Coastal Security in a Changing Climate - A UNITAR Training Workshop

Coastal Security in a Changing Climate

A UNITAR Training Workshop

Manado, Indonesia, 11-12 May 2009

- UNITAR Hiroshima Manado 2009 – Infonote

- UNITAR Hiroshima Manado 2009 – Guidelines for Application

- UNITAR Hiroshima Manado 2009 – Application Form

“The Hiroshima Initiative towards a comprehensive security for seas and oceans” was adopted in 2007 and further elaborated in 2008 at the UNITAR Hiroshima offices regional workshops on Sea and Human Security.  The Hiroshima Initiative provides the conceptual framework for a comprehensive security and identifies four main action items that would be further developed – namely:

1. Interrelations between habitats, ecosystems and human food security

2. Strategies for disaster management and risk reduction

3. Training of trainers for ICM implementation

4. Ocean governance: awareness creation and implementation

This participatory training workshop takes place on the occasion of the World Ocean Conference (11-15 May 2009).  The partners are : GEF-IW:LEARN; Global Oceans Forum Working Group on Climate, Oceans and Security; the Government of Indonesia; the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology; Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre; the University of Tokyo; as well as UNITAR Hiroshima alumni in Indonesia. The training workshop is considered a pre-event of Ocean Policy Day (13 May) and will engage a wide diversity of actors from civil society, national and local government, intergovernmental and humanitarian organisations, research institutions and the private sector.

- WorldOcean Conference 2009 Homepage

- GEF IW LEARN

- Global Oceans Forum

- Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre