IUCN Framework for assessing management effectiveness

The International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN) published their framework for management effectiveness in 2006 (2^nd version), which was mainly established for protected area management. Here, the central aspects of this framework (see Table 1) will be used to evaluate different mitigation actions for marine pollution. 

Table 1: Central aspects from the ICUN framework for management effectiveness

Framework: basis to design assessment systems, guidance about what to assess, broad criteria for assessment and evaluation tools to choose from
Purposes:
Better management in a changing environment	Effective resource allocation
Involvement (communities) & value promotion	Accountability & transparency
Stages:
1 Review the context & set up a vision	2 Planning
3 Allocation of resources (inputs)	4 Management actions (process)
5 Production of outputs	6 Resulting impacts (outcome)
Phases:
Define objectives, scope & provided means (resourcing)
Choose a methodology & set up indicators for ecological, social & economic factors
Interpret for lessons, communicate results & act upon them; establish as cyclic routine

Next, the given points need to be applied upon the two mitigation actions that are explored here, which is first the remote beach clean-up in Svalbard and second the clean-up of a central ocean gyre by Boyan Slat. The purposes of these operations are presumably the same ones as named in the framework. As for the stages, they supposedly are more or less pronounced the skeleton of all project management. Further, the phase in which the operations currently stand are different. Foremost the planning of the ocean gyre clean-up project is completed and fundraising is going on, but the action stage where the process itself will be launched is scheduled for 2020 (theoceancleanup.com). The Svalbard beach clean-up on the other hand was only conducted once until now, so there a cyclic routine need to be established for regular operations and the outcome requires further interpretation and communication.