by Ocean Governance team | Mar 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
To achieve post 2020 MPA targets, beyond creating new marine protected areas (MPA) and stronger protection for them in the future, it is also crucial to ensure their effective management at a local level – through adequate human and material capacity as well as skills – and ensuring they have adequate and sustainable financing. Networks of MPA managers are considered a cornerstone to achieve management effectiveness and have the potential to accelerate the implementation of MPA strategic targets with direct impact on ocean conservation at every scale.
Networks of MPA managers are platforms that address common management and conservation challenges. They can take advantage of existing initiatives and partnerships and help to connect people acting on the ground while providing them with a global framework and the “big picture” of marine conservation. By gathering stakeholders for an effective management of marine biodiversity and creating linkages with actions on the ground, they facilitate relevant decision-making processes, at local, national, regional and international levels. Networks of MPA managers exist at national and regional levels, interacting and joining forces between regions and at a global level. The side event showcased cooperation among Transatlantic national and regional networks of MPA managers, their achievements from working together and the support they can provide to the implementation of national MPA policies and objectives, regional seas conventions strategies, and the CBD action plan.
You can find the presentations from the side event at the following links:
Organised by: MedPAN | NAMPAN | CaMPAM | OFB | Fundación Biodiversidad
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Puri Canals leads the presentation at the SBSTTA24
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Presentation from Foro Patagonico
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Presentation of the Global Alliance
by Ocean Governance team | Mar 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
In December 2021, the Ocean Governance Project had an intensive agenda in the Mediterranean MPA Forum, hosted in Monaco. Our experts Francis Staub (leader of the Marine Mammals Twinning Project) and Jean-Jacques Goussard (leader of the Coastal Resilience Twinning Project) presented the Self-Assessment Tools created in each twinning project at Mediterranean Marine Protected Area 2020 Forum and a side event following the event.
The Post-2020 Roadmap and Forum provided an excellent opportunity for the Ocean Governance project and its twinning projects, thanks to the large number of MPA managers, policymakers and stakeholders from the Mediterranean area who were present.
On 30 November, Jean-Jacques participated in the DS26 session: Community-based approaches to MPA governance for natural resource management, at which the Director of Community Marine Protected Areas of Senegal (Mr Mamadou Sidibé) also spoke. His presentation was complemented by Jean-Jacques’s intervention on the ongoing experiences of the Resilience Assessment Programme (started in early 2021).
Francis, meanwhile, participated in several networking opportunities, such as the “NS03: A showcase of initiatives for monk seal conservation“, as well as the side event organised by the Pelagos Sanctuary on the evening of 2 December.
Dedicated training courses
Following the conclusion of the Forum, the Marine Mammals Twinning, Resilience Twinning and MPA Networks Twinning hosted a 3-hour workshop for MPA managers entitled, “Training on Two Innovative Toolkits for MPA Managers to Assess MPA Marine Mammals Management and MPA Resilience-based Management“.
Around 20 MPA manangers enjoyed the training course organised back-to-back with the Forum. There was a “unanimous response” regarding the value of the tools presented and how the managers will use them to create the management programmes of the areas that attended the training course.
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Some of the managers attending the course.
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Francis Staub, coordinator of the Marine Mammals Twinning Project.
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Jean Jacques Goussard, coordinator of the Coastal Resilience Twinning Project.
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Jean Jacques Goussard, coordinator of the Coastal Resilience Twinning Project.
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Participants in the Marine Mammals and Coastal Resiliance Trainings
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Francis Staub, coordinator of the Marine Mammals Twinning
by Ocean Governance team | Mar 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Marine Mammal Twinning has submitted the Marine Mammals Management Toolkit as a voluntary commitment for the implementation of SDG14 – Life Below Water – within the 2030 Agenda of The UN Ocean Conference. The voluntary commitment recognises the importance of marine mammals, their continued and surmounting threats and the need to take actions for their conservation. Detailing the three core components of the toolkit (Factsheets, Good Practices, and Self-Assessment Tool), four key deliverables are committed by the end of 2023, including supporting MPA Managers to generate a global network of MPA managers effectively considering and protecting marine mammals.
You can check all the information at the Marine Mammals info site, by clicking here
