American Samoa American Samoa American Samoa American

Name/Strengths, passion, commitment Island/Needs Contact Information

1. Peter Craig American Samoa National Park Service STRENGTHS: NEEDS: National Park of American Samoa Commitment to the concept of a network of Pago Pago, American Samoa • • Need effective plan for fish restoration MPAs 96799 • Need enforcement plan Phone: (684) 633-7082 • Need no-take areas Fax: (684) 633-7085 Email: [email protected]

2. Nancy Daschbach American Samoa NOAA Fagatele Bay National STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Marine Sanctuary Representing new Pacific Island region P.O. Box 4318 • • Need effective plan for fish restoration program Pago Pago, A. Samoa 96799 • Need enforcement strengthened Experience running sanctuary Phone: (684) 633-7354 • • Need no-take areas Establishing partnerships at all levels Fax: (684) 633-7355 • • Public perception of MPA effectiveness Email: [email protected]

3. Risa Oram American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Resources Working with different levels of government P.O. Box 3730 • • Want to talk with people in state and national MPA • Planning; designing MPA network; designing networks, esp. where customary marine tenure exists Pago Pago, American Samoa no-take areas 96799 • Long-term funding for enforcement; sustainable financing Phone: (684) 633 4456 Fax: (684) 633 5944 • Training needs: training in statistics, fisheries management, data management, data analysis, MPA Email: [email protected] management, and conflict resolution • How to better understand traditional practices/culture • How to facilitate fisheries regulations • Leadership development, values formation • Capacity in socioeconomic and governance monitoring and MPA effectiveness evaluation

4. Selaina Vaitautolu American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Resources I speak the language; serve as the bridge P.O. Box 3730 • • Find out the tools that are available to me; between management and traditional Pago Pago, American Samoa • Find out what communities need to know both communities biologically and socio-economically 96799 • Do both technical and policy roles Phone: (684) 633 4456 • Find out what kind of approaches are Fax: (684) 633 5944 other Pacific Islanders using to Email: address challenges with working with [email protected]

local communities (“we need a boat”) • Fund/find a boat

5. Sarah Fischer California NOAA National MPA Center STRENGHTS: NEEDS: 99 Pacific Street, Suite 100F Creating partnerships with federal agencies Monterey, CA 93940 • • How to work with communities on what MPAs are, • Committed to MPAs how they are useful Phone: (831) 242-2054 Social science research agenda development Fax:(831) 242-2051 • • Lessons learned on MPAs, what has worked, not • Pacific-wide coastal socioeconomic worked Email: [email protected] monitoring effort

6. Julita Albert Chuuk Chuuk State Environemental STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Protection Agency Communicating with people PO Box 189 • • Public support/outreach Building partnerships between government Weno, Chuuk State, FSM 96942 • • Financial resources and NGOs Phone: (691) 330-4158 Fax: (691) 330-6213 E-mail: [email protected]

7. Romio Osiena Chuuk Chuuk State Department of Marine STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Resources PO Box 207 • Ability to speak local language, AND respect • How to make the CSC more forward effectively Weno, Chuuk State, FSM 96942 local ways/culture • Addressing illegal fishing in Chuuk through law Phone: (691) 330-2660 • Establishing and maintaining relationships Examples of effective enforcement Fax: (691) 330-4157 with local communities • Need capacity building in training others E-mail: [email protected]

Name/Strengths, passion, commitment Island/Needs Contact Information

Kerat Rikim Chuuk Chuuk State Department of Marine STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Resources Public surveyor PO Box 207 • • Financial support in order to do public awareness to • Commitment to MPAs spread the message about the changes happening in Weno, Chuuk State, FSM 96942 • Awareness that the number and market-size the marine areas Phone: (691) 330-6729 of fish is declining in my home, as well as julita- • Need long-term training in coral monitoring, species E-mail: fishing grounds shifting surveys, COT survey, and marine education for [email protected] colleagues at Department; only two or three of us trained up 8. Mike Robert Chuuk Chuuk State Department of Marine STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Resources Law enforcement of marine regulations PO Box 207 • • Assistance with enforcement of marine conservation within the State laws and regulations; starts conflicts between families Weno, Chuuk State, FSM 96942 Educating/advocating current conservation Phone: (691) 330-4660 • • More workshops like this; focus on establishing system with family members, church MPAs in other remote areas in Pacific Cell: (691) 930-3195 members, clan leaders, and community E-mail: [email protected] members • Recent establishment of MPA program within Chuuk • About to estbl. MPA Council for Chuuk State

