Kenichi Ishida

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT WITH PARTICIPATORY PLANNING METHOD

In an arena of coastal-zone management the present research describes, an attempt to enhance planning capacity for planners from various developing countries and to generate lessons by doing so. Capacity development program was carried out targeting ten participants from Africa, Asia, South Pacific and Latin America.Participatory planning and stakeholder analysis were applied. Each participant established own-problem-based solutions and development strategy in their respected coastal zone with the assistance of facilitators. The attempt was highly applicable and proved to be useful for capacity development in fishery and participants also highly recognized and evaluated usefulness of this approach. As a result of the trial the consideration for developing seed project was also generated.