1. Building Capacity for Protected Area Management in the Pacific An Program Overview Mike Lameier: NOAA PIMPAC Co-coordinator Building Capacity for Protected Area Management in the Pacific An Program Overview Mike Lameier: NOAA PIMPAC Co-coordinator

2. What is Pacific Island Managed and Protected Area Community (PIMPAC)? 1.Community of on-the ground managers collaborating to enhance protected area management

3. "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)

5. 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

6. 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 Capacity- Building in Nonprofit Organizations.2001

7. Why PIMPAC? 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

8. Where PIMPAC Works

9. Services Provided: Funding and Coordination Training and Technical Support Learning Exchanges Partnership Building Information Sharing List serve and www.pimpac.orgwww.pimpac.org Youth Engagement MC Young Champions TNC Marine Fellows

10. Communities All island national and state fisheries agencies and NGOS Micronesians in Island Conservation- (MIC) Coordination: All About Partnerships!

11. Integration of Networks=Success Community Level: Locally Managed Marine Area Network Executive Directive Level Manager Level Micronesians in Island Conservation- (MIC) Head of State Level Micronesia Chief Executive Summit

12. PIMPAC Training Approach Ecosystem Based Approach to Management (Ridge- Reef) Tailored trainings Training of Trainers PIMPAC Mentors

13. PIMPAC Mentors/Trainers (*only possible through partnerships and collaboration)

14. Berna Gorong Nimpal Conservation Area Management Trainer: CCA Management Planning SEM Coordination TNC Partnership and Communication Coordinator

15. Trainer for: Adaptive Management CCA and Enforcement Alliance of Palau Conservation Officers Wayne Andrew

16. 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 See SEM section PIMPAC website

17. Pete Houk (UOG)/Yim Golbuu (PICRC/Palau) Marine Monitoring Train monitoring teams Data collection Monitoring design Data Analysis Data Management Database development Data sharing, reporting Communication

18. Sgt. Mark A./ Capt. Joey Terlaje / Michael Reyes: Guam MPA Patrol Education and Outreach Arrest Procedures Vessel boarding Arrest Report Writing Court Appearances Issuing Citations Officer Survival Tactics Self defense Guam Enforcement Trainers

19. Steven Victor/Liz Terk Conservation Action Planning (CAP) Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness (MPAME) Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management CCA

20. 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

21. 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)

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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)

25. 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

26. 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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