Developmental evaluation of marine conservation management measures

The Authority seeks to design and implement a developmental evaluation of marine conservation management measures.

The evaluation framework should support:

• The identification of a comprehensive and effective evaluation process that tracks the processes used and impacts in terms of contributing to aims of the MPA network, meeting legal and policy requirements, addressing climate change, building resilience, achieving restoration, and producing positive social and economic outputs.
• The assessment and deeper understanding of the initial negative and positive outcomes of conservation management measures as the programme proceeds to inform recommendations on how these can be minimised/maximised going forward.
• The exploration into whether development processes used were widely agreed to be fair, accessible, transparent, and legitimate and if not, put forward recommendations for change.
• The exploration into whether processes currently used optimise ecological, social and economic outcomes and if so/not, why and what changes are required?
• The provision of recommendations on how to communicate the outputs of the evaluation most effectively to different audiences to highlight the changes the MMO will be implementing as a consequence of what they have learned?

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