The workshop report summarized progress in managing five conservation zones in Stung Treng Ramsar site supported by CEPF. Key points discussed included: 1. Participants identified lessons learned in managing individual zones, such as effective patrolling in Anlong Kol 46 and good planning in Preah Sakhon. 2. When discussing lessons across zones, groups highlighted collaboration between communities and authorities to combat illegal fishing. 3. Challenges included threats from illegal fishers as patrols compromised their businesses. Support for alternative livelihoods was suggested. 4. The workshop aimed to update progress, identify lessons learned, discuss priorities and options for an information sharing network to support management.

1. Workshop Report
Lesson Learning Workshop under CEPF Phase II project
Rasmey Pich Hotel, Stung Treng,May 07-08, 2015
Contents
1. Introduction to the workshop...........................................................................................................2
2. Self-introduction and Participants’ expectation...............................................................................2
3. Identification of lessons learned by pool..........................................................................................3
4. Review progress again plan ............................................................................................................10
5. Overview of progress with the lesson learning networking and work plan...................................12
6. Review again expectation and comments by participants .............................................................14
7. Conclusion and closing by Ms. Yumiko Kura...................................................................................15

2. Workshop process & outcomes
Day 1: 07 May 2015
1. Introduction to the workshop
Mr. Mam Kosal inform participants the background of the workshop. Three conservation zones had
been designated and successfully managed with CEPF’s support between April 2011 and June 2013 in
Stung Treng Ramsar site. They are Preah Sakhorn, Anlong Kambor and Kol 46. Under current CEPF’s
Phase II funding two more sites – Anlong Yeay Chim and Anlong Koh Kei - had been identified by
communities for conservation in addition to the existing three. During CEPF phase I, the similar
workshop has held in May 2012 to identify key lessons learned and next steps. Learning from previous
workshop process, facilitator team would change the approach to facilitate this workshop.
Objectives
- Update progress, successes and emerging challenges in management of the area;
- Identify and document lessons in relation to management of the area;
- Discuss current priorities and immediate plan to address them; and
- Discuss potential options best suited for network establishment and information sharing and
learning.
Expected outputs
- Participants are updated on the progress in regards to management across the five conservation
zones;
- Successes and challenges in management of the area are shared among the participants;
- Key lessons learned identified and shared among the participants;
- Participants are informed of the current priorities and immediate plan; and
- Key people and structure for network establishment and information sharing and learning is
identified with community, local authority and other key stakeholders.
Participants
Active members from participating communities, local authority, fish recorders, government staff and a
few NGO partners were invited to participate in this workshop in order to share progress, successes and
lessons learned related to deep pool conservation. The list of participants in shown in Annex 1.
2. Self-introduction and Participants’ expectation
This session was facilitated by Mr. Eam Dyna. Participants were asked to pair with who they had never
met before and introduce themselves to each other and also asked a question, for example, why did
they join patrol activity or their interest in deep pool conservation.
Participants’ expectation
 Understand the approaches of project implementation and a way to sustain the community
 Get new knowledge from other communities
 Learn something new from facilitators and get an updated plan for managing the pools
 Discuss and finalize the action plan of information network

