The global workshop on how to enable and measure improved performance in protected and conserved areas is generously supported by the EU-ACP funded BIOPAMA Programme and it will be convened by IUCN with technical support from IUCN and the Joint Research Centre JRC. Participants will develop guidance and recommended actions to support fairer and more effective protected and conserved areas.

Workshop objectives, themes and expected outputs:

The goal of the workshop is: to provide guidance on how to help measure and enhance the performance of protected and conserved area sites and systems through the available standards, evaluation methodologies, and assessment toolkits.

Specific objectives:

1. Standards and principles: to understand success in protected and conserved areas and to discuss a common approach and principles for assessments relating to:
   1. Good Governance
   2. Design, priority-setting and planning for key values
   3. Management Effectiveness
   4. Successful Conservation Outcomes
2. Practice: to develop recommendations for structuring, collecting and maintaining the data from specific protected and conserved area assessment toolkits, and from other relevant sources
   1. Management Effectiveness Assessment
   2. Governance Assessment.
3. Monitoring and metrics: to recommend how to incentivize and improve monitoring of status, trends and conservation outcomes in protected and conserved areas and to discuss how to present and track their status for effective decision-making at protected area level and for upscaling to higher levels (e.g. national, regional, global).
4. Data management: to better be able to promote reference information systems and improved data management and integration to aid adaptive decision-making.
5. Incentives: how to motivate uptake of standards and assessment methodologies, and use the results to secure political will and unlock transformational change.

All the workshop resources will be available on this page.

Workshop materials:

• Workshop report (with “The View from Gran Paradiso” annexed)

• The View from Gran Paradiso

• Concept and agenda of the workshop

• Logistics note for the participants

• NEWS article: Global experts set the path for fair and effective protected areas in Gran Paradiso

• PHOTO ALBUM

Day 1, 24 June 2019:

• Achieving Fair and Effective Protected Areas – introduction by Grand Paradis Foundation

• The Gran Paradiso National Park – a brief overview

• Keynote address by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

• Keynote address by IUCN

• Keynote address: the contribution of BIOPAMA to regional and global biodiversity and protected area targets

• PANORAMA introduction

Day 2, 25 June 2019

• The IUCN Green List

• IMET: overview and case study

• Case Study from Jordan: Ajloun Forest Reserve

• Governance and equity assessment in the context of Protected and Conserved Areas

• Protected areas governance assessment experience in Colombia: Key learnings from a territory approach

• Principles and best practices in PAME assessments

• Conditions for protected area effectiveness

Day 3, 26 June 2019

• Draft IUCN Congress resolution

Day 4, 27 June 2019

• L’Observatoire des Forêts d’Afrique Centrale

• BIOPAMA data management

• Protected areas framework analysis: IMET

Day 5, 18 June 2019

• The BIOPAMA action component

• Results: governance and equity

• Results: Green List

• Results: IMET

• Results: monitoring and metrics

• Results: PAME

• The view from Gran Paradiso

• The view from Gran Paradiso (word version 1)

More pictures from the workshop here