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Experiences in quantitative management effectiveness assessment using the Management Information System MIST in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Supporting planning, decision-making, monitoring and evaluation in wildlife management with a spatial management information system (MIST)
The first version of this document was published in 2000. At that stage, although the IUCN-WCPA Management Effectiveness Evaluation Framework had been developed over several years, it had only been field tested in a few countries. The whole concept of assessing management effectiveness of protected areas was still in its infancy. The need for methodologies to assess protected areas had been discussed by protected area practitioners for several years, but only a handful of systems had been field-tested and implemented, and there was little commitment to management effectiveness beyond a few enlightened individuals in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and parks agencies. There was also, in consequence, little evidence of the suitability of particular methodologies to meet the needs of the vast array of different types of protected area, and little experience in implementing the findings of assessments to achieve the aim of the whole exercise: more effective conservation. Six years later, the situation is very different. Management effectiveness evaluation is a term now well recognised in the lexicon of protected area management. Many different assessment methodologies have emerged, most of them developed using the Framework agreed by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and its World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), and the number of individual protected areas that have undergone some form of evaluation has risen from a few hundred to many thousand.
Concerns about the extent to which protected areas around the world have been able to achieve the conservation and other objectives for which they were established has led to growing interest in the issue of how to assess management effectiveness of these areas. This paper reviews 31 methodologies that have been developed or proposed as a means of making such evaluations. The methodologies are briefly described and their relationship to the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Framework for Evaluation of Management Effectiveness is examined. General issues in programme evaluation such as evaluation forms and approaches, who should be involved in evaluation, problems with objective-based evaluation and with failure to use the results from evaluations are outlined. These issues are also relevant to the evaluation of management effectiveness of protected areas and should be considered in designing evaluation systems. A number of other issues, specific to the design of evaluation methodologies for protected areas, are identified. These are: the nature of data used for assessment; the role of threats analysis; and the influence of local and regional differences in park management. The different evaluation methodologies vary in the extent to which they adequately address these issues.
Report about number and indices of illegal activities and distribution map
Report about number and indices of illegal activities and distribution map, BINP, May 2001.
Counting animals. -2 nd revised edition. African Wildlife Foundation
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Nairobi, Kenya.
Map showing patrol paths and patrolled Map showing all gorilla sightings between areas in 1km² grid cells
Map showing patrol paths and patrolled
Map showing all gorilla sightings between
areas in 1km² grid cells, BINP, May 2001.
November 1999 and June 2001, BINP.
Germany E-mail: Karin.Loebenstein-von@gtz.de A demo version of the MIST programme and an interactive demo about the use of MIST can be ordered, and a report about MIST in pdf format and MIST files can
- Karin Gtz
- Von Loebenstein
GTZ, Karin von Loebenstein, Postfach 5180, 65726 Eschborn, Germany
E-mail: Karin.Loebenstein-von@gtz.de
A demo version of the MIST programme and an interactive demo about the use of MIST can
be ordered, and a report about MIST in pdf format and MIST files can be downloaded from:
http://www.ecostats.com/software/mist/mist.htm
Programme development: Ecological Software Solutions (mail@ecostats.com) and
Klaus Schmitt (klaus@brinkschmitt.com).
Annex -Examples of print outs produced with the MIST modules GIS and AOP Patrol and ranger performance report BINP
Annex -Examples of print outs produced with the MIST modules GIS and AOP
Patrol and ranger performance report BINP, May 2001.
Map showing patrol paths and patrolled
Map showing all gorilla sightings between
areas in 1km² grid cells, BINP, May 2001.
November 1999 and June 2001, BINP.