Potential economic benefits are recognised and plans to realise these are 1 Is the Ramsar Site being developed providing economic There is some flow of economic benefits to local communities 2 benefits to There is a major flow of economic benefits to local communities from 3 communities, e.g. activities associated with the Ramsar Site income, employment, payment for environmental services? Outcomes 26. Monitoring and There is no monitoring and evaluation in the Ramsar Site 0 evaluation There is some monitoring and evaluation, but no overall strategy 1 ad hoc and/or no regular collection of results Are management There is an agreed and implemented monitoring and evaluation system but 2 activities monitored results do not feed back into management against performance? A good monitoring and evaluation system exists, is well implemented and 3 used in adaptive management Planning/Process 27. Visitor facilities There are no visitor facilities and services despite an identified need 0 Visitor facilities and services are inappropriate for current levels of visitation 1 Are visitor facilities Visitor facilities and services are adequate for current levels of visitation but 2 adequate? could be improved Visitor facilities and services are excellent for current levels of visitation 3 Outputs 28. Commercial There is little or no contact between managers and tourism operators using the 0 tourism operators Ramsar Site There is contact between managers and tourism operators but this is largely 1 Do commercial tour confined to administrative or regulatory matters operators contribute to is limited co-operation between managers and tourism operators to 2 Ramsar Site enhance visitor experiences and maintain Ramsar Site values management? is good co-operation between managers and tourism operators to 3 enhance visitor experiences, and maintain Ramsar Site values Process
Is the Ramsar Site providing economic benefits to communities, e.g. income, employment, payment for environmental services? Outcomes Potential economic benefits are recognised and plans to realise these are being developed 1 There is some flow of economic benefits to local communities 2 There is a major flow of economic benefits to local communities from activities associated with the Ramsar Site 3 26. Monitoring and evaluation Are management activities monitored against performance? Planning/Process There is no monitoring and evaluation in the Ramsar Site 0 There is some ad hoc monitoring and evaluation, but no overall strategy and/or no regular collection of results 1 There is an agreed and implemented monitoring and evaluation system but results do not feed back into management 2 A good monitoring and evaluation system exists, is well implemented and used in adaptive management 3 27. Visitor facilities Are visitor facilities adequate? Outputs There are no visitor facilities and services despite an identified need 0 Visitor facilities and services are inappropriate for current levels of visitation 1 Visitor facilities and services are adequate for current levels of visitation but could be improved 2 Visitor facilities and services are excellent for current levels of visitation 3 28. Commercial tourism operators Do commercial tour operators contribute to Ramsar Site management? Process There is little or no contact between managers and tourism operators using the Ramsar Site 0 There is contact between managers and tourism operators but this is largely confined to administrative or regulatory matters 1 is limited co-operation between managers and tourism operators to enhance visitor experiences and maintain Ramsar Site values 2 is good co-operation between managers and tourism operators to enhance visitor experiences, and maintain Ramsar Site values 3