As States adopt different approaches to achieve compliance with MEAs, specifically tailored to their State’s legal, institutional, and cultural structure, they can learn what might and might not be effective for them. In other words, each compliance effort is a potential lesson learned. Sharing the experience of these lessons through generating and assessing data on the status of compliance can gives Parties to an MEA the opportunity to draw on the experience of many States in efforts to improve their compliance.
In addition to the case studies below, there is a case study on “The Montreux Record: A Register of Ramsar Sites Facing Challenges” following Guideline 14(d)
which describes a voluntary approach under the Ramsar Convention that collects and highlights information on compliance status, particularly when compliance may be affected by particular circumstances.