Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 Increasing the Effectiveness of Coastal Zone Management (Coastal Management) Projects Brian Shipman (PAP)

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002

No time limits Goals change Respond to the unforseen Continuous budgets Multi Level Coastal Management as a PROCESS….

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 Time limited Predetermined Objectives and Process Predetermined Outputs Fixed Budgets Single level Coastal Management as a PROJECT….

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 The Challenge for Projects…. Demonstrate practical concrete results in the short term. Create the conditions for effective coastal management to continue in the long term.

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 How….? Engage... with local reality with local aspirations

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 Issue-led People-centred Locally-specific Effective Coastal Management Projects realism - pragmatism - practical psychology

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 Governance Information and Knowledge Participation and Partnership Indicators

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 GOVERNANCE Political will

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 GOVERNANCE Political will Resources: financial human

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 GOVERNANCE Political will Resources: financial human Legal frameworks

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 GOVERNANCE Political will Resources: financial human Legal frameworks Institutional capacity & maturity

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 GOVERNANCE

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE Information Gap "Data does not equal information, information does not equal knowledge; and knowledge does not equal wisdom. We have oceans of data, rivers of information, puddles of knowledge and the odd drop of wisdom." Nix H. "A National Geographic information - an Achievable Objective? AUSISA Conference

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE Data collection should be strategic and transparent, issue led, with a user focus Technologies should be designed to be fit for purpose and match the of capabilities and needs of end users Information and knowledge flows should be facilitated by consistent use of simple metadata records through internet-based and other gateways Awareness-raising and capacity-building to enhance understanding between providers, users and their needs.

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE FIT FOR PURPOSE meaning, relevance and purpose

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE Models and Decision Support Systems "if you kick a stone, the result is predictable in principle, one can calculate the trajectory of the stone before actually kicking it Kicking a dog, however, is a different matter. Gregory Bateson 1972

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE Smart Communities The quality and presentation of information should be related to the decision making process Specialist scientific knowledge + local indigenous knowledge

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 PARTNERSHIPS & PARTICIPATION

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 PARTNERSHIPS & PARTICIPATION 1Recognise Diversity 2Agree a shared vision 3Understand motivation 4Design the process 5DEMONSTRATE SUCCESS

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 PARTNERSHIPS & PARTICIPATION 1Recognise Diversity 2Agree a shared vision 3Understand motivation 4Design the process 5DEMONSTRATE SUCCESS

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 INDICATORS Selection? Top Down+Bottom Up

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 CONCLUSIONS PROJECT DESIGN –1Tools

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 CONCLUSIONS PROJECT DESIGN –1Tools –2Instruments

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 CONCLUSIONS PROJECT DESIGN –1Tools –2Instruments –3Techniques and Structures

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002 CONCLUSIONS PROGRAMME DESIGN –1Flexibility? –2Evaluation –3Global vs. Local objectives

Joint MAP/METAP Workshop on Coastal Area Management Projects: Improving the Implementation - Malta, January 17-19, 2002