Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TRECKQUITY (Social equity goals in conservation interventions: a system thinking approach to track progress at global level)
Reporting period: 2015-10-19 to 2017-10-18
Equity refers to minimum standards that all members of society are entitled to. Social equity in PAs refers to “PAs established and managed in close collaboration with, and through equitable processes that recognize and respect the rights of indigenous and local communities, and vulnerable populations; and such costs and benefits of the areas are fairly shared” (CBD, 2010). However, significant challenges remain in terms of actual operationalization of equitable management in PAs and its progress report on AT11. These challenges include, among others, the lack of a standardized approach to assess and monitor social equity and the difficulty of reducing social equity to a series of metrics and global indexes.
The aim of this project was to develop an innovative and interdisciplinary methodological approach to track global achievement of equity in PAs from case studies; specifically:
To build a common understanding to facilitate the integration of current multidisciplinary approaches addressing equity.
To gather information and evidence available related to equity in PAs from multiple cases at local scale.
To assess equity in PAs and track progress on reaching the goal of equitably managed PAs in the AT11.
We did not find in the literature or global databases an enough number of multidimensional assessments of social equity in PAs to develop a standardized methodology to report on AT11 from the information they provided. Then, PA managers, staff and community representatives involved in the management of PAs, were surveyed to gather information against the 10 indicators in 225 PAs worldwide (access the online questionnaire in English https://goo.gl/forms/cHGh7UZ1c6pgSeRF2 or Spanish https://goo.gl/forms/EE7tEJ5PqF5B23zj1). They informed about the contribution of a given indicator to achieve equitably managed PAs according to the CBD standard (see an example of specific PA assessment in https://www.protectedplanet.net/).