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// THE CORAL TRIANGLE CENTER quarterly report Q1 January - March 2014 boards // BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mr. George S. Tahija - Commissioner of PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya Prof. Dr. Hasjim Djalal - Former Ambassador at Large for the Law of the Sea and Maritime Affairs Dr. Abdul Gofar - Senior Lecturer in Fisheries Management, Marine Conservation, Policy, and Institutional Development at Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia Mrs. Yuli Ismartono - Deputy Chief Editor for TEMPO Magazine, and editor of the English edition Mr. Made Subadia - Senior Adviser to the Ministry of Forestry Ms. Susantin Sinarno - Owner of Susantin & Associates Mr. Greg Churchill - Senior Adviser (Legal) to Adinata Pandita, an Indonesian consulting company Ms. Rili Djohani - Executive Director of the Coral Triangle Center Mr. Widodo Ramono - Executive Director of the Rhino Foundation of Indonesia Mr. Gede Raka Wiadnya - Senior Lecturer on Fisheries Science at Brawijaya University in Malang, Indonesia Mr. Johannes Subijanto - Deputy Director of the Coral Triangle Center 2 Mr. Marthen Welly - MPA Learning Sites Manager of the Coral Triangle Center CTC QUARTERLY REPORT 2014 - 01 QUARTERLY CTC & Collaboration Boards // BOARD OF ADVISERS Dr. Jamal Jompa - Hassanudin University, Makassar, Indonesia Dr. Tonny Wagey - Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia; Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Actions Prof. Dr. Nor Aieni Binti Haji Mokhtar - Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Malaysia Prof. Dr. Ridzwan Abdul Rahman - Senior Lecturer in Marine Science Sabah University, Malaysia Prof. Dr. Ed Gomez - University of the Philippines/Marine Science Institute, Philippines Dr. Mundita Lim - Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Philippines Ms. Kay Kumaras Kalim - Department of Environment and Conservation, Papua New Guinea Dr. Augustine Mungkaje - University of Papua New Guinea Ms. Agnetha Vave Karamui - Ministry of Environment and Meteorology/Fisheries, Solomon Island Dr. Lourenco Borges Fontes - Ministry of Fisheries, Timor Leste Dr. Richard Kenchington - Wollongong University Australia Mrs. Anne H. Walton - NOAA International MPA Capacity Building Program Dr. Kathy MacKinnon - Biodiversity Specialist, Vice-Chair World Commission on Protected Areas (WPCA) United Kingdom Dr. Ir. Luky Adrianto, M.Sc - Center for Coastal and Marine Resources Studies - Bogor Agricultural University // TABLE OF CONTENTS Boards 2 Table of Contents 3 About Us 4 // TRAINING AND LEARNING 5 // REGIONAL HUB 17 Marine Resource Valuation Training, Bali 5 CTC presentation: PechaKucha Night, Ubud 17 NOAA Sustainable Tourism Training, Bali 5 Concept Development Workshop for the Regional Hub 17 Bali Community Training on Effective Nusa Penida MPA CTC Outreach Events with the Body Shop Indonesia Management, Bali 5 The Amazing Ocean Race at 18 Training of Trainers: Community Perception Monitoring, Mall Bali Galleria and Benoa Town Square 19 Tegal 6 Training of Trainers: Mentoring session for PNG, CTC New Staff 20 at Port Moresby 6 Acronyms 21 3 Collaborations 23 // LEARNING SITES 7 Photo Credits 23 MAME Training (Marine Area Management Effectiveness), Nusa Penida 7 Manta-tow Survey, Timor Leste 8 Nusa Penida Nusa Penida Regular Resource Use Monitoring and Joint Surveillance Activity 9 Nusa Penida MPA Ministerial Decree Signed 10 Nusa Penida MPA 1st Task Force Meeting 10 Nusa Penida MPA Entrance Fee Coordination Meeting 10 Banda Islands Community Engagement in the Development of Hatta Island LMMA 11 Community Engagement in the Development of Rhun Island LMMA 11 Community Outreach to Banda Islands Stakeholders: Law and Regulation on Marine Conservation and Fisheries 11 Development of Central Maluku District Coastal Spatial Plan 11 // LEARNING NETWORKS 12 Victoria Shanghai Hongkong Students Visit to Nusa Lembongan 12 Learning Exchange by Talaud North Sumatera Office of Marine and Fisheries 14 // PUBLIC - PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP 15 Coral Governance Curriculum Adoption, Ambon 15 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Coordination Visit, Bali, and Meeting with MMAF, Jakarta 15 CTI-CFF Coordination Mechanism Working Group Meeting, Putra Jaya, Malaysia 15 United States Department of Interior (USDOI) Visit, Bali 16 CTC Visits Timor Leste With BPSDMKP-MMAF 16 4 CTC QUARTERLY REPORT 2014 - 01 QUARTERLY CTC About Us about us the coral triangle center a center of excellence in tropical marine conservation: building local leadership for long-term conservation in the coral triangle // VISION Healthy seas that enrich people and nature. // MISSION To inspire and train generations to care for coastal and marine ecosystems. // VALUES • EXCELLENCE. In the quality of our teaching. In the performance and