Reflections of Selected Participants

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Reflections of Selected Participants
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Ms Noor Zalina MahmoodMalaysia

• How can a woman be a solution for EM?
• Based on her experiences on research and not
  participation on environmental issues of the 80s,
  continuous internalization of issues would bring
  about the public participatory approach. This can
  be done through incremental improvement in
  regulatory measures.
• Environmental monitoring approach is by training,
  monitoring, and learning and sharing of
  experiences.
• We lack environmental sustainability, which can
  be achieved by enhancement of capacity of all
  groups by
• Knowing the importance of cooperation
• Importance of policies and analysis
• Technical push
• Vietnam is a unique case with
• Change in attitude
• There is no direct benefit but awareness is built
  up and can be enhanced with practices
• Information sharing at different levels.
• Success story of Mr. Yogantara (Indonesia) is
  another unique case.
• She proposed a Southeast Asian Club on solid
  waste.

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Mr. Xeng Xiong NengxayLao PDR

• Workshop contents are good.
• AIT should support more projects (through ADP)
  and have site visits to see good practices.
• How community participation can be shown to play
  an important role but for which follow-up work is
  important once a project has come to an end
• In order to make use of the lessons learned, he
  would return to his community and report to his
  parent organization and organize dissemination
  activities.

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Ms. Pamela YabutPhilippines

• Interesting introductory lectures and several
  forms of practices
• Participation of women and community is basically
  good aspects of environmental management.
• The Philippines is yet to make an integrated
  approach in particular areas.
• The housing sector is a good venue for
  intervention, particularly for environmental
  programs.
• Although the country does not have
  community-based programs for solid waste and
  water-sanitation, it can be recommended at the
  policy level.

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Ms. Duong Hien MinhVietnam

• The contents are not only academic but practical
  and can inculcate learning by doing.
• Stakeholder analysis can be learned from cases on
  solid waste and water and sanitation.
• She deals with solid waste and water-sanitation
  in her project, and the combination is helpful
• Lesson plans should be clearer and there should
  be more time for discussions.

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Mr. Trac Thai SiengCambodia

• He derived an acronym for the community
  participation
• H Healthy thinking on mankind
• E Emotional reward
• A- Action-oriented and delivery with comments
• L Legacy to posterity
• We still have a lot of challenges
• How to perpetuate our learning?
• How to disseminate information or communicate at
  the grassroots level as well as convince
  decision-makers at the policy level?
• To professionalize all our actions through
  learning by doing.
• This has limitations, and we need guidelines.
• Institutionalize success
• Another way is to review the governance system by
  cutting back on external reliance and increased
  dependency.
• Womens role should be increased with a nurturing
  function of the government and should be
  channeled by women leaders as in India, Sri Lanka
  and the Philippines.