ICM Course - Week 4

 

8:00-11:45 AM

(Break: 9:45-10:15 AM)

 

1:30-4:45 PM

(Break: 3:00-3:15 PM)

 

FEBRUARY

11 (Mon)

Coastal/marine spatial planning tools 

Marine Protected Areas and other examples  of zoning tools

-Dr. Don Macintosh (MFF), Ms Maeve Nightingale (MFF)

 

Session objective: Students get familiar with principles and application of zoning in coastal management

 

Geoinformatics tools for coastal planning (3 hours, including exercises)

-        Dr. Zakir Hussain (AIT)

 

Session objective: Students are familiar with the use of remote sensing and GIS in coastal planning

 

12 (Tue)

Conflict resolution approaches – Ms Maeve Nightingale (MFF)

 

Session objective: Get familiar with conflict resolution mechanisms and how to avoid conflicts.

 

 

Communication tools

– Mr Michael Dougherty (IUCN/MFF)

 

Session objective: Students get familiar with the process of communication strategy development for communication with multiple coastal stakeholders

 

 

 

Coastal protection: engineering tools and environmental impact assessment  system (3 hours, including simulations/ case studies)

- Dr. Cherdvong (KU-IMC)

 

Session objective: Students get familiar with hard and soft methods of coastal erosion protection, their impacts, and the EIA system for coastal protection.

 

 

 

 

 

13 (Wed)

Urban environmental management/ Planning of coastal cities

-        Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon (AIT)

 

Session objective: Student will be familiar with commonly used methods and tools for urban planning and management including applications and specific cases of coastal cities.

 

Coastal tourism planning and management

-        Prof. Walter Jamieson (Macau University of Science and Technology)

 

Session objective: Student learn the basic tools of coastal tourism planning and management

 

 

 Participatory planning and community based management + use of Rapid Appraisal and Participatory Analysis techniques

- Dr. A. Yakupitiyage (AIT)

 

Session objective: Get familiar with participatory planning and management techniques to provide the ownership of problem identification and making solutions to the stakeholders

 

Introduction to Project Cycle Management (PCM) and the Logical framework approach (LFA)  - Dr. A. Yakupitiyage (AIT)

 

Session objective: Students familiar with theoretical basis and practical examples of LFA

 

14 (Thu)

Logical Framework Approach (Practice)

– Dr. A. Yakupitiyage (AIT)

 

Session objective: Students get hands-on practice to familiarize with stakeholder analysis, development of problem tree, conversion  of problem tree to objective tree and alternative analysis

 

Logical Framework Approach (Practice): cont.

 

15(Fri)

Results based management (RBM) approach, Activity-based budget development & Verifiable indicator-based reporting -  Dr. A. Yakupitiyage

 

Session objective: Students familiar with theoretical basis and practical examples of LFA/ RBM; development of activity based budgets; achieving previous costs and writing progress reports based on verifiable indicators mentioned in the LFA

 

Preparation for exam and field work

 

16 (Sat)

EXAM

 

17 (Sun)

 Departure to Phuket

 

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