Report Period Accomplishments January 1 – March 31, 2009

public awareness will then be used to strategically identify how to proceed with future steps within the Reimaanlok process. Initial discussion on early actions identified some potential sites and opportunities for demonstrating “living shoreline” approaches to shoreline protection and identified the potential for working with the local bank and the Rural Development Program to incorporate flood mitigation to their housing design. These efforts will be coordinated with other US- based programs in the area, including those of USAIDOFDA, the USDA forestry project, and Hawaii Sea Grant, which will be placing a coastal processes extension agent in Majuro. The Guide continues to be outreached through leveraged partnerships and funding. As part of a larger 10-day course that NOAA was conducting in Vietnam, CRC and IRG were invited SUCCESS to conduct a two-day training on the Guide. URI-CRC then replicated this same two-day training in the Philippines with funding from Conservation International and NOAA. The training was also conducted in the Galapagos through an associate member of the EcoCostas network who had been trained by URI-CRC as a co-trainer. The latter resulted in a full set of materials in Spanish and provided for additional entry points to introduce the Guide in the LAC region. USAIDURI-CRC also began planning a one-day event at the World Ocean Congress in May in collaboration with IUCN Mangroves for the Future, and a two-day event at the International Marine Conservation Congress conference in collaboration with NOAA. A panel and café session will be co-sponsored by URI-CRC at the Coastal Zone 2009 conference, in collaboration with US Coastal Programs Office at NOAA. Finally, URI-CRC has decided to focus the 2010 Summer Institute in Coastal Management on Climate Change Adaptation, and is marketing to a broad range of participants worldwide.

6.2 Changes in Program Activities

Other leveraging to outreach the Guide continues. NOAA training, initially hosted in Vietnam, was replicated in the Philippines with URI-CRC staff, and in the Galapagos with an associate member of the EcoCostas network trained by URI-CRC as a co-trainer. The result of the latter is a set of materials in Spanish and important new entry points in the LAC region. Planning was begun on the design of a one-day day event at the World Ocean Congress in May in collaboration with IUCN Mangroves for the Future, and a two-day event at the International Marine Conservation Congress conference in collaboration with NOAA. Also in the planning was the collaboration with US Coastal Programs Office at NOAA for a panel and café session at the Coastal Zone 2009 conference. Lastly, URI-CRC made the decision to focus its 2010 Summer Institute in Coastal Management on Climate Change Adaptation, and is marketing to a broad range of participants worldwide.

6.3 Contacts with USAID Missions and Bureaus

URI-CRC communicated with the USAID Office of Disaster Assistance OFDA in Majuro, which covers both the Republic of Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia. URI-CRC anticipates working with the OFDA to identify synergies in the RMI Pilot. 16