Through the Coral Triangle Initiative Sabah branch (CTI-SAB) under the Borneo Marine Research Institute (BMRI), Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) collaborates with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) as the CTI Focal Point in managing the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reef, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF). With this collaboration, CTI Sabah and UMS hosted the 5th CTI-CFF Climate Change Adaptation Working Group Regional Exchange (CCA REX) and Grant Writing Workshop which was held from the 10th to the 13th of April 2018 at the Promenade Hotel, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
The objectives of this programme were to recall and review the priority outline in the REAP-CCA at the country and regional level, and to discuss and assess the status of implementation for identification of works needed to be done to achieve the REAP objectives.
This program also included the development and finalisation of the draft Terms of Reference (TOR) for the establishment of the Regional COE on CCA, development of the course outline for Executive Course on CCA designed for local governments based on the LEAP Guide and also enhancement of the skills of the participants in terms of proposal-writing to increase chances of winning grants to support the national CCA programmes and activities.
A total of 39 participants and observers from the CTI-CFF six countries (CT6) namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste attended the program.
The opening ceremony for this program was attended by the Chair of Technical Working Group Climate Change Adaptation (TWG CCA), MOSTI Dr. K. Nagulendran, and the Director of BMRI Profesor Dr. Rossita Shapawi.
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