CEPA Strategy Workshop © Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve

The EAAFP’s Working Group on CEPA, led by Lew Young, Senior Advisor for Asia-Oceania of Ramsar Convention, convened at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve in Singapore on 19-21 September. Representatives from Singapore and Indonesia Government, Australasian Wader Studies Group, Society for the Conservation of Philippines Wetland, and the Ramsar Secretariat as well as the EAAFP Secretariat participated in the meeting. During the first two days, the existing Communication Strategy 2007-2011 was reviewed and on the last day, the group has identified tasks at the three levels: flyway, national and site, and categorized the actions by tools/linkages/activities in achieving the strategy for 2012-2016. The recommendations from the CEPA WG were delivered to the Implementation strategy review group in order to be harmonized with the new implementation strategy. The new strategy on CEPA will be presented to the next Meeting of Partners, scheduled in March 2012, Indonesia.