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Project Completion Report
Please submit through your APEC Secretariat Program Director within 2 months of project completion.
SECTION A: Project profile
Project number
& title :
Time period
covered
in report:
Committee / WG
/ Fora:
Project
Overseer Name
/ Organization /
Economy:
MRC01/2009A: Fish and Biodiversity Cross Boundaries: Enabling
collaborative capacity building to improve the protection of marine resources
and strengthen future economic security and ocean wealth in the Asia-Pacific
region
1 June 2010 – 30 March 2011
Date submitted:
Marine Resources Conservation Working Group
Travis Bover / Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population,
and Communities / Australia
SECTION B: Project report and reflection
Briefly answer each of the questions below. Section B should be a maximum of 2-3 pages,
inclusive of the questions and tables provided.
1.
Project description: In 3-4 sentences, describe the project and its main objectives.
The main objectives of the project are to:
Increase uptake of trans-boundary spatial marine management (TSMM) approaches among APEC
member Economies;
Improve information exchange between Economies on marine-related issues including TSMM, marine
threats and stressors, and key economic drivers such as transport, tourism and sustainable resource
use, by providing ongoing discussion opportunities between relevant stakeholder groups;
Deliver improved efficiencies and cost savings to APEC Economies through the establishment of
centralized, web-based data sources and discussion forums; and
Develop a gap-analysis on governance and institutional arrangements relating to TSMM to identify
areas for further development.
2. Meeting your objectives: Describe how the project went, with reference to the objectives laid
out in your project proposal. Include any major changes to your project as proposed and any
problems or obstacles that you encountered and how you overcame them.
The project provides a useful suite of outputs that APEC Economies can draw on to improve their
understanding and application of spatial management in the marine environment. Four web-based
workshops were held with stakeholders throughout the project to exchange information about and
improve the understanding of TSMM measures, and these workshops were attended by numerous
APEC Economies, including Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia and China. The key output, the TSMM
Guide, successfully fills several information and institutional gaps, and has identified other gaps for
future work. A challenge with this project was that the initial timeframe set to complete all outputs was
quite short and required a deadline extension.
3. Project evaluation: Describe how you evaluated the project and provide some details on the
results of the evaluation (e.g. participant evaluation, peer review of publication, measurement
of indicators, statistics demonstrating use of outputs etc.).
The project outcomes have been evaluated against its original scope, objectives and budget. On this
basis, the project was executed well by the project consultants; however its success was hampered
by lower participation by working group members than expected, and the establishment of the elibrary is still under development, pending provision of technical support. The TSMM Guide was
subjected to peer review via other working group contacts and officers working to the Project
Overseer with relatively minor amendments. The project succeeded in completing all outputs within
the budget.
4. Key findings: Describe one or two examples of important findings arising from the project (e.g.
results from surveys or case studies, insights provided by participants or experts, policy
recommendations, roadblocks to progress on an issue etc.).
The Guide to TSMM outlines a range of considerations for trans-boundary marine spatial managers in
the form of twelve ‘steps‘. Nevertheless, a key recommendation of the Guide is that each area and
instance of TSMM will vary; therefore the sequence and emphasis of the identified measures may
differ from that outlined in this Guide. A further recommendation is that planners and managers need
to remain flexible in their approach and draw upon the examples and advice offered with an open
mind and creative disposition.
Analysis of the questionnaire responses revealed that TSMM is carried out across the responding
Economies to a certain extent. Some Economies seemed to place more emphasis on TSMM than
others. All the responding participants reported that their Economy has more than one marine activity
that is managed cooperatively across jurisdictional boundaries. Additional questionnaire analysis was
provided to the APEC Secretariat and Project Overseer in a final project report.
5. Next steps: Describe any follow-up steps or projects that you recommend. Have you already
planned or begun these? What role could APEC play in any follow-up?
Plans are underway to share the TSMM Guide amongst the working group contacts for the Fisheries
and Marine Resources Conservation Working Groups and they will be urged to share this with their
relevant stakeholder networks.
6. Feedback for the Secretariat: Do you have any suggestions for more effective management of
projects in the future? Any assessment of consultants, experts or participants that you would
like to share? (The Secretariat collates and examines feedback to identify trends for ongoing
evaluation of our project management and/or communications systems.)
Thank you to the APEC Secretariat for your timely and considerate involvement in managing this
project to its conclusion. The consultants had difficulty keeping to project timelines and were at times
difficult to stay in contact with over email; but were always very professional in their interactions with
those who oversaw the project and delivered a useful suite of outputs on budget.
Participant information: Please provide details, where applicable. Insert rows as needed.