3.  Improve personal communication and know more other people from other communities and
institutions
 Learn the experiences of success and challenges from other communities
 Improve collaboration with other communities and other stakeholders in managing resources
 Learn new lessons and experiences from different villages, different pools and different local
authority groups
 Better understand the law on fisheries and protocol of law enforcement
 Get new lessons from workshop for applying at communities when get back home
 Share lessons and experiences which gained from field implementation to each other
 Learn from others’ experiences and key approaches which led to achieve the project
implementation
 Understand how a network is set up
 Get more knowledge and experiences in managing the resources in Ramsar site
 Share and learn the approaches, experiences and challenges in doing fishery pool conservations
 Able to catch up the contain of workshop
 Learn key lessons from managing and conserving the fisheries resources and pools
 Learn the effective techniques in patrolling from other groups
 Collect knowledge and experiences for sharing to others and especially to share with young
generation
 Get the information of communities’ challenges and solutions
3. Identification of lessons learned by pool
Mr. Mam Kosal explained to all participants what should be called lessons learned and their differences
from daily activity. Building on lessons learned workshop in 2012 when participants were observed to
get confused between lessons learned and achievements, approach to discussion in this event was
changed.
Their potential lessons were categorised broadly into 2 groups: lessons by individual group and lessons
shared by more than a single group and this was discussed in two separate sessions. The first session
identified the potential individual group lessons when participants were asked to work in group by
conservation zone and identify what they like most as their successful achievements or tasks they
deemed their group performed best. In the second session, lessons shared by groups were sought when
participants formed 3 mixed groups to identify their most successful tasks or achievements delivered
together by more than one group.
Results from the first discussion session:
Potential individual group lessons identified:
Kol 46 Preah Sakhorn Kambor Yeay Chim Koh Kei
- Site Identification
process;
- Patrolling
- Collaboration
with relevant
authorities;
- Meeting to
discuss community
network;
- Site
identification;
- Patrol team
formation;
- Site identification
and boundary
- Formation of a
management
team;
- Collaboration
with authorities;
- Site
identification;
- Boundary
marking

4. - Management
planning
marking
Each group was then facilitated to elaborate on an identified lesson learned through story telling.
 Anlong Kol 46: Effective patrolling
 Have clear patrolling plan, good team with clear assigned tasks
 Active patrolling team and patrol not only the pool proper
 Have clear strategy to patrol:
 Have clear patrol plan but keep it confidential and also act swiftly on tip off by
informants (villagers or fishermen) about the locations and number of persons
involved in illegal fishing)
 Use soft approach to negotiate and arrest perpetrators as appropriate
 Use life jacket and flash light while on duty to ensure safety
 Once arrested, inform the offenders of the violations they committed and (article
11— para 9 of the fisheries law) and (article 61— para 6, Environmental Law) and
prepared minutes and/or require them to sign on agreement to stop such act in
the case that the offense was committed for the first time.
 Put no-fishing signs and flags to inform the boundary of deep pool conservation
 Doing patrol in group to enhance safety and also have some members standing by on
shore in case assistance is needed.
 Ensure diverse stakeholder groups engage in each patrol, for example village chief,
commune councillors and other relevant authorities.
 Preah Sakhon: Good planning
 Clear identification zone for conservation
 Inform local villagers of the area for conservation
 Securing agreement on site for conservation
 Identification and selection of patrol team and then secured endorsement by local
authority and local government officials
 Prepare patrol roster for sharing by 5 involved communities (O’Svay, O’run, Kralapeas, Koh
Chheuteal Touch and Voeun Sean) and for participation of Ramsar site rangers, local
police, FiAC and/or village guards
 Keep patrol plan flexible and to respond to tip off, whether for day or night time;
 Securing enough patrol members and collaborators from other communities and logistic,
boat in particular, for each patrol event
 Establish a patrol post and markers;
 Only patrol members on duty would be entitled to receive support if available
 Clear plan for awareness raising with fishers on conservation provisions and inherent
regulation
 Regular monthly meeting of patrol team to review and revise patrol plan as needed
Q: What would be an ideal situation for a successful patrol?

