Alumni Meeting in Barbados
In the last day of the IOI session, Francois Bailet, the supervisor of the UN-Nippon fellowship programme, introduced the Oceans and Law of the Sea, Divisions of Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea and the UN-Nippon Fellowship Programme to the participant of the IOI meeting including the website of them for accessing more information. After then, alumni had opportunity to share and introduced their experience, field of works and the issues concerning the law of the sea and the ocean governance in their countries. For example, Cecilia presented the fisheries and ocean governance structure in Chile. Bryslie from Guatemala presented “the process to harmonize the Central America’s Legislation”. Laverne from Saint Lucia presented the topic of “Towards Results-based Integrated Coastal Governance: Planning for Evaluation and Use of Indicators”. Miriam presented “the ocean governance in Peru”. Tatiana presented “Tools for the management of coastal and maritime territory in Columbia”. Andrei and Uira from Brazil presented “Ocean Governance in Brazil” and “Environmental Licensing as an Instrument for Ocean Governance in Brazil”, respectively and Sampan presented “the fisheries resources management in Thailand”. Their presentations were benefit and were widely interested among participants of the same or different interests. So, it was a fruitful presentation and discussion session.
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.
Sampan
Bridgetown, Barbados (May, 23, 2010)