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"DEVELOPING
CAPACITY TO MANAGE PAs"
WORKSHOP
STREAM 4
Report // Description
// Stream Focus // Programme
// Documents
Capacity
Building
 Report
of the Workshop
Recognizing
the need to improve capacity at every level to manage PAs adaptively,
the workshop on developing the capacity to manage PAs aimed
at determining what skills, attributes and support systems
are needed for PA institutions, decision makers and practitioners.
Participants
identified various factors critical to capacity development,
including strong institutions, legal frameworks, planning and
management, public participation, and public awareness and
support. Regarding institutional structures, participants noted
an excessive centralization in PA management and planning,
and emphasized that PA concerns must be incorporated into regional
land-use planning. They identified the need for adaptive management
to enable practitioners to respond to contextual factors and
foster ground level initiative.
Participants
reviewed various mechanisms to enhance stakeholder participation
and recommended public access to information and standardized
national participation procedures. Participants also acknowledged
the value of community knowledge, and the need to build local
communities’ capacities. Regarding the development of
human resources, participants called for adequate long-term
staffing, the allocation of PA revenues to capacity development,
and the adoption of global competency standards for PA staff.
Recognizing the potential for capacity building through networks,
participants called for: strong networks; sub-regional communication
channels; international cooperation for capacity building;
and information access for PA managers.
The
workshop approved three recommendations relating to: strengthening
institutional and societal capacities for PA management; strengthening
individual and group capacities for PA management; and the
PALNet.
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Description
Improving capacity at every level to deliver better planned and
managed protected areas. What are the skills, attributes and support
systems needed for the protected area institutions, decision-makers
& practitioners of tomorrow?
Capacity
Building for effective management of protected areas is a key
issue to
address one of the biggest challenges of humankind in this century:
to stop the
irreversible processes of extinction of biodiversity at the ecosystem,
species,
population and genetic level. In situ conservation of biodiversity
is dependent upon
maintaining viable and sufficient natural habitat.
Protected Areas have proved to be the most important and effective
instruments
for the in situ conservation of natural ecosystems and their biodiversity.
They are
also spaces of big opportunities where sustainable rural development
could be
promoted by planning the use of land with a conservation perspective
and the
equitable sharing of the benefits from their use. Protected Areas
should not be
understood only as closed spaces but spaces that can promote integration
of
conservation benefits into local and national economies in a sustainable
manner
while also managing the threats to the integrity of these protected
areas.
Moreover the ecological benefits such as watershed protection,
water purification
and soil conservation make fundamental contributions to the economy
of all
countries. The economic potential of the genetic resources that
protected area
systems contain will provide further important social and economic
contributions as
countries develop their biotechnological capabilities.
Despite significant efforts to strengthen protection, the destructive
processes have
not stopped and neither rural policies nor society in general
have given real value
to Protected Areas.The majority of agencies responsible for protected
areas still
have inadequate human and financial resources, and instruments
and
infrastructure to achieve effective biodiversity conservation
and the provision of
environmental services.
Besides these challenges the world is facing changes in climate
and sea level,
invasive species, and fragmentation of forest. People are demanding
more food
and fiber, while human settlement patterns press protected areas
boundaries. New
institutional policies such as decentralization of resources management,
among
others, call for new social arrangements among communities and
government
agencies.
All these factors of global change cause increasing uncertainty
for the future of
biodiversity and the ecosystem goods and services provided by
natural areas. But
they also open new windows of opportunities to make such critical
areas more
sustainable and effective in social, economic, and ecological
terms.
It is, therefore, essential to arrest and reverse the processes
of degradation and to
face the new challe nges of global change. And a key strategy
to achieve this is to
strengthen and develop the capacity of societies at the regional,
national and local
level to face these problems.
During 2002 and 2003 the IUCN´s World
Commission on Protected Areas, and the
World Resources
Institute are leading a project called Ecosystems
Protected
Areas and People . The project represents the cooperation
of growing
partnerships that now includes Conservation
International, The
Nature
Conservancy, US
Environmental Protection Agency, UNESCO´s
World Heritage
Center and Man and the Biosphere Program, and the United
Nations Foundation.
