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Building Capacity for Protected Area
Management in the Pacific
An Program Overview
Mike Lameier: NOAA PIMPAC Co-coordinator
What is Pacific Island Managed and
Protected Area Community (PIMPAC)?
1. Community of on-the ground managers
collaborating to enhance protected area
management
"Sense of Community is a feeling
that members have of belonging,
a feeling that members matter to
one another and to the group, and
a shared faith that members'
needs will be met through their
commitment to be together.“
-Psychological Sense of Community:
Theory of McMillan & Chavis (1986)
What is Pacific Island Managed and
Protected Area Community (PIMPAC)?
1. Community of on-the ground managers
collaborating to enhance protected area
management
2. Long term catalytic capacity building program
Catalytic Capacity-Building
“I learned that highly effective capacity-building is .
. . about creating an environment that encourages
and supports continuous learning and improvement
in individuals, organizations, networks, and
eventually, the communities and societies they seek
to change. . . . It is about consciously creating
conditions so that each success sparks many others.
It is about starting chain reactions for change. This
is what I call catalytic capacity-building.”
-Audrey Newman, Built to Change: Catalytic CapacityBuilding in Nonprofit Organizations.2001
Why PIMPAC?
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2004: Pacific Managers faced
similar problems
• Limited Resources
• Isolated from each other and
trainings
• Lead to the 2005 workshop
• 2006: The Micronesia Challenge
(MC)
• Two Samoa Initiative other
regional initiatives
• Greater need for protected
areas/management= greater
need for training
Where PIMPAC Works
Services Provided:
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Funding and Coordination
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Training and Technical Support
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Learning Exchanges
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Partnership Building
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Information Sharing
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List serve and www.pimpac.org
Youth Engagement
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MC Young Champions
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TNC Marine Fellows
Coordination: All About Partnerships!
Micronesians in
Island
Conservation(MIC)
• Communities
• All island national and state fisheries agencies
and NGOS
Integration of Networks=Success
Head of State Level
Executive Directive Level
Manager Level
Community Level: Locally
Managed Marine Area
Network
Micronesia Chief
Executive Summit
Micronesians in
Island Conservation(MIC)
PIMPAC Training
Approach
• Ecosystem Based Approach
to Management (RidgeReef)
• Tailored trainings
• Training of Trainers
• PIMPAC Mentors
PIMPAC
Mentors/Trainers
(*only possible through partnerships
and collaboration)
Berna Gorong
• Nimpal Conservation
Area Management
• Trainer:
• CCA
• Management
Planning
• SEM Coordination
• TNC Partnership and
Communication
Coordinator
Wayne Andrew
• Trainer for:
• Adaptive
Management
• CCA and
• Enforcement
• Alliance of Palau
Conservation Officers
Brooke Nevitt (MINA/CNMI), Shirley
Koshiba (PICRC/Palau) and
Marybelle Quinata (NOAA CRCP)
Socioeconomic Monitoring
– Leads SEM trainings, Building
SEM Teams, and support SEM
POCs
– data coding, management, and
quality control
– quantitative data analysis
– analyzed data in conservation
planning and adaptive
management
– effectively communicate data
visually
– See SEM section PIMPAC website
Pete Houk (UOG)/Yim Golbuu
(PICRC/Palau)
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Marine Monitoring
Train monitoring teams
Data collection
Monitoring design
Data Analysis
Data Management
Database development
Data sharing, reporting
Communication
Sgt. Mark A./ Capt. Joey
Terlaje/ Michael
Reyes: Guam
Guam Enforcement Trainers
• MPA Patrol
• Education and Outreach
• Arrest Procedures
• Vessel boarding
• Arrest Report Writing
• Court Appearances
• Issuing Citations
• Officer Survival Tactics
• Self defense
Steven Victor/Liz Terk
• Conservation Action
Planning (CAP)
• Marine Protected Area
Management
Effectiveness (MPAME)
• Ecosystem Approach to
Fisheries Management
• CCA
PIMPAC Advisors
• Continual guidance, training and leadership to
trainers/mentors
• Biological Monitoring: Yim Golbuu and Pete Houk
• SEM: Supin Wongbusarakum (NOAA PIFSC)and Peter
Edwards (NOAA CRCP)
• CCA: Meghan Gombos/ Scott Atkinson/Art Web/Doug
Ramsey
• Enforcement/Behavior Change: Mike Guilbeaux/USCG
• Adaptive Management: Meghan Gombos /Scott A.
• Program Management/Leadership: Trina Leberer Mae
Adams and Willy Kostka
Training Focus Areas
• Determined by Strategic Planning
• Established training programs for:
• Management Planning
• Socioeconomic Monitoring
• Biological Monitoring
• Enforcement
• Climate Change Adaptation(CCA)
• Behavior Change
• Institutionalization is the goal
• Enforcement Certificate at Guam
Community College(in the works)
Adaptive Management Planning
•First area of Focus
•Link to biological and
socioeconomic monitoring
•Planning Resources:
•PIMPAC Guidebook
•TNC CAP
•New Tools: CCA-VA
LEAP/LMMA
•Retraining is a reality
PIMPAC Community Based
Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)
• Focus to support
communities’ CCA needs
•2010-regional CCA workshop
•2011-Trainings in all
Micronesian FAS, CNMI and
American Samoa and Guam
•Tools and Reports on
www.pimpac.org
• Coastal Change Tool kit
•Yap and Kosrae
Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit
MPA Enforcement
•Palau Guam Exchange
•Key Partnerships with Guam
• Palau Alliance of Conservation
Officers
•2012 Trainings:
•Pohnpei
•Hawaii
•Marshall Islands
• 2013: Kosrae, CNMI, A. Samoa.
•2014: Chuuk
•Shark Sanctuaries/Pew Trust
• Enforcement Tool Kit(2015-16)
PIMPAC Socioeconomic Monitoring (SEM)
Program
• MPA=sacrifice
• Need Monitor and adapt management
• 2008- SEM Pasifika Program formed
– SEM Pasifika Guidebook
– Standard user friend methods for Pacific
• Two Annual Trainings focus on:
– Training managers
– Work with communities to do
assessments
• 2014: Laolao, Rota,
• 2015 Yap, Helen’s Reef and Guam
(Sept)
• Next: Chuuk and Pohnpei
What’s Next ?
• Model site designation
• Implementing Coastal Change
Tool Kit
• Enforcement Toolkit
• Strategic Plan
evaluation
• Annual self assessments to
inform planning
• Environmental Courts (HI-July)
• Enforcement Certificate
Program
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