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

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"NEW WAYS OF WORKING TOGETHER"

WORKSHOP STREAM 3

Australia Women Photo: Gonzalo Oviedo

Governance of Protected Areas

Report of the Workshop

The workshop stream on PA governance aimed to review different PA governance models, discuss key governance issues, evaluate good governance, and provide guidance for decision makers in the future. Participants addressed a range of issues, including: international designation and global governance; high seas governance; customary law; regional lessons learned in PA governance; CCAs; mobile peoples and conservation; transboundary PAs; NGOs and PA governance; private PAs; the role of legal frameworks in globalization and decentralization; co-managed PAs; integrating MPA management with coastal and ocean governance; the role of MPAs in sustainable fisheries; community empowerment; and large-scale governance systems.

Synthesis sessions were held on good PA governance, governance types, communities, equity and PAs, and Congress Outputs.

Participants noted the importance of: community participation; benefit sharing; transparency and accountability; embracing governance diversity; building partnerships; empowering people; adapting to change; and filling the gaps with privately owned, community conserved, and co-managed PAs.

Three recommendations were adopted on: a global network to support the development of transboundary conservation initiatives; good governance of PAs; and recognizing and supporting the diversity of governance types for PAs.

New Ways of Working Together Future Brief - PDF Document

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Stream Focus

Stream explored governance principles and exemplars of governance types. It will examine:

- History, culture and conservation -
Leads:
Ashish Kothari and Ken MacDonald
- Institutional change and conservation
Lead:
Janis Alcorn
- Principles of good governance
Lead: Bruce Amos
- Governance-related innovation in the IUCN PA category system
Lead:
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend
- Governance and international conservation labels (World Heritage, biosphere reserve, Ramsar, etc.)
Lead:
Jim Johnston
- Regional perspectives on governance
Lead:
Anada Tiega
- Community conserved areas and co-managed protected areas
Leads: Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend , Neema Pathak, Gonzalo Oviedo and Alejandro Argumedo
- Mobile communities and conservation
Leads:
Maryam Niamir Fuller and Taghi Farvar
- Governance and trans-boundary Pas
Lead:
Trevor Sandwith
Governance and Urban PAs
Lead:
James Barborak

The stream produced specific recommendations on community conserved areas

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Programme

New Ways of Working Toghether
Leads: Jim Johnston & Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend

Thursday 11 // Friday 12 // Saturday 13

Time // Place
09:00-09:30
HALL 3B

Plenary
Chair:
Aroha Mead, IUCN Councilor (TBC)
Keynote Speaker:
Klaus Toepfer, UNEP (TBC)

09:30-11:00
HALL 3B
Plenary:
Panel 1.1 Introductory Presentations

- Historical Perspectives on Conservation, Ashish Kothari (India)
- Current Global Changes affecting PA Governance, Janis Alcorn (USA)
- Principles of Good Governance, Bruce Amos, (Canada) // PowerPoint
- Governance types of protected areas, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend (Italy)
11:00-12:00
HALL 3B
Plenary:
Session 1.2 Four exemplars of internationally significant cases:

1. Community Conserved Area - Medha Lekha (India), Tofa Devaji and Hirabai Hiralal Mohan
2. Indigenous PA as part of National System - Alto Fragua-Indiwasi (Colombia), Mario Jacanamijoy, Ignacio Giraldo, and Juan Carlos Riascos.
12:15-14:00
HALL 3B
Luncheon & Book Launching
- On World Heritage (Jim Thorsell)
- On governance principles of PAs (Bruce Amos)
- On communities, equity and conservation in Southern Africa including the - - Pretoria declaration (Webster Whande and Kule Chitepo)
- The Kompienga report (Jean-Marc Garreau, Lassané Ouedraogo, Tom Price)
- The Solidar book on communities, equity and pas in Central America (Vivienne Solis and Patricia Madrigal)
14:00-15:30
HALL 3B

