Regional and national training tailored to needs and priorities builds national and local authorities’ capacity for integrating issues and approaches into their national planning processes. Use and provide training manuals and materials developed by international and national experts for teaching, interaction, group exercises, discussions and field trips. Ensure compliance with regional and national resource documents on coastal spatial planning.
Conditions for adoption elsewhere:
- National adaptation of capacity building and field application activities of each country
A series of national consultations and gap analyses with each participating countries proofed valuable to identify priorities for capacity building in integrating new management concepts into spatial planning. They also helped to establish a menu of possible capacity building and field application activities including a recommended outline for the workshops and training courses. Compliance of training course curriculum and syllabus with the regional and national resource documents on coastal spatial planning is crucial to provide country-tailored capacity building and field application activities and to meet the country’s priorities.