9. Greg Moretti Commonwealth of Northern Marina Division of Fish and Wildlife STRENGTHS: Islands PO Box 10007, Lower Base • Commitment and passion for the long-term Saipan, MP 96950 success of effective MPAs NEEDS: Phone: (670) 664 6030 • Finding out how to do local-support of MPAs • How to do effective enforcement in a small island Cell: (670) 898 0362 • Coordinating local agencies community Fax: (670) 664-6060 • Capacity for enforcement Email: [email protected] • Boundary delineation: enforcers and fishers know where they are; enforceable • Others’ experiences in developing MPA regulations; what works and does not 10. Semisi Meo Fiji Islands Institute of Applied Sciences STRENGTHS: NEEDS: University of the South Pacific Fiji locally-managed marine area (LMMA) PO Box 1168 • • Technical training in biophysical analysis and approach to working with local communities statistics, designing new sites Suva, Fiji Islands How to expand and replicate locally- Phone: (679) 323 2965 • • Enforcement of existing LMMA sites supported and operated MPAs Fax: (679) 323 1534 • How to form a MPA network with both E-mail: [email protected] government and NGOs • Local management support • Community involvement in community- based management • Human resources: USP using post-graduate students as conservation officers at 200 community LMMA sites

11. Anne Brooke Guam U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Guam National Wildlife Refuge STRENGTHS: NEEDS: POB 8134, MOU-3 Biologist; technical skills and knowledge in Dededo, Guam 96929 • • Impact assessment of reef that is partially fished forest ecology, in both upland and mangrove Phone: (671) 339-7051 • Resource management tools forests Email: [email protected]

12. John Calvo Guam Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council STRENGTHS: NEEDS: PMB 432F Born in islands; cultural sensitivity of values, 415 Chalan San Antonio • • Database of contacts traditions, and customs Tamuning, Guam 96913 • Environmental education and outreach Community outreach Phone: (671) 649 3150 • • Overwhelming amount of work; need effective time • Development of partnerships management skills Fax: (671) 649 3150 Working with individualistic communities [email protected] • • Working across time zones E-mail: • Working one-on-one with individuals in community, staying on top of personal contacts and relationships 13. Jay Gutierrez Guam Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources STRENGTHS: NEEDS: 163 Dairy Rd, Mangilao, Guam Passion and dedication for work – natural 96913 • • Partnership with other areas in the region resources Phone: (671) 735-3955 • Network for individuals in the region Technical knowledge Fax: (671) 734-6570 • • Better communication with other islands and information exchange Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Name/Strengths, passion, commitment Island/Needs Contact Information

14. Trina Leberer Guam The Nature Conservancy Micronesia Program STRENGTHS: NEEDS: P.O. Box 5411 Communicator Hagatna, Guam 96932 • • Strong local partners on the ground to do the • Good memory; see connections implementation Phone: (671) 789-2228 Can see the bigger picture Fax: (671) 789-2228 • • Better means of communication Hands-on knowledge as biologist Email: [email protected] • • Better means of sharing information remotely across the region 15. Vangie Lujan Guam Bureau of Statistics and Plans STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Coastal Zone Program Passion for work Anigua, Guam • • Human Resource limitations GIS experience and technical expertise Phone: (671) 475-9672 • • Getting public more educated about the region and • Outside the box thinker; fearless environment and conservation Email: [email protected]

• How to communicate with the other islands

• How other islands communicate locally and educate locally; lessons on how Guam can do this (e.g., PSAs)

