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Project No. |
OFWG 09 2020A
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Project Title |
Capacity Building on Marine Debris Monitoring by Using Innovative Technologies in APEC Region
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Project Status |
Completed Project
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Publication (if any) |
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Fund Account |
APEC Support Fund
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Sub-fund |
ASF: Marine Debris Management and Innovation (MDMI)
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Project Year |
2020
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Project Session |
Session 2
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APEC Funding |
103,784
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Co-funding Amount |
20,000
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Total Project Value |
123,784
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Sponsoring Forum |
Oceans and Fisheries Working Group (OFWG)
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Topics |
Fisheries; Marine Conservation; Oceans
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Committee |
SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE)
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Other Fora Involved |
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Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved |
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Proposing Economy(ies) |
Chinese Taipei
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Co-Sponsoring Economies |
Chile; Indonesia; Korea; Thailand; United States; Viet Nam
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Expected Start Date |
01/05/2021
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Expected Completion Date |
30/06/2022
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Project Proponent Name 1 |
Hsieh Ya-Chieh
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Job Title 1 |
Director, Department of International Development
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Organization 1 |
Ocean Affairs Council
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Postal Address 1 |
Not Applicable
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Telephone 1 |
(886) 73380970
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Fax 1 |
Not Applicable
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Email 1 |
chunhao@oac.gov.tw; mp771278@gmail.com
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Project Proponent Name 2 |
Not Applicable
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Job Title 2 |
Not Applicable
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Organization 2 |
Not Applicable
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Postal Address 2 |
Not Applicable
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Telephone 2 |
Not Applicable
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Fax 2 |
Not Applicable
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Email 2 |
Not Applicable
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Declaration |
Hsieh Ya-Chieh
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Project Summary |
Marine debris poses significant threats to the marine environment, economic growth, and social welfare. Though many APEC economies have taken measures to marine debris governance, lack of efficient monitoring methods and numerical models still remain in inefficiency and labor intensity. Therefore, this project aims to share the information on adopting innovative technologies for more efficient monitoring methods, such as using Artificial Intelligence to identify marine debris and building Marine Debris Dynamic Map, etc. A workshop is expected to be held by October 2021 and designed for 1) sharing information on effective marine debris monitoring approaches and best practices. 2) establishing regional collaboration platform for marine debris governance, and 3) formulating recommendations on building monitoring network of environment and marine debris data. Stakeholders from industries, government, academia and institutions in all APEC economies are invited for a synergy of public-private partnership. |
Relevance |
Relevance – Region: Marine debris poses significant threats to the marine environment, economic growth, maritime and food security, etc. According to the Update of 2009 APEC Report on Economic Costs of Marine Debris to APEC Economies, the damage to the marine economy in the APEC region caused by marine debris is estimated US$10.8 billion dollars in 2015. Initiatives related to combating marine debris have been proposed continuously to reduce the impact of marine debris globally. However, most APEC economies rely mainly on human resources to observe and remove marine debris, due to lacking the ability to trace back the sources and locate converging hotspots, which results in inefficiency and labour intensity. This project is designed to promote efficient marine debris monitoring and data analytics through the best practices sharing and information exchange, as well as showcase of the expertise on the application and accomplishment. And the themes will be mainly focused on: 1) Using Artificial Intelligence to identify marine debris. 