5. A: Collaboration offered by other stakeholder groups such as presence of commune councillor and/or
village guards in the patrol per se, their reflection in monthly meeting and their swift response to tiff off
on illegal fishing is a driver for success.
 Anlong Kambor: Site identification process and information dissemination
 Conducted consultation meeting between local authority and villagers to identify location
of deep pool for conservation (2012)
 Deep pool demarcation (Kambor Phot to Neakta Phabang)
 Disseminated community and fishers at fishing grounds and at village meeting on rule and
site for conservation
 Put flags to mark the boundary to deep pool conservation
 Patrolling planned developed and followed
 Regular meeting between patrol team, committee and local authority to share
information, issues, solutions and planning
Q: How flags are practically erected to ensure visibility?
A: Flags have to be tied up to tall trees that can stand the swift current in the wet season and are easily
visible to passer-by.
Q: How to ensure meetings are participated by relevant stakeholders and community members?
A: The practice in the community is to have village chief convene meeting and he himself has to invite
for members to attend. Villagers do not respond to meeting convened simply by patrol team.
Q: Why patrol has to follow a plan?
A: It is easy to follow up and every patrol team knows their own schedule for patrolling. However,
schedule of patrol sometimes has changed based on special cases. Cases of violent the management
rule happened the Kambor Deep pool like they did fishing in deep pool by using gillnets or hook lines
during absence of patrol team. So Kambor has collaborated with Khe to collect fishing gears from the
pool and make agreement to follow the management rule and gave the fishing gears back to
fishers/community.
 Anlong Koh Yeay Chem: Formation of a management committee
 Village chief help identify name of candidates who can read and write (Educated person),
and who take responsibility (dare to accept critics and learns from mistakes)
 Candidates are selected through a participatory process in which candidates are selected
in an open community election and the same process applies for selecting a replacement
 Community defined and agreed to in the first place such as strong commitment to serve
community interests and support from family members, and/or members who had attend
meetings or any capacity building events so that they are familiar with the concept and
practices of participatory process

6.  A clear defined role for the committee including on awareness raising on rule and
regulation of the relevant laws and community regulation and management plan
 Serious effort to offer education and awareness raising to other community members to
stop illegal fishing through:
 local authority’s monthly meeting (commune councillors and commune committee
for women and children who organize monthly meeting one a month to update and
share issues, solutions and planning)
 Commune Development Plan
 Commitment to building good relationship with local authority (formal or informal inter-
communications).
Q: Why did village chief involve identifying committee? Based on By-law on community fisheries, only
CFi congress participated by 80% of members would be able to select and elect committees.
A: Generally, village chief helped in identify key person in village but not in the election that is done by
CFi members.
Q. What factors drive committee motivation?
A: Generally opportunity to capacity building, networking, and exchange of ideas.
 Anlong Koh Kei: Side identification and boundary demarcation
Anlong KohKei is rich of fisheries resources, deep pool, and located in the migratory channel for fish.
From December to March and May to July, approximately 20-30 floating fishing boats a day using drift
nets to catch all kind of fishes. Recently, fish declined was reported based on Mr…. village chief of Koh
Kei village and a former fish trader said that “From 2002 to 2005, fish in Anlong Koh Kei was abundant as
I could buy approximately 200kg/day. Now fish was decreased as fishers were difficult to catch fish both
for consumption and for sale. Only in peak drift net fishing nets season (June to July), when we can catch
some fish with surplus for sale.”
Koh Kei Community Fishery was established with the support from CEPA. In 2011, CFi was formally
registered with MAFF. Unfortunately, CEPA supported CFi project was phased out while community was
not strong enough and could not implement the management plan on its own and did not know how to
start working independently.
By learning from experiences from other communities like Preah Sakhon, Kambor and Anlong Kol 46,
Koh Kei CFi approached WorldFish and FIAC to seek ideas and resources and explore legal framework to
develop and implement deep pool management in order to improve fishery resources. Building on the
current knowledge from fishing practices a deep pool on the Mekong mainstream was designated for
conservation by four communities - Koh Sneng, Koh Sralao, Koh Kei and Chamthom.
The site identification was participatory and built on existing knowledge from on-going fishing practices.
The community first identified in a meeting in Koh Kei village the potential for the area to be designated