16. Dwayne Minton Guam

STRENGTHS: NEEDS: National Parks Service Speak the language of grant writing and • • Need help on how to get political and public buy-in government bureaucracy on MPAs within Guam • Translation of government agencies and local action • Technical: biologist, site manager • Translate science to local 17. Val Porter Guam Division of Aquatic and Wildlife STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Resources Passion for the work and resources 163 Dairy Road, Mangilao, Guam • • Build skills in working locally Technical knowledge on monitoring and 96913 • • Build public awareness and perceptions of resource resources Phone: (671) 735-3955 Fax: (671) 734-6570 E-mail: [email protected] 18. Laurie Raymundo Guam University of Guam STRENGTHS: NEED: Marine Laboratory, UOG Station Academia awareness Mangilao, Guam 96913 • • New to Pacific Islands Regional focus & attention to capacity needs Phone: (671) 735-2190 • • Poor communication between Pacific Islands and • Skills/training in ecology, monitoring, Asia (e.g., Philippines) Fax: (671) 734-6767 statistical analysis, experimental design E-mail: [email protected] • Learning about what is working and not working Can bring Philippines contacts & experience • • Learn more about the region and what people are here; how to do hypothesis-testing approach doing, projects going on 19. Barry Smith Guam University of Guam (not present during exercise) (not present during exercise) Marine Laboratory, UOG Station Mangilao, Guam 96913 Phone: (671) 735-2190 Fax: (671) 734-6767 E-mail: [email protected]

20. Veikila Vuki Guam University of Guam STRENGHTS: NEEDS: Marine Laboratory, UOG Station Bridge between South Pacific to Micronesia; Mangilao, Guam 96913 • • How can I integrate regional students in community we are one ocean with same needs and colleges and universities into MPA efforts through Phone: (671) 734-2948 similar backgrounds NGOs and Government agencies so they can help, but Fax: (671) 7346767 • Bridge to translate scientific findings into also learn E-mail: [email protected] or practical management actions and policies [email protected] • How to influence UOG to include resource • Teaching and doing research in 12 countries management within its marine biology offering over last 20 years • Need to see changes in people and islands through • Passion for training the next generation in real action marine/MPA management, scientific research • Help PIMPAC to do this

21. Scott Atkinson Hawaii Community Conservation Network STRENGTHS: NEED P.O Box 4674 Supporting people and assisting stakeholders Honolulu, HI 96812 • • A vacation! from communities to figure out what they Phone: (808) 528-3700 • More connections to other islands in the Pacific want to do and get the resources to do it Fax: (808) 528 3701 • How to bring Hawaii State government up to speed, • Experience working across region and the bringing other Pacific Islands experiences into the Email: world, esp. in Indo-Pacific countries State and its communities [email protected]

22. Athline Clark Hawaii State of Hawaii Department of Name/Strengths, passion, commitment Island/Needs Contact Information

STRENGTHS: Land and Natural Resources • Point-of-contact to US CRTF NEEDS: Division of Aquatic Resources • Co-chair of SAG to MPA Center; working • Need success stories and lessons learned, esp. 1151 Punchbowl Street, Room 330 with NOAA on developing national system working locally with Hawaii communities Honolulu, HI 96813 • Can provide lessons learned on Hawaii • Accessing information on developing a compliance Phone: (808) 587-0099 MPAs; significant history and experience of effort to balance the enforcement effort in Hawaii Fax: (808) 587-0115 how to do things right and wrong, what to Email: [email protected] anticipate before things happen • Building coalitions between agencies • Experience working at sea and in the region • Helping people how to swim and get re- connected to the resource

23. Gerry Davis Hawaii NOAA National Marine Fisheries STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Service Experience in developing MPA fishery Pacific Islands Regional Office • • I need to know what you want or don’t want from me management areas 1601 Kapiolani Blvd. • Defined partnerships Developing partnerships and relationships Honolulu, HI 96814-4700 • • Capacities to do what islands want to do • Persistence and commitment Phone: (808) 973-2935 x283 • Conduit of getting regional issues into NOAA Fax: (808) 973-2941 Email: [email protected]

24. Meghan Gombos Hawaii NOAA Pacific Services Center STRENGHTS: NEEDS: 737 Bishop St. #2250 Regional focus and experience Honolulu, HI 96813 • • Best understanding what the region really wants to do • Sees links across region and island efforts, so and how NOAA can support those needs Phone: (808) 532 3961 able to id Fax: (808) 532 3224 • How to make a difference in the islands without • DC and NOAA federal connections becoming a hassle or burden Email: [email protected] • Getting info from federal level into region • Access to funding mechanisms

