BIOPAMA RIS - From Knowledge to Action for a Protected Planet

IMET aims to strengthen analytical capacities of its users and facilitate decision-making. Data collection and analysis is done in a computer application which encodes data into an internal database. Embedded statistical formulas allow for automated data analysis and visualization to facilitate better understanding of complex issues. IMET coaches (protected area professionals trained in IMET) can train on IMET and facilitate the assessment workshop.

The IMET Handbooks, the COMIT (2016 in English and French) and the COMIT 2 (2022 only in French), explain each assessment question and presents guidelines on assessment implementation with the coaching process. It also provides avenues for increasing capacity in protected area management and analysis.

Scaling-up function

This IMET feature allows a semi-automated analysis of several IMET assessments for a system (group, network) of protected areas or a single protected area over time. This function can produce a national or regional roadmap for further progress in protected area management, such as management policies, operations, capacity-building, threats’ mitigation strategies, species conservation.

Cross-analysis

This IMET feature aims to increase accuracy of an IMET assessment by spoting possible inconsistencies in IMET scores. It investigates whether scores within a pair (or a triplet) of IMET items were significantly different.

Links with Green List

IMET is the favoured tool for in-depth analysis of protected area management effectiveness (PAME). 88% of its indicators match with those of management effectiveness in the Green List. IMET also contribute to enhance capacities of protected area managers for increasing standards of operations required by labels such as Green List.

IMET for conserved areas

Manager — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:58:08 +0000

IMET for conserved areas

Manager Wed, 04/17/2024 - 14:58

Presentation of the improved version of IMET conserved areas tool. The presentation will be held online and it will target RCoE, IMET/PAME/PAGE communities and practitioners. The tool aims at playing a pivotal role in collecting data and in supporting governance and prioritization of actions in conserved areas. It will directly support the work undertaken by NaturAfrica

Enhancing conservation efforts and sustaining governance in community areas as OECM, LMMAs, ICCAs, Community Forests, etc., and in buffer areas of Protected Areas.

The IMET Conserved Areas tool:

Integrates context, management and governance dimensions for improved knowledge, planning, governance and monitoring

Sustains data collection and establishes baselines
Supports identification of stakeholders
Identifies key conservation elements and ecosystem services, prioritising stakeholders implication, management and governance activities
Allows understanding community awareness in the management and governance of the conserved area and promotes dialogue, governance and shared planning
Empowers local communities for effective conservation
Encourages participation from local communities, government agencies, and NGOs, fostering collaboration and shared responsibility
Supports priority planning and allows monitoring progress and adapting management and governance strategies as necessary