The application of the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) is yielding excellent results in anti-poaching control and law enforcement effectiveness within conservation areas and management zones across various regions globally.

Technical staff and expert personnel within protected areas, program managers, and territorial management specialists are responsible for linking the work carried out by field personnel to management decision-making within protected areas.

This personnel is essential within the multi-level approach for which SMART was conceived, as it is through their reports and analyses that territorial-level measures are taken and support needs are justified to authorities and directors of protected area systems.

This course provides foundations for individuals in technical roles to understand SMART operational logic and also explore elements of report analysis and database administration.

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at technical and expert personnel within protected areas, program managers, territorial management specialists, as well as middle-level managers within protected area systems, databased administrators, among others.

What will I learn?

• SMART and its potential uses, benefits, and enabling conditions for its proper functioning.

• Data model construction, data generation and interpretation.

• Procedure for direct installation, configuration, and customization of SMART according to specified requirements.

• Procedure for direct development of compatible standard data collection protocols, as well as SMART database configuration.

• Data protection and privacy, and data security.

• Protected area management cycle and SMART

• Data collection with SMART mobile.

• Patrol creation.

• Report generation.

• General SMART Collect administration.

What do I need to enroll?

• Basic knowledge of computer and/or smartphone equipment management.

• Basic proficiency in major Office software packages.

• Internet access.

• Procedure for direct development of compatible standard data collection protocols, as well as SMART database configuration.

Expected dedication:

This course has an expected duration of 40 hours.

Course Content

These courses have been developed by:

the SMART alliance, with the support of the University for International Cooperation through its Latin American School of Protected Areas (UCI-ELAP). The SMART alliance is an initiative of conservationist organizations with a long history of supporting protected area systems globally, which, through their experience in monitoring and spatial information have created a tool that allows managers of such spaces to improve control of illicit and law enforcement.

Facilitators of this course:

Antony J. Lynam Ph.D
Senior Conservationist, Conservation Technology Field Solutions, Center for Global Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society

Anthony Dancer
Conservation Monitoring & Technology Lead, Zoological Society of London.

Stanley Arguedas
Associate Consultant to the University for International Cooperation UCI.

Pedagogical and logistical support team:

Nathalia Santana
Program Coordinator – Learning Leadership for Conservation Wildlife Conservation Society

Felipe Spina Avino
Conservation Analyst Specialist WWF - Brazil.

James Slade
Wildlife Crime Prevention Specialist Re:wild

Allan Valverde
Director of the Latin American School of Protected Areas (ELAP) University for International Cooperation

Jorge Andrés Duarte
Consultant associated with WWF Mexico

Verónica Vargas Chacón
Project Coordinator Latin American School of Protected Areas (ELAP) University for International Cooperation

Technological support and instructional design team:

Presbere Group

And special thanks to:

Contacts:

smartconservationtools.org

smartconservationtools.org/smart-Forum

info@smartconservationsoftware.org

@SMARTCnsvTools