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ACB conducts workshop on management effectiveness tools for ASEAN heritage parks and protected areas
On 3-7 March 2008, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) gathered key managers and staff of ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHPs) and other protected areas for a regional workshop in Hanoi to enhance the capability of ASEAN Member Countries (AMCs) to develop management effectiveness tools for the region’s major protected areas.
Held at the Saigon Hotel, Hanoi in cooperation with the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Vietnam Environment Protection Agency, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the workshop enabled participants to share experiences on management effectiveness tools employed in AMCs; develop and establish assessment, monitoring and reporting programmes for assessing management effectiveness in AHPs and other protected areas; identify pilot sites for management effectiveness assessment; and develop action plans for management effectiveness assessment programmes.
According to workshop partner IUCN, the success of protected areas as a tool for biodiversity conservation is based around the assumption that they are managed to protect the values that they contain. To be effective, management should be tailored to the particular demands of the site, given that each protected area has a variety of biological and social characteristics, pressures and uses.
Dr. Monina Uriarte, Capacity Development Specialist of ACB, reported that in 2004, ASEAN Member Countries (AMCs) adopted the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The programme aims to establish and maintain “comprehensive, effectively managed and ecologically representative systems of protected areas that, collectively, will significantly reduce the rate of loss of global biodiversity.
ACB Executive Director Rodrigo U. Fuentes said there are a number of assessment systems and a range of tools available for adoption.
“Through this workshop, ACB can help ASEAN countries determine systems that are appropriate to their needs. They can also build on existing assessments that are successfully being implemented by ASEAN Member Countries,” Director Fuentes explained.
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