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Appendix 1. Agenda

Pre-workshop

Tuesday 26 September

 

16:00 – 18:00

Registration of participants

Secretariat

 

Day 1

Wednesday 27 September

 

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

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

10:30 – 10:50

Bangladesh — Dr Rafiqul Islam (Integrated Coastal Zone Management programme, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

10:50 – 11:10

India — Ms Aarthi Sridhar (ATREE, Bangalore, India)

11:10 – 11:30

Indonesia — Dr Rokhmin Dahuri (ex-Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia)

11:30 – 11:50

Malaysia — Dr Jin Eong Ong (Professor of Biology Universiti Sains Malaysia [Retd])

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)

13:40 – 14:00

Sri Lanka — Dr R.A.D.B. Samaranayake (Director of Coast Conservation, Coast Conservation Department, Sri Lanka)

14:00 – 14:20

Thailand — Dr Cherdchinda Chotiyaputta (Department of Marine and Coastal Resources)

14:20 – 14:30

Introduction to working group session 1

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

 

SESSION II: IMPROVED COASTAL ZONE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

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)

09:35 – 09:50

Discussion

09:50 – 10:00

Introduction to working group session 2

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

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)

14:15 – 14:30

Supporting post-tsunami activities and coastal zone management — Mr Udom Bhatiyasevi (Dept. of Marine and Coastal Resources)

14:30 – 14:45

Coastal planning development lessons from policy analysis by Green Coast in Aceh — Ms Cut Desyana (Green Coast/WWF Aceh)

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)

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)

16:00 – 16:15

Restoration and improvement of the coastal environment devastated by the tsunami in Sri Lanka — Tilak Ranaviraja (UNEP, Sri Lanka)

16:15 – 16:30

The role of information in integrated coastal resource management — Jonathan Shott (Sustainable Development Fondation, Thailand)

16:30 – 16:45

Regreening a coastal desert: 50 years’ experience of Erimo town, Hokkaido, Japan — Shingo Shibata (Forestry Agency, Japan)

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

 

SESSION IV: RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

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

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