Scaling MPA Capacity by 2030
Blue Nature Alliance
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Non-governmental organization (NGO)
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Description
In 2024, the Blue Nature Alliance met with over 70 experts from 37 organizations. These marine conservation and capacity development leaders came from MPA networks, universities, government, and nonprofit organizations. Together we launched the Scaling Global MPA Capacity to Reach 30x30 Initiative to better understand the systemic challenges facing MPA capacity, develop a global strategy to address them, and design a Community of Practice (CoP) to shepherd the strategy. This first look at the system’s structure and drivers showed us what the system is set up to produce, and the factors contributing to this dynamic.
The Initiative found that the marine management system overall is failing to protect marine ecosystems and benefit people. To overcome challenges, the Initiative identified three leverage areas where the capacity development field can have the highest impact to strengthen enabling conditions at organizational and societal levels. Based on a systems framework, the Initiative developed a global strategy to guide collective action to shift the marine management system. The strategy consists of three main elements:
Make MPA Capacity Development Matter: is about prioritizing the role of capacity development in management and the need to keep durable capacity development as the key element to achieving management effectiveness, ensuring it is a top priority for decision-makers. The CoP will work to increase investment in this role of capacity development by:
- Finding better ways to measure and communicate impact
- Articulating a narrative for how MPAs matter to multiple sectors and broader sustainability goals
- Sharing the narrative for how consistent delivery of capacity development is essential to the effective management of the MPAs
Build Political Commitment and Resilience to Support MPA Effectiveness:
To bring marine conservation out from the margins and work across sectors, our collective political and technical Influence needs to expand. This portfolio intends to define, demonstrate, and advocate how inclusive stakeholder constituency building can increase the base and diversity of public and private resources committed to long-term MPA capacity.
Ultimately political resilience will grow and MPA benefits will span beyond current administrations. In this way we can scale long term conservation and social impact that MPA’s can provide over time.
Generate “Just Right” Funding:
This pillar is about securing additional funding for capacity development and how to distribute funding effectively. This requires reimagining the status quo funder – NGO - government pipeline. Our intent is to partner with funder collectives to innovate how philanthropy can institutionalize consistent, effective delivery of MPA capacity. Initiatives could include things like designing and testing new grant-making approaches in different regions for MPA Capacity that ensure more impactful, less fragmented, and longer-term grant-making that equitably supports Global South priorities.
At the core, we will cultivate a CoP by articulating and disseminating the systems framework, defining an equitable and transparent governance model, attracting capital to support the strategy, and promoting a culture of learning and knowledge exchange. This allows the CoP to drive aligned strategic actions at regional, national, and site levels that are locally responsive yet globally connected.
Reef Resilience Network/TNC (NGO), CSU-Center for Protected Area Management (Academic Institution), MPA Connect/GCFI (NGO), Micronesia Conservation Trust (Government), Marine Conservation Action Fund (NGO), UNEP-Coordinating Body of the Seas of East Asia (Intergovernmental), WildAid (NGO), Center for Biodiversity & Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History (NGO), PEW Chile (NGO), WIOMSA (NGO), MedPAN (NGO), HELCOM (Intergovernmental Org), Institute for Conservation Leadership (Civil Society Org), National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (NGO), Global Island Partnership (Partnership), Global Network of MPA Networks (Partnerships)
SDGS & Targets
Goal 16
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
16.1
Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
16.1.1
16.1.2
16.1.3
Proportion of population subjected to (a) physical violence, (b) psychological violence and/or (c) sexual violence in the previous 12 months
16.1.4
Proportion of population that feel safe walking alone around the area they live after dark
16.2
End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
16.2.1
Proportion of children aged 1–17 years who experienced any physical punishment and/or psychological aggression by caregivers in the past month
16.2.2
16.2.3
Proportion of young women and men aged 18–29 years who experienced sexual violence by age 18
16.3
Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
16.3.1
Proportion of victims of (a) physical, (b) psychological and/or (c) sexual violence in the previous 12 months who reported their victimization to competent authorities or other officially recognized conflict resolution mechanisms
16.3.2
16.3.3
Proportion of the population who have experienced a dispute in the past two years and who accessed a formal or informal dispute resolution mechanism, by type of mechanism
16.4
By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime
16.4.1
16.4.2
16.5
Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms
16.5.1
16.5.2
16.6
Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
16.6.1
16.6.2
Proportion of population satisfied with their last experience of public services
16.7
Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
16.7.1
Proportions of positions in national and local institutions, including (a) the legislatures; (b) the public service; and (c) the judiciary, compared to national distributions, by sex, age, persons with disabilities and population groups
16.7.2
16.8
Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
16.8.1
Proportion of members and voting rights of developing countries in international organizations
16.9
By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration
16.9.1
16.10
Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
16.10.1
16.10.2
16.a
Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime
16.a.1
16.b
Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development
16.b.1
Goal 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
17.1
Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.1.1
17.1.2
17.2
Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.2.1
17.3
Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.1
Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.2
17.4
Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.4.1
Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods, services and primary income
17.5
Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
17.5.1
Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries
17.6
Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.6.1
Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
17.7
Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.7.1
Total amount of funding for developing and developed countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies
17.8
Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
17.8.1
17.9
Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.9.1
Dollar value of official development assistance committed to developing countries
17.10
Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.10.1
17.11
Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.11.1
Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports
17.12
Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.12.1
Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States
17.13
Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.13.1
17.14
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.14.1
17.15
Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
17.15.1
17.16
Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.16.1
Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
17.17
Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
17.17.1
Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure
17.18
By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.18.1
Statistical capacity indicators
17.18.2
17.18.3
Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding
17.19
By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
17.19.1
17.19.2
Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration
SDG 14 targets covered
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Lihla, Capacity and Learning Lead, Blue Nature Alliance