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workplan in order to accommodate this loss of complementary funding.
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The shifting programmatic focuses within USAID trickle down to the SUCCESS Program and present a small challenge to crafting Program messages and materials in such a way as to
clearly articulate how the SUCCESS Program links to and contributes to those program interests. Such areas of interest currently include peace and security and global warming.
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III. Upcoming Challenges, Constraints, and Opportunities
While the Program team has continued to struggle with identifying a meaningful way to bridge the SUCCESS and GLOWS Programs so both Programs are truly part of an overarching and
cohesive IMCAFS Program, the first opportunity to actually engage in a joint initiative may be imminent. As mentioned earlier in this report, the SUCCESS and GLOWS teams have submitted
a proposal USAID Coca-Cola “Improving Local Community Livelihoods and Strengthening Capacity for Implementing Tanzania’s Water Sector Development Strategy” to the USAID
Tanzania Mission for a Global Development Alliance initiative that would support Tanzania’s new water governance strategy. It would improve community access to sustainable safe water,
provide sanitation services to local communities in need, and promote sustainable management of watershed and water resources in the country’s two most important basins—the Wami-Ruvu and
Pangani River Basins. While this initiative is not funded through IMCAFS mechanisms, the IMCAFS dialogue has been instrumental in catalyzing this joint effort.
Other vehicles were developed this reporting period to further create the sense of a more unified IMCAFS program. This included the launching of IMCAFS and SUCCESS websites and the
inaugural issue of Basins and Coasts, an IMCAFS newsletter with a focus on but not limited to sharing SUCCESS and GLOWS Program experience.
The web-based, interactive PMP data collection and reporting system was finalized and field partners can now input data automatically into this system. Challenges arise, however, with the
more overarching issue of changing strategic objective-level indicators and definitions for USAID.
It remains a challenge to identify value-added opportunities to use the SUCCESS Program strategic partners TNC, WWF, CI, and the Sea Grant network given the limited budget and
differences in the geographic and thematic focuses of the different partners. However, the Fisheries Opportunities Assessment report mentioned earlier in this report did allow for
engagement with World Wildlife Fund, and with Sea Grant partner institutions, as well as with GLOWS.
A positive challenge is the opportunity to create greater linkages and synergy between CRC and its partners’ multiple projects and programs being implemented in the same geographic areas
e.g., the PEACE, Tanzania Coastal Management Partnership IV TCMP IV and SUCCESS Programs in Tanzania; the EcoCostas-CRC Network project and the SUCCESS Program in
Ecuador and Nicaragua; and, the SUCCESS Associate Award program and the USAID-funded Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System IOTWS project, both in Thailand.
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IV. Associate Awards
Thailand Key accomplishments over the period July 1 - December 31, 2006
The main accomplishments during this period include capacity-building in marine protected area management, construction and program development of the Kamphuan Community Learning
Center KCLC, waste management, and advances in village banking and community-based disaster management.
A week-long training program on co-management of marine protected areas was held in Ranong Province from Sept 18-25 for newly appointed members of the Laemson Marine Park Advisory
Committee PAC. The training was led by CRC and Asia Institute of Technology AIT in partnership with the DANIDA-supported Joint Management of Protected Areas Program and the
Department of National Parks. Approximately two dozen participants, representing local park staff and stakeholder representatives, discussed key concepts of co-management and how this
more participatory and transparent form of conservation governance can be carried out in Laemson National Park.
The workshop was followed in November by a seven-day study tour to Bunaken National Marine Park in Indonesia where co-management arrangements are well developed. A two-day debriefing
and planning workshop was held in Phuket upon their return on the 7-9th of November. Construction and furnishing of the KCLC was started in July and completed in December in time
for a high-level inauguration event on December 18. Pam Rubinoff, Virginia Lee and Khun Samruay led an effort to develop a vision, program and business plan for the Learning Center. A
three tier management structure is being developed: a Board of Directors who will provide general guidance, set policy and seek funding and endowments; a local Steering Committee that
will advise the Center Director on programming and management; and the Center Director who will manage Center activities and services and report to both the Steering Committee and Board.
Waste management and recycling activities continued during this period. This program element was initiated after recognizing that the communities in the project did not have a good waste
management program. The general approach was to: 1 create awareness through workshops and study tours, 2 develop community level waste management plans including recycling and
composting program, and 3 support implementation of recycling and composing activities. A survey of waste materials found that recycling and composing could reduce waste by 80-90
percent. Since July 2006, two villages have formed a Waste Management Committees and have been collecting waste for recycling. The recyclable materials generate income. Part of the fund
goes to the collector and the other part is saved and used for community social events. Villages now look cleaner and free of plastic bottles, plastic bags, papers or glasses. Other communities
are observing this and are interested in a similar program. Over 50 households in villages 4 and 2 are also composting using the bioliquid extraction method
EM using composting barrels and bacteria provided by the SCL project. The project is in the process of finding ways to utilize and market this composted product for agriculture.
In August and September the project staff began working with communities and disaster management representatives to complete a disaster management plan in each village. So far, two
