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Title: CIDAAIT Partnership 20032008 Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management Applications SEAUEMA Proj


1
CIDA-AIT Partnership 2003-2008 Southeast Asia
Urban Environmental Management Applications
(SEA-UEMA) Project
2
Project Goal and Purpose
  • Goal
  • To improve urban environmental conditions in
    SEA region.
  • Purpose
  • To attain improved implementation and sharing
    of sound UEM policies and good practices in three
    key urban environmental sub-sectors (water and
    sanitation, solid waste management, and air
    pollution), with gender equality as crosscutting
    theme.

3
Some Details of the Project
  • Project period 5 years (2003-2008)
  • CIDAs grant
  • AITs contribution (in-kind)
  • CIDAs Two Prong Funding Approach
  • 1. Scholarships for UEM Graduate Education
  • 2. Funding for UEM Applications and Networks
  • Countries Covered
  • Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia,
  • Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam

4
Major Partners for Implementation of the Project
(other than CIDA)
  • AIT alumni
  • UEM alumni network
  • Three UEM sub-sector networks that includes
    national/regional partners
  • Canadian Universities, research institutions, and
    professional organizations with experience in UEM
    applications
  • Universities, research institutions and
    professional organizations in the region
  • City / Local authorities in the region
  • Environmental Protection Agencies
  • UEM-related CBOs/NGOs and women organizations

5
Facilitating Partners for the Project in the
Region
  • Indonesia
  • Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI)
  • Lao PDR
  • Urban Research Institute (URI)
  • Philippines
  • Local Government Development Foundation
    (LOGODEF) Inc.
  • Vietnam
  • National Institute for Urban and Rural Planning
    (NIURP)

6
Scholarships for UEM Graduate Education
  • 55 master scholarships and 10 PhD scholarships
    (5 resident and 5 non-resident PhD) over the
    project period of five years
  • Post-doctoral fellowships
  • 5 Post-doctoral Fellowships are available for
    advanced research in the 3 defined UEM sub-sectors

7
UEM Application Components
  • The four UEM application components are
  • 1. UEM Sub-sector Networks Professional
  • Support Programs (SNP)
  • 2. Alumni Demonstration Projects (ADP)
  • 3. Joint Action Research (JAR)
  • 4. Application of Research Results and Lessons
  • Learned (ARL)

8
UEM Sub-sector Networks and Professional Support
Program (SNP)
  • Building UEM sub-sector networks
  • Water and sanitation
  • Solid waste management
  • Air pollution
  • Conducting professional training programs
  • Organizing policy forums

9
SNP (Dec04)
  • Progress
  • About 150 members
  • 39 institutional
  • 35 individual
  • Two professional training programs and one
    networking workshop on womens organizations
  • Plan
  • Around 4 training programs a year
  • First policy forum (May 2005)
  • Annual Sub-sector Networks Meeting (July 2005)

10
Alumni Demonstration Projects (ADP)
  • 50-60 demonstration projects over 5 years to be
    carried out in selected urban areas of
    alumni/networks members home countries based on
    UEM good practices in the three key environmental
    sub-sectors

11
ADP (Dec04)
  • Progress
  • Implementation of 8 awarded projects in 5
    countries
  • Received 17 proposals from 6 countries
  • Plan
  • Award 11-13 projects in 2005

12
Joint Action Research (JAR)
  • Over 5 years of the project period, 15-20 bigger
    scale collaborations to be carried out with
    regional/ national institutions and Canadian
    partners, and 65 small-scale JAR with graduate
    students

13
JAR (Dec04)
  • Progress
  • Implementation of 5 awarded projects in 5
    countries
  • Received 20 proposals from 6 countries
  • Plan
  • Award 4-5 projects in 2005

14
Application of Research Results and
Lessons Learned (ARL)
  • Dissemination of research results, lessons
    learned, and UEM good practices through seminars,
    workshops, and printed/audio visual media
  • To support the application of the research
    results through pilot projects
  • Exchange of UEM expert visits
  • Participation in international/regional
    conferences

15
ARL (Dec04)
  • Progress
  • UEM student research summary (1998-2003)
  • Newsletters
  • Plan
  • International conference on integrated solid
    waste management in SEA (July 2005)

16
  • Thank you for your attention
  • Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management
    Applications (SEA-UEMA) Project
  • UEM/SERD
  • Asian Institute of Technology
  • P.O.Box 4, Klong Luang
  • Pathumthani 12120
  • Thailand
  • Telephone 66 (0)2 524 5777
  • Fax 66 (0)2 516 2126, 516 1418
  • E-mail uemapplications_at_ait.ac.th
  • Website www.sea-uema.ait.ac.th
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