Coral Triangle Countries Gear Up for Coral Triangle Day Celebrations
Coral Triangle countries are starting to gear up for this year's celebration of the Coral Triangle Day with the theme Shared Waters, Shared Solutions: Coming Together as One for the World's Centre of Marine Life-The Coral Triangle.
The Coral Triangle Day is envisioned to be an annual, open-sourced event that brings together individuals, organizations, and establishments on one special day of the year to shed light on ocean conservation and the numerous ways to protect and conserve the Coral Triangle.
The event will be celebrated in countries in Coral Triangle region - Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste, through numerous activities including but not limited to: beach clean-ups; sustainable seafood dinners and exhibitions; bazaars; and beach parties, among others-all carrying the message of ocean conservation under the overall banner of the Coral Triangle Day. MORE
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Coral Triangle Countries Define Regional Process for Monitoring and Evaluation
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Coral Triangle country representatives at the M&E meeting in Manila Credit: US CTI
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Representatives of the six member countries of the Coral Triangle Initiative - Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste - met on April 10-12, 2013 in Manila, Philippines to develop and refine a regional process for monitoring and evaluating the initiative's progress towards achieving the goals under its Regional Plan of Action. The plan of action contains climate change and marine resource sustainability activities and is being implemented from 2009 to 2020. The meeting streamlined the indicators of progress and came up with key elements of the monitoring and evaluation process and an outline for an operations manual that will include guidelines for data collection, processing, analysis and reporting. The meeting was the latest in a series conducted over the last five years to develop a regional monitoring and evaluation system for the CTI and is now in its final stages of completion.
To read more about this workshop, click this link to download the report.
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CTI-CFF Sets Roadmap for Seascapes Working Group
The CTI-CFF held its first Seascape Working Group Meeting in Sanur, Indonesia on April 16-17, 2013 to develop a roadmap of activities and review existing seascape and other large scale marine planning work underway in the Coral Triangle. During the meeting, working group members from Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste committed to move forward in implementing their respective programs in support for the CTI Regional Plan of Action Goal to ensure that priority seascapes are designated and effectively managed. The working group members agreed to focus on capacity-building and sustainable financing efforts and to ensure that activities well coordinated and are reported in the next CTI-CFF Senior Officials meeting later this year. MORE
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Coordination, Linkages, Synergies and Capacities take center-stage in ADB's Coral Triangle Pacific's Implementation Review
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ADB's CTI Pacific Team at the meeting in Manila in April Credit: Primex Inc.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) held its Coral Triangle Pacific annual implementation review workshop in Manila on April 23-36, 2013 to examine the progress of its technical assistance to the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF) member countries located in the Pacific - Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. The technical assistance is one of the three ADB regional technical assistance projects in support of the CTI-CFF.
ADB's Coral Triangle Pacific Program is administered by ADB with funding from the Global Environment Facility Pacific Alliance for Sustainability at around $15 million, and with in-kind contributions from the five participating Pacific countries; three of them-Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste from within the Coral Triangle, and two adjacent countries, Fiji and Vanuatu, which share common environmental concerns with the other three. MORE
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CTI-CFF Online Project
Mapping Tool Introduced
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An online tool that provides a visual glimpse of all projects related to the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) in the region was presented to CTI-CFF government representatives and development partners at a workshop on April 10-11, 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The tool is a regional level map of projects implemented since 2009 and provides basic project information including location, implementing agency, goals, donors and funding sources, project contact, implementation period, among others. MORE
To view photos of the event, click here
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Web-based Platform Aims to Boost CCA Funding in the Coral Triangle 
Click the image to visit the site On March 26, 2013, the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) launched an online platform to match climate change adaptation projects needing support in the six CTI member countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste with investors and funding organizations. The Adaptation Marketplace website provides an interactive and user-friendly space for both project developers and funders to present their requirements based on funding level, location and project focus. MORE
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