1. PEMSEA EFFORTS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT KEY MESSAGES PRACTICES DISTILLATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES KNOWLEDGE BANK: CRITICAL MASS SHARING: RIGHTS AND DUTIES

2. SOME KEY MESSAGES: IW KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS  TDA, SAP, priority tranboundary concerns (incremental cost), and sound science and technological innnovation  Transboundary fresh water basins, LMEs, capacity building, investments  Coordination and public involvement  Packages of institutional, regulatory, technical, economic and financial measures to operationalize sustainable development strategies for international waters and their drainage basins;  Modus operandi for addressing linkages among coastal zone, ocean, bio-diversity conservation, sea level rise (climate change), etc.;  Preventing damage to threatened waters and their associated ecosystems. Source: GEF Operational Programms 8 & 9

3. CROSS -AGENCY, MULTI- SECTORAL AND INTER- DISCIPLINARY DECISION- MAKING MECHANISMS Capacity building programs Stakeholders/ public participation Sustainable financing/ Investment opportunities Strategies, action plans & Management programs Scientific/technical services to management programs Improved legislation/ enforcement/market- based instruments PRACTICES AT LOCAL, NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS: INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

4. Danang: Development and Implementation of Communication Plan Enhancing awareness via workshops, training seminars, talk shows, posters, leaflets Hundreds and thousands of people of major local communities in urban and rural areas involved Active participation of local mass media Local government ordinances/ measures on beach littering prevention, sanitation and cleanup activities Waste cleanup teams established in major tourist beach sites Households paying fees for the collection and the transportation of wastes Local residents volunteered to clean up the beaches on the weekends Animal wastes on the beaches significantly reduced Local residents perceive that their coastal environment becomes cleaner

5. DISTILLATION Review and evaluation Case studies Policy briefs PEMSEA Notes Guidelines Manuals Brainstorming: forum, think tank Paradigm shift: integration, local capacity, partnerships, interconnectivities

6. PRODUCTS AND SERVICS KNOWLEDGE BANKING SHARING SOME EXAMPLES:

7. Print Materials PUBLICATIONS Types of PEMSEA Publications: Technical Reports (guidelines, manuals, assessments) Conference/Workshop Proceedings Meeting Reports (PSC) Information Series (mission, training, info docs) Coastal / Regional Strategies Others materials produced in support of project activities (brochures, leaflets…)

8. Tropical Coasts PUBLICATIONS Development: PEMSEA Contents Editorial Articles Centerfold Newsbriefs PEMSEA Events Facts and figures 1994-present Magazine format 50 pages on average Informal/popular layout

9. Tropical Coasts PUBLICATIONS Distributed in 30 countries. 312 regular subscribers

10. e-Publications PUBLICATIONS E-Updates E-mail VersionWeb Version

11. e-Publications PUBLICATIONS First issue was distributed in Jan 2000 to 300 subscribers Latest issue distributed to 1334 subscribers 450% increase

12. e-Publications PUBLICATIONS Rate of GROWTH 25 new subscribers/mo

13. PEMSEA WEBSITE Most visited pages: 1.Job Opportunities 2.Trainings 3.About PEMSEA 4.Media Resource Center 5.Information Center 6.East Asian Seas Congress 2003 7.PEMSEA Participating Countries 8.Young Environmentalists 9.TC Article: Impact of Pollution on Marine Biodiversity 10.PEMSEA Staff

15. Integraed Information Management System: Data Structure Site boundaries – geographic and administrative coverage Biological resources – fisheries, coral reef, seaweeds, seagrass, wetlands, benthos and forests Socioeconomic data –fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture, industry, mining and quarrying, forestry, ports, tourism and utilities, etc. Demography – census of population, income, malnutrition, waterborne diseases, religious affiliation Institutional data – government agencies, other sectors, activities, plans, outputs Pollution sources – land- and sea- based, industries, municipal, solid wastes, point- and non-point Monitoring data – water, sediment, biota, upstream and downstream, standards and criteria Physiographic data –oceanographic, geological and hydrologic data Model data inventory – various model scenarios that are archived for future use.

16. Figure 3. IIMS nNetwork sStructure.