Final Report - Asian Development Bank

Qinling Comments Next steps
Qinling
Score
Issue Criteria
corridors.
Enhance salaries and benefits
as training) to attract grad
in wildlife and forestry scie
adequate to attract graduates in
wildlife and forestry sciences.
2
3
managed well Personnel management is adequate to the
enough?
achievement of major management objectives but
could be improved
Process Personnel management is excellent and aids the
achievement major management objectives
14. Staff training Staff are untrained
Fund and implement additiona
training programs to includ
periodic field trips to neigh
reserves to develop more
cooperation for conservati
management.
Fund and develop short- and
term training programs bo
country and internationally
0
Many nature reserve personnel are
recruited from other disciplines and
have no knowledge of nature
reserve or wildlife management;
1
Is there enough
training for staff?
Field staff do not have adequate
training opportunities in nature
conservation.
2
Staff training and skills are low relative to the needs of
the protected area
Staff training and skills are adequate, but could be
further improved to fully achieve the objectives of
management
Staff training and skills are in tune with the
management needs of the protected area, and with
anticipated future needs
There is no budget for the protected area
Inputs/Process
3
Most reserves lack adequate funding
for staff training, conservation
education, research and
monitoring, public awareness and
other activities;
Budget shortfalls are made up by
commercial activities that do not
promote conservation but rather
degrade nature reserves;
Budget allocations favor infrastructure
development rather than
conservation management and this
degrades PAs.
0
15. Current budget
Increase allocations for
conservation projects but
roads, tourism and other
infrastructure developmen
without adequate environm
safeguards;
Increase allocations for salari
benefits to attract qualified
personnel
1
The available budget is inadequate for basic
management needs and presents a serious constraint
Is the current budget
sufficient?
2
to the capacity to manage
The available budget is acceptable, but could be further
improved to fully achieve effective management
The available budget is sufficient and meets the full
management needs of the protected area
II. INPUTS
3
0
16. Security of
budget
Is the budget secure?
Increase funding to provincial
local reserves to enhance
management.
Budgets for national reserves are
secured to some extent by national
funding from SFA.
All 27 nature reserves in the Qinling PA
network contribute to conservation
of all species but provincial and
lower reserves have little budget
security and often must develop
outside sources of funding such as
tourism.
1
2
Inputs
3
Drop the focus on consrtructi
realign activities to achiev
There is too much focus on building
and too little on active management
0
There is no secure budget for the protected area and
management is wholly reliant on outside or year by
year funding
There is very little secure budget and the protected
area could not function adequately without outside
funding
There is a reasonably secure core budget for the
protected area but many innovations and initiatives are
reliant on outside funding
There is a secure budget for the protected area and its
management needs on a multi-year cycle
Budget management is poor and significantly
undermines effectiveness
17. Management of
budget
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