integrity of our staff. In our commitment to being a world-class center of tropical resources management. • LOCAL STEWARDSHIP. Based in the heart of the Coral Triangle, we maintain strong roots in the field and close ties to stakeholders at all levels. We value traditional knowledge and practices, and promote local ownership of our projects. • COLLABORATION. We build partnerships among leaders in government, communities, NGOs, education, and the private sector because only by engaging all constituencies can solutions be effective. • RESULTS. We provide trusted information, are transparent in our actions, and hold ourselves accountable for the quality of our programs, changing our strategies as necessary and measuring our impact over time. CTS is compised of 5 programs: Regional Center (The Hub) Public - Private Training Learning Partnership & Learning Sites Learning Network training & learning // 01 Marine Resource Valuation Training, Bali, 15-18 January 2014 It is becoming increasingly important to be able to articulate the economic value of the services provided by ecosystems. CTC is developing a training curriculum to address the topic of marine ecosystems. The 4-day training event in January was an internal “Train the Trainer” for CTC staff, introducing basic theories and concepts in economics, and serving as a trial for the 5 training to be rolled out to our customers in the future. & Learning Training REPORT 2014 - 01 QUARTERLY CTC In total 14 CTC staff and Senior Management Team members attended the training and provided feedback on how to improve the curriculum to serve various target audiences. // 02 // 03 NOAA Sustainable Tourism Training, Bali, 31 Bali Community Training on Effective Nusa January-9 February 2014 Penida MPA Management, Bali, 20-21 February 2014 A basic building block in the effective management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is sustainable tourism. The NOAA (the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has a capacity development program in Indonesia and hosted a 7-day training course for MPA managers and practitioners in Bali. Under our joint agreement, CTC’s trainers gave input on the training materials, case studies, and provided local examples pertaining to codes of conduct for CTC works as an independent marine and fisheries manta ray and mola mola watching. training center for the Indonesian Government’s Agency of Human Resource Development. In February, we were invited to conduct a community training to build awareness and strengthen effective management for the Nusa Penida MPA. Various stakeholder groups from Nusa Penida attended the training including fishermen, dive operators, tourism businesses, government officials, law enforcement officers, and local NGOs. CTC taught about marine conservation, area management, and the connection between coastal ecosystems, fisheries, marine tourism and communities. The training equipped participants with valuable skills and provided an excellent forum to bring the various stakeholders together. They learned more about how to deal with their own challenges and how to better work with other stakeholders who are facing similar challenges in their efforts to protect coastal resources in Nusa Penida. Following the training, participants left with a renewed determination to protect Nusa Penida for current and future generations. // 04 Training of Trainers: Community Perception Monitoring, Tegal 17-20 March 2014 6 CTC QUARTERLY REPORT 2014 - 01 QUARTERLY CTC & Learning Training CTC hosted a training of trainers on community perception monitoring for marine protected areas, coasts, and small PARTICIPANTS: islands for 11 trainers from MMAF in Tegal, West Java. 11 participants • Center of Extension on Marine and The participants learned techniques and methods of socioeconomic monitoring for adaptive management as Fishery, BPSDMKP (1) well as skills to collect and analyze basic information • Directorate General of Marine, Coasts when conducting perception monitoring. Participants and and Small Islands KP3K (1) came from various MMAF offices and can now take • Utilization of Small Islands, KP3K (1) the knowledge they acquired and teach it to their own • Center for Fishery Education and divisions. Training Banyuwangi, BPSDMKP, (3) • Center for Fishery Education and TrainingTegal, BPSDMKP (5) // 05 Training of Trainers: Mentoring session for Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby 20-22 March 2014 CTC conducted a training of trainers for 9 local trainers government. from PNG’s Learning and Training Network as part of an effort to strengthen in-country tropical marine resource There are four curricula that are developed under management training capacity. In this second mentoring this project; Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries session for the team, the local trainers practiced their Management, Marine Area Management