The CTI High Level Financial Roundtable provides a venue for the CT6 countries to generate additional funding for the implementation of the National Plans of Action, Regional Plan of Action, and Regional Secretariat, and for the donors to communicate their funding priorities.
Improving fisheries statistics in the Philippines with focus on subsistence fisheries: a first step in improving existing data collection method.
Members of the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) will launch the State of the Coral Triangle Report (SCTR) during the International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS).
Representatives of the SCTR writing teams will present highlights of their work during a symposia entitled "Science and Governance in the Center of Marine Biodiversity." The Asian Development Bank’s Knowledge Management Project (KM 4 CTI) will convene the session which will gather at least 75 members of the Regional Secretariat, the 6 CT countries, and development partners among others.
This document has been developed to provide information and guidance on the use of marine protected areas in the context of fisheries. As MPA implementation moves ahead with biodiversity conservation, many people feel that the fisheries aspects are not fully understood or taken into account, and guidance to this specific sector is needed. These guidelines look specifically at fisheries features of MPAs but also address the interface between fisheries management and biodiversity conservation and provide support for MPAs with multiple objectives.
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This learning note is an overview of the Coastal Assessment Tool and Planning Software (COASTPLAN) and a three dimensional relief map. For more information, follow this link.
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This innovative set of guidelines released on January 19, 2012 has for the first time combined and integrated the principles of fisheries, biodiversity and climate change in establishing effective marine protected area (MPA) networks in the Coral Triangle. In the past, many MPA networks were unsuccessful because they focused solely on one principle and objective. The new guidelines aim to address this concern by enabling MPA networks to simultaneously achieve fisheries sustainability, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change.
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To catalyze regional sharing of knowledge, methods, and strategies related to coastal adaptation, the CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat, in collaboration with the CTI National Coordinating Committees in Malaysia and the Philippines and the US CTI Support Program, organized the second CTI Course on Climate Change Adaptation for Coastal Communities and Training of Trainers. The course, attended by 30 participants from Malaysia and the Philippines, was held in Tagaytay from January 31 to February 9, 2012.
On January 20, 2012, Malaysia’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Maximus Ongkili, made his first official visit to the Coral Triangle Initiative Interim Regional Secretariat in Jakarta as the newly elected Chairman of the Coral Triangle Initiative Council of Ministers (CTICOM). He was received by Dr. Sudirman Saad, Chairman of the Interim Regional Secretariat; Dr. Suseno Sukoyono, Executive Chair of the Interim Regional Secretariat; and Dr. Gellwynn Jusuf, Secretary General of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.
On December 8, 2011, Shangri-La’s Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa launched its first-ever sustainable seafood awareness campaign in Sabah, Malaysia, supporting the CTI-CFF’s goals to promote the ecosystem approach to fisheries in the Coral Triangle. During the launch, the management of the 492-room resort committed to sourcing its seafood from sustainable suppliers through local fishermen organizations in the nearby Tun Mustapha Park. This initiative encourages local fishing communities to stop using destructive fishing practices and helps protect the marine ecosystem in the area.
The German Government is supporting the 3.5-million-hectare Savu Sea Marine National Park (MNP) in East Nusa Tenggara in line with the Indonesian government’s commitment to expand its marine conservation area to 20 million hectares by 2020 and to help achieve the goals of the Coral Triangle Initiative for Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF). German support is channeled through the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety’s (BMU) International Climate Change Initiative.
