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SEAMEO BIOTROP Annual Report FY 2015 - 2016

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On the fourth year of its Ninth Five-Year Development Plan (9th FYDP), SEAMEO BIOTROP strengthened its commitment to develop and empower the human resource in Southeast Asia. This was realized through the Centre’s research, capacity building, community development, information exchange and general administration activities and services along its two program thrusts, namely: Tropical Biology for Community Welfare and Tropical Biology for Environmental Integrity. The Centre’s accomplishments in FY 2015/2016 are summarized below according to the three SEAMEO key result areas:

REGIONAL LEADERSHIP
During the first half of the fiscal year in review, SEAMEO BIOTROP completed 24 research projects on current and critical biological problems in the region, and 3 action research/community-based project through its Youth Environmental Outreach (YEO) Grants Program. Twenty of these completed research projects were conducted by the Centre’s researchers and partner agencies and four by PhD Thesis Support Program grantees. For the second half of the fiscal year in review, the Centre started implementing 23 more research projects, consisting of 19 by the Centre’s researchers, four by PhD Thesis Support Program grantees, and one YEO Program grantee.

The Centre also continued to be in the forefront of landscape restoration research in Southeast Asia by securing a twoyear collaborative research project funded by the Global Innovation Initiative (GII) and the British Council, and involving seven universities from Indonesia, United Kingdom and United States of America, and one private mining company in Indonesia.

In strengthening individual and institutional capacities, the Center implemented 25 national training courses, workshops and seminars, 2 international conferences, one regional/international seminar-workshop and one in-country training course. These learning events benefited 1,601 individuals from 7 SEAMEO member countries as well as outside the region.

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Bogor : SEAMEO BIOTROP., 2016

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