2) Tracking the source and converging spots of drifted marine debris to enhance monitoring efficiency by providing the information of marine debris spatial distribution under the effects of currents and winds. The key results of this project will contribute to marine debris governance for APEC economies, especially those bearing the brunt. The monitoring ability and efficiency to handle marine debris will be enhanced by using innovative technologies. After this project, it is suggested that subsequent plans are proposed for removal, recycle and reuse of marine debris as future follow-ups. Moreover, for better marine debris governance, the recommendations on monitoring networking and collaboration in the APEC region would be addressed in this project. And it would also be a valuable opportunity for those Members who have not yet established, but are interested in. Relevance – Eligibility and Fund Priorities: This project meets the 1st, 2nd and 7th eligibility criteria of APEC’s Marine Debris Management and Innovation Sub-fund by building capacity for APEC economies and reducing marine debris impact via innovative technologies. Furthermore, this project aligns with the priorities of APEC 2020 Driving Innovative Sustainability. Specifically, this project will share up-to-date monitoring approaches, enhance data collection and analytics, improve marine debris management, and facilitate sustainable ocean development. Relevance – Capacity Building: This 2-day workshop, which is designed to build the marine debris monitoring abilities of both public and private sectors from APEC economies, especially for those bearing the brunt of marine debris issues by using innovative technologies, e.g., Artificial Intelligence (AI) Identification, Marine Debris Dynamic Map (MDDM) with currents and winds information. From the aids of AI and MDDM, the trajectories and the future movement of inbound or outbound marine debris could be identified and predicted immediately, and so as to facilitate the further actions to address the issues effectively and efficiently. Besides, the current system and the knowledge gap will be shared in this project as well. |
Objectives |
This project organizes a workshop to build the capacity of marine debris monitoring for participants, so as to fulfill the visions of APEC Roadmap on Marine Debris and deal with the inefficiency in marine debris monitoring via the aids of innovative technologies. |
Alignment |
Alignment - APEC: This project conforms to the Priority Area 3 of APEC Malaysia 2020 - Driving Innovative Sustainability by adopting and developing innovative technologies in marine debris monitoring. Meanwhile, it corresponds to the visions of APEC Roadmap on Marine Debris, 3rd Senior Official’s Meeting in 2019. This project also seeks participation from relevant fora such as Chemical Dialogue (CD) and Virtual Working Groups on Marine Debris, which echoes APEC’s encouragement of cross fora collaboration and involvement of all stakeholders. Alignment – Forum: This project conforms to the priorities of OFWG Work Plan for 2019 and OFWG Proposed Work Plan for 2020, e.g., “Sustainable Development and Protection of the Marine Environment.” and “Food Security.” At the same time, this project also meets the expected outcomes of OFWG Work Plan for 2019, especially as follows: 1) Develop tools to assess and address the physical and economic impacts of marine litter, marine debris, and derelict fishing gear on APEC Economies, fisheries, and the marine environment. 2) Promote enhanced capacity building through further OFWG projects, including self- funded projects. 3) Enhance public and private partnerships, including participation and communication in OFWG work. |
TILF/ASF Justification |
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Beneficiaries and Outputs |
Outputs: (1) Workshop: A 2-day hybrid workshop (with around 3 hours a day) is expected to be convened in March 2022 in Taipei, to build capacity of APEC economies on marine debris monitoring through utilization of innovative technology and exchange and share information on challenges and gaps. This workshop organizers will strive to invite speakers from a diversity of APEC economies and beyond, and they will be a range of identities, including government, academic, NGO, or citizen scientists. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the option for a fully virtual workshop stay retained until a final decision point in December 2021. A tentative agenda of the workshop is as follows: a) Day1 Opening session Session 1: Overview on Marine Debris monitoring Session 2: Sharing best practices of marine debris monitoring from each economy. Session 3: The mechanism of using Artificial Intelligence on marine debris monitoring. b) Day 2 Session 4: The challenges and gaps on marine debris monitoring via Artificial Intelligence. Session 5: Overview and mechanism on marine debris trajectory simulation. Session 6: Informing policy recommendation on marine debris monitoring Course Evaluation Closing session 2) Project Report: A project report up to 15 pages in depth will be developed by the contractor, with the supervision of the PO. The content of project report will include cover page, table of contents, introduction, topic-based summaries of presentation, discussion through or after each