Recommendations from the preparatory steps of the Convention-Check are given to the management agency, then are evaluated after an appropriate period of time, to assess their impact and largely address management effectiveness. Steps in this building block include assessing and quantifying the number of changes of measures/activities on management, administrative and legislative levels, assessing the causality between recommendations and evaluating the quantified changes in a qualitative way. Recommendations are provided to administrative and legislative bodies as well as to the PA in particular. Recommendations concern changes in legislation, administrative regulations as well as in particular in practical management decisions. One recommendation was for example to work on bats and now these species are among the flagship species of the park.

Shrimp farmers are obligated to develop and implement a mangrove reforestation plan within their production area; they pay community members, often women, to garden the mangroves, including re-planting.

This building block focuses on documenting and disseminating results so that the experience can be captured and replicated elsewhere. Sharing and disseminating successful project results can encourage other interested parties to conduct site visits to observe the project first hand and meet the people involved. This kind of peer to peer learning can often be the first step towards replication. Documentation can also be used as a powerful advocacy tool to create leverage for greater commitment to waste management policies at regional and national scales. Documentation can be in many different formats ranging from a brief project summary or personal testimonies from the people involved, to powerful images that show the project in action or short film clips that can be embedded in websites and shared on social media etc. The greater variety of visual documentation the project has, the greater influence it can have on decision making processes related to waste management (or any other issue of concern). Documentation of results also plays an important role in the review and evaluation phase so that project leaders can identify the contribution of each building block to the overall outcome.

After initial assessments to determine what could be the most appropriate livelihood activities that would further encourage conservation action in the landscape, the Community-Based Tourism (CBT) plan was developed and the community was trained to run the programme. The CBT programme comprises promotion of home-stay units, home restaurants for food, a cultural group to showcase Monpa art and culture, organized treks through the conserved areas and provision of trained service providers (guides, managers, cooks, porters, etc) to support all of these. The community has sought to include as many families as possible in the programme so as to ensure spread of programme benefits. The CBT in Thembang, one of the project villages, is now in its seventh year with revenues increasing four-fold since inception, amounting to 23,000 USD as of March 31, 2015. The CBT was successfully replicated in other project villages based on biodiversity values. In similar line, WWF-India is also diversifying income generation activities to other forms of rural enterprises for conservation impacts. Recently, it facilitated the process to establish a unit to manufacture Tibetan incense stick with available forest resources in Pangchen valley.

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.

An alliance between General Community Council Los Riscales, MarViva Foundation and Laboratorio Accionar Foundation allowed the establishment of the Collective Communication. The aim of the Collective is to transform social practices, strengthen local governance processes and to build participatory scenarios of political advocacy. Through announcements in the communities, a group of "monitors" responsible for performing the communication tasks was chosen. In the process of transfer of community communication techniques and capacity building for young people, it was crucial to facilitate self-teaching attitude and the ability to generate own projects and content. The Collective was also provided with basic equipment, such as inexpensive cameras for video photography, audio recorders and computers. Through mobile laboratories in community radio and video communication, the Collective was trained in content development and equipment handling techniques. Each community chose the topics they wanted to work with, according to the interests and priorities in each community. The members of the Collective have had, since then, the possibility to practice, explore and produce autonomously their own content.

A supervisory structure was established to facilitate the coordination between the stakeholders and the overall coherence of the process. Its members work in cooperation and join forces, and each one brings its own specialization. An international organization (in this case, IUCN) supported this initiative by preparing project documents, seeking donor funding and providing technical and administrative support. With the presence of government and non-government members side by side, it is possible to influence mangrove and small-scale fisheries conservation policies.

Stakeholders, including government and local communities, are engaged in the early design stage of the development of an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan. Up-to-date datasets on ecosystem services are identified as critical given their relevance for the Placencia Peninsula region’s economic stability and growth (coastal protection, spiny lobster fisheries, marine tourism and recreation, and carbon storage and sequestration). Data was collected and included within the Natural Capital’s Marine Invest analysis tool in order to carry out ecosystem service valuation.

Based on official fishing and environmental regulations such as periodic closures, bans and minimum sizes, the management plan contains a detailed programme for resource use, control and surveillance and monitoring and evaluation. Every illegal activity is reported to the overseeing government body.

Social marketing (SM) uses commercial marketing methods and tools (e.g. diffusion of innovations, behavior-change-focused communication channels and messages, community mobilization) to promote a voluntary behavior change in a target audience, that benefits society as well as the target group. For a Pride campaign, social marketing is an integral component to promote community stewardship of their resources. Creating a clear, consistent and positive identity (i.e., a brand) around the conservation/management of their resources that resonates with community perceptions, values and traditions regarding these resources helps boost community buy in. This brand is linked to a clear request (e.g., what do you want your target audience to do when it comes to sustainable management of their resources), both of which will be underlined and repeated throughout campaign activities (e.g. community events, media outreach) and promotional materials (e.g., posters, booklets, flyers, wall paintings, props, text messages) that form part of the social marketing strategy.