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Posted on 11 May 2010 PRIMEX is all geared up for a series of major activities this May, when the ADB-funded Regional Cooperation on Knowledge Management, Policy, and Institutional Support to the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) (RETA 7307) kicks off to a start. ADB awarded the contract for the implementation of this RETA to PRIMEX after an international competitive bidding process where six international firms were shortlisted and invited to submit full technical proposals. The other firms on the shortlist, and their respective final rankings, were (i) World Fish Center in association with SEARCA, which came in second; (ii) PADECO Co, Ltd. of Japan, came in third; (iii) EDG Consuntants as fourth; and (iv) e.Gen Consultants Ltd as fifth. On 5 May 2010, PRIMEX will mobilize its six-member consultant team composed of senior international and national specialists on marine and coastal resource management, and on 20-21 May, the Team will hold its Project Scoping, Visioning, and Teambuilding (PSVT) Workshop in Jakarta back-to-back with a CTI Regional Workshop. The PRIMEX Team will be led by Dr. Gary A. Vigers, who is also the Project’s Regional Cooperation and Marine Management Specialist. The other specialists are Dr. Edgardo D. Gomez (Marine Science Specialist), Mr. Lindsay Stephan Saunders (Finance Specialist), Dr. Maria Celeste H. Cadiz (Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist), Ms. Annabelle Cruz-Trinidad (Environmental Economics and Payment for Environmental Services [PES] Specialist), and Mr. Jay Lowell H. Payuyo (IT Specialist). The Project aims to promote regional cooperation, policy dialogue, and coordination among the six countries in the Coral Triangle region (CT6) in support of the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI). The Coral Triangle is a global center of marine biodiversity covering 5.7 million sq km and containing vast marine resources critical to the economic and food security of an estimated 120 million people. The CT region is located along the equator at the confluence of the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, with its boundaries covering all or part of the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste. Often referred to as the “Amazon of the Seas,” the CT has 76% of all known coral species, 40% of all known coral reef fish species, 53% of the world’s coral reefs, about 3,000 species of reef fish, the greatest extent of mangrove forests in the world, and serves as the spawning and juvenile growth areas for the world’s largest and most valuable tuna fishery. The CTI is a program aimed at safeguarding the CT region’s marine and coastal biological resources for the sustainable growth and prosperity of current and future generations. Proposed by Indonesian President Yudhoyono in August 2007 and launched in Bali in December of the same year, the CTI is a six-country program of regional cooperation to protect the Coral Triangle’s valuable economic and environmental assets. It is centered around high-level political commitments and proactive implementation by governments in the CT area and supported and carried forward by the private sector, international agencies, and civil society (NGO) partners. This RETA is expected to produce four major outputs: (i) strengthened regional cooperation; (ii) established regional learning mechanisms; (iii) implemented communication and information dissemination plan; and (iv) established sustainable financing schemes for national CTI plans of action.
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