25. Mike Guilbeaux Hawaii

STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Community Conservation Network 13 years of experience working in region P.O Box 4674 • • Find out what the region needs and could be served • Community-based conservation, esp. design by LMMA Network Honolulu, HI 96812 and implementation Phone: (808) 528-3700 • To know about all of you & your needs in the islands Remote reef surveillance and enforcement Fax: (808) 528 3701 • • Identify someone from Micronesia to represent the experience and success LMMA network Email: LMMA involvement and coordination; [email protected] • • Time management needs given the high level of interim representative to Micronesia region demand and lack of human resources; can’t do it all • Promotion of formal and informal learning on every island Experience in assessing the effectiveness of • • Human resources and funding needed to meet LMMA projects and MPAs based on growing demand in region for community training monitoring done by community members • How to grow community-based projects and gain local support for them 26. Moani Pai Hawaii NOAA Northwestern Hawaiian STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Island Coral Reef Ecosystem Passion and commitment to my people Reserve • • Follow-through with promises made to including • Commitment to NWHI and HI as a whole native Hawaiians in management: Pacific Islands 6600 Kalaniana‘ole Hwy, #300 • Understand the language and culture of experiences and lessons on how to get local people Honolulu, HI 96825 Hawaiians; can help translate to higher levels involved, how to get people to want to be stewards, Phone: (808) 397-2660 x228 of involvement how to improve compliance with marine resource Fax: (808) 397-2662 • Building connection between federal management efforts Email: [email protected] government and people on the ground • Getting public support and buy-in on convincing the • Public education and outreach within the people of Hawaii that protecting and designating the islands; esp. student involvement within NWHI as a National Marine Sanctuary is the right natural resource management within Hawaii, thing to do to stay at home and help out • Enforcement strategies Logistics, events planning, contacts • • How to be creative with limited resources and skills; how get enforcement done in effective/creative way

27. John Parks Hawaii NOAA National Ocean Service STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Pacific Services Center 737 Bishop St. #2250 • Good with people and building personal • New to NOAA, still learning how to fill federal role; relationships; open and easy to approach; trying to stay true to himself – needs advice from non- Honolulu, HI 96813 values working relationships and friendships NOAA peers on how best he can best help/contribute Phone: (808) 532 3961 Fax: (808) 532 3224 • Family man, family roots in Hawaii • Need increased knowledge about the region and Email: [email protected] • Passionate about effective coastal experience working within Micronesia

management and community involvement • Needs to listen more and talk less

Name/Strengths, passion, commitment Island/Needs Contact Information

28. Marina Piscolish Hawaii MAPping Change, LLC PO Box 1544 STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Kailua, HI 96734 Connectivity between different efforts; sees Phone: (808) 375-8993 • • How to bring native and western management patterns & opportunities between diff. efforts practices together, bring native people into action Email: See opportunities for organizing action [email protected] • • Needs funding support to train Island Representatives • Process advisor, facilitator for how to come in facilitation, conflict resolution and mediation together and get stuff done • Staying in one time zone long enough to help

29. Kalani Souza Hawaii MAPping Change, LLC STRENGHTS: NEEDS: PO Box 1544 Messaging, media relations, getting your Kailua, HI 96734 • • Needs to develop more Native Practitioners skilled in message across, marketing conflict resolution Phone: (808) 561-6990 Song-writer and story teller Email: • • Needs to create a network of diverse indigenous • Musical production and event management, practitioners [email protected] esp. for fund raising or getting your messages • Needs to develop means to copyright intellectual across without a lot of resources property of indigenous cultures throughout Pacific • Out-of-the box thinking; creative thinking Region Cultural and native Hawaiian practitioner • • Needs to be loved, is that so wrong Contacts with Native Hawaiian and Native • • Needs a break American practitioners and intellectual property rights around cultural practices 30. Tony Abraham Kosrae Kosrae State Marine Resources STRENGTH: NEEDS: PO Box 82 Fish data collection and monitoring Tofol, Kosrae, FSM • • Fish data collection and monitoring 96944 • Group input on managing MPAs Phone: (691) 370-3031 • Assistance on getting group together Fax: (691) 370-3362 • Group like this to work together E-mail: [email protected] • Greater enforcement capabilities: how to function and

work with community or [email protected]

31. Robert Jackson Kosrae Kosrae Island Resource STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Management Authority Working with other gov agencies & dept.s PO Box 480 • • Finding financial support Speak the language of local people Tofol, FSM 96944 • • Connection to other Pacific Islands people and their • Attends church regularly technical approaches Phone: (691) 370-2076/3646 Speak more than one language Fax: (691) 370-2867 • • Lessons on others’ Pacific Islands projects • Public education activities E-mail: • I know what we are facing in my home [email protected]