Economy
# male
Hong Kong
1
Indonesia
Australia
# female
1
Participation in the web-based discussions
1
Participation in the web-based discussions
Participation in the web-based discussions
3
Vietnam
Details
1
Participation in the web-based discussions
China
1
Participation in the web-based discussions
Malaysia
2
Participation in the web-based discussions
Other: Yes
10 economies responded to a project
questionnaire.
7.
Outputs: Please provide details, where applicable. Change headings or insert rows as
needed.
# planned
# actual
3
3
60
7
127
7
2
1
# of workshops /
events
# of publications
distributed
# of CDs distributed
# of websites
created
Details
Web-based discussions
Other:
SECTION C: Budget
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Attach a detailed breakdown of the APEC- provided project budget, including:
Planned costs (using most recently approved budget figures)
Actual expenditures
Variance notes: An explanation of any budget line under- or over-spent by 20% or more.
At Attachment A.
SECTION D: Appendices or additions
Please attach any of the following. This information will help us better understand your project,
support overseers of similar projects and plan for future projects.
X
List of experts or consultants utilised, with job titles and contact details
 List of participants, with job titles and contact details
 Event agendas
 Links to any relevant websites or online material (e.g. reports, resources created)
 Results of participant feedback or other project evaluation (raw and/or analysed)
 Any other relevant information or resources that would help us learn more about your project
FOR APEC SECRETARIAT USE ONLY APEC comments: Were APEC project guidelines followed?
Could the project have been managed more effectively or easily by the PO?
Nil
Attachment A – Budget
Milestone
Payment amount
Original Payment
Date
Actual Payment
Date
Upon contract
signing
US$14,700
1 June 2010
1 June 2010
Submission of
Progress Report 1
US$18,375
30 June 2010
17 August 2010
Submission of
Progress report 2
US$18,375
Mid August 2010
11 October 2010
Submission of Draft
Final Report
US$14,700
Early October
2010
29 December
2010
Submission of Final
Report
US$7,350
31 December 2010
15 March 2011
Total: US$ 73,500
Attachment B – Project Team
Consultant
Name
Academic
Qualifications
Specialist
Area/Expertise
Mr Max
M.A. (Maritime
Herriman
Policy), B.A.
International Law
&
Institutions /
Marine
Policy & Planning
/
(Chinese), Grad
Dip Mngt
Project
Management
Dr Hugh
PhD, M. Ag.Sc.,
Kirkman
B.Ag. Sc.
Seagrass ecology
and
biology,
management
of marine
ecosystems,
marine
environmental,
marine systems
and
Project
Role/Area
of
Research
Project
Manager /
Marine
Spatial
Contact Email
[email protected]
Management
& policy /
Law of the
Sea
Transbounda
ry Spatial
Marine
[email protected]
Management
/ MPA /
Editor
processes.
Ms Juita
Ramli
BA (Law); M.A.
(Maritime
Policy)
International Law
and
Law of the Sea /
Ocean Policy
International
Marine
Environment
al Law
[email protected]
& Other
Instruments /
Law of the
Sea
Mr Kevin
B. Fisheries, Dip
Hiew
(Japanese)
MPA Mngt / NGO
Liaison / Project
Management
Marine
[email protected]
Protected
Area
Management
Ms Sophie
M. Eng.,
Costes
Condorcet Paris
Science and
Innovation,
Environmental
data
management,
Scientific
cooperation,
project
Web‐based
[email protected]
Ocean Data
Management
management
Mr Abang
Suhaili
Abang Adris
B.Sc. (Hons)
(Bus Mngt &
Computer Sc),
B.Sc. (Hons)
Software
development in
spatial
Intelligence
E‐learning
Network &
Web
(Biochem &
management
ons
Communicati
[email protected]
Physiology)
Mr Tom ter
Horst
M.Sc. (Hons)
(Communication
), B.Sc.
Corporate
Communications
Public Education
and
E‐learning
Network &
Web
Awareness
ons
B.Soc.Sc.
(Hons)
(Geography
& Tourism),
Coastal Cultural
Geography /
Tourism/
Fisheries
EBM /
E‐library
Development
/ Peer
M.Soc.Sc.(Geog
Analysis
Review and
(Corp Comms)
Mr Sharif
Zainal Aziz
raphy)
Ms Jasmin
Mohd Saad
[email protected]
Communicati
[email protected]
Client Liaison
B.Acc., Cert
Marine Mngt,
ICZM / Marine
Natural Resource
Gd Dip Shipping
Mngt
Mngt
Stakeholder
[email protected]
Liaison /
TSMM
Research
Kamala
B.Sc.(Hons)
Aquaculture /
TSMM Case
Mariappan
(Aquaculture)
ICZM
Study
Research
[email protected]