[Hutomo Malikusworo]

Component 2: National Policy, Legal and Institutional Arrangement and Co-ordination

Objectives:

• To codify and harmonize existing policies and legislation
  To ensure cross sectoral and participatory approaches to address threats of the root causes
  To assist countries in meeting their obligations under multilateral environmental agreement

2.1 Integration of Research Program with Management and Policy Making

2.1.1. Organize and develop the process of integration of research program with policy

Description of activities:

• Organize regional workshop by inviting scientists, resource managers and policy makers from regional to discuss the role of researches in developing management plan
  Presentation by scientists on topics of how the results of researches/studies on resources assessment as well as on socio-economic assessment to be used as basis to develop proposed activities to manage and sustainable use of seagrass resources
  Discuss develop and agree on a draft paper on the process of integration of research program with policy making

2.1.2. Develop guidelines or procedures to integrate research into management and policy making

Description of activities:

• Organize regional workshop by inviting scientists, resource managers and policy makers and ask them to present papers on their experiences in integrating research into management and policy making
  Discuss how to make use of the results of presentation as input in developing guidelines or procedures to integrate research into management and policy making
  Assign group of experts selected among participants to prepare draft guideline. The draft guideline distributed to all participants to invite comments and input
  Finalize draft guideline based on comments and input, final editing and printing
  Dissemination of the printed guideline

2.1.3. Integration of assessments results into local management plan

Description of activities:

• Organize regional workshop by inviting scientists, resource managers and decision makers to present their experiences on integrating assessment results (resource, socio-economic, legal and institutional) into local (seagrass) management plan
  Discuss how to make use of the presentations in developing process and procedure to integrate assessment results into local (seagrass) management plan.
  To assign a group of experts selected among participants to draft process and procedure to integrate assessment results into local management plan
  Distribute the draft of process and procedures to all participants to invite comments and input
  Finalize draft of process and procedure by considering the comments and input from other participants
  Editing, printing and disseminating the process and procedure

2.2: Monitoring the implementation of NAPs

2.2.1 Maintain and enhance the existing network of regional working group for seagrass

Description of Activities:

• Conduct a regional meeting discussing the way and mechanism to maintain and enhance the existing network of regional working group for seagrass as a tool to monitor the implementation of NAPs
  Prepare and adopt the draft of mechanism
  Implement the agreed mechanism to maintain and enhance the existing network to be used in monitoring the implementation of NAPs