session, conclusions and recommendations. The recommendations would include the guidelines on marine debris monitoring policies in terms of innovation technologies, as well as suggested subsequent plans for removal, recycle and reuse of marine debris as future follow-ups. Besides, with the purpose of dissemination, this report will be published by APEC with public access. And the target audiences include but are not limited to researchers, scholars, policymakers, representatives of the relative industries, and the general public. Outcomes: (1) Enhanced the abilities of APEC economies on marine debris monitoring via aids from innovative technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence or Marine Debris Dynamic Map. Practitioners can use the knowledge they learnt to inform their policies and mitigation plan in their own good. (2) Shared and build consensus for best practices to distinguish, identify, categorize of marine debris as well as identified major challenges and gaps regarding marine debris monitoring. (3) Dissemination of the project report not only to the APEC community but beyond, to strengthen the ability/capacity to utilize innovative technologies as an option to monitor marine debris, and to better to better understand incidence of marine debris in the region. (4) Developed policy recommendations based on the information exchanging and best practices sharing in the workshop as useful guidance for all APEC member economies or even beyond to reduce and remove marine debris in a more efficient manner with the guidance or action plans identified by those recommendation. (5) The project has encouraged future joint work and to facilitate cross fora collaboration as a platform. In the same time, linkage and partnership with other participants from such as international organizations and relevant experts and scholars would be formed as well. (6) As APEC developing economies are mostly suffered from marine debris in different aspects, this workshop has leveraged scientific resources, capabilities, and experiences within APEC economies regarding marine debris monitoring, resulted in reduced duplicative efforts and allow APEC developing economies to inform strategies and action plans on their own need. Beneficiaries: All APEC economies are welcome to attend this workshop. The participants will include government officials, INGOs, researchers, scholars, and industries from marine debris monitoring related fields, which conform to the core idea of public-private partnership of APEC Roadmap on Marine Debris. Meanwhile, this project also encourages women participation, which meets the La Serena Roadmap for Women and Inclusive Growth. As a platform for collaborations and a capacity building workshop, this project will primary benefit all the delegates from APEC economies, especially officials or policymakers in terms of marine debris monitoring. To be more specific, the officials from junior to senior level in agencies where regulate ocean conservation, solid waste disposal, etc., will have more insights and better understandings on the innovative technologies shared in this workshop, as well as to share what has been learnt from this workshop with their home economy colleagues, and express the supports to the establishment of relevant regulations for marine debris monitoring. As for researchers and scholars from conservation, waste management, big data analysis and remote sensing fields will benefit from discussion, exchange, policy recommendations within this workshop. For stakeholders such as environmentalists or industries in related fields, will benefit from the discussion within economies delegates and the formation of bonds or connections with other participants or experts. In addition, this project will encourage women participation for building their knowledge and capacity in marine debris management fields, and incorporate their opinions into the report and the policy recommendations as women’s roles in active contribution to build more resilience environment have often been overlooked and neglected. Moreover, this project is also going to collecting sex-disaggregated data for all speakers and participants at the project event. This data will included when submitting a Completion Report to the Secretariat upon completion of the project, as well as providing guidance to future POs on their own gender parity targets. Through this workshop, participants from APEC or non-APEC economies can explore the opportunities for further collaboration and improve the efficiency of marine debris monitoring. Meanwhile, business opportunities and policies of marine debris monitoring or related fields can be introduced and facilitated as well. In the meantime, thanks to the development of a report in the project, which is open to public access, will lead to a sound ocean environment with effective marine debris management, and benefit all the well-beings across the world. |
Dissemination |
The main output of the project will be the the Project Report and it will be submitted to the APEC Secretariat for review and then publication as an official APEC publication with public access. The target audiences include but not limit to researchers, scholars, policymakers, representatives of the relative industries, and the general public. Besides, the speakers’ presentation slides of this workshop will be shared publicly online if speakers give permission. Moreover, documents aforementioned will be disseminated via the existing Virtual Working Group on Marine Debris website at the same time. There is no intention to sell outputs from this project. |