The challenge is to manage PAs adaptively in order to address
new threats while
also capturing the new opportunities. People are already experimenting
with
creative approaches for dealing with the various threats and opportunities.
Unfortunately many innovators are working in isolation from other
managers.
Experience and potential new guidelines are not shared elsewhere
where they
could be of considerable value. By sharing knowledge and lessons
learned, the
capacity to adapt to change and thereby to strengthen the sustainability
of
biodiversity protection and sustainable use could be accelerated
and become more
wide spread.
This EPP project has five working groups, and one of these is
“Developing the
Capacity to Manage Protected Areas” that functions
with the support of The Nature
Conservancy. The objective of this group is to offer options,
strategies and
recommendations to the primary managers and stakeholders involved
in protected
areas (government agencies, local communities, non-governmental
organizations,
indigenous groups, private sector), to strengthen capacity to
manage protected
areas so as to guarantee the conservation of biodiversity as well
as the natural
ecosystems and environmental services.
Over the last two years this working group has carried out a process
of regional
consultation with different actors in Africa, Asia and Latin America
and the
Caribbean, to discuss and analyze successful experiences in managing
protected
areas (PA), the causes of success and the possibilities to replicate
them by
proposing recommendations and guidelines.
Several crucial factors that are needed to guarantee effective
efficient
management of PAs were identified in these workshops These crucial
factors
include institutional strengthening; legal framework; planning
and management;
public participation; and public awareness and support. Some important
recommendations for capacity development emanated from these regional
workshops.
These recommendations were analyzed in a meeting of experts in
capacity
development in order to identify the strategies for developoing
knowledge, skills,
competencies, tools and technologies to face the challenges of
mana ging PAs.
The Workshop Stream on DEVELOPING CAPACITY TO MANAGE PROTECTED
AREAS of the WPC Congress is the culmination of this intense process
of
consultation with different stakeholders of Protected Areas all
over the world. The
porpose at this stage of the Congress is to identify the elements
of a strategy and
action plan for capacity development for the next 5 years.
The Workshop Stream provided the opportunity to discuss, analyze
and identify
with a wide range of stakeholdersfrom all regions of the world
who possess
different experiences, perspectives and visions, the needs and
priorities in
capacity development to guarantee effective management of protected
areas and
to face the challenges of global change.
The results of the previous consultation process was presented
at the beginning
of the workshop and constituted the basic input for discussion.
This information
was complemented with presentationsand exchange of experiences
in parallel
working groups and through interaction with the cross cutting
themes of the
Congress.
Developing
the Capacity to Manage Brief - PDF Document
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Stream
Focus
Objective
// Implementation
Stream
defined the knowledge, skills and competencies needed at individual,
institutional and systemic levels for effective PA management.
It identified new ways of learning and disseminating knowledge
to facilitate effective and efficient management of PAs.
Special focus on:
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tailored minimum standards and best practices; |
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capacity building guidance and tools; |
| - the use
of information technology. |
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Objective
of the Workshop Stream
To contribute to the
conservation of Protected Areas by recommending strategies
and tools to strengthen the capacity of protected areas personell
and stakeholders
to apply adaptive management to deal effectively with current
and future threats
and capitalize opportunities.
Specific Objectives
1. To identify the critical capacities needed by
protected areas responsibles
and stakeholders to address the needs for effective manage of
pro tected
areas in the face of present conditions and global change.
2. To identify approaches, tools, methodologies and other
resources that have
been successful in developing capacity at various levels and in
different
regional and institucional contexts.
3. To recommend a strategy and action plan, including
roles of key
organisations, priorities and projected impacts, for capacity
develompment
at various levels for effective conservation and manage of protected
areas.
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Implementation
The workshop
hasl:
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incorporate a multidisciplinary and intersectoral perspective
of a wide range of actors (academics, social and private sector,
governments, local people). |
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the vision and specific experiences of different regions. |
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mobilize the opinion and promote the participation of
as many people as possible. |
The workshop was divided into 4 sessions and a tools fair:
| - Capacity Development
needs to face global changes |
| - Capacity Development
needs to face present challenges |
| - Succesful stories
for Capacity Development |
| - Needs for future |
| - Tools fair |
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Programme
Developing
the Capacity to Manage Protected Areas
Leads: Julia Carabias - Mexico
Thursday
11 // Friday 12 // Saturday
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Time
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Plenary
- Opening session
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Introduction & Overview of the workshop - Julia
Carabias
- Importance of Capacity Development to make the change
in dealing with current and future threats and opportunities
to manage Protected Areas - Kenton Miller
- What
do we mean by Capacity Development? - John Hough
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What
do we need?