32. Hostino Livaie Kosrae Utwe-Walung Conservation Area STRENGTHS: NEEDS: and Marine Park Getting the community into our canoe, PO Box 156 • • To talk with people who have same responsibilities talking with them, informing them of the and roles in management that he has Kosrae State, FSM 96944 importance of conservation of marine species Phone: (691) 370-5193 • To talk with others that are managing marine parks • Getting government cooperation and attention and conservation areas Fax: (691) 370-3000 to our needs [email protected] • How to grow big mangrove crabs E-mail: First biosphere reserve designation in UNDP • • Sustainable funding 33. Marston Luckymis Kosrae Kosrae CSO STRENGTHS: NEEDS: PO Box 184 Community consultation and outreach Tofol, FSM 96944 • • Financial support to sustain community project • Grassroots outreach and organizing skills Phone: (691) 370-3094/3673 • Working with local orgs & gov. agencies Fax: (691) 370-2867 • Biosphere reserve designation (July 2005) E-mail: [email protected] • Working with community to establish community-based projects 34. Helen Golde Maryland NOAA Office of Response and Restoration STRENGTHS: NEEDS: 1305 East West Hwy Silver Spring, MD 20910-3281 • Conduit into NOAA, US CRFT • Information about what is happening on the ground Phone: (301) 713-2989 x209 • Speaks the language of NOAA bureaucracy here in the region Fax:(301) 713-4389 • Able to get answers to questions from the region, point-of-access Email: [email protected] 35. Jonathan Kelsey Maryland NOAA National MPA Center STRENGTHS: NEEDS: 1305 East West Hwy Can help to take priorities in region back to Silver Spring, MD 20910-3281 • • Regional leaders/contacts who can be on the ground the agency/DC, and help to shift the focus of and who speak the language to work with me to shift Phone: (301) 713-3155 x130 current and future NOAA priorities to support priorities in NOAA Fax:(301) 713-3110 your efforts and needs in the region Email: [email protected] • Help in meeting the requirements in regional • Raising funds and securing finances partnerships and funding; e.g., reporting and Name/Strengths, passion, commitment Island/Needs Contact Information

• Creative in securing resources measurement of impacts and success 36. Bill Millhouser Maryland NOAA Office of Ocean and STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Coastal Resource Management Passion for the coast and for marine 1305 East West Hwy • • Cut off from the Pacific, need more communication management Silver Spring, MD 20910-3281 • Limited knowledge of cultural and political situations • Affinity for the Pacific Islands and institutions; need to understand the local Phone: (301) 713-3155 x189 • Knowledge of how funds are allocated in economic situation and culture, local political system Fax:(301) 713-4367 Washington, US CRTF Email: [email protected] • How to put together capacity building • Understand the existing support opportunities, fellowships, technical training, systems and NGOs that are already and funding for region operating in region so that NOAA does not blindly come in suggest activities that are already underway in region • Need for NOAA to operate as one NOAA (National Marine Fisheries Service, National Ocean Service) 37. Noah Idechong Palau Palau National Congress STRENGTHS: NEEDS: 6th Olbiil Era Kelulau • Passion for the sea P.O. Box 8 • Consistent connection to the sea and a way of • To identify the leaders and those with Koror, Republic of Palau 96940 life in the ocean the passion to change the way of the Phone: (680)488-1291 • Experience and lessons from the Palau future E-mail: [email protected] experience To build stronger local support and ownership over Many friends and mutual respect from • • management processes and action colleagues as greatest asset; share experiences so that we can grow • Access to certain leaders and level of political influence with other Micronesian leaders

38. Ilebrang U. Olkeriil Palau Department of Conservation & STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Law Enforcement Palau experience and awareness P.O. Box 116 • • Human resources to assist in management Dedicated and hard-working on the ground; Koror, Republic of Palau 96940 • • Technical assistance on monitoring, surveillance, and everything from logistics to field work enforcement Phone: (680) 488 4001/8738 Willingness to learn Fax: (680) 488 2862 • • Learn from other Pacific Islanders in how to balance • Working with community groups, NGOs, and the protected area needs while also maintaining local E-mail: [email protected] government to manage the Rock Islands relationships

