Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Operations Center

Upcoming Events

13th January 2009: 3rd WGE Semi Annual Meeting (WGE SAM-3), Vientiane, Lao PDR. [Draft Agenda]

Environment Performance Assessment [Synthesis] Report
Asian Development Bank (ADB) GMS program webpage

Strategic Environmental Assessment
of the Tourism Sector in Cambodia

Training Course, Phnom Penh, 2-3 October 2007

Summary Report [PDF: 365B | 25 pages]

Workshop Video (256kbps)

Workshop Agenda

Time Item/Theme Speaker
Tuesday, 2nd October 2007
8.30 - 9.00 Registration
9.00 - 9.15 Opening Remarks Pavit Ramchandran, Component Leader–SEA, Program and Portfolio Speicalist, GMS-CEP
9.15 - 9.30 Welcome Remarks Mr. H.E Ruos REN, Secretary of State of MoT and Mr. H.E Tan Vutha, Secretary of State of MoE
9.30 - 10.00 Ice-breaker – quiz on SEA and tourism issues Peter King, SEA expert/ADB consultant
10.00 - 10.20 Coffee break
10.20 - 11.00 Tourism sector plans in Cambodia THOK Sokhom, Deputy director of MoT and Bou Chan Serey, Tourism Consultant
11.00 - 11.30 Global and regional trends in tourism [PDF: 1.0MB | 19 pages], [(Presentation notes)PDF: 78KB | 11 pages] Robert Basiuk, Tourism expert/ADB consultant
11.30 - 12.00 Discussion on tourism issues Participants Facilitated by THOK Sokhom, Deputy director of MoT
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 Strategic environmental assessment – global best practice [PDF: 1.09MB | 25 pages] Peter King, SEA expert/ADB consultant and Dararath Yem, Environment Consultant
14.00 - 15.00 Environmental management of the tourism sector in Cambodia Choun Chanrithy, Director of Natural Resources and Environmental Information, MoE
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion on environmental issues [PDF: 308KB | 2 pages] Participants Facilitated by Jorgen Eriksson Program Development & Management Specialist, GMS-CEP
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.00 Group exercise – causal chain analysis – linking environment and tourism impacts in Cambodia [PDF: 390KB | 11 pages] Participants Introduced by Peter King, SEA expert/ADB consultant
Wednesday, 3rd October 2007
8.30 - 9.30 Alternative tourism strategies and scenarios [PDF: 186KB | 22 pages] Robert Basiuk, Tourism expert/ADB consultant
9.30 - 10.30 Group exercise – alternative tourism plans (national/provincial) Participants
10.30 - 10.50 Coffee Break
10.50 - 12.00 Group exercise – comparative assessment of environmental impacts of alternative tourism plans Peter King, SEA expert/ADB consultant
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 Report back on group exercises Participants
14.00 - 14.30 Impact analysis and valuation [PDF: 669KB | 17 pages] Peter King, SEA expert/ADB consultant
14.30 - 15.00 Mitigation measures and management plans [PDF: 436KB | 10 pages] Peter King, SEA expert/ADB consultant
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 - 16.00 Monitoring and feedback system [PDF: 54KB | 12 pages] Dararath Yem, Environment Consultant
16.00 - 16.30 Examples of SEA reporting [PDF: 40KB | 10 pages] Dararath Yem, Environment Consultant
16.30 - 17.30 General discussion Participants
18.30 Certificate awards/Group Dinner