Permanent Stakeholder Engagement Process
Realizing the importance of involving all main stakeholders, a permanent stakeholder engagement process was established aiming to engage stakeholders who are currently not involved in the Reserve’s management and should be included to meet the new scale of actions suggested by the Reserve's CEM. Those stakeholders include amongst others, sugarcane mills, the General Secretariat for Planning, and local governments inside the watersheds.
The enabling factors have been:
- The effective scale of management for the protected area is known.
- Stakeholders affecting the area are identified.
- Willingness of protected area managers to engage stakeholders.
- Ability of the institution in charge of the protected area management to generate widespread interest amongst different stakeholders.
- Stakeholders are committed to participate actively in the process.
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High public awareness regarding the Reserve’s values (economic and non-economic).
Important stakeholders affecting the Reserve were left behind in the current governance scheme; therefore, the inclusion of new actors to match the new scale of actions is needed.