39. Marion Henry Pohnpei (and FSM-wide) FSM Department of Economic STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Affairs As an islander, has a passion for the islands Fisheries Unit • • More people/leaders with passion and commitment 30 years of experience of working at all PO Box PS 12 • • More connections to funding levels of government (local, State, and Palikir, Pohnpei, FSM 96941 • Fast and reliable communications national agencies) Tel: (691) 320-2646 • Has access to regional agencies like SOPAC, Fax: (691) 320- 5854 SPREP, SPC E-mail: [email protected] • Lived on most islands in FSM; good understanding of people and cultures • Reef owner in Chuuk; intimate knowledge in reef tenure system 40. Willy Kostka Pohnpei Conservation Society of Pohnpei STRENGTHS: NEEDS: P.O. Box 2461 Community approach (‘speak the language of Kolonia, Pohnpei FSM 96941 • • Scientific and technical areas (need contacts/capacity) my community’); how to work with them Tel: (691) 320-5409 • Bring government partners into work; show how other • Fund raising island governments work at necc. level Fax: (691) 320-5063 E-mail: [email protected] • Bring partnerships into Pohnpei government 41. Miram Ankeid Republic of the Marshall Islands Jailut Community-based MPA, STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Marshall Islands How to work with traditional leaders and c/o Marshall Islands Environment • • Work together and share knowledge with others in cultural practices at local level region Protection Agency • How to fish using customary practices PO Box 1184 • How to use conservation areas to support Majuro, RMI 96960 these Phone: (692) 625-3035 Fax: (692) 625-5202 Email: [email protected] 42. John Bungitak Republic of the Marshall Islands Marshall Islands Environment STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Protection Agency Access to decision makers and national PO Box 1184 • • Get funding to support conservation efforts long-term, government leaders maintain momentum Majuro, RMI 96960 Experience working with government and Phone: (692) 625-3035 • • Allow traditional measures within conservation Name/Strengths, passion, commitment Island/Needs Contact Information

regional bodies activities Fax: (692) 625-5202 • Experience working with local communities Email: [email protected] and NGOs in the Marshall Islands • Desire to help people to improve their way of life; sustainable use 43. Tregar Albon Ishoda Republic of the Marshall Islands Marshall Islands Marine Resources STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Authority Cultural sensitivity; respect for islands PO Box 860 • • Human resources Passion and love for the ocean Majuro, RMI 96960 • • Overcommitted (doing everything); exhausted Experience facilitating between local Phone : (692) 625-8262 • • Network of people like you to connect with government, national government, and local Fax: (692) 625-5447 • Better planning skills for MPAs leaders (the three authorities) to do Email: [email protected] • US Treasry Secretary phone number conservation • Local logistics • Handling government bureaucracy

44. Terry Keju Republic of the Marshall Islands Marshall Islands Marine Resources STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Authority Experience with community fisheries projects PO Box 860 • • Capacity building, particularly in terms of monitoring • Working at a Micronesian level and evaluation of MPAs at a national level Majuro, RMI 96960 • Focus on regional training in Micronesia, Phone : (692) 625-8262 Fax: (692) 625-5447 rather than always looking south for their experience Email: [email protected] • Culture, language, and local involvement • Coordination of government agencies in the local conservation efforts • Can easily talk with local government and elected leaders

45. Eldon Note Republic of the Marshall Islands Marshall Islands Mayoral Council STRENGTHS: NEEDS: c/o Marshall Islands Marine Working at the community level Resources Authority • • To learn more about this effort Share desire and needs of local/community PO Box 860 • • To figure out how to continue this discussion, come conservation efforts together again Majuro, RMI 96960 • Sustainable community management Phone: (692) 625-8262 Fax: (692) 625-5447 Email: [email protected]