7. for protection and then the proposal was presented in the meeting in Koh Khondin where other
communities also presented their plans with justification for selection to receive support.
Then local dissemination was made to inform local communities about identification of the deep pool
for conservation to generate their interest and support. This was done with all villages surrounding the
site (i.e. KohKei, ChamThom, Koh Sneng and Koh Sralao) through village events and village monthly
meeting facilitated by village chief.
Some fishermen disagree with the proposal for the area to put for conservation as they used to fishing
in that area. Local authority and CFi had convinced them with explanation on the need and benefits
from the initiative, and eventually substantial support from the community members was secured.
In the last meeting at Koh Khordin, communities presented cases on four deep pools - Anlong Koh kei,
Anlong Koh Yeay Chem, Anlong Tathav and Anlong Phoum Thmey – as potential for designation and to
receive project support. Using developed and agreed criteria, each case was defended and finally two
deep pools - Anlong Koh Kei (in Koh Sneng Commune) and Anlong Koh Yeay Chem (in Samaki commune)
– were selected by through consensus by the participating community representatives.
Results from the second discussion session:
Participants were divided into 3 mixed groups with participants from all the 5 conservation zones to
discuss shared lessons across the area plus a group to discuss lessons in fish recording.
Group 1: Collaboration between Khe and O’svay communities to combat illegal fishing
 Good relationship is built with selected fishermen to be informants who provide information
on illegal fishing by telephone call;
 Quick action in response to information on offenses, while communication with Preah
Sakhon patrolling team is maintained; this is challenging for Kambor patrol team as phone
signal is weak;
 Have other patrol members on standby when on joint response (rangers, local police
officers, local authority, FiAC…) with patrol equipment as needed;
 Use at least 5 community boats in response to information on illegal fishing to help each
other in eventual circumstance for the terrain is rough – rocky rapids, flooded forest or
whirlpools, and eventual threats from offenders;
 Prepare report and submit to FiAC, Department of Environment and supporting NGOs.
Q. How long does it take to mobilize other community in a response action?
A. It does not take much time to mobilize the response team as we have them on alert such as village
guard, police, rangers and local authority. We coordinate for Preah Sakhon patrol team to chase
offenders from upstream and in the means time Khe patrol team comes from downstream. However, it
is difficult for Kambor team to join hand due to weak phone signal.
Group 2: Collaboration between patrol teams at different pools to combat illegal fishing

8.  People tip off the identity of potential offenders, e.g., the route of potential illegal fishing,
the boats involved, and the number of boats and occupants;
 Engage fishing as informants and conduct covered investigation with fishers;
 Patrol team requests support from local police force, rangers or village guard to joint in
patrol and responses;
 Designated some rendezvous for patrol team to meet;
 Involve police force when handling armed offenses;
 Assign roles for patrol members beforehand to different task in case offenders are
apprehended;
 Applying softer approach for first time offenses, and tougher for repeated offenses, ranging
from verbal warning and sign on agreement not to repeat another offense to monetary fine,
confiscation of gears and file the case to court with the last two options done by members
from competent authority.
Q. As a ranger, what were your contributions to join patrolling? Why?
A. Rangers participated in all patrol events, day and night, whenever illegal fishing happens. Like
fisheries officials, rangers are authorized to handle legal procedure against illegal offenders.
Q. What are pros and cons for some CFi members are also get employed as ranger? Does conflict arise
between the two roles?
A. We have been CFi members but were recently got employed as ranger. Our uniform tells our status
while on duty. The new designation does reinforce the on-going status as CFi patrol members in
deterring illegal fishing.
Q. Do you get any threats from illegal people as you involve actively in controlling illegal fishing?
A. We get all kinds of threats from offenders because our work compromises their businesses. We
suggest that NGOs or other agencies help build their livelihood capacity and life skills such as growing
vegetable, chicken raising… so they turn to other livelihood activities and relive pressure from the
resources.
Group 3: Collaboration between patrol team across the conservation area
 We have patrol members attended training workshop and involved in prepare joined patrol
plan
 Telephone call is used to communicate for tipping off on illegal fishing and on response
 Good collaboration with commune authority is secured to provide legal and administrative
support on patrol and on handling offenses
 Police always joined in the patrol activities on calls
 Community patrol team members stay alert and stand by in case of call for help

