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Projects and Activities


Sri Lanka

  1. Sri Lanka Marine Environment Education

1. Sri Lanka Marine Environment Education

Countries:

  • Sri Lanka

    • Funding Agency:

  • Canadian International Development Agency and the Association of Canadian Community Colleges

    • Participating Colleges:

  • The Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland (MI)
  • Fisher Institute of Applied Arts and Technology

    Approximate Value of Services (in Canadian Dollars):

  • $373,571

    Name of Developing Country Partners:
  • National Institute for Education, Colombo Sri LankaCoast Conservation Department, Ministry of Fisheries, Colombo, and Sri Lanka

    • Project Timeline:

  • 1993 - 1997

    • College Personnel Involved and Descriptions of Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Mr. Mervyn McIntyre, Project Manager
  • Ms. Ann Marie Vaughan, Project Specialist
  • Dr. Michael Roy, liaison for terrestrial project issues

    • Description of Project and Results Achieved:
    The goal of the project is to enhance the capacity of educational institutions in Sri Lanka and Canada to design and deliver relevant programming in the field of coastal and marine environmental protection.

    The purpose of the project is to work in partnership with the Sri Lanka Institute for Education and the Coast Conservation Department to design and deliver a series of marine environment education initiatives, which will induce attitudinal and behavioural change in important target groups.

    • Nature of Services (planning, management, technical assistance, training, procurement, etc.):
    A concept for the project included four elements:
  • An element of environmental education research;
  • An element of professional development for environmental educators;
  • An element of curriculum development and program delivery; and
  • An element of program impact assessment.

    The target constituency baseline survey will pay particular attention to the role of women within the constituency and will design program approaches, which build on the inherent strengths of those roles. The component of the project, which evaluates teaching/learning strategies, will ensure that program structure, scheduling and content accommodates the family dynamic to ensure maximum access by female family members.

    In view of the fact that the project focus is one of environmental education, an early activity of the project team will be to prepare a set of 'environmental operating principles' to guide all project activities. This will include a conscious assessment of issues such as modes of transportation, use of consumables, disposal of waste products, choice of product types, etc

    Effective implementation of the project would include:
  • Project participants commit to the cooperative approach;
  • Target constituencies and communities are receptive to project participation;
  • Overseas institutes commit faculty and staff resources for training activities in Canada;
  • Canadian partners commit faculty resources to technical assistance and training activities in Sri Lanka;
  • Sri Lanka faculty demonstrates an ability to evaluate Canadian coastal zone management strategies and identify those elements of relevance to Sri Lanka.

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