PoWPA Goal

Major Themes

Primary documents for developing curricula content

1.1

Ecological network

• Gap assessment
• Targets and indicators
• Assess governance types
• Fill gaps

1.1a Ecological gap assessment and targets and indicators

1. A landscape-based PA gap analysis and GIS tool for conservation planning.pdf
2. Conducting a Marine Gap Assessment Quick Guide.pdf
3. Planning for representative MPAs.pdf
4. Closing the Gap.pdf
5. Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas iucn.pdf
6. Natural Heritage GapTool: An Analytical Tool  (Ontario)
7. Ontario’s Approach to representing ecosystems in PA systems
8. Setting national biodiversity targets
9. Developing values, objectives, indicators and targets.pdf

1.1b Assessing governance types

1. Governance trends in protected areas.pdf
2. Governance as key for effective and equitable protected areas.pdf
3. Guidelines for applying protected area management categories

1.1c Filling gaps

1. Filling the Gaps Quick Guide.pdf
2. Establishing resilient marine protected areas.pdf
3. Establishing marine protected areas.pdf

1.2

PA Integration

• Corridors and connectivity
• Policy and sectoral integration

1.2a Corridors and connectivity

1. Making protected areas relevant: Guide to integrating PAs into wider landscapes
2. Assessing and creating linkages a quick guide.pdf
3. Review of experience with ecological networks.pdf
4. Biodiversity conservation corridors.pdf

1.2b Policy and sectoral integration

1. Integrating Protected Areas in economic development planning in Mekong.pdf
2. Making protected areas relevant: Guide to integrating PAs into wider landscapes
3. Step by step guide for implementing national adaptation programmes of action
4. The Continuum Project catalogue of all possible measures to improve connectivity

1.3

Transboundary areas

• Regional networks
• Transboundary protected areas

1. Beyond Boundaries transboundary natural resource management.pdf
2. Transboundary protected areas for peace and cooperation.pdf
3. Establishing resilient MPA networks.pdf
4. Security Considerations in the planning of TBCAs.pdf

1.4

Management and planning

• Develop management plans
• Ensure effective management
• Integrate climate change measures

1.4a Management planning and practice

1. Best Practice in PA Management Planning.pdf
2. Guidelines for developing a management plan for CBOs.pdf
3. Guidelines for management planning of protected areas IUCN.pdf
4. Target-based management planning.doc
5. Managing MPAs a toolkit
6. USFS Guide to protected area management planning in Central Africa
7. Uluru-Kata National Park Management Plan.pdf
8. Sacred natural sites guidelines for PA managers.pdf
9. Ontario Protected Areas Planning Manual, 2009
10. Ontario Background Information to Protected Area Planning Guide
11. Decision-making model for assessing PA proposals.pdf
12. Determining planning and management priorities.pdf
13. Agulhas National Park Management Plan.pdf
14. Coordinated policy framework governing park management plans.pdf

1.4b Integrate climate change measures

1. Coral reef resilience and resistance to coral bleaching.pdf
2. Establishing resilient marine protected areas.pdf
3. Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies.pdf
4. No Place to Hide effects of climate change on protected areas.pdf
5. Methods and Tools for Assessing the Vulnerability of Forests and People to Climate Change.pdf
6. Climate scenarios what we need to know and how to generate them.pdf
7. Climate change adaptation planning for park managers.pdf
8. Buying time a user’s manual to resistance and resilience
9. Voluntary Guidance for States to Incorporate Climate Change into State Wildlife Action Plans (50MB)
10. Protected Areas: Buffering nature against climate change
11. Parks Australia Climate Change Strategic Overview 2009 – 2014
12. Coral Reef Resilience Assessment of the Nosy Hara MPA.pdf
13. Securing protected areas in the face of global change.pdf
14. Working with nature to tackle climate change

1.5

PA threats

• Environmental impact assessments
• Restoration
• Threat assessment
• Key threats: Invasive alien species, exploitation

1.5a Threat assessment, environmental impact assessments and invasive species

1. Assessing threats in conservation planning and management.pdf
2. IUCN CMP threats taxonomy.pdf
3. Mapping and assessment of protected areas and broad-scale threats.pdf
4. Towards a framework for conducting ecoregional threats assessments.pdf
5. Methods and Tools for Assessing the Vulnerability of Forests and People to Climate Change.pdf
6. Assessing and managing invasive species in protected areas.pdf
7. An ounce of prevention.pdf
8. Biodiversity in EIA – SEA.pdf
9. A class environmental assessment for provincial parks.pdf

1.5b Restoration

1. Principles and guidelines for ecological restoration in Canada’s protected areas.pdf
2. Guidelines for developing and managing ecological restoration projects.pdf

2.1

Equity and benefit sharing

• Cost benefit assessment
• Promote innovative governance types
• Equitable benefits, access

1. Biodiversity access and benefit-sharing policies for PAs.pdf
2. Governance as key for effective and equitable PA systems.pdf
3. The Costs and Benefits of Forest Protected Areas for Local Livelihoods.pdf
4. governance indicators of MPA PAME.pdf
5. Equitable sharing of the benefits and costs generated by PAs.pdf
6. Safety Net Protected Areas and poverty reduction.pdf
7. Sustainable Livelihoods Enhancement and Diversification.pdf

2.2

Participation

• Participation

1. Guide to Participatory Planning of coastal marine areas.pdf
2. Practice Pointers in Participatory Planning.pdf
3. Principles of Participation and Co-Management.pdf
4. A Guide to teaching Participatory Approaches.pdf
5. Indigenous and traditional peoples.pdf
6. Indigenous and Local Communities and PAs.pdf
7. Casting for conservation actors.pdf
8. Stakeholder participation in support of developing and implementing.pdf