9.  Commune authority allows for use of its boat in patrol and DoE also allows for use of boats
confiscated from illegal fishing in patrol in addition to accessing to using private community
boats.
Group 4: Fish record group
Advantages from fish recording:
 Understand the trend of fish catch
 Know the status of fish by type and by total amount of catch
 Allow us to know how much fish was consumed?
 Allow us to know about type of fish catch and seasonal fish migration
 Pay more attention in fishing and to learn type of fish catch
 It is an easy task and not much time required to record data
Who should be selected to do fish recording:
 Should select regular fishermen to record fish data
 Who use to attend meeting or workshop or training feel easy to record fish catch data
What to do with the fish recorders:
 Should have an introduction to the form used for recording;
 Would like to have a refresher training or coaching on how to record fish catch data
 Should share back the analysed data of fish catch with trend
Q. It is challenging to engage local fishers to do recording as: 1) they do not engage as all season fishers,
and 2) a research project provides USD 40 a month as incentive to community member to collect data.
How to deal with this?
A. We request fishers to do fish recording on a volunteer basis and the work is simple as they can do
once they go on fishing. They can do as they see it as an advantage to them and to the community. The
Science-capture project selected only few community members to recorder fish catch and pay them
monthly. The task is complicated involving recording all kind of fish caught, and fish tail, measurement,
name and coding have to be taken for lab analysis. The requirement by the project is much heavier that
is why they are paid to do so.
Recap the lessons learned and guidance for future lesson
Mr. Mam Kosal provided a summary of the workshop results as follows:
 The approach adopted for this workshop is different from what was used last time as it uses
story telling about what the participants deemed most successful and liked rather than direct
asking for lessons learned.
 This has also involved changes in the ways you do your tasks as the nature of offenses also
changes, and the ways you solve the new challenges.

10.  We learned a lot from you during the workshop and we hope that in addition to the lessons you
identified you also learn some facilitation skills and get ideas on how to prepare for such an
event in the future.
 There are at least two broad lessons you learned from the discussion sessions: individual group
lesson as discussed in the morning, and lessons learned from collaborative works as you
discussed in the afternoon.
4. Review progress again plan
Participants were divided in to 5 groups by conservation zone to answer three key questions:
 What actions had been done and/or are still on-going?
 What actions in the plan remain to be done?
 What actions should be done but are not in the current plan?
Day 2: 08 May 2015
Recap the first day session and findings by participants
Participants were asked to recall what were covered in the previous day and selected participants share
their recollection on the main activities and results obtained from the previous day.
Presentation by groups on progress in the plan
Actions done Actions to be done
Anlong Koh Kei
 Identified of deep pool and boundary for
conservation
 Put the flags as a sign to demarcate deep
pool boundary
 Organized rotated patrol group by each
village in Koh Sneng Commune (3
times/group/month)
 Organized regular monthly meeting
 Finalise deep pool management plan with
agreed by community members and
approved by local authority
 Prepare patrol post and request for patrol
equipment
 Organize deep pool management
committee to monitor on patrol group like
Preah Sakhon and general management
and protection of deep pool
 Disseminate information on deep pool
management and conservation to
community and fishermen
 Attend monthly meeting with savings
groups
Anlong Koh Yeay Chem
 To improve relationship and collaboration
with local authority, stakeholders and
other communities like Khe and Koh Sneng
to combat illegal fishing
 To motivate committee and patrol team to
perform their role, responsibilities and
duties more effectively
 To mobilise more resources to sustain

