Integrated Sustainable Development Hoi An City and Quang Nam Province, Vietnam

Ashley Hollenbeck509 Presentation

March 9, 2012

Overview• Hoi An & Quang Nam• Learning Objectives• Project Overview– Project Partners– Primary Projects– Overview of Project

Deliverables– Contribution to the

Organization

• Future Career Direction

Learning Objectives

1. Cross-cultural communications2. Create collaborations and partnerships with

local, national and international agencies3. Proficiency in conducting field research in a

foreign country4. Act as a professional advisor on international

development projects5. Apply learning to my future career goals and

future professional development needs

Quang Nam, Vietnam

Project Goals

• QNP project goals– Sustainable development– Poverty alleviation– Urban-rural linkages

• 509 project goals– Technical Support• Workshops• PDS

Project Overview1. Leadership Workshop

HCMA, UN-Habitat, PSU PDS strategies

2. Hoi An Eco-City Development ISS and POSI

3. Provincial Development Strategy Environmental

Management Climate Change

Response

Provincial Development Strategy

• What is the PDS?– Goals– 6 themes

• Chapter four– Environmental

Management– Response to Climate

Change• Data collection– Participatory Processes?

Data Collection for Chapter Four of the PDS

1. Identify focus areas and data gapsa) Biodiversity protection & ecosystem managementb) Integrated water resource managementc) Access to water and sanitationd) Climate change & disaster risk mitigatione) The SEAf) Community-based environmental management

2. Information collection1. Government agencies2. District Governments

Focus & Structure of Chapter Four Analysis• IWRM – Central theme– Vu Gia-Thu-Bon River Basin

• Future strategies– Governance– Coordination– Socioecnomic

Development• Stakeholder input– Time– UN-Habitat

Significance of Work

• Long-term impacts?• Future capacity building– EMERGE– Eco-city Development

• Completion of the PDS– Funding– Partnerships– Future development

Future Career Implications• International

development?• Top-down vs.

bottom-up development

• Participatory methods• IWRM & climate change– MA Public policy & social

research

Questions?

Thank You!!• PSU faculty– Dr. Marcus Ingle– Dr. Jennifer Allen– Dr. Ellen Bassett

• UN & DPI staff