FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Final Workshop on Income for Coastal Communities for Mangrove Protection

20/12/2016-21/12/2016 Bangkok, Thailand

 

Objectives

The Final Workshop for the project seeks to share information on project outputs with mangrove experts and stakeholders in Pakistan, Thailand and Viet Nam. It also seeks to identify ways to pilot and ensure the uptake of the new low-cost mechanism developed by the project. Specific objectives of the workshop are:

  • To share information on project outputs, focusing on the low-cost mangrove monitoring, carbon estimating, and incentive allocation mechanism for mangrove protection.
  • To collect expert and stakeholder feedback on project outputs.
  • To identify partners and sources of funding to pilot the new mechanism in project countries.

Concept note and agenda

Project brochure

 

Publications:

Incentive allocation for mangrove protection

Mangrove carbon estimator and monitoring guide

Mangrove related policy and institutional frameworks in Pakistan, Thailand and Viet Nam

Financing for mangrove protection with emphasis on Pakistan, Thailand and Viet Nam

 

Presentations

  1. Income for coastal communities for mangrove protection Agenda
  2. Summary of project results “Income for Coastal Communities for Mangrove Protection”
  3. Mangrove-related policy and institutional framework in Pakistan
  4. Mangrove-related policyand institutional framework in Thailand
  5. Mangrove-related policy and institutional framework in Viet Nam
  6. Mangrove carbon estimator and monitoring guide
  7. Carbon stock estimation
  8. Mangrove carbon calculation template
  9. Photo-point monitoring exercise
  10. Global Forest Watch image analysis
  11. Incentive allocation for mangrove protection
  12. Financing for mangrove protection
  13. MFF presentation - Strengthening resilience of ecosystem-dependent coastal communities
  14. UN-REDD Vietnam presentation- Income for Coastal Communities for Mangrove Protection
  15. FAO - next steps
  16. Country-level group discussions on pilot implementation
  17. Project piloting – group exercise: Regional group
  18. Project piloting – group exercise: Thailand
  19. Project piloting – group exercise: Pakistan
  20. Project piloting – group exercise: Viet Nam