11. community work
Kol 46
 Conducted regular monthly meeting and
prepared monthly report to share with
relevance stakeholders
 Put sign board and flags (“No Fishing”)
around deep pool conservation
 Disseminated on deep pool management
and boundary to community and outsiders
 Built a patrol post
 Enforce regulation resulted in 8 offenders’
boats and engines and 13 electro shock
equipment were confiscated
 Six written warning for illegal fishers in
deep pool
 Record fish data every month
 Forster relationship with village authority
across 5 pools
 Identify and make a list of people used to
do illegal fishing and make agreement to
stop fishing illegally
 Collaborate across pools for strengthening
patrolling
 Conduct regular patrolling
 Disseminate fishery law and close season
by loud speaker from Anlong Thmor Bang
to Koh Han
Suggestion:
 flashlight use with battery, raincoats, life
jackets, walkie talkie, Binoculars, camera,
additional gasoline, medicine, hammock
 Should have motivation strategist
(incentives or awards) to community
group that have good reputations in
combat illegal fishing
Preah Sakhon
 Created deep pool management
committee
 Created patrol groups and rotated patrol
plan
 Demarcated conservation boundary by
putting flags and signboards
 Develop with Village chief, commune
councillors, police, rangers, committee and
local villagers a list of illegal fishers
 Organize local authority and FiAC for local
fishers to hand in their illegal fishing
gears;
 Install local authority, committee, ranger
and FIAC a billboard to raise awareness on
conservation area)
Suggestion:
 Flashlight use with battery, raincoats, life
jackets, walkie-talkie, Binoculars, camera,
additional gasoline, medicine, hammock
Anlong Kambor
 Reorganised patrol team and agreed on
new schedule
 Restructured deep pool management
 Built a patrol post
 Put flags and signboard (No-fishing)
around the pool boundary
 Continued patrol and suppress illegal
fishing
 Disseminated by-law and internal
regulation to community and fishers
 Strengthened patrol team through
 Select new patrol group members to
replace who had resigned
 Encourage fishermen to do regular and
accurate fish data record
 Select focal point to disseminate
information in the village
 Improve patrol report
 Communicate with savings groups to seek
for additional fund to support patrolling
activity

12. conduct monthly meeting
Q. Why do Anlong Koh Kei group plans for establishing a deep pool management committee?
A. Anlong Koh Kei is large and its management involves four communities. A management committee is
thus needed to facilitate better coordination.
Q. How does Anlong Koh Yeay Chem community plan to generate income?
A. We plan to borrow money from savings groups to invest in small business and use a part of profit to
support patrolling activity. Moreover, we will collect membership fee as stipulated in the CFi by-law
(KhR500/member/year)
5. Overview of progress with the lesson learning networking and work plan
Mr. Eam Dyna shared a presentation on process and progress with the development of a network for
information sharing and learning. See the presentation in attachment for details. Overview of progress
with the lesson leaning networking and work plan.pptx
By this end of this presentation, all participants were divided into 4 group discussions which separated
as following:
Community groups
- Who could be focal person
in each community?
- How information should
be generated and shared?
- What skills are required to
operate this network?
Community Group 1
1. Suggested focal person in each community
 O’Svay: Mr. Chum Cheub
 O’Run: Mr. Samreth Tha
 Kralapeas: Mr. La Khon
 Voeun Sean: Mr. Him Ry
 Koh Chheuteal Touch: On IV
 Khe: Hor Pengly
2. Information can be generated through:
 Phone, fishermen when they see the illegal fishing
 Formal Meeting to collect information among working
group from 6 villages
 Site visit and meeting with fish data recorders
Information can be shared by:
 Village meeting, Village ceremony, and commune
meeting
 Network meeting
 Phone
 Informal talking
3. Required knowledge and skills:
 Information and data collection, their management and
sharing
 Skills in organization and management of network
 Community mobilization skill
 Development of a network action plan

