Southeast Asia Activity Report

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Southeast Asia Activity Report 2003-2004 Anond
Snidvongs Liaison Officer for Southeast Asia C/o
Southeast Asia START Regional Center Chulalongkorn
University Bangkok, Thailand
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SEA Regional Members
Present APN Members Australia, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Philippines,
Thailand, Viet Nam SEA Countries Not APN
Member Brunei Darussalam, East Timor, Myanmar,
Singapore
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Works Carried Out on Behalf of APN

• Contributions to APN Newsletters (Vol. 92003)
  from Southeast Asia
• 22 regional news (From SEA-LO)
• 1 article (Cocklin)
• 2 project overviews (Meinke, Sharifah-Mastura)

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Major Regional Global Change Projects in SEA
Region

• APN Funded Regional Projects
• 2003-01 Indices and Indicators for Monitoring
  Tredns in Climate Extremes (Manton)
• 2003-02 Applying Climate Information to Enhance
  the Resilience of Farming Systems Exposed to
  Climate Risk in South and Southeast Asia (Meinke)
• 2003-08 Regional, Multi-scaled, Multi-temporal
  Land-use and Land-cover data to Support Global
  Change Research and Policy-making a SEARIN LUCC
  Project (Skole)
• 2003-12 The Mega-Deltas of Asia A Conceptual
  Model and Its Application to Future Delta
  Vulnerability (Chen)
• 2003-16 Integrating Carbon Management into
  Development Strategies of CitiesEstablishing a
  Network of Case Studies in the Asia-Pacific
  (Lasco)

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Major Regional Global Change Projects in SEA
Region

• SARCS Funded Regional Projects
• South China Sea Regional Carbon Studies (5
  ongoing subprojects in Indonesia, Lao PDR,
  Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam
• Biogenic and Anthropogenic Emissions from
  Southeast Asia (Subproject proposals under
  reviewed)

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Major Regional Global Change Projects in SEA
Region

• GEF/START/TWAS Assessment of Impacts and
  Adaptation to Climate Change Regional Projects
• AS07 Southeast Asia Regional Vulnerability to
  Changing Water Resource and Extreme Hydrological
  Events due to Climate Change (Snidvongs)
• AS21 An Integrated Assessment of Climate Change
  Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability in
  Watershed Areas (Lasco)

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Capacity Building Activities

• APN CAPaBLE Projects
• 2003-CB-01 Building Capacity of Mekong River
  Countries to Assess Impacts from Climate Change
  Case Study Approach on Assessment of Community
  Vulnerability and Adaptation to Impact of Climate
  Change on Water Resource and Hydrological Extreme
  Event (Chinvanno)
• 2003-CB-04 Creating Climate Knowledge Network
  through Strategic, Global Linkage (Meinke)

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Capacity Building Activities

• APN Fellowships
• 2003-08 The 1st International Young Scientists
  Global Change Conference (2 from SEA were
  supported)
• 2003-10 Building Local Capacity for global
  Change Research Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
  Sub-Global Activities in the Asia-Pacific Region
• 2003-18/19 Natural Resource Management Master
  Degree Program for Lao PDR Students

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Capacity Building Activities

• START/SARCS Capacity Building Activities
• START Advanced Institute on Urbanization,
  Emission, and the Global Carbon (4 participants
  from SEA)
• SARCS Advanced Training Workshop on South China
  Sea Regional Carbon Issues

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Issues of Regional Concerns
1. How outputs and outcomes of APN projects be
integrated among each other and with other
non-APN projects?
Proposed Solution A clear policy on APN project
data and data sharing must be drafted and
enforced (Skole)
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Issues of Regional Concerns
2. Role and mandate of APN as an
intergovernmental regional network as well as
contribution/commitment from member governments
in APN are not clear and not visible in some
countries

• Proposed Solutions
• APN briefing documents should also focus on
  intergovernmental background, procedures and
  protocol in addition to the technical aspects
• More interaction between APN projects/activities
  with APN national focal points/SPG since project
  development, progress and finalization/conclusion

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Issues of Regional Concerns
3. Quality and quality of young scientists in the
region are alarmingly low

• Proposed Solutions
• YSC-type conference for SEA region (SARCS)
• More graduate scholarships

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Thank You Liaison Officer for Southeast Asia c/o
Southeast Asia START Regional Center Chulalongkorn
University Bangkok, Thailand apnsea_at_start.or.th