This ICP also marks the last for which Ms. Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli will serve as Secretary, as she will be moving to another Division within the Office of Legal Affairs… All those who came through the Division will know what a huge loss this is to the Programme.

Thanks also to ENB for their continued outstanding coverage.

IISD-ENB Highlights link below and great photo of Co-Chairs and Gaby.

http://www.iisd.ca/oceans/icp11/

On May22, 2010, the full day of alumni activities session had been conducted. There were several games activities that aimed to enhance the capacity of alumni in conducting teamwork and dealing with the negotiation situations.

Knowing your team members: The game activities were started with the observation of team member’s responsive actions and then followed by game of setting row by their birthdays without speaking. This game needed the observing skills and finally they knew friends’ birthdays and their signs of zodiacs together with the explaining personality characteristic of each zodiac. Another game was “telling and listening your partner’s story”. In this game the alumni paired with partner to telling story of the given topics concerning their lives while their partner alumni had to listening intentionally and then responded e.g. who is their best idol, what is their most fear, how can release their stress from work, what was the most impress from the IOI meeting. The group had to circulate to see their new partners so that it allowed alumni to know more about their friends.

Knowing yourself: The psychological test was conducted by the paper test. Through this testing, the alumni discovered their personal social styles, which they were categorized into three social styles including the analytical people which have the major characteristic of logical, thorough, serious, systematic and prudent, Amiable people who have the major characteristics of supportive, cooperative, diplomatic and patient loyal and the Expressive people who have the characteristic of outgoing, enthusiastic, persuasive fun-loving and spontaneous.

Teamwork: The fourth game was the team working which the alumni separated into two groups of five. Each group formed their team work by A (leader) B (coordinator) and C D E (supporters). They all had the paper containing symbols in their hands and without talking, A had to answer what was the common symbol of all people in their team. The game allowed B to communicate by writing with A and C D E but not allowed communication among others. This game supposed to be teamwork that required the right information, organizing information, responsibility, trust, and confirmation before the decision making taking place. The negotiation game is also one more teamwork game. The two teams had to negotiate in the given topic. This game allowed them not only to learn the negotiation techniques but also to work as a team in different roles such as information support, consultation and decision making.

Apart from the productive matter that alumni have perceived from this section, it has crucially strengthened the sense of team and friendship among them.

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Heathrow Airport, London (May24, 2010)

The group also discussed the strength of the Caribbean countries for the further fisheries management including the capacity of human that are ready to be enhanced or improved, the knowledge of the fisheries resources and using it in the best ways, most of required principles are recognized, they needs effectiveness implementation, thought.  There are several formal institutions that have capacity for the better coordination of the regional countries including ACS, CRFM and OSPESCA.

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Heathrow Airport, London. (May24, 2010)

In the last session of IOI meeting, the sub-groups discussion were formulated by dividing into six principles including the Polluter Pays Approach, Fisheries Management in the Caribbean Sea, Maritime Boundary and Delimitation, Conservation and Ocean Environmental Protection, Public Participation and Precautionary Approach. The alumni involved discussion in depth of each topic of their concern. They not only engaged the discussion but also worked as a facilitator in each group which was a good opportunity of creating a good relationship with participants and key resource persons from the various countries of the LA-Caribbean region. The rap up and round table was full of productive, creative and responsive environment.

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Bridgetown, Barbados (May, 23, 2010)

Sampan, Barbados

The Third days of the LA-Caribbean meeting was productively contained the topics of the Environmental and Social impact Assessment (EIA), the implementation of principled Ocean Government in the Wider Caribbean and the Conservation/Environmental Protection. In each topic the discussion and participation of participant were highly engaged with the important point; for example, there were wide discussion on the hierarchy of social assessment that if it is contain in the EIA and the political issue that inherent in the system of EIA and etc. The participants exercised their understanding on EIA through the group activity on negotiation activities base on their given roles of different stakeholders on the given projects implementation. For the ocean governance in Caribbean, the issues of environment and living resources exploitation were raised with the discussion in the degree of effectiveness of regulation and implementation. For the up coming days the major issues will be the Multilateral Agreement on biodiversity Diversity focusing on the impact on Caribbean Judicial decision making, the legal aspect of maritime boundary delimitation, maritime boundary and IUU fishing.

Sampan, Barbados

Sampan, Barbados

In preparation, your Alumni Rep has asked for input on issues which you would like to be discussed at the meeting, or simply brought to the attention of the Alumni attending. It will also be necessary for the three committees to report through their coordinators, namely the web, outreach and news letter coordinators. We have set aside some time for the Alumni Rep to provide these briefs on their behalf and trust that they will cooperate.

We count on the Asia-Pacific Region Alumni to contribute their ideas and experiences as they have already benefited from the process last year in Tokyo – But no Alumni is off the hook!

So please, contribute your ideas; it is YOUR process.

The first question, and perhaps the simplest one to address, is if we need to have three websites: the official programme site, the alumni blog (this site) and the news group (Yahoo Group)? While it is obvious we need the official programme site, the question arises as to if we can merge the blog and the news group?

In order to get the discussion going, we have created a pool which you can take on the news group site (here).

Let’s talk about this, and any other ideas you may have!