1. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
Implemented by:
RECOFTC – Thailand, The Center for People and Forests
Supported by: Mangroves For the Future
Duration: July 2011 – December 2012

2. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
Partners:
• Ban Pred Nai Mangrove Forest Conservation and Development Group
• The Community-based Coastal Resources Management Network in six
sub-districts of Trat Province
• Local Administrative Organizations in six sub-districts
• Center for Applied Economics Research, Faculty of Economics, Kasetsart
University
• Thai Fund Foundation (TFF), Bangkok
• DMCR - Mangrove Forest Development Center 4 (Nam Chieo, Trat)
• Good Governance for Social Development and the Environment Institute

3. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
Background:
- Thailand‟s so-called “Eastern
Seaboard” spans 544
kilometers,
- Covering the 5 provinces of
Chonburi, Chachoengsao, Ray
ong, Chanthaburi, and Trat.

4. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
Background:
Mangroves Area of Eastern Thailand
Area (Sq.km)
Mangroves Area (Sq.km.)

5. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
Background:
- The coastline‟s ecosystem has experienced rapid
degradation since the advent of economic development
and industrialization in the 1960s and tourism
expansion in the 1980s
-Mangrove area in the region decreasing a reported
30,000 ha in 1961 to a low of 12,658 ha in 1996.
-Caused by commercial aquacultures (shrimp farming
and fish ponds) and the over-exploitation of mangrove
timber for charcoal production

6. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
Community-based Learning Center Approach:
- The principle is local communities can more effectively
learn and transform their knowledge among
themselves because it is derived from their direct
experiences.
- CbLCs are more ‘living’ and ‘adaptive’
- Focus on building up its ‘software’ (strengthening the
knowledge and skills of local people) not on the
enhancing the center‟s „hardware‟ (i.e.
infrastructure, media outputs, etc)
- CbLCs are mechanism for constantly improving
practices at the community level

7. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
Community-based Learning Center Approach:
- Build the capacity of key persons and mobilize
internal human resources
- Enhancing the learning network’s outreach for
sharing and learning
- RECOFTC and external facilitators are still needed;
provide mentoring to local facilitators as well as
coordination, backstopping support and coaching of
local networks.

8. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
The development objective:
“to empower existing community-based coastal
resource management networks, in terms of
knowledge transmission and improved management
practices, to ensure the sustainable management of
coastal ecosystem and the livelihoods of local
communities in the coastal areas are protected and
improved”

9. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
Immediate Objectives:
1. The capacity of pilot communities in coastal
resource management in six sub-districts of
Muang and Laem Ngob districts of Trat
province is enhanced.
2. The CbLC approach is strengthened and
expanded.

10. Project sites:
6 Sub-districts of Trat

11. Pilot communities:
Muang District
Huang Nam Khao
1. Pred Nai
2. Aow Krood
Aow Yai
3.Aow Kham
5
7 6
Nong Kan Song
4 4.Tha Ranae
1 Nong Samet
5.Tha Tapao
2 Nong Sano
6.Prong Lambid
Laem Ngob
District
Nam Chieo
3 7.Tai Khao

12. Why is Trat?
- Its location as the easternmost coastal province
- Important trans-boundary waterway between
Thailand and Cambodia
- Has experienced a dramatic decline in mangrove
and marine resources due to intensive shrimp
farming, over-harvesting of mangrove products and
over-fishing in coastal zones and sea waters
- In 1961 there were 14,506 ha of mangrove forest
in Trat; by 1996 that area had reduced to 7,534 ha
- However, that number climbed back up to 9,067ha
in 2007, primarily due to the re-plantation efforts of
government and other agencies

13. Population:
Population
Househo
No. Village Fem
Male Total ld
ale
Pred Nai
Aow
Krood
Aow
Kham
Tha
Ranae
Tha

14. Project Conceptual Framework
Coastal livelihoods resilience RECOFTC - Thailand
to the Climate Change
Project Advisory
Project of Strengthening Group
Provincial Collaborative
Community-based Coastal
Coastal Management
Resource Management
Supporting Committee Partners
Network through (CbLC)
Knowledge Capacity Network
Management building Development
Huang Nam Nong Kan
Nam Khao Nong Sa Nong Aow Yai
National Pred Nai No sub- Samet
Chieo Song
sub-
sub- sub- sub-
Network district district sub-district district
district district
Regional Pred Nai Mangrove
Network Forest Conservation and
Development Group 6 sub-districts TAOs
CbLC Network
6 sub-district Community- Committee DMCR‟s Mangrove Forest
Provincial based Coastal Resource Management Center 4
Network Management Network

15. Strengthening the Community-based Coastal Resources
Management Network through Community-based Learning
Centers in Six Sub-districts of Trat Province, Thailand
Existing community-based coastal resource Output 1.1 Renovate and refurbish Pred Nai CbLC office.
management networks are empowered in terms of 1.1.1 Renovations to the building selected by Pred Nai villagers as a CbLC office.
1.1.2 Procurement of necessary equipment such as office furniture, stationery, and
knowledge transmission and improved exhibitions.
management practices, to ensure the sustainable
management of coastal ecosystem and Output 1.2 Knowledge, experiences and lessons learned on sustainable mangrove and
coastal resources management are further identified, generated and documented.
improvement of livelihoods of coastal people. 1.2.1 Document community profiles and identify knowledge and lessons learned.
1.2.2 Design a process to capture existing experiences and lessons learned in sustainable
Result 1: Resources coastal resource management, and enlist resource persons through workshop.
for enhancing the 1.2.3 Produce and disseminate documented knowledge in different forms of locally friendly
Development capacity of media e.g. posters, manuals, booklets.
1.2.4 Generate new knowledge from program of action research to specifically address
Objective communities in coastal
resources management
economic values of coastal production, livelihoods development, climate change adaptation
strategies, carbon accounting and related areas, and develop appropriate tools, manuals and
are in place. guidelines.
1. The capacity of pilot Output 2.1 Training and dissemination of knowledge, experiences and lessons.
communities in coastal Result 2: The capacity 2.1.1 Development of training curriculum, training of national facilitators and other training
resource management of community materials
in six sub-districts of organizations on 2.1.2 Develop guidelines for local facilitators and organize training of trainers (ToT) course.
2.1.3 Conduct training programs in participatory coastal resource management planning and
Muang and Laem sustainable coastal related issues
Ngob districts of Trat management is
province is enhanced. increased
Output 3.1 Establishment of the Management Plan and Mangrove Management Funds
(MMFs) in Pred Nai and 6 pilot communities and their operations
3.1.1 Facilitate communities in the preparation of coastal resource and mangrove
management plans.
Immediate 3.1.2 Design MMF fundraising strategy and internal fund contribution management.
3.1.3 Capacity building of mangrove and coastal resource management committee and MMF
Objectives committee
3.1.4 Establish and strengthen the provincial collaborative coastal management support
committee.
2. The CbLC approach Result 3: Collaboration
among communities in
is strengthened and Output 3.2 A strategic plan to facilitate CbLC approach is developed and implemented
the CbLC network is
expanded. 3.2.1 Organize CbLC strategic planning through consultation and planning with CbLC
enhanced
committee and partners
3.2.2 Documentation of key lessons and experiences

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