13. Community Group 2
1. Suggested focal person
 Community leader should be a focal person
 Koh Khondin: Mr. Sao Ry, deputy community fishery
committee; Mr. Keo Sarath, patrol person
 Koh Sneng: Mr. Say Sopheap, Member of community
fishery; Mr. Chhoum Nhim, deputy of community fishery
committee
 Koh Kei: Kham Khaev, patrol person; Sy Sou, leader of
patrol team
 Chamthom: Ben Horm, member of CFi and Arth Thuon,
patrol person
2. Information to be generated and shared:
 Information from government should be shared as hard
copy;
 Telephone can be used to share and a list of telephone
number of focal person should be developed
 Regular monthly meeting, on 20th
each month
3. Capacity building:
 Skill to generate information and information
management
 Report writing skill
 Develop a plan for information sharing
National Government and NGO
group
- What on-going/functional
networks are in place in
the community?
- How the network should
operate to be sustainably
functional?
1. Current networks in place:
 Community fishery
 Community forestry
 Village Animal Health Volunteers
 Village Human health volunteers
 Non-government organization
 Youth volunteer group
 Savings groups
2. Network operation: Community Fishery Network has a good
relationship and regular connection with fishermen, ranger,
FiAC and commune councillor
3. Proposed structure of network
 Information can be channelled, for example, from
Community (CFi, savings groups) to the commune through

14. village chief and then to district governor and through to
provincial unified task force in their monthly meeting
 It can also be shared from CFi to Provincial Fishery
Administration Cantonment (FiAC), also through
environmental rangers to provincial Department of
Environment and both of them have representation at the
provincial unified task force.
Local Authority
- What networks are on-
going/functional network
are in place in their area
and how they function?
- Who could be focal person
in each community?
- How information should
be generated and shared?
1. Functional networks in the community
 Community fishery
 Community forestry
 Community-based Ecotourism
 Salaphoum
 Savings groups
 Health
 Village-commune safety
2. Potential focal person:
 Koh Khondin: Mr. Mao Sareth and Ms. Sieng Khunmeng
 Koh Sneng: Mr. Lean Sokhom and Than Porng
 Khamphan: On Chuon and Khen Buolai
 Chamthom: Prum Mab and Srey Raem
 Koh Heb: Sy Ly and Than Hvan
 Koh Kei: Hem Chanthon and Khun Rin
 Koh Chheutealtouch: On Iv and Nivy
 O’svay: Im Thoeun and Men Sakin
3. Information can be generated and shared through focal
persons
4. Network structure should design from the village, commune,
district and province level
5. Arrangement of roles and responsibilities of focal person
according to rank, designate and purpose of network
6. Review again expectation and comments by participants
Mr. Eam Dyna asked participants to review back to the expectations that created on the day 1 and what
did they learn from one and a half day workshop.
Comments from participants:
Management in Ramsar site
 learned about key actions in the management plan and lessons from patrol
 Different communication across the conservation zones by patrol teams
 A network is being organized to manage and protect the Ramsar site
Communication and better know each other
 Opportunity to see and interact with new faces - CFi committee, rangers, FiAC and
environmental officials from different villages.

15. Improvement of workshop process
Local authority:
 How to facilitate and manage group discussion for a meaningful outcome
 Learned that cross pool groups discussion provides opportunity to interact with people not
necessarily met or worked with before thus allowed for sharing
Government official:
 Smaller group discussion would make ensure inclusive discussion but takes time
NGOs:
 The workshop process was good but more time should be provided for self-introduction so
people know each other more
 More women should be engaged.
Community:
 Have the opportunity to engage actively in the whole workshop process
 A rule should be established to avoid distraction for example by phone calls.
7. Conclusion and closing by Ms. Yumiko Kura
Ms. Kura recalled the activities the participants engaged for the whole workshop including participants
identifying achievement and what worked well and what did not. She appreciated the role play by all the
participants in activities on the ground. She also shared the contribution she made in having the project
in place through shaping proposal and negotiating with donor. While noting the task is challenging as we
have to answer to many questions donors have she acknowledged that field activities as even more
challenging. She also urged participants to share their experiences from this workshop with their couple,
relatives or friends. At the end she affirmed that such workshop will be organized regularly and with this
she looked forward to meeting the participants again.

