Capacity assessment for protected area management /
Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
- Quezon City : DENR Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau, 2003.
- 96 pages: illustrations; 22 cm.
Part 1.0 :Review of institutional capacity for managing protected areas -- Institutionalize protected area management plans -- Establish organizational and management structure -- Rationalize PAMB membership -- Organizational development of PAMB -- Legislative action -- Orientation and appreciation for PAMB members -- Decentralize appointment and re-appointment pf PAMB members -- Resource generation -- Knowledge management and information resource -- Social marketing -- Professionalization of PA management -- Establish performance standards for PA management -- Best practices and model PA -- Part 2.0: Review of the policy environment for managing protected areas -- Systems construct: policy on community participation -- Objectives -- Process -- Institutional back-up -- Administration system -- Funding the PAMB: the IPAF -- Observation -- Centralization vs. decentralization -- Community empowerment -- Networking and alliance building -- Conclusion -- Recommendation -- Decentralization -- "Localizing" the PAMB -- Emphasizing community empowerment -- Autonomy -- State-led vs. community-led -- Lessons from Thailand -- Part 3.0: Review of the individual capacity for managing protected areas -- PA management and conservation -- Leadership and management -- Support group for PA -- Guidelines of meetings procedure and documentation -- Knowledge management and Information technology (IT) utilization -- Preparation of project proposals -- Good governance -- Accountability -- Participation -- Predictability -- Transparency -- Part 4.0: Comprehensive development strategy and action plan -- Issues and concerns -- Overall framework for capacity building -- Strategy -- Multi-sectoral strategy in biodiversity conservation -- Biological diversity: the need for mainstreaming -- Broadening the base of the DENR -- Social change -- Limitations of the strategy -- Action plan -- General policy themes Action plan for the short term -- Action plan of the medium term