Status of the RCAUNDPK Project

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Status of the RCA-UNDP(K) Project

• (Workshop on RCARO Future Strategies)
• 25 July, 2007
• Jae-Sol Lee
• Programme Officer, RCARO

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Contents

• Background
• The Context of Partnership
• RCARO Partnership with UNDP
• Status of the UNDP Project
• Summary / Conclusions

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UN Millennium Development Goals

• Adopted by UN General Conference in 2000
• Seek Partnership for Socio-Economic Development
  targetting to the year 2015, including Poverty
  Reduction, Gender Balance, and Health/Environment
  
• Put priority on WEHAB (Water, Energy, Health,
  Agriculture, Biodiversity)

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IAEA Policy for Partnership
Director General of IAEA (At June 2004 Board of
Governors Meeting) The Agency
expanded (and is expanding) its
partnerships with other
United Nations system organizations,
international financial institutions,
regional organizations and other relevant bodies.
DDG, Dept. of TC (At June 2004 Board of Governors
Meeting) Partnerships are essential to TC.The
Agency has attained some success building
international partnerships and will now focus on
promoting national and sub-regional ones.
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Objectives of IAEA TC Strategy

• To produce sustainable benefits within the
  framework of national development plans
• To gain recognition as a partner in resolving
  development problems through the cost-effective
  transfer of nuclear technologies
• To increase the level of funding for technical
  co-operation activities particularly from
  non-traditional sources, and to increase the
  number of opportunities for direct and parallel
  funding to help resolve development problems
• To strengthen the capacity of institutions in
  Member States using nuclear technologies to
  become more technically and financially
  self-reliant

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RCARO Missions and Challenges

• (in line with the MDGs and TC strategy)
• Identify and meet the needs of regional and
  Member States
• Promote visibility and viability of RCA
• Seek sustainability by partnership and additional
  funds

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RCARO Context of Partnership
(effects)
Awareness
Visibility
Funding
Projects
(Needs)
Partnership
Viability
Partners
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Need for RCA Visibility / Viability

• RCAs achievements and potentials are not
  properly recognized by regional and international
  communities, particularly by the development
  organizations
• Requirement for cooperative projects in RCA
  region are increasing but insufficient fund
• Partnerships become a living fashion of essential
  for all technical cooperation activities

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RCARO Partnership with UNDP

• In line with the spirit of partnership
• RCARO proposed a project on Tsunami Relief
  Efforts using Nuclear Technology
• Bakground for the proposal
• Large parts of the RCA MSs were affected by
  Tsunami
• Nuclear technology is believed to contribute to
  analyzing environmental changes impaired by the
  Tsunami

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The Project (code ROK/06/001)

• TITLE Mitigation of Coastal Impact of
  Natural Disasters like Tsunami Using Nuclear or
  Istotope-based Techniques
• The purpose of this project is to produce the
  necessary and useful nalytical data on the
  post-tsunami environment impact by using advanced
  nuclear analytical techniques (NATs) and to share
  it with the concerned Member States to integrate
  into an environment management strategy for
  policy action

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Significance of the UNDP Project

• The tsunami in 2004 was the worst natural
  disaster the regions ever suffered
• Means through which nuclear technology can
  contribute to relieving the residents of the pain
  in the environmentally affected areas
• First RCA project initiated by RCARO (not by IAEA
  funds) through its partnership with UNDP(K) and
  MOST in Korea
• RCA guidelines were revised to include the fast
  track mechanism in the case a donors process is
  different from IAEAs process
• Regarded as a role model through which we can
  examine the usefulness and efficiency of the
  projects funded by organizations other than IAEA

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MSs Participating in the Project
( A total of 14 Member States )
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Project Objectives (Components)

• Using nuclear and isotopic analytical techniques,
• To assess the level of toxic element
  contamination in the marine coastal ecosystem
  by studies of the trace element profile of
  coastal sediment samples,
• To assist in providing safe drinking water and
  ensure sustainability of agriculture and fishery
  production in the tsunami-affected areas by
  assessing the impact of marine deposits in
  coastal agricultural areas,
• To define the impact of tsunami-deposited
  sediment contaminants on the health and long-term
  viability of coral reefs and associated fisheries
  by looking at the impact of selected toxic
  elements in sediments on the health of coral
  reef.

