The institutional and individual capacity for the management of the MPAs in the SAMP were improved: a) developed or strengthen training programs for MPA management (e.g., regulatory framework, management plans, financial
sustainability, and monitoring and conservation); b) developed of planning and resource use agreements; c) supported the consolidation of the MPA management plans; d) monitoring and use of GIS tools to aid MPA management decision-making was developed; and e) assessment of the MPA management effectiveness using the METT tool was runned. Additionally, the project contributed to enhance the institutional
capacity of INVEMAR and to improved MPA management by providing funds to update monitoring/research and GIS laboratories in new headquarters in Santa Marta. The main outputs: A monitoring system for the SMPA articulated with SINAP’; Agreements for planning and resource use developed for six (6) pilot MPAs specifying roles, financial obligations, and conflict-resolution mechanisms; Selected staff from MPAs and decision-makers trained in MPA management, financial planning, and monitoring and evaluation; Existing ecology programs in higher educational institutions include MPA; Decision Support System based-GIS tools. 

The sustainable financial management plans are oriented to meet the needs of the Subsystem through the identification of activities  run by the local communities which can raise revenues. Such activities include eco-tourism (scientific tourism, birdwatching, marine mammal watching), sport fishing, scenic diving and sustainable use of biodiversity resources. These plans are entailed towards the conservation of the ecosystem goods and services while giving economical opportunites to local communities and environmental entities. A financial framework ensuring the sustainability of the SAMP consolidated through the strengthening of current sources of financing and the inclusion of new ones. The framework includes the development of provisions and mechanisms to increase the current government and non-government contributions to the MPAs. Agreements to override MPA management cost with the direct beneficiaries of conservation was defined. To assess the potentiality of payments for avoided deforestation in mangroves as a financing option for MPAs and SAMP, a pilot project for the reduction of emissions caused by deforestation-degradation of mangroves was formulated and executed in Cispata. Now under replication and apply for "bluecarbon market". 

The SMPA is established and supported by a legal, institutional, and operational framework. 

•Legal, institutional and operational framework:

8,6 million hectares under protection (8,9% aprox of marine areas)

11 new MPAs (initial target was 3)

2 Action Plans developed and supported: SIRAP Caribe y Pacífico: a) stakeholder analysis, articulation mechanisms, work plans, and specific actions for the MPAs to be included as part of action plans; b) reviewing the status of the processes for the SIRAPs’ establishment, at the same time taking into account the SINAP’s guidelines and facilitating the coordinated actions within the MPAs.

•Legal developments

SAMP Action Plan 2016 – 2023 design and start implementation

Formal adoption of SAMP by CONAP (National Protected Areas Council)

Operational agreements

Those results contributes to guarantee a representative sample of coastal and marine biodiversity at multiple biological organization levels; to assure the continuity of ecosystem services;  to maintain the natural elements asociated to material and inmaterial importance objects essencial to cultural values; and to guarantee the ecological processes maintaining the conectivity of marine biodiversity.

This initiative brings together all stakeholders, including different levels of government, around a 'collective responsibility' approach. The National Park is managed by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (a central government agency). Ensuring coherence between park management and planning processes and development at the wider landscape is a challenge.Addressing deforestation in the National Park while supporting improved farmer livelihoods requires improved links, policy coherence and an integrated approach between different government levels and agencies. Our initiative has sought to achieve this through government engagement at district, provincial and central government levels, securing support from each level for the 'Collective Statement of Intent'. Understanding what opportunities this presents for supporting the separate aims of individual government agencies (such as improved park management and protection, rural development and improved agricultural production) has been critical in engaging government. 

On the other hand, the Monarch Fund (MF) strengthens the local capacities of 33 ejidos and communities to comply with the fiscal and banking conditions related to annual conservation payments under the concurrent funds' modality. In collaboration with Conafor, Conanp, FMCN and forest advisors, the FM supports the development of 29 Best Management Practices for Conservation Programs (BMPCP). The BMPCP is intended to be a document to guide the implementation of activities aimed at the conservation of forest ecosystems, in order to maintain or improve the provision of environmental services within areas under financial incentives. In addition, the BMPCP are intended to enable beneficiaries to obtain resources from other government programs to carry out the activities proposed in them.

Monarch Fund (MF) is part of FMCN´s Fund for Natural Protected Areas (FANP), a public-private initiative between FMCN, the Government of Mexico and the World Bank. The FANP consists of endowment resources, whose interests are channeled to 30 priority natural protected areas in the country.

FANP has a Technical Committee of the FANP (CTFANP) that oversees its operation, including the MF. This Committee is composed of seven members from different sectors, who are appointed by the National Council of Natural Protected Areas and ratified by the FMCN Board of Directors.

Another component of the MF is the Monarch Fund Trust Technical Committee (CTFMM), which approves annual payments to ejidos and communities that have complied with forest cover conservation in core areas. Six representatives of ejidos (agricultural and forestry properties for collective use), indigenous communities and private landowners participate in the CTFMM.