The Swiss network of parks and ALPARC (Alpine Network of Protected Areas) are organizing a workshop workshop from 16th till 18th of March 2011 in Marbach/Escholzmatt (Switzerland) on the subject of:

"Indicators of management effectiveness“

The subject is of great topical interest: how can we assure a larger effectiveness of the alpine protected areas’ management measures? How can we monitor the effectiveness during the time?

An increasing number of protection authorities as ministries and local communities request to protected areas managers a veritable evaluation, in terms of effectiveness, of their management measures. Some large organisations, such as IUCN and the Council of Europe (European Diploma of Protected Areas ), dealt with this topic at the level of protected areas.

This 15th -16th November the meeting in Bolzano was the occasion to give a progress report on the project for all partners. The specific indicators of management and measures of connectivity to be adopted were indexed for each pilot area.

The workshop on « Indicators of management effectiveness » for protected areas has just finished.
A range of participants came from different Alpine protected areas to meet, talk and work together...