Monitoring law-enforcement performance in nine protected areas in Ghana

摘要: In Ghana, budgetary allocations for protected area management have been consistently low. To improve cost-effectiveness and performance of law enforcement, monitoring feedback was used to provide the foundation informed decisions. Between 2004 2006, a system monitor staff performance, patrol effort, illegal wildlife use, trends in large-mammal populations established seven areas. two national parks, where GIS-based systems were place, course data standardised analysed same way. Encounters on with activities large mammals corrected effort size enable comparing encounter rates different December 2005, law-enforcement evaluated six Through dissemination evaluation report, poor high levels activity five out sites entered public domain, created spirit competition between The present showed that evaluated, improved by 59% average, compared only 11% parks not evaluated. four savannah poaching reduced 72%, but 17% forest This compares reduction 33% parks. Patrol open several types error. Although reliability checked at hierarchical levels, final check headquarters Accra, seasonal fluctuations encounters those control