The beginning of the work makes a brief outline about importance and usefulness of the main measuring tools of Management Effectiveness. The methodology, applied as subsidy to continuous improvement management of protected areas, is drawn in the article first in its design history, accompanied by the fundamental precepts of methodologies, directed to what matters: the conservation of Brazilian biodiversity, where we highlight fundamentals of legislation, administration and management. Is included in the discussion, the panorama of the measurement of management effectiveness of protected areas in Brazil, considered an evolutionary milestone, is not yet solid, data and related numbers, to support management decision-making, planning and consequent Brazilian conservation units management excellence. In the second article, delve into the subject, closing the focus on methodology widely used by the federal environmental agency responsible for the most complete study of Effectiveness of management in federal conservation units. The Rappam (Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management) methodology developed by the WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature), and the comparison of this methodology with EMAP (Evaluación del Manejo de Areas Protegidas) developed by Helder Faria, researcher and one of the first professionals to pave the way for the evolution of the studies in this regard. The work measures and compares the effectiveness of Management of the conservation unit chosen for the survey, the Parque Nacional da Restinga de Jurubatiba. Rappam method cycles were applied to measuring the effectiveness of the Park, and the main focus of the thesis is the implementation of EMAP and compare the methodology for suggestion of improvements in the methodology of management effectiveness. The theoretical framework of each of the measurement procedures of effectiveness was born of demand raised in III World Congress on protected areas, opening up the possibility of developing several methodologies. The Rappam based on publication Evaluating Effectiveness: A Framework for Assessing Management Effectiveness of Protected Areas of Hockings (2000) and the EMAP in Medicion de la efectividad Del manejo de áreas protegidas of Cifuentes et. Al. (2000). The methodological procedures for the work is given to the survey, systematization, and EMAP method small adaptation of the methodology to be applied in the Parque Nacional da Restinga de Jurubatiba. Later, questionnaires to the Manager of the conservation unit, and systematization and analysis of the results. Simultaneously, the theoretical concepts are compared critically to check for the possibility of improvements in both methodologies. The x result of the application of EMAP, despite the difference in indicators, as well as near each other, proving that the basis of methodologies is efficient to provide some standardization between the various methods that exist around the world.
Keywords: effectiveness of management, conservation unit