1. IUCN WCPA
Capacity Development
Mike Appleton and Eleanor Sterling

2. Thanks

3. Caring for 20+% of the planet needs skilled and committed people….
….and effective organisations to support them

4. Progress in the last year

5. General
Reconstituting a list of 260+ WCPA members with a special interest in capacity development
Many new WCPA members recruited
Forming a core group to steer our work
Framework and terms of reference for thematic working groups
BIOPAMA inputs

6. General
Finalising the Strategic Framework for Capacity Development (SFCD)

7. 2. Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
IUCN WCPA Strategic Framework for Protected Area Capacity Development
Strategic
Framework
1. Professionalization
2. Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
3. Enabling CD
4. Evaluation
PARKS
PEOPLE
PLANET

8. Presentations

9. PA and Conservation Learning News

10. Knowledge café (Evaluation
Conservation campus (Learning about Learning),
Workshop (Healthy Nature for Human Health and Wellbeing)

11. SFCD Programme 1: Professionalization
GOAL Ensure that protected area management is widely recognized as a distinct profession, with its own standards, systems and tools

12. Professionalization Progress
Draft competences circulated and being widely used
Competences register and user guide peer reviewed and ready for publication
Competences and standards working group
National CD plans completed for Romania, Croatia and Georgia, and in progress for Albania
Organisational CD group formed (working with BirdLife and FFI)
Discussing a standards project in Europe

13. SFCD Programme 2 Indigenous peoples and local communities
Capacity development initiatives include and address the specific needs of Indigenous, traditional, and local community stewards of protected areas and
other conserved territories

14. Indigenous People and Local Communities
Developing training guidelines for biocultural indicator frameworks (human, environmental well-being)
Workshops: indigenous and community leaders in Pacific, US and France
Training in visioning, use of UNU indicators
Harmonize locally relevant indicators with National reporting on Aichi and SDG targets
Literature review of existing indicator frameworks
Guidelines expected 2017
Developing network
Diverse pathways of engagement are established and supported within and between indigenous and local communities
Peer to peer network in Pacific
Intergenerational transfer of knowledge/knowledge sharing good practices

15. SFCD Programme 4 Evaluation
The capacity development community makes use of an evidence-based directory of processes, criteria, and indicators for comprehensively measuring and assessing
the effectiveness and impact of capacity development

16. Evaluation Working group formed and invited Work plan agreed
Workshop at ICCB in Montpellier
Work started on a review of evaluation processes and tools (researcher engaged)
WCC Knowledge Café Event
Directory of what evaluation tools work where

17. Resources and support are available to implement the SFCD
SFCD Programme 3 Enabling capacity development

18. Enabling CD Learning about learning
Guidance for Capacity Developers (with BirdLife)
Draft guidelines for planning, monitoring, and evaluation in CD
E- Learning
Mentoring (Earth Skills Network, Global Parks, Conservation Coaches Network)
IUCN/WCPA Endorsement of Capacity Programmes and Providers
Better alignment with publications

19. Issues Endorsement of capacity programmes and providers
WCC ideas thoughts. Please see me
Exemplary Capacity Development evaluation tools, techniques and examples. Brainstorm.