 Sep. 2003 // Wednesday
17 Sep. 2003 / Final
Summary
Programme
of the WPC
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9 // Day 10
The
Vth IUCN World Congress on Protected Areas, or World Parks Congress
(WPC), convened in Durban, South Africa, from 8-17 September
2003. More than 2,700 participants attended the meeting, representing
governments and public agencies, international organizations,
the private sector, academic and research institutions, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), and community and indigenous organizations.
IUCN - The World Conservation Union organizes the Congress every
ten years to take stock of the state of protected areas (PAs),
appraise progress and setbacks, and define the agenda for PAs
for the next decade. The theme of the 2003 WPC was "Benefits
beyond Boundaries."
Over
nine days of plenary and workshop sessions,
side events and field trips, participants addressed gaps within
PA systems by identifying under-represented ecosystems, defined
tools to improve management effectiveness, sought new legal arrangements,
and identified partnerships.
The
Congress produced several outcomes. The three main Congress
Outputs are: the Durban Accord and Action
Plan, consisting of a high-level vision statement for PAs,
and an outline of implementation mechanisms; 32
recommendations, approved by workshops during the Congress;
and the Message to the Convention
on Biological Diversity (CBD). Other outcomes include: the United
Nations (UN) List and State of the World’s Protected Areas,
a global report on the world’s PAs; a Protected
Areas Learning Network (PALNet), a web-based knowledge management
tool for PA managers and stakeholders; outputs on Africa’s
PAs, including a recommendation
on Africa’s PAs and the Durban Consensus on African
Protected Areas for the New Millennium; and a handbook on Managing
Protected Areas in the 21st Century, which will collate case
studies, models and lessons learned during the Congress, and
will constitute the "User Manual" for the Durban Accord.
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REPORT
OF THE MEETING
Under
its overarching theme of "Benefits beyond Boundaries," the
WPC held plenary sessions from Monday to Wednesday, 8-10 September,
and on Tuesday and Wednesday, 16-17 September. The Plenary addressed:
benefits beyond boundaries; a briefing on the workshops; global
partners for PAs; a focus on Africa; and the Congress Outputs
and their implementation.
Seven workshop
streams were held from Thursday to Saturday, 11-13 September.
Workshop participants met in plenaries and smaller break-out
groups to address: linkages
in the landscape and seascape; building
broader support for PAs; PA
governance; developing
the capacity to manage PAs; evaluating
management effectiveness; building
a secure financial future; and building
comprehensive PA systems. Three cross-cutting
themes on marine
protected areas (MPAs), World
Heritage, and communities
and equity were also addressed within the above workshop
streams.
On Sunday and Monday 14-15
September, participants attended short
courses and field trips. Discussion
groups on WPC recommendations,
the Congress Recommendations Committee and the drafting group
on the Message to the CBD also
held informal meetings throughout the Congress. Drop-in sessions
on the Durban Accord and Action
Plan were organized on Thursday and Friday, 11-12 September.
Programme
of the WPC
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EXHIBITION
was held from Sept 8 to 17 within the Durban Exhibition
Centre // WORKSHOPS were conducted over 3 days
in workshop plenaries, parallel sessions and smaller break out
groups
// SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION were offered in
all sessions except workshop break outs, field trips and short
courses
Programme
at a glance PDF Document - 48KB
Handbook & Full Daily Programme
- PDF Document - 55 pages // 07.09.03 - 415KB
Plan of DICC- Plenary
/ Symposia Configuration - 61 JPG KB
Plan of DICC- Workshop
Stream Configuration - 57 JPG KB
Plan of DEC- Exhibition
Configuration - 38 JPG KB
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Day
by Day 8-17 September 2003
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Post
WPC News & Events from September 2003 to Date /
September
2003 / August
2003 / July
2003 / June
2003 /
May
2003 / April
2003 / March
2003 / Jan-Feb
2003 / 2002
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