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Conference Recommendations

1. Monitoring and evaluation
   Develop monitoring and evaluation system and guidelines for implementation - monitoring of performance, changes to biodiversity, changes to quality of life, etc.

2. Funding sustainability
   Enable funding for priority action and program

3. Cross-sectoral engagement and support
   -Involving and engaging with other sectors that affect C.A.P.E. goals, innovating ways to inspire action, volunteer opportunities, engaging estate agents, property developers, tourism

4. Business and biodiversity
   - Eco-labeling and certification, BEE, formalizing links with industry
   - Encouraging entrepreneurship (and links to required skills)

5. Stewardship
   - Capacity for extension, tools for enhancing extension, enhancing law enforcement capacity
   - Understanding the economic basis for landowner decisions

6. Influencing land-use decisions
   - Land-use planning and decisionmaking, empowering decision makers
   - Addressing inappropriate land use decisions – golf courses

7. Models for complex multi-institutional protected areas
   - Governance and institutional arrangements in mega-reserves, biosphere reserves, etc.
   - Biosphere reserves – evaluation of model

8. Conservation education and capacity building
   Capacity-building priorities, marketing vs. education
   Is conservation education linked to broader developmental needs of youth?

9. Water, marine and aliens issues
   Invasive alien management, catchment management and water resource issues, marine priorities

10. Involving communities
    Urban conservation, benefits to communities, understanding links to poverty alleviation (urban focus), documenting community conservation successes, community participation in all C.A.P.E. activities, reconciling people with nature, innovating ways to inspire action

11. Communication
    Involving and engaging the broader community, communication between projects, the learning network, expansion of communication among C.A.P.E. partners, the influence of C.A.P.E. in other national programs

12. Land reform processes
    - Use of land reform processes (opportunities)
    - Engaging with land redistribution/ restitution processes

13. C.A.P.E. Governance
    Enhanced mandate for bioregional program implementation, communicating governance arrangements in C.A.P.E. for all stakeholders, community participation in all C.A.P.E. fora, formal declaration of C.A.P.E. as bioregional programme under Biodiversity Act