Search on for Executive Director of the Permanent CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat
 | Executive Director position as advertised in national and
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The search is underway for the first Executive Director of the CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat. The Executive Director will serve as the chief administrative officer of the CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat responsible for discharge of all the functions and responsibilities of the Secretariat in accordance with the directives of the Senior Officials Meeting and the Ministerial Meeting, as well as providing strategic leadership and management of the Secretariat. MORE
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Push Stepped Up for Permanent CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat
 | | The CTI Centre in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, will serve as the CTI-CFF headquarters housing its Regional Secretariat |
Efforts are ongoing to push ahead plans for the establishment of the permanent CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat by May 2014.
Following a roadmap endorsed by the 9th Senior Officials Meeting last November 2013, the newly installed Interim Regional Secretariat (IRS) Chair, Prof. Dr. Ir. Sjarief Widjaja, Ph.D. FRINA, has taken the lead in facilitating entry into force of the CTI-CFF Agreement to establish the Regional Secretariat. The roadmap targets the establishment of the Secretariat by the 5th CTI-CFF Ministerial Meeting in May. MORE
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EAFM Training Gains Ground | | Trainees from the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center in Thailand, agencies in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and NOAA Fisheries join hands in a show of stakeholder participation and co-management (Credit: NOAA Fisheries) |
A training course in applying an ecosystem approach to fisheries management (EAFM) initially developed for CTI-CFF is winning supporters among fisheries and conservation practitioners, agencies and institutions across the region.
Called "Essential EAFM," the course evolved from earlier training courses developed for CTI-CFF beginning 2010 and piloted in Indonesia and Malaysia in 2012. MORE
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Five Themes Spell Success for MPA Networks in the Coral Triangle -- report | | Multiple-use zoning to balance alternative objectives (Credit: WWF) |
A new report in the journal Coastal Management identifies five themes that characterize successful marine protected area (MPA) networks in the Coral Triangle.
Based on six case studies, one from each of the Coral Triangle countries, the report says these themes "provide important insights to guide future efforts to expand the CTMPAS (Coral Triangle Marine Protected Area System)." MORE
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WWF Coral Triangle Programme Spells Out Focus Areas for New Three-Year Plan | | Focus on sustainable fisheries and fish stocks |
The WWF Coral Triangle Programme is promoting in the next three years two key themes focused on sustainable fisheries, food security and livelihoods.
The Programme is completing its current strategic plan in June and developing a new three-year plan. MORE
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Indonesia's COREMAP-CTI Gets New US$47.38M Loan from World Bank | | Some 210 village communities will take part in COREMAP-CTI |
The rehabilitation of Indonesia's coral reefs will receive more than US$62 million of additional funding through the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program-Coral Triangle Initiative (COREMAP-CTI) project. The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved US$47.38 million in financing for the project - the conclusion of a three-phase program which began in 1998. The Project is also supported by a US$10 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the Government of Indonesia has pledged US$5.74 million for the five-year project. MORE
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Six Priority Fisheries Management Areas Proposed for Timor-Leste | Management must be focused towards sites that can help achieve maximum replenishment benefits in the short to medium term
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Timor-Leste should prioritize fisheries management areas in six sites along its North Coast to ensure the efficiency of investments in the protection and management of the Lesser Sunda Ecoregion.
This is the key finding from an analysis by Conservation International (CI) contained in a report published recently with the support of the Australian Government. MORE
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CTI-Solomon Islands' Key Partner in MPA Development Granted Charitable Trust Status | | As a charitable trust, SILMMA will have access to funds to expand their work |
The Solomon Islands Locally Managed Marine Areas Network (SILMMA) was recently registered as a charitable trust.
SILMMA is a partnership of marine resource organizations, both government and non-government (NGOs and community groups), that have joined together to ensure effective management of marine resources in Solomon Islands. It is a key mechanism for marine protection in Solomon Islands and the main resource for the Solomon Islands CTI-CFF National Coordinating Committee (NCC) on the nomination of sites to the Coral Triangle MPA System (CTMPAS). MORE
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Changing of the Guard at NCC-Philippines
 | NCC-Philippines' Lynette Laroya: "I hope to continue to be involved in some capacity because I really love
CTI-CFF" |
After nearly 33 years of government service, Ms Lynette Laroya, a mainstay of CTI-CFF, is bidding goodbye to her post at the Philippines' Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Happily, it may well be only a temporary goodbye to CTI-CFF. Ms Laroya, who coordinated and facilitated for five years the activities of the Philippines' CTI-CFF National Coordination Committee (NCC-Philippines) Secretariat, is contemplating accepting one of a number of job offers from CTI-CFF Partner organizations, albeit not before the birth of her first grandchild, due in March. "I hope to continue to be involved in some capacity because I really love CTI-CFF," she says.
Taking over her duties at the NCC-Philippines Secretariat is Ms Angelita (Angie) Meniado, who will be assisted by Mr Pablo (Ogie) Delos Reyes. Both Ms Meniado and Mr Delos Reyes are with the Coastal and Marine Division of BMB.
Ms Laroya, who joined DENR in 1980, jokingly describes her movement in the organization as "top to bottom" because she served as Senior Conservation Officer "working in the uplands" before discovering her passion for the sea and deciding to specialize in coastal and marine management. By 2007, when multilateral talks on CTI-CFF were set to begin, she had chalked up about 20 years of coastal and marine work, making her one of only a few experienced coastal and marine specialists in government and the obvious choice to handle staff work on CTI-CFF for DENR.
A familiar face around CTI-CFF meetings, Ms Laroya played a key role in organizing NCC-Philippines keeping it active despite logistical challenges. "Our office has other functions in addition to serving as the NCC Secretariat, so it was difficult for us to give our CTI-CFF work the focus it needed," she relates. She is pushing for the creation of a unit of about five staff members wholly dedicated to CTI-CFF concerns. MORE
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