Yap Summit Community Sector - Yap State Government

YAP STATE GOVERNMENT
• Develop an implementation and monitoring plan.
• Tailor advocacy and education initiatives at the communities’ level; develop municipal plans to have
people participating in their community in the planning, implementation, and monitoring phases of the
projects.
Environment # 6: Improve environmental awareness and education and increase involvement of citizenry of the
FSM in conserving their country's natural resources.
achieved/being achieved
Positive aspects towards the achievement of the Goal:
• Micronesia Challenge, agriculture and fisheries, and other entities are overseeing the achievement of this
Goal.
• Newsletters distributed by MRMD are promoting awareness through distribution in the education system
to raise environmental awareness. [Working group Note: Informal distribution, not through DOE, hence
not formally introduced into school’s curricula.]
• There are projects targeting the transmission of local knowledge related to the usage of local techniques
and traditional materials. A sample of a good practice was indicated to be an assembling fish nets
workshop.
• Annual observance of Earth day, Environment Week, Tree Planting Day, etc.
• Cooperation with Queens University’s through the Geographic Information Science (GIS) project.
Critical aspects were highlighted that may affect the final achievement of the Goal:
• There is a history of academic research on the island; however there is the perception that foreign
academicians did not support knowledge sharing processes.
Recommendations were made to support the achievement of the Goal:
• The network of universities to be invited on the island should be expanded.
• To better manage relationship with universities, Yap-Cap or R&D have been indicated as a suitable
intermediaries to ensure that during future cooperation with academic institutions local capacity will be
built through direct training and knowledge sharing.
• Organizing a tropical ecology course first taught by foreign teachers, and later on by Yapese properly
trained during the first phase : linking past traditions and new technologies, and mixing foreign capacity
and local teachers, have been indicated as the most suitable solutions to promote local capacity and
awareness.
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