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Coordination of the Project
Pls remove PHI
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Funding by UNDP(K) MOST

• UNDP(K) decided to support the initiative with
  the understanding that the project
• benefit the region
• meet the MDGs
• enhance its partnership with RCA
• UNDP(K) accepted the proposal, however, granting
  only limited part of the necessary fund, and MOST
  in Korea is supporting the rest of the fund.
• UNDP (K) 50,000 US
• Korean Gov. (MOST) 250,000 US or less
• Total 300,000 US or less for three years

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Budget for the UNDP Project
( Currency USD)
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Project History
RCARO Proposal to MOST (Mar.2005)

• Initiation (2005)
• Jeju Meeting (June)
• TSLCC Meeting (July)
• RCA GCM (Sep)
• RCA NRM (Mar)

• Formulation (Feb. 2006)
• Definition of objectives
• formulation of work plan
• Election of project leaders

• Contract (30 June 2006)
• RCARO
• UNDP (K)
• MOST of ROK

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Fast Track Approach of the Project
Concept
MSs
RCARO Dir.
NRs
Endorsement
RCA SAC
LCCs
Proposal
RCARO/PLCCs
Approval
Implementation
IAEA/PLCCs
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Stakeholders and End-users
- from presentation by PLCC (E. Sombrito ) -

• Coastal community
• NGOs
• Local government units
• Educators/universities
• Law/policy makers
• Environmental agencies
• Private sector

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Impact of the UNDP Project

• Identification of priorities for timely and
  cost-effective intervention to reduce or recover
  from the adverse impacts of the tsunami or other
  natural disasters
• Increased capability for reliable measurement of
  contaminants, characterization of their transport
  and fate, and science-based health impact risk
  assessment
• Generation of data and information on land-based
  sources of pollutants, which can guide the
  regulatory agencies in implementing control
  measures to protect health of the
  seafood-consuming public and the marine coastal
  environment.

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Coordination of the Project
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Sequence of Activities
Member States
National Team
Report to PLCC/RCARO
Discussion on the Project
Expert Missions
Identification of Study Sites
Assessment
Sampling
Sampling Device ( corer)
( Data)
( Sample )
Laboratory Analysis
Ananytical supplies
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Summary of Progress (June 2007)
( ) month/year
lt gt Objective Number
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Sediment and Soil Sampling Example
The site Mindoro, Philippines

• Earthquake data from USGS
• - Date Time(UTC) Nov.14, 191531- Epicenter
  N 13.532 E 121.087 Depth 33km- Maginitude
  Mw 7.0- Comments At least seventy-eight
  people killed and 225 injured on Luzon and
  Mindoro. A local tsunami contributed to extensive
  damage (VII RF) in the Calapan and Puerto Galera
  areas. More than 797 houses destroyed and 3,288
  damaged on Mindoro. Seven houses destroyed at
  Batangas, Luzon. Liquefaction, sand boils and
  surface faulting occurred in the epicentral area.
  Felt (IV RF) at Batangas, Guinayangan, Manila and
  Tagaytay City (III RF) at Quezon City, Luzon.
  Also felt (II RF) on Masbate.

Source area of the November 14, 1994 Mindoro
earthquake. Red circles show positions of the
main shock, black segments - run-up height.
(omzg.sscc.ru/tsulab/rec9411.gif )
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The Site
Then
Now
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Marine Sediment Sampling (PHI)
The site
Gravity corer
Testing the Kajak sampler in river sediment
Grab Sampler
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Soil Sampling (PHI)
Soil corer
The site in Mindoro
Soil depth scraper
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Participation in Regional Forum

• Participation of the major project
  stakeholders in international conference for
  presentations or contribution of articles to the
  major journals of international environment
  societies
• ( 8,000 is allocated for such purposes for
  2007 and 2008, respectively)

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Performance Indicators

• Utilization by at least two countries affected by
  tsunami of the information generated from this
  study to support integrated coastal zone
  management principles in rehabilitation efforts
• Adoption by policy-makers of recommendations
  derived from this project on how to decrease the
  vulnerability of Member States to tsunami or
  other disasters
• Active interactions with the policy-makers should
  be sought in order to convey the outcomes from
  the project so that necessary environment policy
  could be established
• Increased capability to use nuclear analytical
  techniques and quality assurance of data
  generated

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Plan for Project Review Meeting

• Scheduled to be held in Oct 2007 in Phuket,
  Thailand for 5 working days
• To assess the progress of each participating
  countries overall activities
• To identify the 2008 work plan based on the
  results and recommendations of the meeting

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Web Communication

• RCARO provides the UNDP(K) project exclusive web
  pages for participating MSs
• All vital documents related to the project posted
  up by the operator and users
• Provides a live link among participants for
  better communication
• Only authorized users can gain access
• www.rcaro.org, and go to the UNDP(K) page

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Summary / Conclusions

• The UNDP Project was a partnership initiative by
  RCA Regional Office.
• In an effort to make beneficial use of nuclear
  techniques to the tsunami-stricken Member States,
  a plan with 3 objectives was launched with 3 year
  implementation.
• Now on its full track, the UNDP Project is making
  its way forward to sampling, lab analyses, and
  data evaluation.
• A meeting to review the Project progress is in
  preparation, with a plan for holding it in
  October 2007 in Phuket (THA).

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Thank you for your attention