Conservation Trust Funds, Protected Area Management Effectiveness, and Conservation Outcomes: Lessons from the Global Conservation Fund

Bonham, Curan; Steininger, Marc K.; McGreevey, M.; Stone, C.P.; Wright, Timothy M.; Cano, Carlos Alberto Gómez

doi:10.2305/iucn.ch.2014.parks-20-2.cb.en

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“…The majority of these evaluations have been commissioned by grant facilities within CI's Ecosystem Finance division. The evaluation of GCF by Bonham et al [3] was implemented by CI's science division, so while not a wholly independent evaluation, the evaluation team sat in a separate division from staff responsible for disbursing and managing grants. Additionally, the CEPF commissioned a nonexperimental evaluation (2001-2010) of cumulative effects of its grant programme, which awarded $116 million to over 1500 organizations over this time frame.…”

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“…We define conservation NGOs (CNGOs) as entities that aim to protect, manage and restore unique and threatened biodiversity, ecological processes and ecosystem services. Diverse in scope and size, CNGOs play key roles in advancing and achieving biodiversity conservation through (i) delivery of on-ground conservation actions, (ii) transfer of overseas development assistance to high-biodiversity regions in developing countries [2,3], (iii) promotion of key issues in international and national policy arenas and (iv) advocacy among the general public through outreach and education [1]. CNGOs are important innovators and early adopters in conservation science, policy and other practices, demonstrated by their development and application of new tools, methods and approaches such as spatial prioritization (e.g.…”

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Impact evaluation to communicate and improve conservation non-governmental organization performance: the case of Conservation International

McKinnon

Mascia

Yang

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The rising prominence of more rigorous approaches to measuring conservation outcomes has included greater adoption of impact evaluation by conservation non-governmental organizations (CNGOs). Within the scientific literature, however, little consideration has been given to the unique and specific roles of CNGOs in advancing impact evaluation. We explore these issues in the context of one CNGO—Conservation International (CI)—and its experiences producing, using and funding impact evaluations over the past decade. We examine the contributions of impact evaluation to CI's mission at three different stages of CI's strategy: innovation, demonstration and amplification. Furthermore, we review incentives and barriers encountered by CI in its 10+ years' experience in impact evaluation. More coordinated and strategic use of impact evaluation by CNGOs would facilitate learning and promote accountability across the conservation community.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Impact evaluation to communicate and improve conservation non-governmental organization performance: the case of Conservation International

McKinnon

Mascia

Yang

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…(1) Funding bodies, especially those using trust funds, have long institutional lifespans and outlooks [32]. Impact evaluation needs long-term support to build a strategic global evidence base for conservation policies [33].…”

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International funding agencies: potential leaders of impact evaluation in protected areas?

Craigie

Barnes

Geldmann

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Globally, protected areas are the most commonly used tools to halt biodiversity loss. Yet, some are failing to adequately conserve the biodiversity they contain. There is an urgent need for knowledge on how to make them function more effectively. Impact evaluation methods provide a set of tools that could yield this knowledge. However, rigorous outcome-focused impact evaluation is not yet used as extensively as it could be in protected area management. We examine the role of international protected area funding agencies in facilitating the use of impact evaluation. These agencies are influential stakeholders as they allocate hundreds of millions of dollars annually to support protected areas, creating a unique opportunity to shape how the conservation funds are spent globally. We identify key barriers to the use of impact evaluation, detail how large funders are uniquely placed to overcome many of these, and highlight the potential benefits if impact evaluation is used more extensively.

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“…We know that a key 41 limitation of effective management of PAs has been lack of adequate investment 42 (Bonham et al 2014), which decreases management effectiveness (Leverington et al 43 2010), in turn leading to poorer biodiversity outcomes (Geldmann et al 2015); but a 44 more in-depth understanding of PA management costs has been elusive. limited by little or no breakdown of costs by action (e.g., control of invasive species, 55 maintenance of visitor facilities, monitoring).…”

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Towards a better understanding of protected-area management costs

Craigie

Pressey

2018

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Data on protected area (PA) management costs are essential for effective conservation planning and management. To be most useful, these data should be at high resolution, in terms of individual management units within PA systems and individual management actions. Ideally, data would also capture temporal changes in management costs in relation to disturbance events, and variations in biophysical and social context. Yet there remains no generally accepted method to collect these important high-resolution data. Here we present a new method for the collection of data on current management spending and the costs of managing PAs to explicit, and usually higher, standards than presently achieved. The method allows the gathering of data at higher spatial, temporal, and thematic resolution than has been achieved before. We highlight the strengths and potential pitfalls of this type of data collection and offer insights into how these data can be used for the benefit of PA managers, conservation planners, and policy-makers. The methods presented here could be adapted to be used by other PA management agencies and jurisdictions to better understand the costs of managing PAs effectively.

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Conservation Trust Funds, Protected Area Management Effectiveness, and Conservation Outcomes: Lessons from the Global Conservation Fund

Cited by 25 publications

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Impact evaluation to communicate and improve conservation non-governmental organization performance: the case of Conservation International

Impact evaluation to communicate and improve conservation non-governmental organization performance: the case of Conservation International

International funding agencies: potential leaders of impact evaluation in protected areas?

Towards a better understanding of protected-area management costs

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