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
22. State and
commercial neighbours
Is there co-operation
with adjacent land and
water users?
Process
23. Indigenous people
Do indigenous and
traditional peoples
resident or regularly
using the protected area
have input to
management decisions?
Process
24. Local communities
Do local communities
resident or near the
protected area have
input to management
There is no contact between managers and neighbouring official or corporate
land and water users
There is contact between managers and neighbouring official or corporate
land and water users but little or no cooperation
There is contact between managers and neighbouring official or corporate
land and water users, but only some co-operation
There is regular contact between managers and neighbouring official or
corporate land and water users, and substantial co-operation on management
Indigenous and traditional peoples have no input into decisions relating to the
management of the protected area
Indigenous and traditional peoples have some input into discussions relating
to management but no direct role in management
Indigenous and traditional peoples directly contribute to some relevant
decisions relating to management but their involvement could be improved
Indigenous and traditional peoples directly participate in all relevant decisions
relating to management, e.g. co-management
Local communities have no input into decisions relating to the management of
the protected area
Local communities have some input into discussions relating to management
but no direct role in management
Local communities directly contribute to some relevant decisions relating to
management but their involvement could be improved
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Comment/Explanation Next steps
0 So much inside the protected
area as in the buffer zone and of
influence of the protected area,
1
it does not exist any established
towns or native communities,
nevertheless, natives exist and
2 2 live in the communities of the
coast in firm land, that just like
they are all able in some
3
moments to make use of the
resources of the protected area,
whenever they are adjusted to
the regulations of the area.
Likewise, the same has spaces
of consultation through the
0
diverse instances created for it.
During the PMEMAP sessions
(2009), in the Coiba NP, in spite of
1
the fact that the groups have a vote
in the Counsel and Scientific
2 2
Committee and in the Committee
of the special zone; they perceive