Gender |
This project involves the genuine participation of women in environmental, science and technology fields, especially in policymaking, decision making, and acquirement of resources; and meet the APEC women’s empowerment pillars: Leadership, voice and agency and Innovation and technology. Therefore, the PO will incorporate gender equity and social inclusiveness in different stages of the project by fully taking different perspectives into account and target at least 30% of workshop participants are female. For better incorporation of women's perspectives, this project will not only target the portion of women participants but of women experts and speakers’ participation at least 30% as well. In addition, by exploring barriers and priority areas on marine debris from different genders’ perspectives, this project will acquire more effectiveness in and information exchange. By creating favorable conditions for women to participate in the workshop and in other project stages, it will contribute to and conform to the Le Serena Roadmap. Furthermore, for more sustainable development, the PO is committed to collect sex-disaggregated data for all experts, speakers and participants from the project event. This data will be included as part of the submission of the Completion Report to the Secretariat when the project completes and will serve to guide future POs on their own gender parity targets. |
Work Plan |
| Time | Task | Deliverables | | May 2021 – June 2021 | Conduct consultation with other agencies for agenda, theme-setting, nomination of experts and speakers Prepare for contract | Draft agenda Draft contract | | July - October 2021 | Sign the contract Prepare for workshop: starting to communicate with co-sponsors and OFWG members for nomination of experts; logistics issues. | Contract List of speakers List of background documents. | | October 2021 | Submit APEC Project Monitoring Report | APEC Project Monitoring Report | | October 2021– December 2021 | Prepare for workshop: official invitation to APEC members; logistic issues for speakers and participants from travel-eligible members. Development of contingencies | Agenda Contingencies | | 1 December 2021 | Consideration on changing workshop format | Workshop format determined | | December 2021 –February 2022 | Finalize the agenda Confirmation of speakers and participants Finalize the administrative circulars | List of speakers and participants Agenda Administrative circulars sent to Economies | | March 2022 | Conduct ex-ante evaluation Hold the hybrid workshop | Ex-ante evaluation data Training workshop held | | March - April 2022 | Organizing committee provides final outline and Contractor assembles/drafts the Project Report, Conduct ex-post evaluation and post final presentations on VWGMD | Draft outline and the Project report drafts Ex-Post evaluation data Presentations posted on VWGMD | | April 2022 | Submit the APEC Project Monitoring Report | APEC Project Monitoring Report | | May 1 2022 | Submit final draft of the Project Report to Secretariat; PO begins work with organizing committee and Contractor to address any requested changes | The Project Report | | 1-30 June 2022 | Contractor incorporates agreed changes into report, performs copy edit to comply with all APEC requirements, delivers revised final draft report to PO and organizing committee. Financial disbursement finalized. | Review comments incorporated into revised draft report; copy edit completed | | 22 August 2022 | Submit the APEC Project Completion Report and supporting documents to APEC Secretariat | APEC Project Completion Report | | June 2023 | Participation in the Long-Term Evaluation of APEC Projects conducted by APEC Secretariat | |
Risks |
| Risk | Management Intervention | | Lack of participation interest | The PO will consult on the agenda and the content of the workshop with other member economies to ensure its effectiveness and relevance. In addition, information and administrative circular will be circulated to all APEC economies and relevant fora in advance. To address this issues, the PO will consult with cosponsoring economies and experts to make sure the workshop sessions will full accommodate the needs from all economies participants, and to raise their interest at the first stage. | | Impacts of COVID-19 | Under the impacts of COVID-19, the PO will continue to pay attention to the travel restrictions and maintain close contact with the APEC Secretariat to adjust or develop contingencies. If travel restrictions are still in place by the time of workshop dates, the POs will seek to change the workshop format from APEC into a fully virtual meeting with a final decision point in December 2021. | | Duplication from previous work inside and outside APEC sphere | The PO has investigated the key items covered by previous projects and related publication, and contacted with the PO of the previous project to ensure the output items in this project are not repeated. | |
Monitoring and Evaluation |