Plenary: Session 1.2 Four exemplars of internationally significant cases: (Continued)
1. National Park Co-managed with Indigenous People - Nunavut (Canada), Nancy Anilniliak and Elizabeth Seale
2. Land restitution and co-management - Makuleke (South Africa), Livingston Makuleke and Dennis Skhalela

14:00-17:00
ROOM 3A-6
Panel 1.4 International Designations and Global Governance
Chair: Albert Mumma,
Overview:
Michael Jeffery, (IUCN- CEL)
Panellists: Alain Lambert, (Ramsar Convention), Jo Mulongoy, (CBD), Jane Robertson (MAB), Sarah Titchen (WH)
14:00-17:00
ROOM 3A-7
Panel 1.5 On Governance of the High Seas
Chair:
Graeme Kelleher
Presenters: Carl Lundin, (IUCN) Alex Rogers (UK), Tomme Rosanne Young (IUCN), Charlotte Breide (WWF), Philip Burgess (Australia), Donna Petrachenko (Canada), Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara (Italy), Henning von Nordheim (Germany), Alan Hemmings (New Zealand), Simon Cripps (WWF), Kristina M. Gjerde (IUCN)
15:30-17:30
HALL 3B
Panel 1.3 (Plenary)- Regional Lessons Learned in Protected Areas Governance
Chairs
: Vivienne Solis (Costa Rica) and Webster Whande (South Africa)
Panelists:
Lassané OUEDRAOGO (Burkina Faso); Gonzalo OVIEDO (South America); Chedley RAIS (Tunisia/ Mediterranean region); Dave DE VERA (The Philippines-TBC); Claudio CARRERA MARETTI (Brazil); Chimère DIAW (Central Africa)
18:00-19:30
DEC Stage
Theatre Performance
An original theatre piece produced by the renowned SEKA Malambo Drama Group of Zambia, illustrating key PA governance issues from the perspective of a real African community
09:00-12:00
HALL 3B
Session 2.1. On territories and resources conserved by indigenous and local communities (Community Conserved Areas-CCAs):
Panel A: Issues of governance and state recognition
Chairs: Neema PATHAK (India) and Bonifacio BARRIENTOS (Bolivia) TBC Presentations on key cases from Australia (John Chester and Chels Marshall), Pakistan (Inayat Ali) and the Philippines (Rodolfo Aguilar and Dave De Vera).
Panel B: Issues of livelihoods, agro-biodiversity and landscape conservation.
Co-Chairs: Jon HUTTON (UK) and Alejandro ARGUMEDO (Peru)
Presentations on key cases from Mexico (Roman Aquino and Sergio Garcia), Guinea Bissau (Augusta Henriquez), Namibia (Jan Rhyn and Brian Jones) and Peru (Alejandro Argumendo).
09:00-12:00
ROOM 3A-6
Session 2.2 Mobile peoples and conservation (in association with Stream 1, where the session will begin on 11.9)
Chairs: Maryam Niamir-Fuller (USA) and Taghi Farvar (Iran)
Panel on territories and resources traditionally conserved by mobile peoples: constraints and viability and relationships with state-managed PAs Presentations on key cases from Morocco, Mongolia, Iran, India, Burkina, Jordan, Ecuador, Senegal and Ethiopia.
09:00-12:00
ROOM 3A-7
Session 2.3 Trans-boundary PAs
Legal and Institutional Arrangements for Trans-boundary Conservation, International Agreements and Protocols, and Peace issues.
Panel A: Current Perspectives of TBPAs
Chair: Alfredo Guillet (Italy) -
Pannelist: Trevor Sandwith (South Africa), Harry van der Linde (South Africa), Gianfranco Tamburelli (Italy), William Wolmer (UK). Panel B: Local (community) perspectives
Chair: Kishore Rao (India)
Pannelist: Floors Strauss (Namibia), Amos Mdluli (South Africa), Sebastian Maluleke (Mozambique) and Chief Mhinga (South Africa), Sheila Abed (Paraguay), Francis Auld (United States)
09:00-12:00
ROOM 3A-8
Session 2.4 Non-governmental organizations and Protected Areas Governance
Chairs: Janis Alcorn (USA) and David Rothschild (USA)
Panel discussion of issues, opportunities and recommendations by experts from Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
09:00-12:00
ROOM 3A-9
Session 2.5 Protected Areas Managed by Private Landowners
Chairs: Jeff Langholz and Wolf Krug
How effective are privately owned PAs at protecting biodiversity? Presentations on private protected areas' ecological implications by Penelope Figgis, (Australia), Carlos Chacon (Costa Rica), Carlos Mesquita ( Brazil), Peter Anderson, (South Africa).
Presentations:
- Legal Tools & Incentives for Private Lands Conservation in Latin America: Building Models for Success
09:00-12:30
ROOM 3A-10
Session 2.6 Globalization and decentralization: the role of legal frameworkss
Chair: John Scanlon (Australia)
Presentations on legal aspects of governance from 6 differing represented nations with a panel discussion including Nicholas Robinson,(USA), Robyn Stein, (South Africa), Maria Socorro Manguiat, Philippines, Pedro Sloan (Peru) , Grethel Aguilar Rojas, (Costa Rica), Antonio Herman Benjamin (Brazil)
- An International Legal Regime for Protected Areas
- An International Legal Regime for Protected Areas - Section 2
- An International Legal Regime for Protected Areas - Section 3
- An International Legal Regime for Protected Areas - Section 4
- Gouvernance environnementale internationale : Un régime juridique international pour les aires protégées
- Gobernanza Ambiental a Nivel Internacional : Un régimen jurídico internacional para las áreas protegidas
12:15-14:00
HALL 3B
Luncheon & Book Launching
- Special issue of Policy Matters on Community Conserved Areas and Co-managed PAs (Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Gonzalo Oviedo, Chimère Diaw, Diane Pansky)
- Evaluating Governance: Participatory Assessment Tool (Peter Abrams, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Julia Gardner, Pippa Heylings)
- Book prepared by the Southern Africa Sustainable Use Specialist Group (Brian Child, Jon Hutton)
- Book Launch of "Transboundary Protected Areas: the viability of regional conservation strategies" (Marc Stern)
14:00-17:30
HALL 3B

