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Measuring effectiveness of MPA management What is OSPAR doing and can we transfer it to HELCOM?

Definition Aim: Well-managed MPA network “Management effectiveness is the decree to which management actions are achieving the goals and objectives of a protected area. The evaluation of management effectiveness provides a formal way to learn from successes and failures and help people understand how and why management practices are being adapted.” (IUCN)

OSPAR approach • So far there is no agreed method to measure management effectiveness in OSPAR • As first step a questionnaire has been designed to measure management quality in 2016 OSPAR_MPA_StatusReport_2016

OSPAR approach  Have specific management actions  Has information concerning been identified and put into place by site the management of an OSPAR managers, a legal mechanism or other MPA has been published? effective means to address known pressures and threats?

OSPAR approach  Is specific monitoring focused on  Results show the achievement, ecological status of protected or indicate movement towards features? achieving, a sites conservation  Or monitoring of the compliance of objectives? site users with implemented measures?

New proposal • Has the conservation objective X been achieved? Response Score • Based on monitoring data or expert Yes 3 judgement Partial 2 • Assign a score to the answer and calculate No 1 the average of the score for all No response / conservation objectives 0 no data • Colour code • Repeated every two years • After the 2 nd assessment a trend can be calculated

HELCOM MPA Database Which data is already collected?  Questions 1-3 can partially be answered  Only if the 3 questions are answered with yes, we can start to evaluate effectiveness We need more details:  Specific conservation objectives  Conservation measures  Detailed monitoring information

Possible next steps  Establish a HELCOM working group to develop a method in cooperation with OSPAR  Identify / summarize conservation objectives from existing plans • BSEP 105  Collect objectives and harmonize them  Make them comparable and measurable

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