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All Obligations

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Assessment
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• Activity 1: Assess sites
• Activity 2: Assess PA impacts, threats and resources
• Activity 3: Monitor PAs
• Activity 4: Conduct research on PAs
• Activity 5: Document knowledge on PAs
• Activity 6: Develop standards, criteria and indicators for assessing PAs
• Activity 7: Develop tools for assessing PAs

Legislation and Policy
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• Activity 1: Review and develop legislation for PAs
• Activity 2: Review and develop legislation for PAs
• Activity 3: Establish and designate new PAs

Management
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• Activity 1: Use plans and strategies to manage PAs
• Activity 2: Implement policies and plans for PAs
• Activity 3: Mitigate or remove external threats to PAs
• Activity 4: Maintain healthy habitats and the resources they provide
• Activity 5: Restore the health of habitats and the resources they provide
• Activity 6: Manage resource use in PAs
• Activity 7: Enforce and support management

Economic Instruments
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• Activity 1: Support positive incentives for PAs
• Activity 2: Distribute resources from PAs
• Activity 3: Develop financial strategies for PAs

Provision of Resources
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• Activity 1: Provide funding for PAs
• Activity 2: Build capacity for PAs

Communication, Education and Public Awareness
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• Activity 1: Report to Conventions and Parties
• Activity 2: Disseminate information to others
• Activity 3: Raise understanding and awareness

Cooperation
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• Activity 1: Cooperate on transboundary PAs
• Activity 2: Cooperate internationally
• Activity 3:Cooperate with organisations

Stakeholders and indigenous and local communities
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• Activity 1: Make PA establishment and management participatory to stakeholders and indigenous and local communities
• Activity 2: Create benefits of PAs to stakeholders and indigenous and local communities and reduce negative impacts
• Activity 3: Preserve the customs, knowledge and resources of stakeholders and indigenous and local communities