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GEF-4 Tracking Tool for Biodiversity Focal Area Strategic Objective One:
Catalyzing Sustainability of Protected Area Systems
Issue Criteria Score: Tick only one box
per question
Comment/Explanation Next steps
enforcement
There are major deficiencies in staff capacity/resources to enforce protected 1 the support of other governmental
area legislation and regulations (e.g. lack of skills, no patrol budget, lack of
institutions:
Can staff (i.e. those
with responsibility for
managing the site)
enforce protected area
rules well enough?
institutional support)
The staff have acceptable capacity/resources to enforce protected area
legislation and regulations but some deficiencies remain
The staff have excellent capacity/resources to enforce protected area
legislation and regulations
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3
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The Authority of the Aquatic
Resources of Panama (ARAP)
develops a Plan of Coastal
Management for the province of
Bocas del Toro. It is a plan of
Input
action for the sustainable fisheries
and strengthening of the
organizations fishing grounds in
the region.
Issue Criteria Score: Tick only one box
per question
4. Protected area
objectives
Is management
undertaken according
to agreed objectives?
Planning
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The Department of Government
and Justice in Panama inaugurated
the Naval Air Base of Rambala
(Bocas el Toro) to give security to
the area and to protect it from
criminal acts.
Comment/Explanation Next steps
No firm objectives have been agreed for the protected area 0 The plan of management of the
The protected area has agreed objectives, but is not managed according to
these objectives
The protected area has agreed objectives, but is only partially managed
according to these objectives
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PNMIB is a tool of support to the
management of the park that
establishes the objectives, norms
and guidelines, possible uses and
strategies. To improve, the
The protected area has agreed objectives and is managed to meet these
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common participation, the
objectives
protection, conservation and
sustainable management of the
terrestrial and marine resources of
the PNMIB and its zone of
neighborhood.