46. Steve Why Republic of the Marshall Islands Marshall Islands Conservation STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Society (MICS) My partners in the Marshall Islands P.O. Box 649 • • Financial support for community-based conservation • Interagency group: is much like a family, and projects (not only research efforts) Majuro, RMI 96960 it brings me strength Tel: (692) 625-5903 • Improved donor relationships Passion Email: [email protected] • • Long-term, sincere partners Technical foundation: understanding of coral or • • Donors to not only look at the Marshall Islands reefs and fisheries Compact as the funding answer [email protected] • Experience in Pacific Islands (25 years) • Teaching/outreach skills • Honesty and fearlessness • Humility • Commitment to life-long learning; ability to accept that will make mistakes, and not beat myself up 47. Karen Koltes Washington, DC Office of Insular Affairs; MS 4311 STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Department of the Interior Good at managing Bill M. Washington, DC 20240 • • Provide good information, concrete ideas and • Experience working in the Caribbean region proposals in DC; clear outcomes and objectives in tel: 202/208-5345 • Marine biologist; Smithsonian coordinator for order to connect all of you with the right people in DC fax: 202/208-2831 monitoring efforts in region [email protected] • Access to DOI resources • Understanding of how my office can provide technical support and funding opportunities • Opportunity to work with all of you and find ways to do so 48. Charles Chieng Yap Yap Community Action Program STRENGTHS: NEEDS: P.O. Box 413 Close working relationships with Colonia, Yap FSM 96943 • • Capable communities to effectively implement Micronesian conservation leaders conservation programs in marine or inland areas of Tel: (691) 350-2198 • Network of contacts in region islands; need to develop local capacity Fax: (691) 350-2391 • Members of : MCT, MIC, small grants E-mail: [email protected] program, climate change program, regional Name/Strengths, passion, commitment Island/Needs Contact Information

recycling committee

49. Marjorie Falanruw Yap Yap Institute of STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Natural Sciences “Yap’s grandmother scientist” PO Box 215 • • The time to focus locally • Founded Micronesia’s first environmental Colonia, Yap, FSM non-government organization 96943 • Broad experience over many years Phone: (691) 350-3115 • Publications E-mail: [email protected] • Long-term resident & commitment to the area • Support for local efforts

50. Andy Tafleiching Yap Yap Department of Marine STRENGTHS: NEEDS: Resources and Development Happy to learn more from everyone PO Box 251 • • Human resources, technical skills Undertaking MPA designation through Colonia, Yap, FSM 96943 • • Improved communications SPREP project; have learned a lot, some Phone : (691) 350-2294/2350 • Improved national cooperation successes and some challenges Fax: (691) 350-4494 • Improved NGO relationships, how to work with them, • Good community support and how to bridge them with government efforts E-mail: [email protected] Works with traditional leaders • • Learn more about working with other communities

Participant Evaluation of the “Pacific Islands MPA Community” Workshop

Wednesday, 31 August 2005

Directions: Please rate how much you agree or disagree with each of the statements listed below.

The overall aim of this workshop was “to seek agreement regarding the need for and priorities of a learning network to support effective marine protected areas throughout the Pacific Islands”.

1. I believe that the goal for this workshop was fully achieved.

___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

There were 4 objectives associated with this goal to be achieved by workshop participants:

. To inventory and understand the strengths (resources) and needs of MPA management in the Pacific Islands, as both individual and island efforts; . To prioritize opportunities and needs relating to a possible MPA community; . To generate a possible set of strategic responses/actions that the possible MPA community could take to meet the opportunities and needs; and . To initiate planning for leadership, coordination, communication, governance, and securing/committing resources for the possible MPA community.

2. The first objective of this workshop (inventory and understand MPA strengths and needs of individuals and islands) was fully achieved by the group.

___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

3. The second objective of this workshop (to prioritize opportunities and needs of a possible MPA community) was fully achieved by the group.

___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

4. The third objective of this workshop (to generate a possible set of strategic responses/activities for the MPA community) was fully achieved by the group. ___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

5. The fourth objective of this workshop (to initiate planning for leadership, coordination, communication, governance, and committing resources) was fully achieved by the group. ___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

6. The expectations for why my organization/team had me attend this workshop were fully achieved. ___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

7. My own (personal) expectations for why I attended this workshop were fully achieved. ___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

8. The workshop was well organized. ___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

9. The workshop was well facilitated. ___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

10. Out of this workshop, I believe that my impact as a MPA manager (or management supporter) will be improved in the future as a result of the creation of a Pacific Islands MPA Community.

___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

11. I enjoyed participating in this workshop.

___ strongly agree ___ agree ___ neither agree nor disagree ___ disagree ___ strongly disagree ___ I don’t know

12. The things I liked most about this workshop were: (list/write)

13. The things I liked least about this workshop were: (list/write)

14. If I had to recommend that some changes be made on the workshop, they would be: (list/write)

15. Other thoughts, comments, or suggestions?

Mahalo nui loa!