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# PAPACO

IUCN Programme African Protected Areas & Conservation

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://papaco.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [News](https://papaco.org/news-2/)
- [Q&A with the MOOC Conservation team (8 November 2022)](https://papaco.org/2022/11/09/qa-8-november-2022/) - Flow of webinar 01:15 - 06:20International MPAs, how the process starts when several countries are involved. 06:30 - 11:21Are all MPAs supposed to have an IUCN category? 11:35 - 14:07Is there any criteria for a local MPA to be recognized internationally under IUCN? 14:10 - 21:43Evaluation of management effectiveness: is there a centralized regulatory body?
- [NAPA November 2022](https://papaco.org/2022/11/07/napa-november-2022/) - NAPA 168 for November 2022 covers our #MOOCs and Q&A webinars held so far. We're also introducing two tutors helping us spread the news about youth-conservation.org in Burkina Faso and the Congo. Finally, you'll be able to read an excerpt from the latest publication on the Red List of Endangered Species in West Africa. Fill
- [NAPA October 2022](https://papaco.org/2022/10/06/napa-october-2022/) - NAPA 167 for October introduces the modules or general content of youth-conservation.org. The site is available in French, but we hope you will share the word with your French-speaking peers while we wait for the English version, hopefully in 2023. A good read included in this NAPA is one of our Belgian MOOC students’ story
- [NAPA September 2022](https://papaco.org/2022/09/06/napa166/) - This month's NAPA 166 is all about the new MOOC session starting 12 September. There are some key dates to remember including a couple of webinars with MOOC speakers. This NAPA also features to stories from the field, where learners tell us how the MOOCs have helped them in their work. Fill out the form
- [Session T2 2022: practical information](https://papaco.org/2022/09/29/session-t2-2022-practical-information/) - The second MOOC session of 2022 started 12 September. On Monday, we totaled almost 7000 new registrations for this session alone, which brings us to 96,200 registrations since we started the MOOCs in 2015. This session, we planned several webinars with the MOOC Conservation team. The first one took place today and was a major
- [NAPA July 2022](https://papaco.org/2022/07/25/napa-july-2022/) - In this month's NAPA 165, you'll be able to read about the latest MOOC Conservation figures: how many students? Attestations? There are also a couple of interesting articles on protected area success stories, Marine mammal toolkits, and the field trip taken by our University Diploma students. Fill out the form to receive the NAPA in