16. Annexes:
1. List of Participants:

18. 2. Agenda for the workshop
Time What How Who
Start at
8.10am
- Registration Chakrey
8.30-8.40
8.40-8.55
8.55-9.10
- Introduction
to the
workshop;
- Self
introduction;
- Participant
Expectations
- Presentation with flip charts containing
information on objectives and agenda written on
flip charts;
- Participants pair with others they had not met
before and introduce to each other saying his/her
name, where he/she from, role in the
community/village, and one thing he/she think
why the area needs protection.
- Participants write/draw their individual
expectation(s) in card and other facilitator team
members collect and will cluster them during
coffee break and share a summary later after
coffee break.
- Kosal
- Dyna
- Dyna
9.10-9.30 - Identification
of lessons
learned by pool
- Brief background of project and some examples
on lessons learned;
- Participants are grouped by pool and discuss to
identify what they see as their successful or
significant stories to tell;
Kosal
Facilitator team
members split
among groups
9.30-10.30 - Story telling
by pool
- Divide participants into groups by pool, plus a
group on fish recording;
- Identify an outspoken/knowledgeable participant
from each group to tells story of a successful event
they had identified in regard to protecting their
pool (It can be a patrol event, a call for meeting, a
chase in patrol, installation of sign marks, … -
selected from the list of successes in the previous
session);
- A participant from each group work with the
group facilitator to recorder key points in the story
and points that need clarification;
- As the story finishes other participants take turn
to say What and how their contributions were
made to that success story;
Sopheak/
facilitator
members split to
all groups
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10:45-10.50 Brief summary
of expectations
A facilitator summary by cluster of expectation
collected from participants
Dyna
10.50-12.00 Group
reporting
- Groups present theirs results in plenary;
- Q and A
Sopheak/ A
participant from
each group;
12.00-13.15 Lunch break
(Lunch
provided)
Chakrey

19. 13.15-14.00 - Story telling
by across pools
- Divide participants into 3 groups; ensure
participants from each of the 5 pools have
representation in each of the group
- Each group select a story most relevant to more
than one pool;
- Follow the same process a in the previous
session.
Sopheak/
facilitator
members split to
all groups
14.00-15.00 Group
reporting
- Groups present theirs results in plenary;
- Q and A
Sopheak/ A
participant from
each group;
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-15.45 Recap the
lessons learned
and
Guidance for
future lesson
identification
Verbal presentation Kosal
15.45-16.40 Review
progress again
plans
Group discussion by pool:
- What actions had been done and what are still
on-going;
- What actions in the plan remain to be done;
- Given the current challenges and lessons
identified above, what actions should be done but
are not in the current plan.
Dyna/
facilitator
members split to
all groups
16.40-17.00 Report back - Bus stop
Second day May 08
8.00-8.30 Recap by
participants on
what issues
covered in the
previous day
Facilitated plenary session Sopheak/
Participants
8.30-9.00 Overview of
progress with
the lesson
leaning
networking
and work plan
PPT presentation on process to develop work plan
and the work plan for network on information
sharing and learning, Structure, functions/how it
operates and why it is needed;
Q and A
Dyna
9.00-9.30 Group
comments on
the work plan
Participants are divided as follows:
- National Government and NGO group: a. What
on-going/functional networks are in place in their
community; b. How the network should operate to
be sustainably functional;
- Community groups: Who could be focal person in
each community; How information should be
generated and shared; What skills are required to
operate this network?
- Local Authority: What networks are on-
Dyna/
facilitator
members split to
all groups

20. going/functional network are in place in their area
and how they function; Who could be focal person
in each community; How information should be
generated and shared;
9.30-9.45 Coffee break
9.45-11.15 Continue the
discussion and
report back
- Continued the discussions
- Groups present theirs results in plenary;
- Q and A
11:15-11:35 Review again
expectation
and comments
by participants
Plenary All
11:35-12.00 Conclusions
and last words
Yumiko
12.00 Lunch and finish the workshop (Lunch provided) Chakrey