Moving toward measuring our effectiveness: the 2nd meeting of the Micronesia Challenge measures working group and PICRC-JICA coral reef monitoring project meeting, 15-19 February 2010, Koror, Palau

Abstract

The Micronesia Challenge was launched in 2006 with a general but ambitious goal to “effectively conserve at least 30% of the near?shore marine resources and 20% of the terrestrial resources by 2020” for the five MC jurisdictions. To meet this goal, government and non?government agencies across the MC region, along with MC regional and international partners, have been working together to formulate a monitoring framework that will provide the guiding structure, direction, guidelines and tools (or methods) on how we can realistically implement our respective conservation strategies at the jurisdictional level and measure conservation progress at a regional level.