PARTICIPANTS & PROJECTS INVOLVED

• Tomi Supratomo Assistant Deputy Director for Partnership Program, Directorate General Marine, Coastal and Small Islands Affairs, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries
• Permana Yudiarso Program Officer, Directorate Spatial Planning for Marine, Coastal and Small Islands, Directorate General Marine, Coastal and Small Islands Affairs, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries
• Lysa Wini Focal Point, Coral Triangle Support, Solomon Islands NCC, Partnership and Member of the CTI National Coordinating Committee
• Carmen Aquino OIC-Division Chief, Public Information Division, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines NCC
• Mary Claire Miguel Creative Art Specialist II, Public Information Division, Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• Jhorace Engay Project Evaluation Officer II, Coastal and Marine Management Office, Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• Erick Avelino Information Officer, Coastal and Marine Management Office
• Rueth Cabral IT Specialist, Planning Staff, Protected Area and Wildlife Bureau
• Thelma Perez Chief, Interpretive and Nature Conservation and Education Section, Protected Area and Wildlife Bureau
• Marites T. Salas FIMI- Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
• Michelle C. Garcia FIMI- Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
• Charisse Macalalag Senior Ecotourism Development Officer, ADB-ICRM Project, Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau
• Annadel Cabanban Senior Fisheries Expert Sulu-Celebes Sea Sustainable Fisheries Management Project
• Ian Joey Tajonera Project Assistant Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)
• Diane Factuar Training Specialist
• John Eric Dylan Saet, Webmaster
• Khristine Custodio Project Manager, IW:LEARN Component 4 Global Environment Facility's (GEF) International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network (GEF / IW:LEARN)
• Abbie Trinidad EEPES Specialist and Team Leader ADB Knowledge Management Project
• Lourdes Margarita Caballero, Web Writer and Documentation Specialist
• Jay Payuyo, IT Specialist
• Leo Pura, Senior Manager, Operation
• Joy Ortiz, Project Assistant
• Dr. Serafin Talisayon, Resource Person

HOST INSTITUTION

• Asian Development Bank

OTHER FUNDING PARTNERS

• Asian Development Bank (Primex Consultancy)

INTRODUCTION, PURPOSE: WHY AN EXCHANGE

During the 6th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia last October 2011, GEF/IW:LEARN projects were challenged to ensure that impacts are felt on the ground. Alfred Duda, retired Senior Adviser to GEF/IW:LEARN, raised the bar for success by encouraging managers to go beyond the traditional means of sharing knowledge (i.e., making reports, writing journal articles, and conducting meetings) so that communities can benefit more from science. Participants also identified the urgent need to capitalize on the network, activities, and processes that have been developed within the GEF learning community to triple the rate of progress in the coming years.

ADB’s Knowledge Management for the Coral Triangle Initiative (RETA 7307) project intends to respond to this challenge by championing opportunities for knowledge sharing at the regional level. In May 2011, GEF/IW:LEARN supported the participation of two RETA team members, and four participants from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and the Regional Secretariat in a week-long training of the IW:LEARN toolkit. The project’s Coral Triangle Learning Resource Network (CT-LRN) (www.coraltriangleinitiative.net) portal and the beta website of the Solomon Islands National Coordinating Committee (NCC) were produced using the Toolkit.  CT-LRN was launched during the 7th Senior Officials Meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia in October 2011.

Besides these products, the training also yielded three positive outcomes:

1. Higher interest in IW:LEARN tools that will facilitate collaboration – i.e. the new platform for the Communities of Practice, etc. and how it can be used for the projects three focus areas (payment for ecosystem services, sustainable financing, and knowledge management) and the writing of the State of the Coral Triangle Report (SCTR);
2. Growing support for activities that will enhance communication and collective learning within the NCCs of the six Coral Triangle countries (CT6); and
3. Stronger relationships among knowledge management advocates within the CT6.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After six months, participants from the first workshop have expressed their desire for another workshop which will focus on:

1. peer-to-peer learning – sharing session on the challenges faced by each country in applying tools and concepts learned in May 2011 as well as strategies and approaches used to overcome constraints
2. training and testing of the new platform for the Community of Practice and other functionalities of the IW:LEARN toolkit – in-depth discussions on how these can be used to a) support existing collaboration mechanisms; b) improve knowledge capture and storage of CTI knowledge; and 3) advance knowledge sharing and learning on the three focus areas and the SCTR

OUTPUTS/OUTCOMES

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