Increased activity in the coastal and marine environment has led to two important types of conflicts in the region: (1) conflicts among human uses (user-user conflicts); and (2) conflicts between human uses and the coastal and marine environment (user-environment conflicts). These conflicts weaken the ability of the ocean to provide the necessary ecosystem services upon which humans and all other life depend on. This course provides an introductory, but comprehensive, overview of CMSP. It focuses on describing a logical sequence of all the steps required to achieve desired goals and objectives for coastal and marine areas. This course does not focus on the technical details of any one of the steps and it is not intended to be a course that will help to develop a marine GIS or implement a performance monitoring system. When available, references to existing technical guides, handbooks, and websites are suggested in the course materials. This course can help professionals at the international, regional, national, and sub-national levels who want to know more about the promise and potential of CMSP as a way to achieve multiple goals and objectives, including sustainable economic development and biodiversity conservation within a specified coastal and marine area.

Learning Outcomes

The purpose of this course is to explain how CMSP can be used to implement ecosystem-based management. This course fills this gap by using a step-by-step approach for developing and implementing CMSP. It also discusses issues such as obtaining financial resources and including key  stakeholders that are often neglected, and steps of the CMSP process.

Course Topics

Target Audience

NOTE: priority will be given to participants originating from the South-East Asia Region. UNESCO is committed to promote gender equality. Therefore, applications from women are strongly encouraged.

Course Pre-requisites:

A Certificate of Participation will be issued to all successful students.

Duration: 5 working days (~ 30 hours classroom sessions, plus eventual online assignments)

Period for Applications: 28 September – 14 October 2018

Application process:

Please fill in the online application form on https://otga.wufoo.com/forms/s12pnqm01xlle5y/ or https://bit.ly/2OVZ7XA

All information available on how to apply here: http://bit.ly/2ACZY9r

No tuition fee applies. A limited number of fellowships is available. 

For any queries please contact:

• OTGA Malaysia Regional Training Centre Coordinator: Dr. Aidy M  Muslim (aidy@umt.edu.my )
• OTGA Secretariat: training@iode.org

with subject line OTGA-INOS/UMT Training Course: Foundations of Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Training Course, 18 - 22 November 2018