## Pages

- [Home](https://papaco.org/) - The Programme on African Protected areas & Conservation (PAPACO) is a programme of IUCN’s Protected and Conserved Areas (PCA) team. Its vision is to improve the management and governance of parks and reserves in Africa, and thereby increase their positive impact in terms of biodiversity conservation.
- [The News on African Protected Areas (NAPA)](https://papaco.org/napa/) - The News on African Protected Areas (NAPA) is a monthly newsletter produced by Papaco. The NAPA deals with current events, studies, trainings, interviews, jobs advertising - all related to protected areas across the whole continent. To subscribe and receive the NAPA every month, tick the NAPA box and fill out the form. All previous NAPAs are
- [Nouvelles des Aires Protégées en Afrique (NAPA)](https://papaco.org/napa-fr/) - Nouvelles des Aires Protégées en Afrique (NAPA) est une lettre d’information mensuelle réalisée par le Papaco. La NAPA traite de sujets d’actualités portant sur les aires protégées africaines et partage des résultats d’études, des interviews, informe sur des événements importants, des formations et diffuse des offres de postes. Pour vous inscrire à la NAPA mensuelle, merci
- [Publications](https://papaco.org/publications/) - Publications to download Here you'll find Papaco studies, publications from partners and IUCN guidelines. Papaco commissions studies to better understand what the context and issues that contribute to the good or bad management of protected areas in Africa. You'll also find other interesting publications that will help understand factors to work on to improve conservation
- [Home - Français](https://papaco.org/fr/) - A propos Le Programme sur les aires protégées et la conservation en Afrique (PAPACO) est un programme de l'UICN qui se concentre sur le développement des capacités. Sa vision est d'améliorer la gestion et la gouvernance des parcs et réserves en Afrique, et donc d'augmenter leur impact positif en termes de conservation de la biodiversité.
- [Publications](https://papaco.org/publications-fr/) - Publications à télécharger Vous trouverez ici les études de la Papaco, les publications de ses partenaires et les lignes directrices de l'UICN. Le Papaco commande des études pour mieux comprendre le contexte et les enjeux qui contribuent à la bonne ou mauvaise gestion des aires protégées en Afrique. Vous trouverez également d'autres publications intéressantes qui
- [RAPPAM](https://papaco.org/rappam-fr/) - Rapid Assessment and Prioritisation of Protected Areas Management (RAPPAM) Le RAPPAM permet une évaluation rapide du réseau d'aires protégées à l'échelle nationale ou régionale. Cette méthodologie fournit aux agences chargées des aires protégées une vue d'ensemble à l'échelle nationale (ou régionale) de l'efficacité de la gestion des aires protégées, des menaces, des vulnérabilités et de
- [METT](https://papaco.org/mett-fr/) - Outil “Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool” (METT) Le METT permet de faire une évaluation rapide de l’efficacité de la gestion d’une aire protégée donnée. Il est beaucoup moins détaillé que l’outil EoH, donc moins complet, mais il a l’avantage d’être très facile à réaliser par les gestionnaires eux-mêmes et il apporte suffisamment d’information pour identifier les
- [EoH](https://papaco.org/eoh-fr-2/) - Enhancing our Heritage Toolkit (EoH), Trousse à outils Amélioration de notre patrimoine en français Pour le suivi, la trousse à outils Améliorer notre patrimoine (EoH) utilise le cadre d'efficacité de gestion de la Commission mondiale des aires protégées pour développer une gamme d'outils d'évaluation à partir desquels les gestionnaires de sites naturels du patrimoine mondial
- [Evaluations d'aires protégées](https://papaco.org/evaluations-ap/) - Pourquoi évaluer les aires protégées ? L’évaluation des aires protégées (AP) est un processus qui analyse étape par étape la gestion courante de l’AP afin de mettre en évidence d’éventuels points de blocages dans le processus de gestion et afin de souligner les pratiques fonctionnelles et efficaces qui doivent être poursuivies dans le future. In fine,
- [Training programmes](https://papaco.org/trainings/) - Since 2009, IUCN Papaco and Senghor University have worked together to develop training programmes dedicated to protected area practitioners. Onsite training (for French speakers only) Masters' degree This Masters' Degree in Protected Area Management is organised onsite at Senghor University (in Alexandria). It targets students who already have some work experience, and young professionals who
- [METT](https://papaco.org/mett/) - Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT) The METT enables a quick evaluation of one specific site. It is much less detailed than an EoH so less comprehensive but it has the advantage to be easy to carry out and to give enough information to identify the main issues of the PA’s management that should be improved.
- [RAPPAM](https://papaco.org/rappam/) - Rapid Assessment and Prioritisation of Protected Areas Management (RAPPAM) The RAPPAM enables a quick evaluation of protected area network at national or regional scale. This methodology provides protected areas agencies with a country (or regional)-wide overview of the effectiveness of protected area management, threats, vulnerabilities and degradation. It provides follow-up recommendations, and is an important
- [EoH](https://papaco.org/eoh/) - Enhancing our Heritage Toolkit (EoH) For monitoring, the Enhancing our Heritage Toolkit uses the World Commission on Protected Areas Management Effectiveness Framework to develop a range of assessment tools from which managers of natural World Heritage sites can build a comprehensive system of management effectiveness assessment for a World Heritage site (or other protected area).
- [Assessing protected areas](https://papaco.org/protected-area-assessments/) - Why should protected areas be assessed? Protected area (PA) assessments are a step by step analysis of a PA's management framework. They point out potential deadlocks in the management process and highlight successful management practices that should be maintained. In fine, analysing PAs help to prioritise actions to undertake in order to improve the management

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- [NAPA](https://papaco.org/category/napa/)
- [MOOC Session](https://papaco.org/category/mooc-session/)
- [Webinars](https://papaco.org/category/webinars/)

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