2. WHY DO WE NEED THIS NOW?
• A growing need to listen to voices from the ground, learn from
them and strategize future interventions at scale
• Significant ambitions to protect critical habitats in the Coral Triangle
region need to be matched with rapid and systematic scaling of
capacity, skills and solutions
• Scaling of knowledge and capacity among practitioners – urgently needed
to address capacity gaps in setting up and managing existing and new
MPAs/OECM effectively
• Scaling of existing on-ground efforts – in true partnership with communities
– to address challenges
4. Scaling Deep : Collaborative management in Wakatobi
NP, Indonesia
• 20+ years work with community groups,
local and national stakeholders, and
National Park authority in Wakatobi become
a model to develop MPA co-management.
• Wakatobi NP is recognized as a learning
site for Coral Triangle MPA System by CTI-
CFF and CT6 member countries
5. FORKANI supporting Wakatobi National Park
Management Authority
Training and education Connecting science and community Community development
6. Scaling Up : Establishing MPA Center of Excellence in
Wakatobi Working with Ministry of Marine Affair and
Fisheries, WWF Indonesia support capacity
building to some community groups
champions to become as mentors for
students of Marine and Fisheries Community
College in Wakatobi and facilitating students
to do internship in community learning and
innovation hubs
7. MEETING OUR
AMBITIONS
MASSIVE SCALING OF CAPACITY
TO ENABLE AN EXPANSION OF
MARINE PROTECTED AREAS AND
OECMs
We will take lessons learnt in creating a wider network of Community Learning
and Innovation Hubs, which could become connected to proposed networks of
Marine Centres of Excellence (CoE) - a key feature of the Coral Triangle’s
new 5-year strategic plan.
CoEs are meant to target upper levels of government institutions (policy makers, local government
leaders, MPA managers and staffs etc), the academia (marine science, social science, etc) and
industries (tourism, fisheries, waste management etc), and focus on promoting global standards in MPA
and fisheries management, strengthening governance, leveraging multidisciplinary leadership, and
building capacity
Year 1
Start with training
500 people
Year 2
1250 people
trained
Year 3
5000 people
trained
Year 4
10000 people
trained
Year 5
15,750 people
trained
A potential trajectory for MPA Centres of Excellence – supporting Aichi Target 11
8. Scaling Out : Community Learning and
Innovation Hub Identifying existing community groups,
champions, and knowledge assets, e.g:
• WAPO, Omadal Island, Malaysia
• Mahonia Na Dari, PNG
• Women Saving Club, Gizo, Solomon Islands
• FORKANI, Wakatobi, Indonesia
• BUMK Menarbu, Teluk Wondama, Indonesia
• Asai, Yapen, Indonesia
9. Bismarck Solomon Sea
Lesser Sunda Seascape
Community Learning and Innovation Hub
in Priority Seascapes in Coral Triangle
Sulu Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion
❏ Community Innovation & Learning Hubs :
Community enterprise, Ecosystem restoration,
Seaturtle conservation
❏ Gender-led community approaches
to conservation - Women’s Savings
Club
❏ LMMA and ICCA approaches
❏ MPA CoE as learning sites to promoting collaborative management
❏ FORKANI as a model of community organizing
10. Scaling Out : Replication the Learning Innovation Hubs
at community level Under EU Ocean Governance and
EPSON projects, WWF strengthening
role of coastal communities to support
ecosystem restoration in Sulu
Sulawesi Seascape
11. Scaling Out : Replication the Learning Innovation Hubs
at community level • Under Oak projects, WWF
strengthening role of coastal
community to support Sustainable
Livelihood Approaches and
Community Enterprises in Papua and
Wakatobi
The new framework recognizes a changing global context - the risks of climate change impact are especially high in this region, putting countries’ infrastructure, economies, and people in very vulnerable positions. Biodiversity is in a critical state of decline and requires urgent, committed action to be restored. Plastic now exists in our food chain, our rainwater and in the air that we breathe.
Collaborative management was promoted in 2002 as an approach to support the revision of Wakatobi National Park management plan.
To improve the capacity of the stakeholders and coastal communities, outreach and awareness programs as well as series of technical trainings were conducted before the process of public consultation taken.
The new zoning and management plan was signed together between Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation with Head of Wakatobi District to show the share responsibility between national and local governments, representing the communities, in manage the National Park of Wakatobi.
The announcement of Wakatobi as a Man and Biosphere site in 2012 by UNESCO, recognize the co-management between National government, Local government with Indigenous People of Wakatobi in managing Wakatobi natural resources
WWF initiate the establishment of Center of Excellence in Wakatobi to combine between formal education in Wakatobi Marine and Fisheries Community College with informal education that have develop by FORKANI through their learning sites and community groups in Wakatobi.
MPA Centre of Excellence in Indonesia
Improve management effectiveness of existing MPAs or develop OECM (Other Effective Conservation Measures) area such as LMMA, Sasi (traditional closure area) towards ensuring improved ecological functions, socio-economy benefits, and governance
Adoption Ecosystem Approach on Fisheries Management in small scale fisheries management
Strengthening coastal community institutions
Monitoring and evaluation (Lesson learn documentation and dissemination)
Notes:
We need to set targets for effective management of these areas. A fundamentally urgent need would be to fill capacity gaps. From training park managers and enabling policy knowledge exchange, to developing citizen science, monitoring and planning capacities among coastal communities, as well as fostering local entrepreneurship, access to finance and technology, etc.Example:
1000 people trained for each 1 million hectare (on park management, sustainable fisheries, environmental education, entrepreneurship, etc)
Eg. If we have 32,5 M ha to be effective by 2030, then it’s 32,500 people to be trained
73,4 M ha for CT 🡪 73,400 people to be trained
The Pushback
Linking coastal community with scaling success and knowledge
Centres of Excellence / Academies for Coastal Communities
Innovation Hubs of the CRR could be leveraged for these