English - Global Environment Facility

GEF-4 Tracking Tool for Biodiversity Focal Area Strategic
Objective One:
Catalyzing Sustainability of Protected Area
Issue Criteria Score: Tick only one box
per question
income, employment,
payment for
environmental
services?
Outcomes
26. Monitoring and
evaluation
Are management
activities monitored
against performance?
Planning/Process
27. Visitor facilities
Are visitor facilities
adequate?
There is a major flow of economic benefits to local communities from
activities associated with the protected area
There is no monitoring and evaluation in the protected area
There is some ad hoc monitoring and evaluation, but no overall strategy
and/or no regular collection of results
There is an agreed and implemented monitoring and evaluation system but
results do not feed back into management
A good monitoring and evaluation system exists, is well implemented and
used in adaptive management
There are no visitor facilities and services despite an identified need
Visitor facilities and services are inappropriate for current levels of visitation 1
Visitor facilities and services are adequate for current levels of visitation but
could be improved
2 2
3
Comment/Explanation Next steps
0 The Program of Monitoring of the
Effectiveness of Management of
1
the Protected Areas (PMEMAP)
compiles information on the
2
management and orients it to take
decisions of the protected areas.
This program evaluates 37
3 3 indicators that permit to measure
the level of management of the
protected area. This program
already carries 10 years of
execution, and for the 2009 The
total praised of the PMEMAP
(2009) of the PILA was of 680
points that corresponds to good
management.
0
Nevertheless, the
implementation of new
indicators is required to permit
the verification of the relation
of the protected area and its
impact in the quality of life of
the users and the communities
involved; likewise an indicator
is required to help to
corroborate if the management
of the protected area has
impacted the effective form in
the conservation of the
biodiversity
The protected area has a potential
for the tourism development,
being increased in the sector of
Las Nubes in PILA Pacific; the
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