Session 2.1 On territories and resources conserved in partnership with indigenous and local communities (Co-managed Protected Areas-- CMPAs):
Panel C: from conflict to collaboration
Chairs:
Gonzalo OVIEDO (Ecuador) and Arthur MUGISHA (Uganda)
Presentations on key cases from Uganda (Jackson Mutebi), Indonesia (Martin Labo) and Ecuador (Mario Piu).
Panel D: social, institutional and environmental linkages.
Chairs : Claudio CARRERA MARETTI (Brazil) and Fabio RENZI (Italy)
Presentations on key cases from Rumania // Pres2 (Erika Stanciu), United Kingdom (Andrew Wilson) and France (Jacques Fournier and J.P. Fuchs).

14:00-17:30
ROOM 3A-6
Session 2.2 Mobile peoples and conservation
Chairs: Maryam Niamir-Fuller and Taghi Farvar (Iran)
Working groups and finalisation of an action plan on Mobile Peoples and Conservation, responding to the Dana declaration of 2002
14:00-17:30
ROOM 3A-7
Session 2.3 Transboundary PAs
Panel C Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation

Chair: Trevor Sandwith -
Pannel: Gerardo Budowski (Costa Rica), Annette Lanjouw (Kenya), Srdjan Marincic (Serbia), Giuliano Tallone (Italy), Krishna Oli (Nepal), Carlos Ponce (Peru)
Panel D Transboundary Impact Measurement, Evaluation, Certification
Chair:
Annette Lanjouw
Pannel: Conrad Steenkamp (South Africa), Charles Besancon (USA), Anne Hammill (Canada), Manuel Ramirez (Spain), Helen Suich (Namibia), Belinda Reyers (South Africa)
14:00-17:00
ROOM 3A-8
Session 2.4 Non-governmental organizations and Protected Areas Governance
Co-chairs:
Janis Alcorn and David Rothschild (USA)
Small group discussions of issues, opportunities and recommendations.
14:00-17:00
ROOM 3A-9
Session 2.5 Protected Areas Managed by Private Landowners
Co-chairs:
Jeff Langholz and Wolf Krug
Overcoming legal and political obstacles to privately owned protected areas.
Pannel: Byron Swift, (USA), Brent Mitchell, (USA) and Ladislav Patcek, (Czech Republic), Pedro Solano, (Peru), Sacha Cook, (UK), John Waithaka (Kenya)
14:00-17:00
ROOM 2FE-1
The Role of MPAs in sustainable fisheries
Co-chairs:
Wendy Craik (Australia) & Rokhim Dahuri (Indonesia)
14:00-18:30
ROOM 3A-10
Session 2.7 The Governance Requirements of Coastal and Marine protected areas
Co-chairs:
Magnus Ngoile (Tanzania) and Charles Ehler
Presentations: Charles Ehler (USA), Biliana Cicin-Sain (USA), Magnus Ngoile (Tanzania), Lisa Eisma (Philippines), Margo Jackson (USA)
Discussion Panel: Virginia Chadwick (Australia), Mary Powers (SPREP), Dr. Moustafa Fouda (Egypt), Jens Enemark (Germany)
17:30 -18:30: HALL 3B // Informal Discussions with Marine Participants on Session Outcomes
Saturday 13
09:00-12:30 // 14:00-17:30
09:00-12:30
HALL 3B
Session 3.1 Community Empowerment for Conservation (in association with Streams 1 and 2)
