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We also began planning for the final outreach event, which will be a full day seminar held in Washington DC during the second half of September, 2009. An agenda was drafted and
vetted with our USAID CTO. The goals of the seminar will be to:
1. Share and receive feedback on the SUCCESS program’s accomplishments and lessons learned
2. “Roll-out” the special issue of the Coastal Management Journal 3. Showcase the benefits of globalmulti-site projects like SUCCESS in providing ICM
leadership on emerging and cross-cutting topics 4. Discuss future investments, by partners and a potential SUCCESS follow-on, to
continue the work started by SUCCESS The seminar will be a chance for SUCCESS staff and field partners to share experience and
showcase the Program’s accomplishments.
5.2 Priorities for Next Quarter July 1 – September 30, 2009
• Submit special issue articles to CMJ for final edits and lay-out • Finalize plans for September 2009 outreach event in Washington DC
• Hold final outreach event. • Plan for Basins and Coasts electronic issue on SUCCESS lessons learned
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6. Global Leadership 6.1
Report Period Accomplishments January 1 – June 30, 2009 Adapting to Coastal Climate Change
“Adapting to Coastal Climate Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners” was
released by USAID in May, 2009. Both USAID and URI-CRC have www pages posted with the document, and the printed version will be available in August, 2009. The Climate One-
Stop site that is being developed by USAID will also host the Guide. Several activities leveraged by the SUCCESS Program in collaboration with USAID and
other partners advanced this reporting period. Pilot activities in the Republic of the Marshall Islands RMI were initiated in January 2009 by URI-CRC and IRG, in collaboration with
Hawaii Sea Grant and the College of the Marshall Islands. Subsequent trips were made in April by URI and May by IRG. The project was initiated through a February workshop in
Majuro RMI, 50 Marshallese learned practical approaches to coastal adaptation to climate change. Participants included representatives of RMI authorities that manage terrestrial and
marine resources, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and university students. The workshop was supported by USAID, State Department, and Micronesian Conservation
Trust German Life Web funds. It was designed to review climate change trends and impacts and initiate stakeholder engagement to identify their vulnerabilities and adaptation
options with the goal of minimizing or mitigating the impacts of climate variability and change. Most of the two-day workshop was devoted to small group exercises aimed at
training participants on how to use the Guide to assess and address climate problems in the RMI in five areas: fisheries and mariculture, freshwater, environment and biodiversity,
health, and education. From this workshop, the local and international team agreed to work on the environment and freshwater focal areas to pilot the Guide and process.
Progress was made on developing recommendations and testing tools to mainstream climate change into the community-based participatory process Reimaanlok as they develop
community-based resource management plans. The URIIRG team is working directly with the RMI national agencies and NGOs engaged in the Coastal Management Advisory
Committee CMAC to identify opportunities for mainstreaming climate into their process. A summary document has been developed that outlines ways to incorporate climate change into
the process and will be used as the basis for a training of trainers and field application in August, 2009. As a result, the RMI team will have exercises, activities, and data collection
techniques that can be employed to incorporate the climate lens to their process. Marine Resources Authority and the Conservation Society members of CMAC has begun to
include climate as a key component to their program through engagement with the Namdrik Atoll and the Majuro communities.Their feedback related to key issues, observations and
public awareness has been used to develop strategies and tools to be used throughout the Reimaanlok
process. Building upon a key priority for the RMI, USAID’s Climate Program supported the
implementation of a Freshwater Resources Case Study for Majuro which was implemented
