The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA) is a major initiative aimed at protecting at least 50 million hectares of Amazonian forests through partnerships, strategic financial mechanisms, and effective management practices. It emphasizes establishing priorities based on biodiversity maps and involves collaboration among various stakeholders, including governmental and non-governmental entities. Key components include capacity building, financial sustainability via an endowment fund, and customized evaluation tools to enhance management effectiveness and operational transparency.

1. Amazon Region Protected Areas Program Innovation in Protected Areas System Management Ronaldo Weigand Jr. , Ph.D. – Rome – Feb 2008

2. What is ARPA?

3. ARPA Program The largest initiative to create and implement protected areas on the Planet.

4. Targets Protect at least 50 million hectares of Amazonian forests. Establish perennial complementary financial mechanisms to sustain PAs in the long run. Forests and financial support “for ever”.

5. Finances US$ 400 million Endowment fund (FAP – Protected Areas Fund): US$ 240 million Only US$ 8 per hectare

6. Results

7. Financial performance

8. Results - Area

11. What makes up an effective program?

12. What makes up an effective program? Partnership, participation, strategic vision, informatization, capacity building, financial sustainability.

13. Partnership

14. Partnership Ministry of Environment Coordination Donors: GEF/World Bank, KfW e WWF Financial resources and supervision Federal and state PA Agencies Technical execution Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (Funbio) Financial execution Technical cooperation: GTZ and WWF Support to innovation and capacity building Local organizations and private companies

15. Partnership Financial resources are donated to Funbio Free from government constraints and co-financing limitations Private sector (and donor) rules Relative flexibility

16. Participation

17. Participation Recognition of mutual dependency Common identity Meetings and participation forums Technical forum Communication group Capacity building group Donor/management monthly meetings Scientific Advisory Panel Program committee

18. Strategic focus

19. Strategic Focus We do not have all the money needed to implement all the PAs We have to establish priorities based on sound criteria Two mechanisms: Map of Biodiversity Priority Areas Conservation and Investment Strategy

20. Biodiversity Priority Areas 1999: first map 2006: update Conservation Systematic Planning Innovation: 2004: official recognition Participation and negotiation to incorporate local knowledge and regional planning instruments

22. Conservation and Investment Strategy Management is the art of establishing priorities, deciding what is to be done now, what is to be done later, and what will never be done, despite how nice it would be to do it, considering our limited resources. If you don´t establish priorities you risk not accomplishing anything

23. Conservation and Investment Strategy A tool to identify and negotiate priorities in PA creation, implementation and consolidation, according to program targets and resources. A model considering ecological representativeness, level of threat (urgency), managerial capacity and management effectiveness, and the potential contribution to the Program targets.

24. Ecological representativeness Conservation targets comprised of a combination of vegetation types and WWF´s ecoregions Validate by the Scientific Advisory Panel About 250 conservation targets 10% of each target

25. Level of threat 30 year-model Considers Business as usual scenarios Regional differences Government plans (roads and infrastructure) Validate by the Scientific Advisory Panel

26. Business-as-usual

27. Perda até 2004 Fonte: Nelson, Soares e Albernaz 2006

28. Perda simulada até 2036 Fonte: Nelson, Soares e Albernaz 2006

29. Managerial capacity Allocation of minimum team to the PA Average daily expenditure capacity

30. Management Effectiveness

31. Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool - METT Proposed by the World Bank/WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use. Adopted by GEF Biodiversity Strategy WCPA Framework

32. Tracking Tool

33. Adaptations One aspect per question Simplify and rephrase the questions as indicators. Eliminate additional subquestions (or make them indicators). Change from an ordinal scoring system (0-1-2-3) to a percentage (%) scoring system. Divide the questions per subprogram of work of the PA. Management plan Participation Environmental protection Demarcation and land consolidation Operationalization: infra-structure and equipment Research and monitoring

34. Adapting the questionnaire 108 words Translation of the scoring system 45 words

35. Adaptations Identify among the indicators the ones that represent the Program´s reference indicators. Determine which score level represents a PA that has reached the level of establishment or consolidation.

36. Adaptations Re-classify indicators according to PDCA (or WCPA) approach (Plan, Do, Check, Act) Context Planning Inputs Actions (Process) Results Impacts

37. Adaptations Develop a different system to evaluate effectiveness, mainly, do not sum results and inputs (effectiveness is results per input, not results plus inputs; the more results with less inputs, the more effective you are). Change the scoring system From sum-all to Results (cummulative and average) Results per action (efficacy) Actions per input (efficiency) Results per input (effectiveness)

38. Adaptations Consolidate the PAET (PA Evaluation Tool), but maintain its possibility to be translated into METT Keep communication with global evaluation innitiatives

39. Adaptations Develop an Internet interface for PAET application, approval and public control, integrated with the National Database on Protected Areas: SysARPA Develop TTs for other program components, including Program Coordination.

40. On-line Tool Applied every 6 months

42. Use it for Planning Why monitor? Why self-evaluate? The same tool was adapted for planning. PAs use the Program´s reference indicators to plan targets. They revise the present year´s target for each indicator and plan the next two years: Pluri-annual Strategic Plan (PSP) Express annual targets using numbers. Develop an Internet interface for PSP: SysARPA.

43. Target Planning

44. Financial Model How much does ARPA cost? Develop a typology - 8 types of PAs, according to: size, type of access, category Model costs for each reference indicator. Investiment costs Maintenance costs Let PAs plan.

45. Combine all in a Linear Program Solver addin of MS Excell allows you to model a choice of options according to targets, resources and constraints. each PA enters with its investment and recurrent costs (which are constrained by Program resources), its contribution to the Program targets (the area of each conservation target, its management effectiveness pluri-annual targets, and its area in the respective category).

46. Validation Negotiate targets and costs with ARPA implementers Run Solver several times Create a report Submit to the approval of the Program Commitee

47. INFORMATIZED SYSTEMS

48. “ The Brain” System Implemented by Funbio flow of managerial decisions regarding inputs that PAs need to implement the project. Orders Approvals Acquisitions Financial Reports

49. SisARPA Protected Areas National Database PA Evaluation Tool Pluriannual strategic plan PA work plan Inputs plan Conservation and Investment Strategy Orders Acquisitions Receival The Brain/Funbio Target management and reports Equipment and facilities maintenance Virtual Library Biodiversity monitoring Capacity building SisARPA 1 SisARPA 2 SisARPA 3

51. Publication and access Publication with description, methodology and results 2007 will be launched during COP 9 Link (in Portuguese) for guests: http://sistemas.mma.gov.br/arpa Login: 33333333333 Password:3

52. FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

53. Financial Sustainability Endowment fund: Fundo de Áreas Protegidas (Protected Areas Fund) Target 240 million Innovative financial instruments

54. Fundo de Áreas Protegidas Foreign returns

55. Fundo de Áreas Protegidas

56. What makes up an effective program? Partnership, participation, strategic vision, informatization, capacity building, financial sustainability.

57. Ronaldo Weigand Jr. - www.mma.gov.br/arpa - arpa@mma.gov.br