PEMSEA EFFORTS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

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PEMSEA EFFORTS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

• KEY MESSAGES
• PRACTICES
• DISTILLATION
• PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
• KNOWLEDGE BANK CRITICAL MASS
• SHARING RIGHTS AND DUTIES

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• 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

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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
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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

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DISTILLATION

• Review and evaluation
• Case studies
• Policy briefs
• PEMSEA Notes
• Guidelines
• Manuals
• Brainstorming forum, think tank
• Paradigm shift integration, local capacity,
  partnerships, interconnectivities

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PRODUCTS AND SERVICSKNOWLEDGE BANKINGSHARING
SOME EXAMPLES
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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
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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
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Distributed in 30 countries. 312 regular
subscribers
PUBLICATIONS
Tropical Coasts
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E-Updates
E-mail Version
Web Version
PUBLICATIONS
e-Publications
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First issue was distributed in Jan 2000 to 300
subscribers Latest issue distributed to 1334
subscribers 450 increase
PUBLICATIONS
e-Publications
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Rate of GROWTH 25 new subscribers/mo
PUBLICATIONS
e-Publications
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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
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