- Capacities
needed by people, institutions and systems in order to deal
with current and future threats and opportunities to manage
Protected Areas . A synthesis of the consultation process
- Julia Carabias
- Capacity Development needed for responsibles of protected
areas. David Gutierrez (Director of CONANP,
Mexico) and Alfredo Arellano (Director of Biosphere
Reserve of Siankhan WH - Mexico)
- Role of capacity building in enabling community participation
and empowerment for protected area management. Sejal
Worah (India
TILCEPA).
- Capacity
Development needed for rangers. Rick Smith,
International Range Federation.
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Building Capacity for Marine Protected Area Management in
the Western Indian Ocean. Sue Wells, Tanzania
- Science and technology for capacity development:challanges
and emerging issues. Rodolfo Dirzo (UNAM / STAP -
GEF)
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What
are we doing?
International perspective:
- Capacity Development for World Heritage Sites. UNESCO //
Natarajan Ishwaran & Peter Valentine.
- Capacity Development from the GEF perspective // Gonzalo
Castro.
- Integrated approach for Capacity Development // Richard
Devine, Jim Rieger, Marlon Flores (TNC).
Regional and national perspective:
- Capacity
developing as managing change: lessons from Central Europe
// Frits Hesselink (CEC)
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Profesional training and capacity building for PA staff
// Eva Pongratz
- An African perspective of Capacity Development for PA management
// Hazell Thompson
- Building the Capacity to manage the South African Protected
Areas // Brian Huntley (National
Botanical Institute).
- 10 years in CD for PA in Brasil // Claudio Moretti &
Maria Auxiliadora Drummond
- Historical analysis and lessons learned on management capacities
for PA in Costa Rica // Stanley Arguedas & Jose Maria
Rodriguez.
- Developing competence standards for protected area jobs
in SE Asia. Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation
// Mike Appleton
- Training guide for conservation finance mechanisms. Conservation
Finance Alliance // Alan Lambert. |
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Capacity
Building Tools Fair |
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WORKING
GROUP 1. Developing capacity for site level planning,
management and monitoring, including stakeholder participation.
Joint Session with Evaluating Management Effectiveness (EME)
"Learning from Experience" sub-stream //
Marc Hockings, Fiona Leverington & Nick Salafsky
Case Study Presentations and Discussions on Context and
Planning
- Introduction and explanation of the products expected as
a result of these sessions // Nick Salafsky,
Foundations
of Success.
- Develop capacity in identification of context - status and
threats // Paul Butler, RARE
- Develop capacity in the development of management and monitoring
plans for protected areas // Moses Mapesa, Uganda
Wildlife Authority
- Capacity Building in participatory planning for co-management
in Kayan Mentarang NP // Gusti Ngurah Nyoman Sutedja.
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GROUP 2. Systems level policy, legal, communication
and participation instruments.
Overview: Carlos Ponce
Legislation and policies
- Building management capacity through legal frameworks in
the Asia region // Koh Kheng Lian. (Asia
Pacific Center for Environmental Law)
- Policy
and legal frameworks: building capacity through policy dialogue,
training, cross boundary collaboration // Thomas
Petermann, Tomme Young (ELC-
Bonn)
- Round table: Policies and legal framework to ensure high
priority at the national level: Carlos Castaño
(Colombia), Daniel Somma (Argentina), Jaime Robira
(Chile), Robbie Robinson (South Africa), Effendy
Sumardja (Indonesia) |
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GROUP 3. Systems level planning, institutional options
and coordination.