Panel on Key conditions for effective community conservation: issues of culture, rights, legislation, policy, and capacities
Chairs: Fergus Mc Kay (New Zealand) and Taghi Farvar (Iran)
- Decentralization processes and recognition of indigenous territories by Maria Fernanda ESPINOSA (Ecuador)
- The end of forced resettlements for conservation? by Kai SCHMIDT-SOLTAU (Germany)
- Devolving power-Why? How? To whom? by Marshall MURPHREE (Zimbabwe)
// Power Point Presentation // Abstract Paper
- Equity at the heart of conservation by Madhu SARIN (India)
Conservation, cultural identity and overall human rights by Juan MAYR MALDONADO (Colombia)
Panel on synthesis of sessions on community conserved areas, co-managed-protected areas, mobile communities and conservation (with Stream 1) and poverty and protected areas (Stream 2)
Co-Chairs: Juan Mayr Maldonado (Colombia) and Michel Pimbert (Europe)
09:00-12:30
ROOM 3A-6
Session 3.2 Large Scale Governance Structures and Systems
Chair: Tom Lee (Canada)
Plenary session on trends in protected area governance, followed by three panels to investigate innovative governance by PA organizations in the 'North" and 'South', as well as innovative "Regional' arrangements
Presenters: P Dearden (Canada), V. Stepanitsky (Russia), J. Casas (Spain), US Wildlife Refuge System (TBA), Michonne M. van Rees (Australia), S. Chettamart, (Thailand), D Mason, (Bolivia), A. Vanzella-Khouri; (Jamaica), J Pagnan (Canada), M. Mtsambiwa (Zimbabwe) .
09:00-12:30
ROOM 3A-7
(Continued) Session 2.3 Trans-boundary PAs
Chair: Trevor Sandwith
Charles Besancon (USA), Willem van Riet (South Africa), Paul Hotham (UK), Eva Pongratz (Germany) followed by Perspectives and commitments to a global programme - short interventions by key organisations including Peace Parks Foundation, Conservation International, WWF, USAID, World Bank, United Nations University for Peace, etc.
09:00-12:30
ROOM 3A-9
(Continued) Session 2.5 Protected Areas Managed by Private Landowners
Chairs: Jeff Langholz and Wolf Krug
Social and Economic Issues Surrounding protected areass Owned by Private Landowners
Presenters Juan Jose Dada, (Costa Rica) Wolf Krug (UK),Lourdes Peñuela (Colombia), James MacGregor (UK) Input into "Privately Owned PA Action Plan"
12:15-14:00
HALL 3B
Luncheon & Book Launching
- Innovative Legislation book (Hanna Jaireth and Dermot Smyth)
- A special issue of PARKS on Partnerships in Africa (Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend and Trevor Sandwith)
- CEESP/IIED Book: Sharing Power: Learning by Doing in Co-management of Natural Resources throughout the World. (Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Michel Pimbert, Taghi Farvar, Ashish Kothari)
- The Guidelines on Indigenous and Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas (Aroha Mead)
14:00-16:30

SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP 3.3 Good Governance of Protected Areas -
ROOM 3A-6
Co-chairs: Bruce AMOS and Madhu SARIN:
The session will finalise discussion on the Principles of Good Governance and possibly work on a Charter on Governance to be diffused at the Congress and beyond. The final version of the WPC recommendation on principles of good governance for PAs will be discussed here.

SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP 3.4 Governance Types: a new Dimension for the classification of PAs - ROOM 3A-7
Co-chairs: Adrian PHILLIPS, and Grazia BORRINI-FEYERABEND.
The session will finalise discussion on a typology of governance for protected areas and produce the final versions of the recommendation for the recognition and legitimisation of innovative governance types, the recommendation on community conserved areas and the recommendation on co-managed protected areas.

SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP 3.5 Indigenous and Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas - HALL 3B
Co-chairs: Aroha MEAD and Alejandro ARGUMEDO
The session will gather comments towards the final version of a volume of Guidelines on the subject to be published and distributed shortly after the WPC. The WPC recommendation on indigenous peoples and protected areas will also be discussed in this workshop.

SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP 3.6 Improving PA governance: the role of the Durban Accord and Action Plan. - ROOM 3A-8
Co-chairs: Taghi Farvar and Tom Lee.
this session will synthesize the governance stream inputs for the Durban Accord & Action Plan.

SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP 3.7 Recommendations for the CBD & strategic direction towards the World Conservation Congress of 2004. - ROOM 3A-9
Co-chairs: Jim JOHNSTON and Juan MAYR.
This session will synthesize inputs for improving PA governance as part of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the IUCN programme to be discussed at the World Conservation Congress of 2004.

SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP 3.8 Recommendation and action for mobile peoples and conservation - ROOM 3A-10
Co-chairs: Maryam NIAMIR-FULLER and Dawn CHATTY
This session will identify appropriate follow up to the action plan developed in the stream and finalise the recommendation on mobile peoples and conservation

16:30-18:00
HALL 3B
Plenary Session 3.9 Overall synthesis of the stream's results
Co-chairs: Jim Johnston and Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend.
Approval of the relevant recommendations by the stream participants and closing of the stream's work.
18:00-19:30
DEC Stage
Theatre Performance
An original theatre piece produced by the renowned SEKA Malambo Drama Group of Zambia, illustrating key PA governance issues from the perspective of a real African community.

More information about the Stream 3 in the TILCEPA website:
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/Wkg_grp/TILCEPA/WPC.htm

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Documents

Programme of the Workshop Stream 3: New Ways of Working Together -
PDF Document - 224KB

Agenda of the Joint Panel in Streams 1 & 3: The Role of Communities in sustaining Linkages in the Landscape and Seascape, (Thursday 11 September 2003) -
PDF Document - 104KB

Workshop Stream 3 // Parallel Workshop 2.3: Transboundary PAs
PDF Document - 112KB

Workshop Stream 3 // Parallel Workshop 2.6: Governance and Law
PDF Document - 112KB

Workshop Stream 3: Session 3.1 - 13/09/03 - Devolving power-Why? How? To whom? by Marshall MURPHREE (Zimbabwe) // Power Point Presentation // Abstract Paper

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Short course related to this stream

How to conduct a participatory evaluation of protected area governance.

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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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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.
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