In order to support protected area planning and decision making, BIOPAMA is providing and assessing tools that respond to the specific requests in data collection, information management, protected area management effectiveness, governance and social assessments and others. At the end of this training, participants will have sufficient knowledge and skills to present IMET to their organization to decide whether or not they would like further IMET coach training in order to institutionalize IMET and roll out IMET assessments across their protected and conserved area network.

The objectives of the training workshop are to:

1. Demonstrate what IMET is, how it works and how it is different from other tools;
2. Provide an understanding of the six elements of the framework for assessing the management effectiveness of protected areas namely: context, planning, inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes and impacts; and how these are incorporated into the IMET;
3. Provide information on assessment, monitoring and planning and decision making in the management of protected areas;
4. Discuss the capacity, skills and funding required to implement IMET at an institutional and site level;
5. Provide an understanding of the use of IMET at the protected area level but also at the landscape and/or national level.

Training resources:

• The workshop report

• Agenda (IMET training syllabus)

• Logistic Note

• IMET brochure

• Leonidas success story

• Bertille success story

• The  management effectiveness evaluation framework (IUCN)

• Results of the evaluation test (beginning of the training)

• Results of the evaluation test (end of the training)

• Responses: the next steps survey; The next steps survey: the automatic report

• Photo album: the workshop in images

Presentations:

• Introduction to BIOPAMA, day 1

• Session 1: Protected Areas Management Effectiveness

• Session 2: Exploring IMET

• Session 3: Context of intervention

• Session 4: Evaluating the management effectiveness

• Session 5: Analysis of IMET results

• Session 6: Use of IMET results – the case of Burundi

• Session 7: IMET and other tools and standards

• Session 8: Organization of an IMET assessment – general information

• Session 8: Organization of an IMET assessment – West Africa experience

• Session 9 –Regional Resource Hub and its Reference Information System 

• Session 10: BIOPAMA Action Component