PIMPAC Adaptive Management Course for Micronesia – Virtual, 2024

In the winter of 2024, supported by the Pacific Islands Managed and Protected Areas Community (PIMPAC) and the Micronesia Challenge, the Reef Resilience Network and The Nature Conservancy’s Micronesia Program partnered with the Micronesia Conservation Trust to deliver a 5-part online training on "using protected area management effectiveness (PAME) to update management plans" to marine managers in Kosrae, Palau, Pohnpei, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Yap.  

The objectives of the course were to help participants:   

1. Understand key components of management effectiveness that should be considered throughout different management stages (e.g., scoping, planning, implementation, learning, adaptive management).  
2. Adapt management through assessing site management effectiveness, developing a work plan to improve effectiveness, and updating a management plan.   
3. Gain capacity to lead Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME) assessments and adapt management to improve effectiveness in local contexts.  

As part of the course, teams reviewed key components of management effectiveness, assessed their site using the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT-4), and used information discussed throughout the course to support the updating of their sites’ management plans.    

Staff, partners, and hosts included: Meghan Gombos (Sea Change Consulting), Annick Cros (TNC/RRN), Liz Terk (TNC-Micronesia), Berna Gorong (TNC-Micronesia), and Henry Borrebach (TNC/RRN).