Overview: Jim Barborak (Wildlife
Conservation Society)
Capacity Building for Protected Areas Systems at the National
Level
- Systems Planning: Lessons from the PA System of Perú
// Luis Alfaro
- Capacity building: a case study from central Asia //
Vitaliy Gromov (IUCN)
- Building the capacity of new institutions: the case of
Thailand's new national parks agency // Ratana
Lukanawarakul (Department of National Parks, Fauna and
Flora, Thailand)
- Comprehensive Protected Area System Composition //
Daan Vreugdenhil
- Management Plans: Concepts and Proposals // Stephan
Amend (GTZ
- Panama)
Decentralization:
- A critical analisis of descentralization // Daan
Vreugdenhil.
- Decentralization and protected area management in Spain
// Jesus Casas Grande. National
Parks, Spain.
- Developing management capacity for the Kwa-Zulu park system,
South Africa // Peter Googman.
- Developing capacity for system level marine conservation
area planning at the community level. A care from Ono Island,
Fiji // Etika Rupeni (WWF-South
Pacific)
- Building local capacity and strengthening interinstitutional
coordination for PA management in the Philippines //
Antonio Manila (National
Integrated Protected Areas)
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WORKING
GROUP 4. Human Resources and Institutional Management.
Introduction:. Mike Appleton, ASEAN
Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation/ FFI
Session 1: Perspectives from the parks: views of Human Resource
Development from around the world
- Meeting capacity development challenge in Eastern Europe
// Erika Stanciu. (WWF-Romania).
- Building Human Resources in the Royal Society for the Conservation
of Nature, Jordan // Khaled Irani
- Institutional Capacity Development for Sabah Parks Board,
Malaysia // Jamili Nais
- Challenges for development of PA staff in Africa // Roger
Fotso, WCS (Cameroon).
Session 2: Special approaches to capacity development for
PA Staff
- Building institutional support for protected area rangers
// Rick Smith (IFR)
- Developing institutional capacity for working effectively
with local groups in protected areas management. Corbett National
Park // Rajiv Bhartari
- Building personal, community and organisational capacity
through exchanging and recycling experience // John Chapman,
CEI Associates/The Countryside Exchange
- Capacity development and training. How can the private sector
help? // Kathryn Shanks, Vice President of Health,
Safety and Environmental Policies and Programs, bp. |
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GROUP 5. Learning, skills development and training.
Introduction: Jim Taylor
- An historical review of capacity-building communication,
education training and development in park and neighbouring
community settings // Rob O´Donoghue,
Rhodes University
- Case studies: tools to meet the challenges features of an
integrated capacity development programme. High leverage
// Marlon Flores (TNC)
- Policy processes and capacity building: Benefits beyond
boundaries // Charles Obol and Helen Springall Bach
SADC (Lesotho).
- Capacity development and courses:Distance learning //
Maria Auxiliadora
- Developing learning support materials for capacity development
// Vladimir Russo
- Capacity development through environmental education courses
in southern Africa // Justin Lupele
-Training Options in Southern Africa // Mumsie Gumede
- SADC-REEP
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WORKING
GROUP 1. Developing capacity for site level planning,
management and monitoring, including stakeholder participation
Case Study on Monitoring/Analysis and Communication/Use of
results
- How to best address need to develop capacity in monitoring
and analysis of results. The Nature Conservancy's experience
// Dan Salzer.
- Developing capacity in participatory evaluation: experiences
from Africa and Asia // Peter Scheuch, CARE
& Sejal Worah,
WWF-India
- Developing capacity in communication and use of results.
Locally Managed Marine Areas // Etika Rupeni and
Alifereti Tawake, Fiji (LMMAN) |
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GROUP 2. Systems level policy, legal, communication
and participation instruments.
Participation and Communication
- Capacity
building for institutionalising participatory PA management
// S.Fazi
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Mt. Isarog's Communities at the Forefront of Protected Area
Policy Changes // Esteban Paga and Jocelyn Nique
(CARE,
GEF,
UNDP)
- Management
effectiveness analysis instrument for PA with social participation
// Joaquín Navia, (UAESPNN)
and María Fernanda Jaramillo (WWF-Colombia).
- Organization experience regarding the antural protected
areas in Italy // Matteo Fusilli (Federazione
Italiana Dei Parchi e Della Riserve Naturali).
- Problems
of public participation in protected areas managing in Poland
// Janusz Radziejowski (Institute of Spatial
Economics and Housing)
- Voluntary relocation of human settlements in the National
Park Sierra del Lacandón in Guatemala // John
Beavers (TNC
- Guatemala) |
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GROUP 3. Systems level planning, institutional options
and coordination.
