EoH and the Serengeti General Management Plan

1. EoH and the Serengeti General Management Plan

2. Two processes: EoH and GMP

3. EoH tools which directly fed into the management plan development • Tool 5: Assessment of Management Planning • Tool 1: Identifying Site Values and Management Objectives (context) • Tool 9: Assessment of Management Plan Implementation (outputs) • Tool 12: Review of Management Effectiveness Assessment Results (outcome)

5. Assessment of previous management plans Main recommendations • Need for a clear distinction between objectives (outcomes), outputs and actions • Clear link between parks purpose statement and the objectives (outcomes), outputs and actions • Make the plan more relevant to the day-to-day management needs of SENAPA park managers.

6. Serengeti National Park 10 year General Management Plan Management programmes Context Monitoring plan Purpose and values Management objectives and strategies Targets 3 year action plans Management actions

7. Output and outcome monitoring Monitoring of GMP Output monitoring Outcome monitoring Serengeti GMP Implementation database Ecosystem monitoring plan Tourism monitoring plan Community outreach monitoring plan Park operations monitoring plan

8. Outputs: Plan implementation • Tool 9: Assessment of Management Plan Implementation • Concept: Is the management plan and/or work programme being implemented and what are the results, or outputs, from the management process? • Methodology and datasheet: System for ranking implementation status of activities outlined in primary planning document

10. Ranking actions • Action has not commenced • Work is only reactive and not to a set plan • Planning is in progress • Policy and/or planning stages are complete but have not been implemented • Some work has commenced in all or some areas • Action is making substantial progress in all areas • Action has been completed or policy is in place

11. Serengeti management plan outputs relating to: Relations and benefits to local communities

12. Management Plan Implementation 1998-2000

13. Management Plan Implementation Database • Database that mirrors the structure and content of the management plan • Makes the management plan available in an electronic form so that it more accessible to managers for daily use • Provides a way for tracking the extent to which the actions in the management plan have been implemented

14. Database benefits • Track individual actions over time • Track effort put into different management areas • Forward planning tool to determine priority actions • Captures comments on possible adjustments to plan • Helps with plan review and preparation of annual plans and three-year rolling programme • Can search management plan for actions relating to a particular topic

15. Draft plan into database For all actions in the plan • Assigned key words – so actions are searchable under themes • Defined if the action was urgent or not within the timeframe of the plan

16. Tourism Poaching Fire Communities Visitor management Campsites Commercial tourism Tour operators Lodges Interpretation Information Liaison Research Monitoring Environmental impacts Human/animal conflict Natural resources Cultural resources Training Staff Zonation Infrastructure Equipment Law enforcement Administration Policy Funding Planning Waste management Water management Corridors Migration Conservation/development orgs. Keywords

18. Outcomes: Ecosystem Monitoring

19. Outcomes Assessment • Tool 12: A Methodology for Assessing the Outcomes of Management – related to Ecological Integrity • Concept: Is management protecting the values for which the site was designated • Methodology and datasheet: Ecological monitoring assessment developed

20. Ecosystem Management Programme • Prioritised eight conservation targets • A series of Key Ecological Attributes (KEAs) • Indicators for assessing status and trends of KEAs

21. Step 1: Agree the major conservation targets to identify a group of “key ecological attributes” that need to be monitored Step 2: Make an initial choice of measures / indicators to reflect the targets and attributes Step 3: Refine this draft list of indicators and determine their thresholds and power to detect change Optional step 3a: identify responses to a breach of the thresholds Step 4: Finalise indicators Step 5: Compare data needed with existing monitoring processes / data and identify gaps Step 6: Develop detailed monitoring protocols Step 7: Develop a data management system Step 8: Assessment of management outcomes: initially to establish a baseline and then to monitor against this baseline

22. Indicator: Seasonal migratory movements (in the west of the Grumeti River (Ikona WMA); East Kuka/West Loliondo route to Kenya; Salai Plains, Lake Victoria; Maswa, Grumeti and Ikorongo GR) Justification for selection: Threats to the ecosystem which support the migration route, especially in the areas outlined above

24. Ecological Integrity: Draft assessment results Overview of each target and a breakdown of status and trends of individual indicators

25. Lessons learned • The tools developed for EoH can provide a much of the background information needed to develop a target based management plan for natural World Heritage sites • The tools also provide a good foundation for the development of monitoring of plans outputs (i.e. actions) and outcomes (i.e. overall objectives) • Will it work for cultural sites as well?