Q 28 - How to create/increase stakeholder knowledge, awareness and engagement on MPAs and MSP?#

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Effective communication tailored to diverse stakeholder types is essential to creating or increasing stakeholder knowledge, awareness, and engagement on MPAs and MSP, ensuring clear messaging and transparency. Early involvement and consultation build trust while setting realistic expectations, which helps manage differing objectives and interests. Providing accessible information, hosting interactive workshops, and sharing best practices can enhance understanding. Additionally, allocating adequate time and resources for engagement and securing government commitment ensures sustained collaboration and active participation in the process.

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ESE1 - Ecological toolkit#

Practices: Scoping Prioritisation and designation Implementation and management Monitoring and evaluation
Spatial scales: Transboundary / sea basin National Regional / local
Protection regimes: Strict protection Non-strict protection
Marine zones: Coastal zone Deep sea Offshore zone

Implementation details

Ensure early inclusion of stakeholders to increase engagement in conservation and regular back-up. Work on and highlight the synergies between conservation and human objectives. Promote Equity in management plans and ensure that the conservation initiatives are grounded in relevant scientific knowledge, made available for stakeholders. Don’t over-simplified scientific discourses that can lead to shortcuts that are detrimental in the long term. Encourage bottom-up initiatives, especially favourising the contact with the environment as it is fundamental that closure and conservation measure is sloped so as not to cut off access to the environment. Favorise on field presence of management officers and mediators, especially during summer, and promote human contacts.

Although this question relates more strongly to other ESE modules, from an ecological point of view, with regards to building stakeholder knowledge and awareness, certain central criteria and aspects from the ESE1 should be kept in mind. Building knowledge and awareness of key conservation issues can revolve around aspects such as the functional role species and habitats provide (e.g. criteria: food web structure, presence of key functional species such as Apex Predators and key functional areas e.g. carbon sink areas), life cycle critical areas whereby stakeholders can identify and understand the role of important areas for the life cycle and connectivity of species (e.g. developmental areas, larval sources, ecological corridors and spawning aggregation areas) and how impacts on these important functional and life cycle areas can have an effect of the stability and integrity of ecosystems and the vulnerability of impacts on other habitats and species. In essence the interconnectivity nature of the marine environment should be approached with an ecosystem-based management point of view.