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Article 25 Sep, 2017

Regional Integrated Coastal Management training course extended to Cambodia

MFF鈥檚 long-standing regional Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) training course was successfully extended to national member countries. From 28 August to 1 September, the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) completed the first national level ICM course in Cambodia.

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Participants included coastal management practitioners from provincial governments and 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 staff. The course was taught by the Mangroves for the Future (MFF) country coordinator, the Dean of Development Studies and instructors from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) and guest speakers from the Ministry of Environment, Fauna and Flora International (FFI) and Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA).

The short training course, which has been integrated into the RUPP鈥檚 academic programme, was developed as a result of MFF鈥檚 collaboration with the university to support their coastal management programme.

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The recent training was designed to address work priorities as defined in the country鈥檚 National Strategy and Action Plan and the specific national ICM scaling-up initiatives which have been implemented by the Ministry of Environment. It also aims to build capacity for implementation of ICM and relevant policy, and to facilitate sharing of best practices in coastal and marine management amongst coastal and marine managers, coastal field practitioners and coastal and marine-focussed NGOs.

The course included a theory session, which took place at the Kampot Diamond Hotel in Kampot Province, and a practical field session, in which participants travelled to the Trapeang Sangke community fisheries. The field trip enhanced participants' knowledge about biodiversity use and conservation, land use change, climate change and adaptation and protected area management.

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鈥淧articipants were very active in discussion and sharing of their own experience in coastal and marine management and protection,鈥 says Hoy Sereivatanak Reasey, principle instructor for the course. 鈥淭he workshop provided them with information and analysis tools they can apply to their marine resource management.鈥 He also noted that the workshop鈥檚 practical exercises gave participants a more thorough understanding of those tools through the opportunity to interact with them directly.

Hun Marady, a member of the ICM team for the Environment Department of Koh Kong Province, agrees. 鈥淚 learned a lot about ICM in this course,鈥 he says, 鈥渆specially analysis tools. I will apply what I learned to new environmental plans in Koh Kong.鈥

Hun also suggested that a more 鈥渋n-depth discussion of Project Cycle Management鈥 鈥 in his opinion, 鈥渢he most powerful and important tool鈥 that the course added to his repertoire 鈥 be undertaken at the next workshop.

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Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have also completed steps to integrate the ICM course at national education institutions. Pakistan has formally called for all national universities to implement the curriculum for the ICM course, and Sri Lanka鈥檚 Ocean University will implement its ICM graduate course starting in October. Myanmar will also begin developing ICM national courses, as well as vocational training for local government practitioners similar to the workshop conducted in Cambodia.


is a partnership-based regional initiative which promotes investment in coastal ecosystem conservation for sustainable development. MFF focuses on the role that healthy, well-managed coastal ecosystems play in building the resilience of ecosystem-dependent coastal communities in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam. The initiative uses mangroves as a flagship ecosystem, but MFF is inclusive of all types of coastal ecosystem, such as coral reefs, estuaries, lagoons, sandy beaches, sea grasses and wetlands. MFF is co-chaired by 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 and UNDP, and is funded by Danida, Norad, and Sida and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Thailand.听听