Location: Madagascar
SUMMARY
Western Indian Ocean – Certification of Marine Protected Area Professionals (WIO-COMPAS) is a competence-based approach to individual and organizational capacity development to address the problem of ineffective MPA management in the region, principally for the conservation agencies mandated with this task. To date it has certified 68 MPA personnel in 8 countries and has been integrated into the human resource management of 2 agencies, the Kenya Wildlife Service, and in South Africa, CapeNature.
