The French Global Environment Facility wanted to find out the lessons learnt from more than ten years of financial support given to the setting up and maintenance of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) worldwide. This work, based on individual evaluation of each project, was targeted at:
- identifying and building on the lessons learnt taken from each project,
- evaluating  the socio-economic benefits of these projects for the local population,
- identifying and sharing the good practices (successful methods and approaches, interesting tools, pitfalls to avoid, etc.)
- allowing an exchange of experience between projects and also between the main actors.

Oréade-Brèche lead this mission, which, in the first place, consisted of carrying out an evaluation of 11 projects (and more than 20 sites) located in the Caribbean (6 states), Africa (3 states), the Indian Ocean (4 states), Central America (3 states) and the Pacific Ocean (7 states and 3 French territories), and then, followed by a synthesis of all the lessons learnt from these projects, in order to provide the FGEF with recommendations for improving their management of these types of projects in the future.

These recommendations included, among others: a guide for the MPA project managers, in order to help them in identifying the crucial steps in the setting up and the management of MPA. This mission was also the occasion to propose  calculations methods of  the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of several of these MPA projects. For this evaluation Oréade-Brèche provided the FFEM with 3 experts: an evaluator, a specialist of coral reefs and an environmental economist.
This document is available on the FFEM Website at trhe following address http://www.ffem.fr/jahia/Jahia/site/ffem/lang/en/pid/3676