Planning beyond boundaries of PAA: institutional coordination
and local communities participation.
- Planning and Managing at the ecoregional level: the Mesoamerican
Barrier Reef System // Noel Jacobs (Central
American Commission for Environment and Development)
- Building Capacity for Collaborative Land Use Planning and
Regulation around Protected Areas: A Comparative Analysis
from Mesoamerica // George Wallace (Colorado
State University)
- Building capacity for locally managed sustainable use in
Laotian biodiversity conservation areas // Latsamay
Sylavong, IUCN-Laos
- Land/Sea Use Planning and PAs as Regional Instruments for
Sustainability // Juan Bezaury (TNC) |
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GROUP 4. Human Resources and Institutional Management.
Session 3. The Role of Training Centres and Institutions
- Ten years of experience in training at the mediterranean
scale // Jean Jalbert , Directeur de la Conservation,
Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat
- The SE Asia Center for Marine Protected Areas // Rili
Djohani.
TNC
- A Centre for Ranger Training in South America //
Daniel Paz.
- The role of the Southern Africa Wildlife College in Protected
Area Management // Fanie Greyling, Executive Director
- Conservation Training And Resource Centre: New Approach
to Capacity Development on Conservation Management in Indonesia
// Sudibyo, Manager,
- The Wildlife Institute of India: a generation of conservation
training // B.C. Choudhury
- Training of Protected Areas Staff in Europe (TOPAS) //
Peter Townsend, & Rita de Stefano, Pangea
Institute |
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GROUP 5. Learning, skills development and training.
- Capacity Building for Collaborative Resource Management
in Eastern Africa // Christine Nantongo, Sejal Worah
and Phil Franks
- Capacity building at multiple levels. Sierra Gorda, Mexico
// Martha Ruiz Corzo
- Youth Initiatives in the Austrian National Parks //
Guenter Liebel. Ministry
of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water management
- Protected areas and institutional relationships //
Razeena Wagie |
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GROUP 6. Sustainable financing.
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GROUP 7. Developing capacity through networks.
- PalNet: Kishore Rao
- Micronesio. Audrey Newman
- Red Latinoamericana. Lorenzo Rosenweing
- Red Latinoamericana de Cooperación Técnica
en Parques Nacionales, otras Áreas Protegidas, Flora
y Fauna Silvestre. Carlos Castaño
- South America. Claudio Moretti
- Alianza para la capacitación en el trópico
Americano. Stanley Arguedas
- UICN Commisions- CEC
- ARCBC/ WH-UNESCO. Mike Appleton / Ishwaran Caribbean
- Marine PA CMPA Network. Lloyd Gardner
- Emmanuel Thevenin, Atelier technique de espaces naturels.
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Reports
from the thematic working groups of previous day and discussion
Coordinator: Kishore Rao (Vietnam - IUCN)
Rapporteur: David Gutierrez (Mexico)
Panel
Carlos Castaño (Colombia), Daan Vreugdenhil
(Netherlands), Moses Mapesa (Uganda), Jonh Hough
(UNDP), Effendy Sumardja (Indonesia) |
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Perspectives:
- Elements of a strategy and priority iniciatives for developing
the capacity to manage protected areas // Kishore
Rao
- Recommendations for the WPC // Moses Mapesa
- Recommendations to COP7 // David Gutierrez
Panel : Making it possible
WWF; TBC; TNC. TBC; CI. TBC; Italian Cooperation. Alfredo
Guillet; GTZ. TBC; GEF. Gonzalo Castro; CBD Secretariat. Jo
Mulongoy.
Closure: David Sheppard |
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Documents
Programme
of the Workshop Stream 4: Developing
the Capacity to Manage PAs -
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Seven
Workshop Streams will be conducted over 3 days
in workshop plenaries and smaller break out groups. Three
important areas have also been identified which cut across
the 7 workshop streams. The Cross
Cutting Themes will be expected to produce specific
Congress outputs. Congress participants who have a special
interest in these themes may follow an interest thread
throughout the programme.There is also a workshop
on Mountains which will be held before the Congress.
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