[Coral-List] FW: 23 MPA practitoiners attend the 11th edition of CaMPAM "Training of Trainers program on Caribbean MPA Management" in Grenada and benenfit from a partnership between IUCN BIOPAMA and UNEP-CEP/CaMPAM

[Georgina Bustamante]

Caribbean Marine Conservationists Benefit from Regional Capacity Building
Partnership

 

St. George’s, Grenada, February 19th. Twenty three regional marine
conservation professionals, including four from within Grenada, are spending
10 days sharing information and best practices to improve their skills to
better manage marine protected areas (MPA) in their home countries. 

They are participating in the regional course of the 11th edition of the
Training of Trainers on MPA Management which is being hosted by the
Fisheries Division in St. George’s, Grenada on February 17-26, 2014. The
course gathers the largest number of participants since it was initiated in
1999, and includes modules on biophysical characteristics of coastal
ecosystems, ecosystem services and threats to their resilience,
communication and outreach tools, MPA management operations, research and
monitoring, sustainable financing and alternative livelihoods through
creation of ecotourism operations, resources for meeting obligations to
regional and international agreements, along with a field trip.

Addressing participants at the opening session on February 17, Roland
Baldeo, Grenada’s National MPA Coordinator said: “This Training of Trainers
course for MPA managers in Grenada comes at an opportune time as we seek to
develop the capacity of our local staff in order to have better and more
capable MPA managers. Grenada is therefore pleased to be hosting such an
important regional training course, and we are optimistic about the numerous
benefits that would be derived locally from such a program.”

In welcoming the participants, who are also drawn from Anguilla, Antigua and
Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, St Lucia, St Kitts and
Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago, IUCN BIOPAMA
Protected Areas Officer Hyacinth Armstrong-Vaughn said: “BIOPAMA is pleased
to partner with UNEP-CEP-CaMPAM, TNC and the Grenada Fisheries Division in
delivering this important programme that has been building capacity in the
region for over 15 years. The skills and information imparted will help
improve how our marine resources are managed and expand the professional
network for many of our natural resource practitioners.” 

The 2015 edition of course, which runs until February 26, has been organized
and funded by the EU-ACP Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management
(BIOPAMA) programme, with contributions from the CaMPAM-ECMMAN Small Grant
Program
<http://campam.gcfi.org/ECMMAN/CaMPAM-ECMMAN_Small_Grant_Program_leaflet.pdf
>  (coordinated by the Specially Protected Area and Wildlife (SPAW) Regional
Activity Centre of the United Nations Environment Program Caribbean
Environment Programme’s (UNEP-CEP) as part of the larger ECMMAN project
<http://campam.gcfi.org/ECMMAN/ECMMAN_Project_Leaflet.pdf>  run by The
Nature Conservancy), and the Grenada Fisheries Division.

The course is part of the training activities of CaMPAM
<http://campam.gcfi.org/campam.php> , a professional network with a capacity
building program created in 1997 to strengthen marine protected areas, which
was developed by UNEP-CEP under the framework of SPAW, a protocol of the
Cartagena Convention, the regional treaty on biodiversity. Alessandra
Vanzella-Khouri, SPAW Programme Officer, thanked BIOPAMA for making this
year’s regional course possible. “UNEP-CEP views this type of collaboration
with partners such as BIOPAMA as critical to achieve the conservation agenda
of Caribbean countries and for the sustainable livelihoods of communities.
Other potential synergies with BIOPAMA include joining forces on further
developing capacities and managing information for the application of tools
for planning coastal and marine sustainable activities with an
ecosystem-based approach, tools which consider the need for these economic
activities to flourish while conserving the same resources on which they
depend.”

 

For more, contact Hyacinth Armstrong-Vaughn at
Hyacinth.Armstrong-Vaughn at iucn.org, and Georgina Bustamante at
gbustamante09 at gmail.com 

 

 

 

Georgina Bustamante, Ph.D.
Coordinator 

Caribbean  Marine Protected Area Management (CaMPAM) Network and Forum
The UNEP-CEP capacity building program for MPA managers and stakeholders

Hollywood, Florida, USA
Tel./fax (request) +1 (954) 963-3626
Mobile +1 (305) 297-6995
email: gbustamante09 at gmail.com

skype: yoyibustamante

CaMPAM web site:  <http://campam.gcfi.org/campam.php>
http://campam.gcfi.org/campam.php

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cancelar su subscripción de la Red de Internet CaMPAM, vaya a)
<http://gcfi.org/Forms/CAMPAMLSubscribeEng.php>
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To send a message to CaMPAM List, send it to (Para enviar un mensaje a
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For general information on the CaMPAM-ECMMAN Small Grant program go to
http://campam.gcfi.org/ECMMAN/CaMPAM-ECMMAN_Small_Grant_Program_leaflet.pdf
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From: Georgina Bustamante [mailto:gbustamante09 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 7:05 PM
To: 'campam-l at listserv.gcfi.org'
Subject: Press release: 11th edition of CaMPAM "Training of Trainers program
on Caribbean MPA Management"

 

See press release attached. Don’t miss it.

 

 

 

Georgina Bustamante, Ph.D.
Coordinator 

Caribbean  Marine Protected Area Management (CaMPAM) Network and Forum
The UNEP-CEP capacity building program for MPA managers and stakeholders

Hollywood, Florida, USA
Tel./fax (request) +1 (954) 963-3626
Mobile +1 (305) 297-6995
email: gbustamante09 at gmail.com

skype: yoyibustamante

CaMPAM web site:  <http://campam.gcfi.org/campam.php>
http://campam.gcfi.org/campam.php

To subscribe or unsubscribe to CaMPAM list, go to (Para suscribirse o
cancelar su subscripción de la Red de Internet CaMPAM, vaya a)
<http://gcfi.org/Forms/CAMPAMLSubscribeEng.php>
http://gcfi.org/Forms/CAMPAMLSubscribeEng.php 

To send a message to CaMPAM List, send it to (Para enviar un mensaje a
CaMPAM List, envíelo a)  <mailto:campam-l at listserv.gcfi.org>
campam-l at listserv.gcfi.org 
 To access CaMPAM List archive go to
<http://listserv.gcfi.org/SCRIPTS/WA-GCFI.EXE?A0=CAMPAM-L>
http://listserv.gcfi.org/SCRIPTS/WA-GCFI.EXE?A0=CAMPAM-L

For general information on the CaMPAM-ECMMAN Small Grant program go to
http://campam.gcfi.org/ECMMAN/CaMPAM-ECMMAN_Small_Grant_Program_leaflet.pdf
(more to come)


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