The purpose of the reflection period and integration of project outcomes is to continually disseminate findings from this research to residents, businesses, government agencies, scientists, and other relevant decision-makers who are shaping the future of protected areas, those in the Denali region. In turn, the research team is building knowledge of how residents are discussing and reacting to pressures related to rapid social, economic, and landscape change, and this knowledge is being reported back to stakeholders. This cyclical process of co-creation is occurring throughout the project. The medium for reflection is taking a variety of forms, particularly through webinars, in-depth discussions with the local executive committee, and reports provided to decision-makers. The reflection period will culminate in a film about communities in the Denali region, as well as wrap-up workshops at the end of the project. These workshops are being framed as spaces for civic discovery whereby residents become aware of the diverse values for places that they do (and do not) share with others in the region. They are encouraged to recognize potential opportunities for growth in ways that take advantage of shared thought, directed actions and channeled support for preserving the desired character of places.

La cooperación transfronteriza para la PEM en la Macaronesia europea sólo es posible si se da un paso más allá del ámbito científico.

En este sentido, se pretende, por un lado, difundir tanto los resultados obtenidos en el proyecto como la información de relevancia para la cooperación transfronteriza a la población interesada en los temas marinos y costeros de la región. Esto se consigue mediante la elaboración y difusión de cuatro boletines informativos que aportan información sobre la ordenación del espacio marino, en general, y sobre la realidad socio-ecológica de la Macaronesia europea, en particular.

Por otro lado, es necesario mostrar a los responsables de la toma de decisiones, de los tres archipiélagos y de los dos estados, las principales recomendaciones para avanzar en la cooperación transfronteriza para la PEM en la Macaronesia europea. Para ello, se elaboraron recomendaciones políticas. Este documento propone la consolidación del concepto de Océano Macaronésico Europeo, un espacio común de cooperación en el que los Estados miembros (y terceros países) se esfuerzan por alcanzar una visión compartida y dar así respuestas eficaces a los retos marítimos a los que se enfrentan.

CEJAD realized the value of engagement is very critical in getting various stakeholders with different needs to realign consequently unlocking resources as well as forge alliances for meaningful participatory development.

Forums were held in the community to ensure that public participation is at the heart of the marine plastic waste as well as getting community groups to own the problem and take charge.

BFD has started using SMART as an adaptive management tool in the Sundarbans which is among the key potential benefits of the approach.

Presentation of reports to SMART enforcement committee helped the decision makers of BFD to plan patrols based on data queries and interpretations from actual SMART reports. This with on-board mentoring observations helped BFD decision makers to take further management decisions.

BFD is using SMART patrol reports and assess how patrol plans have been adapted based on the results of previous patrols and how effective these adaptations have been in increasing the effectiveness of SMART patrols as evidenced by the area covered, number of arrests and successful prosecutions of criminals committing serious wildlife, fisheries and forest crimes such as poaching and poison fishing; confiscations of boats, weapons, snares and traps, and wildlife carcasses and body parts; and trends (increasing, stable or decreasing) in sighting rates of key threatened wildlife species.

The actors involved in fisheries need to work under a management system that seeks to comply with national laws and regulations to consolidate the responsible and sustainable use of resources. It has been documented that organized groups achieve greater benefits if they are formed in a participatory manner with a common vision, work plans, agreed-upon rules, and commitment from government agencies.

The giant squid fishery integrates small and large-scale fishermen and fisherwomen, as well as all links in the value chain through the Comité Nacional Sistema Producto (National Product System Committee). The Committee identified the need to actively participate in fishery management and decision-making. This helped to form and formalize a technical-biological research sub-committee, made up of various sectors: government, academia, civil society organizations, and representatives of the national committee. This sub-committee established a common objective and internal regulations that set out the guidelines for assigning responsibilities and roles to each actor involved. This, in turn, strengthened governance and the collective effort to generate and document traditional and scientific information for squid co-management.

Partnerships have been very key in getting stakeholder buy-in as well as ownership on the project. The proposition in the partnerships aimed to decentralize the ownership of the eco-points, spur collections rates and develop a seamless sustainable plastic waste value chain. 

During the last 12 months, 3R established various partnerships with different stakeholders. One of the partnerships was with an NGO, ParCo, whereby they established two eco-points, to receive and buy plastic waste from the local community waste pickers. 

We recognized the need to build leadership for effective MPA management from within, and ownership and leadership of the approaches co-developed.

We convened a group of 18 regional and global experts to train the most engaged MPA practitioners across 3 nations as peer trainers in evidence-based (adaptive) management. The expert team first broke down adaptive management into 3 core components: marine monitoring, data summarization and management, and strategic decision making. We then invited applications from MPA staff and engaged community members in 3 national MPA systems (Kenya, Tanzania, and Seychelles) to become peer trainers in one of the areas, as we recognized that no one staff could likely train in all three.

We received 60 applications and invited 30 MPA members to participate in the peer trainer training in Seychelles in August 2019.  We developed a 5-day training course. We did 2-days of joint sessions, then each group had 3-days in their individual core areas. The final day was testing in the core concepts.  Of the 30 practitioners who participated, 11 passed as peer trainers or assistant peer trainers.

These peer trainers are now working in their respective nations to continue improving MPA management.

To ensuire the solution worked, we monitored nesting and hatchling dispersal for three consecutive seasons following beach rehabilitation, and determined that there were no impacts to nesting sea turtles or emerging hatchlings.

The core differentiator of MEET ecotourism products is that they are based in and feature Mediterranean protected areas. This is integrated with local communities and local service providers, thereby creating a unique niche-market product in the Mediterranean that supports conservation. Building off what differentiates its products to others on the market, MEET is building a strong brand with embedded market value  for both inbound and outbound tour operators, as well as, destination management organisations.

MAREA (MArine Reserve Evaluation App) is an innovative open source web-based technology tool that automates analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of marine reserves, which must be evaluated over time. This tool uses as reference a framework with biophysical, socioeconomic and governance indicators. It also selects some indicators by default according to the objectives set during the establishment of the marine reserve or protected area, but the user can also customize the list of indicators that are of interest. For the analysis, the user must provide 1) biological, 2) socioeconomic and 3) governance data, as well as select the community, reserve and target species within the MAREA database. This will yield an overall evaluation of the reserve and an overall assessment for each of the indicators. The results will provide useful information to know the status of the marine reserves and contribute to decision making.