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PEMSEA EFFORTS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT. KEY MESSAGES PRACTICES DISTILLATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES KNOWLEDGE BANK: CRITICAL MASS SHARING: RIGHTS AND DUTIES. SOME KEY MESSAGES: IW KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
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PEMSEA EFFORTS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT • KEY MESSAGES • PRACTICES • DISTILLATION • PRODUCTS AND SERVICES • KNOWLEDGE BANK: CRITICAL MASS • SHARING: RIGHTS AND DUTIES
SOME KEY MESSAGES: IW KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS • TDA, SAP, priority tranboundary concerns (incremental cost), and sound science and technological innnovation • Transboundary fresh water basins, LMEs, capacity building, investments • Coordination and public involvement • Packages of institutional, regulatory, technical, economic and financial measures to operationalize sustainable development strategies for international waters and their drainage basins; • Modus operandi for addressing linkages among coastal zone, ocean, bio-diversity conservation, sea level rise (climate change), etc.; • Preventing damage to threatened waters and their associated ecosystems. • Source: GEF Operational Programms 8 & 9
Sustainable financing/ Investment opportunities Stakeholders/ public participation Improved legislation/ enforcement/market- based instruments CROSS -AGENCY, MULTI-SECTORAL AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY DECISION-MAKING MECHANISMS Strategies, action plans & Management programs Scientific/technical services to management programs Capacity building programs PRACTICES AT LOCAL, NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS: INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Danang: Development and Implementation of Communication Plan • Enhancing awareness via workshops, training seminars, talk shows, posters, leaflets • Hundreds and thousands of people of major local communities in urban and rural areas involved • Active participation of local mass media • Local government ordinances/ measures on beach littering prevention, sanitation and cleanup activities • Waste cleanup teams established in major tourist beach sites • Households paying fees for the collection and the transportation of wastes • Local residents volunteered to clean up the beaches on the weekends • Animal wastes on the beaches significantly reduced • Local residents perceive that their coastal environment becomes cleaner
DISTILLATION • Review and evaluation • Case studies • Policy briefs • PEMSEA Notes • Guidelines • Manuals • Brainstorming: forum, think tank • Paradigm shift: integration, local capacity, partnerships, interconnectivities
PRODUCTS AND SERVICSKNOWLEDGE BANKINGSHARING SOME EXAMPLES:
Types of PEMSEA Publications: Technical Reports (guidelines, manuals, assessments) Conference/Workshop Proceedings Meeting Reports (PSC) Information Series (mission, training, info docs) Coastal / Regional Strategies Others materials produced in support of project activities (brochures, leaflets…) PUBLICATIONS Print Materials
Development: PEMSEA • 1994-present • Magazine format • 50 pages on average • Informal/popular layout • Contents • Editorial • Articles • Centerfold • Newsbriefs • PEMSEA Events • Facts and figures PUBLICATIONS Tropical Coasts
Distributed in 30 countries. 312 regular subscribers PUBLICATIONS Tropical Coasts
E-Updates E-mail Version Web Version PUBLICATIONS e-Publications
First issue was distributed in Jan 2000 to 300 subscribers Latest issue distributed to 1334 subscribers 450% increase PUBLICATIONS e-Publications
Rate of GROWTH 25 new subscribers/mo PUBLICATIONS e-Publications
PEMSEA WEBSITE • Most visited pages: • Job Opportunities • Trainings • About PEMSEA • Media Resource Center • Information Center • East Asian Seas Congress 2003 • PEMSEA Participating Countries • Young Environmentalists • TC Article: Impact of Pollution on Marine Biodiversity • PEMSEA Staff