Pre-workshop |
Tuesday 26 September |
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16:00 – 18:00 |
Registration of participants |
Secretariat |
Day 1 |
Wednesday 27 September |
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08:00 – 09:00 |
Registration of participants |
Secretariat |
09:00 – 09:15 |
Welcome address – Mr Changchui He, Assistant Director-General, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific |
Plenary |
09:15 – 09:30 |
Introduction to the workshop |
SESSION I: THE REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE |
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09:30 – 09:50 |
Land tenure and use change in relation to poverty and the environment in Asian tsunami-affected countries – Dr Jayampathy Samarakoon (Environmentalist/Wetland Specialist, ARCADIS Euroconsult). |
Plenary |
09:50 – 10:10 |
Discussion | |
10:10 – 10:30 |
Coffee break | |
Country papers — 15 minute presentation followed by 5 minutes discussion |
Plenary |
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10:30 – 10:50 |
Bangladesh — Dr Rafiqul Islam (Integrated Coastal Zone Management programme, Dhaka, Bangladesh) |
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10:50 – 11:10 |
India — Ms Aarthi Sridhar (ATREE, Bangalore, India) |
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11:10 – 11:30 |
Indonesia — Dr Rokhmin Dahuri (ex-Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia) |
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11:30 – 11:50 |
Malaysia — Dr Jin Eong Ong (Professor of Biology Universiti Sains Malaysia [Retd]) |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch | |
13:00 – 13:20 |
Maldives — Dr Abdulla Naseer (Executive Director, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, the Maldives) |
Plenary |
13:20 – 13:40 |
Myanmar — U Win Tun (Forest Department, Myanmar) |
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13:40 – 14:00 |
Sri Lanka — Dr R.A.D.B. Samaranayake (Director of Coast Conservation, Coast Conservation Department, Sri Lanka) |
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14:00 – 14:20 |
Thailand — Dr Cherdchinda Chotiyaputta (Department of Marine and Coastal Resources) |
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14:20 – 14:30 |
Introduction to working group session 1 |
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14:30 – 14:45 |
Tea break | |
14:45 – 16:15 |
Working group session 1: Groups identify key coastal area planning and management issues in tsunami-affected areas |
Break-out rooms |
16:15 – 17:00 |
Presentation of results of working group session 1 and discussion |
Plenary |
18:30 – 20:00 |
Reception dinner |
Day 2 |
Thursday 28 September |
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SESSION II: IMPROVED COASTAL ZONE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT |
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08:40 – 09:00 |
Integrated coastal zone planning in Asian tsunami-affected countries — Dr Robert Kay (Coastal Zone Management, Pty Ltd, Australia) |
Plenary |
09:00 – 09:15 |
Discussion | |
09:15 – 09:35 |
Integrated land management to improve long-term benefits in coastal areas of Asian tsunami-affected countries — Dr Russell Hanley (Environmental scientist and coastal ecologist) |
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09:35 – 09:50 |
Discussion | |
09:50 – 10:00 |
Introduction to working group session 2 |
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10:00 – 10:20 |
Coffee break | |
10:20 – 12:00 |
Working group session 2: Groups discuss means of improving coastal zone management with a focus on issues identified in working groups |
Break-out rooms |
12:30 – 13:45 |
Lunch | |
SESSION III: PERSPECTIVES ON COASTAL ZONE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT |
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13:45 – 14:00 |
Post-tsunami challenges for coastal zone management — Dr Poh Poh Wong, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore |
Plenary |
14:00 – 14:15 |
Impacts of post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction in Aceh — Dennie Mamonto (FAO Banda Aceh) |
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14:15 – 14:30 |
Supporting post-tsunami activities and coastal zone management — Mr Udom Bhatiyasevi (Dept. of Marine and Coastal Resources) |
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14:30 – 14:45 |
Coastal planning development lessons from policy analysis by Green Coast in Aceh — Ms Cut Desyana (Green Coast/WWF Aceh) |
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14:45 – 15:00 |
Land-use planning in the Maldives: Creating sustainable & safe island communities — Patricia Stevenson (member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, former VSO volunteer Maldives) |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Tea break | |
15:30 – 15:45 |
Spatial information-based approach for integrated coastal resource management in Asian tsunami-affected countries — Dr Tariful Islam (Land-use Planning & GIS Advisor) |
Plenary |
15:45 – 16:00 |
Mangroves for the Future: Investing in coastal ecosystems as development infrastructure — Janaka De Silva (IUCN Bangkok) |
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16:00 – 16:15 |
Restoration and improvement of the coastal environment devastated by the tsunami in Sri Lanka — Tilak Ranaviraja (UNEP, Sri Lanka) |
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16:15 – 16:30 |
The role of information in integrated coastal resource management — Jonathan Shott (Sustainable Development Fondation, Thailand) |
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16:30 – 16:45 |
Regreening a coastal desert: 50 years’ experience of Erimo town, Hokkaido, Japan — Shingo Shibata (Forestry Agency, Japan) |
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16:45 – 17:00 |
Tree crops for environmental protection and livelihood enhancement in the tsunami-affected coastal zone in West Aceh, Indonesia Laxman Joshi, World Agroforestry Centre |
Day 3 |
Friday 29 September |
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SESSION IV: RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS |
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08:45 – 09:00 |
Introduction to working group session 3 |
Plenary |
09:00 – 10:15 |
Working group session 3: Groups generate recommendations of actions that could be taken at national and regional level to promote improved coastal area planning and cross-sectoral integration |
Break-out rooms |
10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee break | |
10:45 – 11:45 |
Presentation of results of working groups and discussion |
Plenary |
11:45 – 12:45 |
Lunch | |
12:45 – 13:45 |
Adoption of the outputs of the workshop |
Plenary |
13:45 – 14:00 |
Closure of meeting |