| | Evaluation Focus | Indicators | Target Goals | Evaluation Method | Reporting | | Outputs | 1. Workshop | 1. No. of experts engaged | 6 | Event Attendance List | Completion Report | | 2. No. of attending economies | 12 | Event Attendance List | Completion Report | | 3. No. of travel eligible economies | 6 | Event Attendance List | Completion Report | | 4. % of participating men/women | 70/30 | Event Attendance List | Completion Report | | 5. % of experts and speakers in men/women | 70/30 | Event Attendance List | Completion Report | | 2. Project report | 6. No. of pages | 15 | Certification by PO | Project report | | Outcomes | 3. Enhanceed the abilities of APEC economies on marine debris monitoring via aids from innovative technologies, | % of participants report substantial knowledge increase | 80% | Ex-ante and ex-post evaluations | Completion Report | | developing APEC economies report substantial knowledge | 25% | Ex-ante and ex-post evaluations | Completion Report | | women report substantial knowledge increase | 33% | Ex-ante and ex-post evaluations | Completion Report | | 4. Developed policy recommendations information exchanging and best practices sharing in the workshop | No. of recommendations made | 5 | Included in the Project Report | Project report | |
Linkages |
Due to interdisciplinarity of marine debris governance, this project is intended to have cross fora collaboration with Chemical Dialogue (CD) and Virtual Working Group on Marine Debris for wider involvement of stakeholders. This project will contribute to the related working groups such as Policy Partnership on Food Security (PPFS), Chemical Dialogue (CD), and Policy Partnership on Science, Technology and Innovation (PPSTI), etc. With a notice of a tendency toward marine debris related projects due to the issues on marine debris are raging recently in Ocean and Fisheries Working Group (OFWG). And in the marine debris monitoring field, a few APEC projects or publications from other organization are as below: OFWG 01 2019A – Capacity Building on Global Marine Debris Monitoring and Modelling: Supports Protection of the Marine Environment undertaken by Indonesia covered topic on marine debris monitoring through ocean modelling integrated with tagging; OFWG 03 2020A –Development of a Marine Debris Monitoring Decision Framework for APEC Economies undertaken by the U.S. has been focus on developing marine debris monitoring decision framework aiming to inform cost effective policy and management approach; and Publication – Guidelines for the Monitoring and Assessment of Plastic Litter in the Ocean produced by GESAMP in 2019, provide practical guidelines and recommendations on marine debris management. However, using artificial intelligence considered as one of the more effective approaches to monitor marine debris nowadays has rarely or not been covered in those projects and publication, not to mention the mechanism behind it and the major constraints and gaps with this method. As such, this project is built on those projects aforementioned, and continue to extend those achievements and make further development in marine debris monitoring field with a different angle. Moreover, APEC is best-positioned to implement this workshop as it’s the top source of marine debris according to well-known research papers. Hence, this workshop aims to reduce the impact on environments by helping APEC economies to deal with marine debris more effectively through capacity building on marine debris monitoring. |
Sustainability |
We expect this workshop has a long-lasting effect even after this project is completed. Through the formation of the policy recommendation and the capacity building for participants after this workshop, these outputs and outcomes would continue to benefit the APEC region with lasting effects. After the workshop was completed, the collaborative basis for APEC economies and more in-depth collaboration on information sharing, capacity building, and further researches would be formed. We envision hosting additional workshops or other events in the future for building the capacity of APEC economies on marine debris management by different APEC economies successively., the policy recommendations would be disseminated to OFWG and relevant fora as a basis for pursuing new actions or even initiatives regarding marine debris management across APEC region. In addition, the PO would make a presentation in relevant fora in 2022 SOM3 for further outreach and dissemination. As the project report will be published after this workshop, which will include all the results, recommendations, and conclusion of this project. It will be sent to the representatives of each APEC economy for their information and application. In addition, it will be published by APEC with wider public access for those who can’t attend the event, and continue to have impacts even after this workshop. |
Project Overseers |
The main Project Overseer of this project is Mr. Hsieh, Ya-Chieh, the director of the department of international development, Ocean Affairs Council. He has been working with APEC affairs for almost 3 years. Mr.Jung, Chun-Hao will serve as the second Project Overseer of this project. He works as the focal point of Ocean and Fisheries Working Group (OFWG) of Chinese Taipei, who is responsible for project proposing and coordination of participation of OFWG. |
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