Developing a Guidebook to Assess Fish Conservation Zones in Lao PDR
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This presentation was given at a workshop to select indicators for Fish Conservation Zone (FCZ) assessments on November 7 and 8, 2016, in Vientiane, Lao PDR. Many organizations have worked with communities and government officials throughout Lao PDR to establish co-managed FCZs to promote sustainable fisheries, protect fish species, and/or enhance food security However, few resources exist to determine how well these FCZs are performing to meet their objectives. The only way to determine if FCZs are successful is through assessment. FISHBIO's new project seeks to develop an assessment tool in the form of a best-practices guidebook. This guidebook is intended to be a resource that civil society organizations and government counterparts can use to assess and improve the management and performance of FCZs. Another goal of the project is to provide networking opportunities for the many organizations that have been involved in FCZ establishment.
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Developing a Guidebook to Assess Fish Conservation Zones in Lao PDR
- 1. Project Overview: Developing a Guidebook to Assess Fish Conservation Zones in Lao PDR Presented by: Erin Loury| Fisheries Biologist Funded by: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
- 2. What are FCZs? • Fish Conservation Zones (FCZs) = areas closed to some or all fishing • Goals to protect fish populations, livelihoods, food security • Lao Fisheries Law (2009): Legal framework for FCZ co-management • Responsibility shared between communities and local government authorities • Now more than 1,000 FCZs in Lao PDR
- 3. Many Groups Have Helped Establish FCZs in Lao PDR *This list is not intended to show all groups
- 4. Handbook for FCZ Establishment • 2009 Guidebook by DLF and WWF • Step-by-Step Guidelines for establishing new co- managed FCZs • Community consultations, regulations development and approval, sign installation, enforcement • Next step: FCZ assessment
- 5. Tools are Needed for FCZ Assessment • How do we know if FCZs are successful? Only way to know is with assessment • Fisheries management does not end with FCZ establishment • Need to regularly check-in to assess and adjust management activities • Tools are needed to guide the FCZ assessment process
- 6. FCZ Assessment is Like Health Check-Ups 1) Take a child to visit the doctor. The doctor takes measurements. 2) The doctor uses standard tools to assess whether the child is healthy. 3) The doctor makes recommendations to improve health. 4) Repeat the health check-up process as the child gets older.
- 7. New Project Goal: Develop a Guidebook for Monitoring FCZs in Lao PDR To improve the use of FCZs for aquatic conservation and livelihood sustainability: • Develop a guidebook of best practices for assessing FCZs in Lao PDR • Provide networking opportunities for Civil Society Organizations and fishery co-management groups working with FCZs
- 8. Project Donor: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund • Joint initiative of l'Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the European Union, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank • Goal to work with Civil Society to protect “biodiversity hotspots” (biologically rich yet threatened areas)
- 9. CEPF work in the IndoBurma Hotspot • Investing in projects since 2008 • Regional Implementation Team = IUCN Asia Regional Office in Bangkok • Funded 2 previous FISHBIO Laos FCZ projects • Funded other projects in Laos related to elephants, gibbons, silver-leafed monkey, plants, illegal wildlife trade, Mekong River livelihoods
- 10. Three Project Phases from 2016-2018 • 2016: Develop a framework for assessing FCZ effectiveness and create a draft guidebook for FCZ assessment in Lao PDR • 2017: Test the framework outlined in the guidebook by measuring indicators at 3 pilot FCZ sites in the field • 2018: Refine, finalize, and disseminate the guidebook
- 11. Project Output: FCZ Assessment Guidebook • The guidebook will be multi-page document. This tool is intended to help a community or organization answer the question, “Is this FCZ successful?” • Will include list of recommended indicators of FCZ performance in three categories: • Ecological • Socioeconomic • Governance • Will include guidance on methods that can be used to measure each of these indicators in the field • Written in English and translated into Lao, available online
- 12. Intended Benefits •Help FCZ managers use time and effort most effectively by determining which approaches are successful or unsuccessful •Help CSOs collect information to demonstrate to donors the value of continued support for FCZs •Allow stakeholders to provide input on the guidebook to ensure it is as useful and relevant as possible •Improve communication and sharing lessons learned among organizations involved in FCZ management and assessment
- 13. Multinational Agreements Have Targets for Protected Areas and Fisheries Conservation • United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) • Convention on Biological Diversity: Aichi Biodiversity Targets • Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems (includes inland freshwater ecosystems) • Aichi Target 6: Sustainable use of fish stocks • Aichi Target 11: Inland waters “… are conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well connected systems of protected areas...” • Lao National Level CBD target: “At least 250 Fish Conservation and breeding sites (that include local/indigenous species) are established and are recognized /supported by stakeholders”
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- Now that you have some background about Fish Conservation Zones and FISHBIO, Our goal in this next presentation is to introduce everyone to FISHBIO’s new project called developing a Guidebook to assess Fish Conservation Zones in Lao PDR. Describe our motivation for the project, the activities, timeline, and our intended benefits.
- To reiterate that FCZs are very important in Laos, and there are many of them.
- Many players involved. These are just a few, we’re not trying to forget anybody. One of our goals is trying to identify who all the players are. This is the user group we hope will benefit from the outputs of our project. Because many groups hae invested a lot of time, resources, and effort in esstablishing FCZs, Goal of our project is to create a tool that will benefit all these actors.
- A helpful tool exists for establishing FCZs. FISHBIO uses this protocol. Once the FCZs are established, the next step is assessing themm, which this handbook recommends. Our goal is to create a similar tool for that next step of assessment.
- Why do we need tools for asessment. Not enough to establish them and hope that they work, for them to really be successful we need to check in regularly to see if we need to adjust management activities.
- Assessment is important to do regularly. Measure different indicators of human health like heart rate and bloood pressure. Just like a doctor needs tools, we need tools to perform a standard FCZ assessment, and that is what our project is hoping to provide. When you create an FCZ you may do an initial check in at the end of the project, but it’s important to continue to go back and check the health of the FCZ and confirm that it’s achieving it’s goals.
- Because there are so many groups working on FCZs, we want to try to bring people together and learn from each other.
- Funding comes from CEPF. Joint initiative of many governments and donors. Because the donor’s mission is to work with Civil Society, that is the goal of our project.
- This is our ideal timeline, although it might be shifted somewhat.
- At the end of the project, we hope to produce a document in the form of a guidebook that people can use as a tool to help conduct an FCZ assessment. Developing these indicators is the focus of our upcoming technical workshop this afternoon and tomorrow, so we’ll be talking about them at length. We’ve come up with these symbols to represent 3 categories of indicators. Our goal is for the tool to be widely accessible
- Assessment is important because it takes a lot of time an effort to establish and manage FCZs, and we need to know If that effort is being used effectively. FCZ assessment is complex, and this tool is not intended to be comprehensive, but it’s a starting point for people to build off of. Donors also want to see evidence that these interventions are working. We want to create an initial foundation that can continue to evolve and grow over time.
- Another benefit to this project is that FCZ assessment can help fulfill targets for protected areas set by multinational agreemnts such as the …In a broad context, the this type of assessment matters because it’s directly related to goals set by many targets set by multinational agreements. So our project is hoping to work towards improving sustainable fisheries management and the protection of freshwater areas.