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• Evaluations
• Methods of evaluation
• How evaluations are carried out

Evaluation tools

We use the following evaluation tools:

RAPPAM : Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Areas Management
METT : Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool
EoH Toolkit : Enhance our Heritage Toolkit

Our evaluations

RAPPAM evaluations:

Network level	area	Date of evaluation	Download
National	Burkina Faso	dec 2008
National	Ivory Coast	july 2007
National	Ghana	dec 2009
National	Guinea	feb 2008
National	Bissau Guinea	march 2007
National	Mali	nov 2007
National	Mauritania	oct 2007
National	Niger	april 2010
Nationa	Togo	april 2008
National	Tchad	june 2008
West african region	West African Ramsar sites	June 2009
West african region	West African World Heritage sites	july 2009
West african region	West African network of marine protected areas (RAMPAO)	june 2009
Central african region	Congo Bassin protected areas	may 2010

METT evaluations :

Country	Evaluation tool	Protected area	Interna-tional label	Date of evaluation	Download
Burkina Faso	METT	Sahel wildlife partial reserve		march 2009
Ivory Coast	METT	Comoe national park	PM	June 2009
Ivory Coast	METT	Mont Nimba natural reserve	PM	June 2009
Ivory Coast	METT	Taï national park	PM	June 2009
Guinea	METT	Analysis of management processes of 10 Guinean protected areas		Sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Badiar national park	MAB	sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Guinea-Guinea Bissau transboundary PAs		sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Guinea-Mali transboundary PA		sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Haut Niger national park	MAB	sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Kankan wildlife reserve		sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Kounounkan classified forest		sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Loos islands wildlife sanctuary	RAMSAR	sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Mont Nimba integral natural reserve	PM MAB	sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Tristao islands natural reserve	RAMSAR	sept 2009
Guinea	METT	Ziama classified forest	MAB	sept 2009
Bissau Guinea	METT	Orango national park	MAB	march 2007
Mali	METT	Ansongo Menaka wildlife reserve		march 2009
Mauritania	METT	Diawling national park	MAB RAMSAR	oct 2007
Mauritania	METT	Guelb er Richât		march 2009
Mauritania	METT	Banc d'Arguin national park	PM	June 2009
Niger	METT	Aïr Ténéré natural reserve	PM MAB	April 2010
Niger	METT	“W?national park	PM MAB RAMSAR	April 2010
Niger	METT	Termit and Tin Toumma natural reserve		April 2010
Niger	METT	Gadabedji reserve		April 2010
Niger	METT	Dosso reserve	MAB RAMSAR	April 2010
Niger	METT	Tamou reserve	MAB	April 2010
Senegal	METT	Djoudj birds national park	PM	June 2009
Senegal	METT	Niokolo-Koba national park	PM	June 2009
Togo	METT	Oti Kéran national park	RAMSAR	apr 2008
Togo	METT	Oti Mandouri national park	RAMSAR	apr 2008
Tchad	METT	Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim wildlife reserve		march 2009

EoH evaluations :

Country	Protected area	Interna-tional label	Date of evaluation	Download
Benin	Pendjari national park	RAMSAR :	2008
Ivory Coast	Comoé national park	PM	Jan 2010
Ivory Coast	Taï national park	PM	Jan 2010
Mauritania	Banc d'Arguin national park	PM	Nov 2009
Niger	“W?national park	PM MAB RAMSAR	Feb 2009
Senegal	Djoudj birds national park	PM	Nov 2009
Senegal	Niokolo-Koba national park	PM	Nov 2009

Legend:

MAB : Man And Biosphère
PM : World Heritage natural property
RAMSAR : Wetland recognized by the RAMSAR convention

Methods of evaluation

Many actors of the conservation world such as WWF, TNC or UNESCO World Heritage Centre have developed evaluation methods. They are many (about forty) but they have a common foundation: the framework developed by IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).

For more information download the IUCN Good practice guide on the evaluation of management effectiveness (n°14).

“Effectiveness evaluation?should be understood as a means to:

i) Measure the performance of a protected area and its periphery (or a system of protected areas) according to its raison d'être.

The performance of a protected area (or a system of protected areas) deals with its results and impacts including its classical functions of conservation, environmental education and recreation, etc., but also its cultural, social or economic functions.

ii) Make appropriate and progressive decisions related to this performance and help improve the protected area's context.

The context is the framework in which the protected area's (or the system's) management is implemented. It is not frozen and must improve along with the evolution of knowledge and protected areas' vocations.

iii) Contribute to meeting goals .

The objectives are those identified during the protected area's designation and planning processes and depend on the means and inputs from which the territory benefits. But above all, it gathers functions (social, economic, cultural, recreation, education, etc. development) which are not necessarily taken into account by managers.

iv) Be able to be accountable to partners for protected areas management (including local ones).

The evaluation enables to measure benefits (or costs) of protected areas management and compare them to the efforts undertaken (by the manager, donors, populations ?. This measure is also a basis for identifying the required additional means.

How evaluations are carried out

Evaluations concern:
- sites, parks, reserves, community areas ?selected in each country of the sub-region,
- national, regional and transboundary protected areas management systems,
- specific networks (for example UNESCO World Heritage sites),
- samples of comparable ecosystems (forests, wetlands, islands, etc.).

Conducted by a team of three to five evaluators , each evaluation relies on exchanges with all the stakeholders within and around the protected area and is jointly done with the managers in position. This is resolutely a participatory approach.

Requests for evaluations are done on a voluntary basis. There is no constraint or condition to the process proposed, unless to publish the results and make them available. APAO takes care of all the evaluation charges.

For example, the recommendations of these evaluations have been used by some countries to establish priorities within the framework of the World Global Fund (FEM) Medium Size projects for the implementation of the convention on biological diversity work plan on protected areas.