Enhancing Marine Environmental Governance in Indonesia and the Philippines

Start year: 2024

Summary: This project aims to enhance the governance capacity of key partners in Indonesia and the Philippines in pursuit of sustainable, equitable and productive marine environments, with a focus on coral reefs and fisheries. Within this, the project has 3 components. Working with leading research centres and universities, and engaging key units inside the Ministry for Marine Affairs and Fisheries, the Indonesian component seeks to co-develop an evidence based and systematic approach to incorporating vulnerability of coastal fishing households to food insecurity and poverty into Indonesian government national and sub-national fisheries planning processes. Working with leading universities, and engaging key marine spatial planning units in the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development and the Office of Provincial Agriculture, the Philippines component seeks to co-develop approaches to integrated marine spatial planning that incorporate both social and ecological data to support longer term integrity and resilience of coral reef systems in Palawan province under climate change conditions. Working with our research partners in Indonesia and Philippines, the regional component seeks to synthesise findings across the project to develop a model and set of principles for effective governance of reefs and fisheries in Indonesia and Philippines.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.