Conflict and Cooperation over Natural Resources in Developing Countries - CoCooN

Programme CoCoon Match Making Workshop - Hanoi - September 29th and 30th - 2009

29/9 Morning - Plenary presentations - Main facilitator Mr. Yasmi

08:00  

Registration (facilitator: Ms. Hoai)
Participants get program papers

08:30  

Opening 
- Opening presentation by MONRE (Mr. Pham Phu Binh - Deputy Director ICD MONRE)
- Opening presentation by EKN (Mr. Scheffers - Ambassador)
- Opening presentation by CoCooN (Mr. Dietz)
- Presentation of participants

09:30  

CoCooN 
- Cocoon programme and objectives of the workshop (Mr. Dietz, member CoCooN Steering Committee) - Powerpoint
- Call for Integrated Projects (Ms. van Dijk, CoCoon Programme Coordinator)  Powerpoint

11:00  

Coffee/tea break

11:30  

Overview regional burning issues 
- Indonesia (Ms. Sefsani) - Powerpoint
- Vietnam (Mr. Vien) - Powerpoint 
- Nepal (Mr. Shiwakoti) - Powerpoint

12:15  

Parallel sessions
Introduction to group formation and process

12:30  

Lunch

29/9 Afternoon - Parallel Sessions

12:30  

Key questions during lunch
- What are the burning issues related to the themes?
- What are important knowledge gaps?

13:30  

Theme A: Conflicts, land rights and land-use change (facilitator: Mr. Bampton)
Introductions:
- Marginal lands in Southeast Asia (Ms. Snelder) - Powerpoint
- Forests and conflicts (Mr. Yasmi) - Powerpoint
- Conflict-Sensitive Conservation (CSC) Manual (Mr. Hammil) - Powerpoint

13:30  

Theme B: Water resources, conflict and cooperation Water security & Coastal zone management (facilitator: Ms. Roberson)
Introductions:
- Water security in Bangladesh (Mr. Muniruzzaman) - Powerpoint
- The need for cross country cooperation (Ms. Srivastava) - Powerpoint
- Transboundary water resources management between Afghanistan and Pakistan(Mr. Masood) - Powerpoint
- Case study Xuan Thuy National Park, Vietnam (coastal resources management)(Mr. Hien Thi) - Powerpoint
- Case study Vietnam coastal zones (Mr. Hue) - Powerpoint

13:30  

Theme C: Resource exploitation, global trade and conflict (facilitator: Mr. Persoon)
Introductions: 
- Financial crisis-palm oil extraction (Ms. Wu) - Powerpoint
- Combining economic development and commercial interests with sustainable community resource access (Mr. Schultink) - Powerpoint
- Oil palm and mining in East Kalimantan (Mr. Saragih) - Powerpoint

16:15  

Coffee/tea break

16:30  

Reporting back (facilitator: Ms. van Dijk)  
- Theme A - Debriefing document
- Theme B - Debriefing document
- Theme C - Debriefing document

17:30  

Brief evaluation of the day (facilitator: Mr. Ukkerman) 
- What went well? 
- What can be improved? 
- What was difficult / unclear?

18:30  

Dinner
Dinh Lang Thuy Ta Restaurant

30/9 Morning - Approaches linking Research and Action

08:30  

Introduction
Mr. Dietz

08:45  

Involving NGOs and CSOs (facilitator: Mr. Ukkerman)
- Training NGOs/CSOs in action research (Mr. de Jong) - Powerpoint
- From research at the grassroots level to policy design (Treena Wu) - Powerpoint

09:15  

Capacity development (facilitator: Mr. Ukkerman)
Introductions: 
- Professional development and institutional strengthening: experiences / best practices (Ms. Snelder) 
- Working with Local capacity building organisations: finding balance between massive impact and services of quality (Mr. Schinkel) - Powerpoint

09:45  

Linking research and action (facilitator: Mr. Ukkerman)
Introductions: 
- From demand articulation to project design and implementation (Ms. Srivastava) Powerpoint
- From research to policy (Mr. Muniruzzaman) - Powerpoint
- Developing interdisciplinary approaches (Mr. Schultink) - Powerpoint

10:30  

Coffee/tea break

10:45  

Groups work on 3 themes (facilitators: Ms. Roberson, Mr. Quang Tan, Mr. Yasmi)
Key questions:
1. What are the main issues/challenges?
2. What are the main opportunities?
3. What are examples of good practices from your experiences?
4. What can you realistically expect from the project of this size and duration?

12:00  

Reporting back (facilitators: Mr. Ukkerman) - Debriefing document
- Group 1: Involving NGOs and CSOs
- Group 2: Capacity development
- Group 3: Linking research and action

12:30  

Lunch

30/9 Afternoon - Plenary and Groups - Main facilitator Mr. Dietz

13:30  

CoCoon
Developing knowledge, research and innovation initiatives (Mr. van IJssel)

13:45  

Speed dating
Meet who you did not yet meet

14:15  

Building consortia and identifying partners 
- First step to consortia building 
- Voluntary groups start working on a proposal

16:30  

Reporting back
First results of consortia building

17:00  

Follow up and Closing 
- Evaluation forms 
- Next steps
- Learning from this workshop
- Vote of thanks
- Closing

17:00  

Dinner
Sheraton Hemisphere Restaurant

Find the participant list here 

last modified on 14 October 2009