Zhenhua Xie Keywords climate change PRC People's Republic of China tsinghua university National Development and Reform Commission environment protection Read more about Zhenhua Xie Zhenhua Xie served as Vice Chairman (Minister Level) of the National Development and Reform Commission, Minister of the former State Environmental Protection Agency, and Administrator of the former National Environmental Protection Agency.
Communicating Environmental Protection Read more about Communicating Environmental Protection Rationalizing communication approaches to fit stakeholder needs, interests, and access is crucial for multi-stakeholder projects covering different national, district, and local levels. This report discusses in detail the key communication approaches used by the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II in Indonesia, and why it pays to integrate communication as early in project design as possible.
Community-Focused Communication Strategies Read more about Community-Focused Communication Strategies A unique element in the design of the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II in Indonesia was its decentralized model focusing on community-based resource management. This required a substantial investment in social mobilization to organize community groups and foster behavior change through communication to encourage shifts from destructive behavior to resource management.
National-Level Communication Strategy and Approaches Read more about National-Level Communication Strategy and Approaches The Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II in Indonesia focused its communication activities at the national level on members of parliament, key law enforcers, and key judicial officials. The communication strategy was developed early as a project requirement as public awareness raising was integrated as a component of the project.
Communication Strategies for Various Stakeholders Read more about Communication Strategies for Various Stakeholders Key communication strategies employed by the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project (COREMAP) Phase II in Indonesia entailed promoting, building, and sharing the COREMAP brand; mobilizing public support for effective coral reef management and positioning the issue as a public concern; and using public figures to motivate people for individual action.
Communicating Environmental Protection Read more about Communicating Environmental Protection The Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project in Indonesia is a three-phased project with the objective of setting up 20 million hectares of Marine Protected Areas by 2020. Based on lessons from Phase 1, communication was integrated as a component for Phase 2 and considered critical for success due to the project’s complex communication context.
Communicating Environmental Protection Read more about Communicating Environmental Protection Communication strategies used by the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II in Indonesia helped shift villagers’ destructive fishing behavior and poor waste disposal toward a community-based effort to manage resources, and still economically benefit from environmental protection. Communication approaches engaged national and local stakeholders with conflicting interests and needs, and used social mobilization and advocacy to get various groups—women, youth, academe, and civil society—to monitor and sustain project gains.
Highway in the Mountains: The Western Yunnan Roads Development Project Read more about Highway in the Mountains: The Western Yunnan Roads Development Project Yunnan is a remote, mountainous province in the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC). Many of its residents are from poor, minority groups that rely on subsistence farming. Lack of connectivity exacerbates their poverty. In 2003, PRC, with assistance from the Asian Development Bank, launched the Western Yunnan Roads Development Project, which aimed to connect Western Yunnan to the country’s regional centers and to the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Victoria's Protection of Water Quality and Pollution Controls Read more about Victoria's Protection of Water Quality and Pollution Controls This presentation discusses the approval and licensing process instituted by the Environmental Protection Agency in the State of Victoria in Australia.