Documentation and dissemination of results

Blue Solution Template in French: ‘L’aire du patrimoine communautaire KAWAWANA: La bonne vie retrouvée par la conservation’

Global

Monitoring and evaluation

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are vital components of every Pride campaign, without which assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention cannot be conducted. M&E takes place in every component of the Theory of Change (please refer to the building block 'Theory of Change' for a brief description of each component). Monitoring keeps score on how effectively capacities are built, how effectively social marketing efforts lead to changes in behavior, and if those behavior changes lead to desired conservation outcomes. Monitoring basically tracks every component of the ToC. M&E of knowledge, attitude, interpersonal communications and behavior change is based on pre and post campaign surveys of the fishers, while threat reduction and conservation results use specific protocols validated by experts.

• Having a local monitoring partner or consultant is key to develop timely baseline data and monitor threat reduction and conservation results. • As with any project or program, having adequate and sufficient funding is key. Teams may rely on existing human, equipment, facilities, and financial capacities to reduce costs. • Sites with long term tradition of monitoring are better suited to produce a solid baseline of biological monitoring indicators.

An important lesson related to biological monitoring is when there is the possibility of having a two person team for each campaign, a Campaign Manager (CM) and a Fisheries Fellow (FF). This arrangement allows for one person to concentrate on the fisheries technical aspects, including the necessary time for biological monitoring. The level of involvement of the FF in the monitoring component depends on his/her personal inclination towards science. There are examples where the FF devoted a considerable amount of time and effort to conducting monitoring and analyzing data, while others did not participate at all. This could improve with a clearer definition of the FF’s role in regards to biological monitoring. Having a person dedicated to monitoring in Rare’s team ensured all fisheries campaigns had baseline and post campaign impact data.

Subnational

La Encrucijada - sustainable fishing in Latin America

Coral reef restoration toolkit

Toolkit cover photo

Learning how to cement the transplanted corals

How to monitor coral transplantation site

The purpose of this Toolkit is to share the knowledge gained by the Reef Rescuers team. It aims to fill a void in the practical know-how of coral reef restoration By sharing what was learned and tested in the field, it is hoped that the success of others implementing similar projects elsewhere will be improved. It aims to be a companion for scientists, managers, practitioners and local communities who are facing a coral reef restoration challenge and need guidance using low-cost field tested methods, as well as how to fix problems encountered in field conditions. The team explains what they did in the coral reef restoration project and how they solved the problems encountered using low cost solutions and the limited resources found in a developing nation.

• Feasibility and desirability of coral reef restoration in the specific site • Adequate project funding or private sector investment • Buy-in and collaboration of government, communities and NGOs • Coral reef practitioners/biologists working in the project

• One size doesn’t fit all. The experimental methods which were used in the project didn’t all work and there was a lot of trial and error. The toolkit explains these. This is why the guide was not called “Best Practice”. • The toolkit doesn’t make you an instant expert. The toolkit cannot be used by amateurs and communities without the design and supervision by experienced coral reef scientists. Otherwise it becomes tinkering and more harm than good can be done. • It’s complicated. Potential users of the Toolkit need to keep in mind that reef restoration is complex , time consuming, costly, and not always recommended. In fact, as regards the latter the Toolkit presents a flowchart to decide whether or not reef restoration is necessary or even feasible in a given situation

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Global

Dissemination and training

The results of the monitoring programme are presented to the relevant local communities and through academic channels. Environmental education campaigns focus on local populations and address people with different levels of education. Information is shared via presentations, courses, trainings and workshops.

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Presenting at international meetings

With the researchers gaining their MSc degrees and PhD degrees over the first 3 years of the study, we were then able to start publishing papers and to entertain the idea of attending and presenting at international meetings. Meeting at a national venue (Russian biennial conference) led to European Cetacean Society conference presentations which then opened up the main Society for Marine Mammalogy Biennial as a platform for presentation.

Hard work by the young researchers; funds raised from multiple sources within and outside Russia.

It takes time and practice to be able to make the best presentations.

Various papers available

Awareness-raising of fishermen on the West African coast

Setting of a Poster on the house wall of the village leader, Guinea Bissau Cacheu MPA

In each country, a focal point supports awareness-raising through a poster in the national language, a radio spot and a T-shirt.