3.1

Enabling environment

• Assess PA values
• Assess policy environment
• Assess and promote governance principles
• Incentives
• Legal frameworks

3.1a PA Values and benefits

1. Valuing Protected areas.pdf
2. The value of nature.pdf
3. Valuing nature — assessing protected area benefits quick guide.pdf
4. Valuing nature why protected areas matter.pdf
5. Assessing the economic value of ecosystem conservation.pdf
6. Economic values of protected areas guidelines for PA managers.pdf
7. Protected area benefits tool.pdf
8. Case Studies Illustrating the Socio-Economic Benefits of Ecological Networks
9. Protected areas in today’s world: Their Values and Benefits for the Welfare of the Planet
10. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
11. Natural Solutions

3.1b Policy environment

1. Policy agenda for protected area management.pdf
2. RAPPAM in English.pdf
3. Environmental Fiscal Reform.pdf

3.1c Governance principles

1. Master Planning Quick Guide.pdf
2. Governance trends in protected areas.pdf
3. Governance as key for effective and equitable protected areas.pdf

3.1d Incentives

1. Using economic incentives for biodiversity conservation.pdf
2. Proposals for the design and implementation of incentive measures.pdf
3. Deadly subsidies.pdf
4. Ten steps to create private reserves.pdf
5. Community-based incentives for nature conservation.pdf
6. Paying for results direct incentives.pdf
7. New tools for marine conservation leasing of submerged lands.pdf

3.1e Legal frameworks

1. Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas.pdf
2. Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
3. Policy, legal and administrative frameworks for Belize

3.2

Capacity

• Assess capacity needs
• Improve sustainable finance capacity

1. Capacity Action Planning Quick Guide.pdf
2. Capacity building for PAs in Grenada.pdf
3. Competence standards for PA jobs – SE Asia.pdf
4. Jamaica PAME and capacity report.doc
5. Strengthening capacity in Namibia.pdf
6. National Capacity Self Assessment.pdf
7. Biodiversity Conservation Capacity Building in Egypt
8. NCS Training Needs Assessment for Egypt
9. Ontario’s competency dictionary

3.3

Appropriate technology

• Assess need for relevant technology
• Use of appropriate technology

1. Geospatial Technologies for Wildlife Enforcement in Protected Areas.pdf

3.4

Financial sustainability

• Sustainable finance assessment, plans
• Integration of PAs into development plans
• Business planning

3.4a Finance assessment, finance planning, business planning

1. An analysis of the financial needs of Ecuador PAs.pdf
2. Business oriented financial planning.pdf
3. Financial Scorecard.pdf
4. Financing Protected Areas guidelines for PA managers.pdf
5. Mesoamerican reef financing.pdf
6. Sustainable finance global review.pdf
7. Environmental Fiscal Reform.pdf
8. Fundraising guidelines.pdf
9. Sustainable finance sources for PAs in the Mediterranean.pdf
10. Business Planning for Protected Areas Curriculum (getting link soon)
11. Wadi El Rayan Business Plan for Protected Areas.pdf

3.4b Payments for ecosystems services, REDD funding

1. Negotiating for Nature’s Services – payment for ecosystem services
2. Payments for environmental services some nuts and bolts
3. Payments for ecosystem services market profiles
4. State of voluntary carbon markets 2007
5. Promoting Transformations by Linking Nature, Wealth and Power.pdf
6. Emerging REDD+ A preliminary survey of demonstration and readiness activities.pdf
7. New Finance for Climate Change and the Environment.pdf

3.5

Education and awareness

• Education and awareness strategies
• School curricula

1. Protected Areas Education Themes in the Caribbean 2009-1.pdf
2. Communication, Education and Public Awareness in Protected Areas in W. Asia and N. Africa
3. Outreach strategies (WCS Powerpoint)
4. Information, Education and Communication Plan for Wadi El Rayan Park

4.1

Minimum standards

• Develop voluntary PA standards and best practices
• Adaptive management

1. Adaptive Management A tool for conservation.pdf
2. Anticipating change scenarios as a tool for adaptive management

4.2

Management effectiveness

• Assess PA management effectiveness
• Implement key recommendations

1. Evaluating effectiveness Framework.pdf
2. METT2 final version-July 2007-English.pdf
3. State of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.pdf
4. State of Wadi El Rayan Protected Area.pdf
5. RAPPAM in English.pdf
6. Protected Area Management Effectiveness Quick Guide.pdf
7. Manual for the Rapid Evaluation of MPA PAME of Mesoamerica.pdf
8. Fathom Five state of the parks report canada.pdf
9. How is your MPA doing
10. Management effectiveness evaluation in PAs a global study
11. Management effectiveness assessment of Egypt’s PA system

4.3

Monitoring

• Monitor status and trends

1. Allocating resources between taking action, assessing status, measuring.pdf
2. Guidelines for biodiversity assessment and monitoring for PAs.pdf
3. Measuring Our Effectiveness WCS technical brief.pdf
4. Sourcebook on remote sensing and biodiversity indicators.pdf
5. Core concepts in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects.pdf
6. Monitoring Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas.pdf

4.4

Research

• Improve research and scientific knowledge

1. See South African National Parks Website
2. Coordinating Research and Management to Enhance Protected Areas (getting pdf soon)
3. Research strategy for Ontario Parks

Implementing Programme of Work on Protected Areas

• PoWPA Implementation
• PA system master plan

PoWPA Implementation

1. Towards effective protected area systems an action plan
2. Management committees in protected areas.pdf

PA system master plan

1. California MPA master plan.pdf
2. master planning ERVIN cpd.ppt
3. Master Plan for Queensland’s Parks System.pdf
4. Belize protected area system assessment.pdf
5. Master Planning Quick Guide.pdf