WP 9: 1st Planning meeting summary

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WP 9 1st Planning meeting summary
Fundación Malpelo

• Clarification between WP members of common
  objectives
• Workshop planning and logistics with time-line
• Planning for deliverables and publications
• Next steps

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Refining objectives

• 1. Fundamental definitions, concepts and
  development of adaptive management mechanisms for
  marine eco-tourism (criteria).
• Determine marine tourism activities that favour
  conservation criteria and generate socio-economic
  alternatives.
• To determine the most appropriate criteria for
  evaluating the effects of marine ecotourism
  practices in reserves (carrying capacity and/or
  LAC)
• Development and testing of these models with
  appropriately designed and defined indicator
  categories
• Elaborate and implement efficient,
  cost-effective monitoring and evaluation
  protocols (integrating biophysical,
  socio-economic, user perceptions and governance
  metadata)
• 2. Explore cost benefit and reciprocation
  mechanisms wrt conservation values - with more
  emphasis upon social and economic
  interdependencies.
• Develop and evaluate mechanisms to mitigate
  negative impacts, encourage positive impacts and
  examine interdependencies
• Assess human impacts on biological communities
  at specific case study sites and the implications
  of environmental variability (ENSO, PDO, global
  warming etc) upon sustainable business practices
  in the Equatorial Pacific.
• 3. Application, outreach and constructing
  sustainable management frameworks

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Workshop schedule (and agreement in presented
work plan)

• Workshop 1 CONCEPT AND ORIENTATION CREATING
  ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS FOR ECOTOURISM
• (Site TBD Colombia January 2006) Suggestions
• Planning and discussion forum (a) to share WP
  member and MPA stakeholder experiences (b)
  develop WP strategy, definitions and fundamental
  concepts (i.e. Management model definitions (LAC
  vs. Carrying Capacity)) (c) evaluate existing
  indicators and monitoring methods (d) design
  candidate indicators (transversal and specific
  for WP MPA case studies) (e) design monitoring
  approach/ protocols.
• Workshop 2 EVALUATION, COST/BENEFIT AND
  RECIPROCATION MECHANISMS TOWARDS CONSERVATION
  VALUES
• (Galapagos, Ecuador, November 2006) Suggestions
• Evaluation forum (a) share WP member progress
  and lessons learned, revisit conceptual questions
  to evaluate and modify indicators and monitoring
  methods if necessary, (b) integration of WP
  criteria and data between other INCOFISH WPs
  (1,5,8 etc).
• Discussion forum (b) cost benefit analysis of
  reciprocation of ecotourism and conservation
  initiatives to ensure sustainable ecosystems,
  coastal marine interactions (c) develop
  strategies to integrate WP recommendations into
  decision making processes within MPAs (eg.
  Participatory forums, conservation initiatives
  within the tourism sector)
• Discussion forum (d) how might we implement
  long term improvements in sector group
  perceptions w.r.t sustainable activities?
• Workshop 3 MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND FUTURE STEPS
• (Machalilla, Ecuador Sept 2007) Suggestions
• Plenary (a) integrating technical
  recommendations into management processes (b)
  summary of WP advances (c) strategies to develop
  WP objectives beyond the life of the project
• Work groups (c) continuation of publications and
  diffusion of project results

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Planning for deliverables and publications
Suggested Topics

• Concept MS with global perspective and summaries/
  comparisons between case reserves.
• Participatory processes for developing indicators
  with stakeholders.
• User perceptions and socio-economic
  considerations
• Outreach materials for Reserve managers and local
  communities etc.

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WP 9 Work Plan
Project task Months
Start-up, Creation of a shared literature base historical data and literature review between WP members, Presentation of WP goals with local MPA administrators and stakeholders. 3 - 7
Workshop 1 (Site TBD, Colombia) January 2006) CONCEPT AND ORIENTATION CREATING ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS FOR ECOTOURISM 9
Further integration of work package goals with local MPA administrators and stakeholders (strengthened links) local workshop sessions. Construct and maintain a web based Ecotourism discussion and feedback group through portal? Biophysical, socio-economic, user perception and governance data collection with MPA counterparts Data reduction and creation of local and WP data to WP1 Analysis first evaluation of marine ecotourism indicators for MPAs and monitoring methods 9 -18
Workshop 2 (Galapagos, Ecuador, November 2006). EVALUATION, COST/BENEFIT AND RECIPROCATION MECHANISMS TOWARDS CONSERVATION VALUES 18
Continued indicator data collection and assimilation. Identify, explore and where feasible apply, incentives and mechanisms to improve the contributions of tourism operations towards reciprocal sustainable ecotourism and conservation. On basis of indicator outputs design decision making tools for application by Marine Reserve Managers (interpretation) 18 - 29
Workshop 3 (Machalilla, Ecuador) Sept 2007) MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND FUTURE STEPS 29
Final dissemination of results to stakeholders, park administrators and academic community 30 - 33
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WP 9 Deliverables
D9.1 Month 10 DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA to determine the most appropriate management models and scope of ecotourism (Carrying capacity vs. LAC/VIM) for ecotourism in the 4 MPAs under study with global review of ecotourism activities outside of Equ. Pacific
D9.2 Month 25 INDICATORS, STANDARDS AND THRESHOLD VALUES used to monitor impact of ecotourism on selected MPAs
D9.3 Month 30 A RANGE OF ADEQUATE MANAGEMENT RESPONSES application and evaluation of ecotourism concepts, standards and indicators between WPs and MPA stakeholders and managers (focus)
D9.4 Transv. with deadline schedule SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMINATION TO STAKEHOLDER GROUPS Dissemination of results to stakeholders, park administrators and academic community. At least 5 publications submitted between WP members
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Milestones
Month Milestone
8 Model/s identified and concepts defined
9 Prototype indicators established
9 Presentation and exploration of work package goals with local MPA administrators and stakeholders
10 Monitoring protocols first applied in case study systems
18 Data formatted for integration into INCOFISH web-portal
21 Monitoring system/ Indicator evaluation and feedback process
10 - 33 Publication and diffusion to stakeholders, administrators and academic community (transversal activity)
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WP 9Time table
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
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WP 9 Partners and case study ecosystems

• Galapagos National Park Service (Ecuador)
• Direccion Nacional de Areas Protegidas y Vida
  Silvestre (Ecuador)
• Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia
• Invited experts (e.g. tourism reps, NGO experts,
  WP 8 member, process facilitators, local
  government etc.)
• Galapagos Marine Reserve (Ecuador)
• Machalilla National Park (Ecuador)
• Malpelo Sanctuary of Flora and Fauna (Colombia)
• Gorgona National Park (Colombia)

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Next steps and synergies.

• First meeting to explore the relative methods
  (LAC criteria etc) is tonight.
• First approach to stakeholders and managers upon
  return to host countries
• Still need to meet with WP 8 involvement in the
  second workshop more emphasis on socio-economic
  issues?
• Possible synergy with WP 6 development of
  decision making tools