Only available in French. To read this section in French, please download the document "Blue Solution Template in French: ‘AfricaSaw, Réseau d’alerte/sauvegarde du poisson-scie, Afrique de l’Ouest’” from the bottom of this page, under 'Resources'.

Implementation

Review phase

Blue Solution Template in French: ‘AfricaSaw, Réseau d’alerte/sauvegarde du poisson-scie, Afrique de l’Ouest’

Poster AfricaSaw in French

Poster AfricaSaw in Creole

Radio Message (in French) to raise awareness of fishermen in West Africa

Targeted communication products and outreach

After developing several communications products geared to different audiences, we released the valuation findings at the International Year of the Reef Symposium in Belize City in November 2008. We also distributed findings in a six-page summary pamphlet for decision makers; several local partners also incorporated the results into videos shown to the Prime Minister and other officials at the gala event that evening. At the request of the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT), we also produced a one-page document aimed at policymakers and have distributed it through PACT and other local partners. We also made Excel-based tools to facilitate replication of our valuation methods and data collection. These tools and users’ manuals, along with the full technical report and summary, are all freely available for download at our website. The Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative, along with WWF, WCS, Oceana, and many other local NGOs, have used the economic valuation findings in their efforts to negotiate for tighter fishing regulations, new mangrove legislation, a ban on offshore oil drilling, and other conservation and sustainable management goals.

- Partnership and stakeholder engagement: A strong collaboration with dedicated partners ensured relevant and effective communication with decision makers. In most instances, our Belizean partners led outreach and dissemination. - Critical access to decision makers through Belizean partners. - Strategic packaging of results: We compared the value of Belize’s coral reefs and mangroves to national GDP. - Timeliness: The release of results coincided with important events and activities in Belize.

Use different communications products (e.g. long paper, short summary of key findings, video, presentations) and channels (e.g. public events, private targeted meetings, through partners and their networks) to reach your key audiences. In particular, encourage your partners to make use of and promote your findings and recommendations.

Subnational

The full paper and 6-page summary of results for decision makers is available a…

Excel-based valuation tools and users’ manuals are available at:

Informing policy processes

At the national level, the results from the Blue Carbon component, such as carbon budget for the mangroves of the gulf of Nicoya and an updated deforestation estimation, were presented to decision makers as a way to inform policy making on broader climate change mitigation strategies that target multiple ecosystem services.

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National upscaling and transboundary exchanges

Building this project within a larger regional project (incl. Thailand and Vietnam), enables the sharing of experiences among countries (fisheries market development, coastal protection) and facilitates the understanding of climate change as a global concern with localized solutions. Collection of effective solutions, good practices and lessons learned are shared at regional level under a regional platform. High level national officials are involved in field visits and local discussions to bring community-led examples of climate change adaptation to national attention.

The participation of some national government representatives was a guarantee to bringing local examples to a national platform. Good communications and information sharing about data on the status of biodiversity and climate is a pre-requisite for conservationists and policy makers to make an informed and right decisions for the conservation and management.

Exchange of site visit by local communities and local media to the neighboring countries is also a good strategy for allowing them to learn about the issues in terms of biodiversity protection and conservation, climate change issues and local adaptation and local response mechanisms. In addition, they can share successful and unsuccessful lessons learned and best practices which can be applied in their localities. In addition to this, media can also play an important role in disseminating issues about climate change and local solutions to the wider audience. Sanctuary zoning with clear zones of core zone, conservation zone, multiple use zone and community use zone and signed by the prime ministerial sub-decree is a model for other protected areas and countries to follow. It restricts the attempts by private companies to obtain economic concessions from the government.

Sharing experiences to support other sites

Visitors are informed about Nusa Penida's biodiversity

Nusa Penida is a learning site. It provides a platform for training and field visits by governmental and non-governmental participants and MPA managers. Prepare outreach material, build a library, develop training and field visits. Train CTC staff and key stakeholder representatives, and conduct pre-and post-visit planning and review sessions for customization and quality control. Apply a small fee or in-kind contribution from programme participants.

• A ‘blue print’ community managed MPA • Support and funding from government and external partners

An MPA can be a functioning learning site if easily accessible and if it has strong insights to be shared, and prove examples of solutions on coastal and marine resource management challenges.

Implementation