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At the Third Conference on Sub-regional Economic Co-operation
held in Hanoi, April 20-23, 1994, the Ministerial Meeting
endorsed three technical assistance projects for financing
by the Asian Development Bank. In September 1994, the six
Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR,
Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, PR China) reached an understanding
with the Bank on the scope, estimated costs, and implementation
arrangements for the first of these TA's, the Sub-regional
Environmental Monitoring and Information System - SEMIS. The
project (TA No. 5622-REG) was jointly funded by the Bank and
UNEP, and would closely collaborate with the Mekong River
Commission.
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The overall objectives of the TA were stated in the
original TA document as follows:
The goal of the project is to allow resource allocation
and environmental management decision affecting the
Greater Mekong sub-regional to be based on up-to-date
and accurate information. The overall objective of the
TA is to provide the mechanisms that will allow sharing
of information on environmental and natural resources
issues in a timely manner.
The project was started in August 1995 and completed
in April 1998.
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The SEMIS PID subdivided the project into 17 Outputs of which
5 were the assigned responsibility of UNEP, 1 administered
jointly between UNEP and ADB/Roche, 1 was the responsibility
of the MRC, and the remaining 10 were to be executed by ADB/Roche.
A subsequent contract variation removed Output 11 (Development
of model co-operative financial mechanisms for data exchange
and sharing) from the scope of the project. The 17 Outputs
and responsibilities are listed in Table 1.
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Output
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Title
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Agency Responsible
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| 1 |
Core Dataset Definition |
ADB/Roche |
| 2 |
Conceptual Spatial Database Design |
ADB/Roche |
| 3 |
Data Standard for Information to be held in National
and Sub-regional Databases |
ADB/Roche |
| 4 |
Metadata Standards for Information to be held in National
and Sub-Regional Databases |
ADB/Roche |
| 5 |
Catalogue of Existing Environmental and Natural Resources
Data Holdings amongst Countries of the GMS |
UNEP |
| 6 |
Conduct Pilot Data Transfers |
ADB/Roche |
| 7 |
Development of In-country Training Capacity in GIS and
Database Management in support of SoE Reporting and Assessment |
UNEP |
| 8 |
Development of Model Agreements on Data Sharing &
Access |
UNEP |
| 9 |
Development of Sub-region-wide 1:250,000 scale GIS Core
Datasets, where possible |
UNEP |
| 10 |
Workshop on Data and Metadata Standards |
ADB/Roche |
| 11 |
1Development of Model
Co-operative Financial Mechanisms for Data Exchange and
Sharing |
ADB/Roche |
| 12 |
Study Tours to Existing Data Exchange Networks |
ADB/Roche |
| 13 |
Linkage of the MRC GIS and Water Resources Databases |
MRC |
| 14 |
Training in the Use of the Data Exchange and Metadata
Standards and Technology |
ADB |
| 15 |
Hardware and Software Supplementation to
allow participation in the Network |
ADB/Roche and UNEP |
| 16 |
Catalogue of Commercial Support Available |
ADB/Roche |
| 17 |
Development of SoE database and reports |
UNEP |
1Removed Output
Presently, not all reports on above-listed outputs are
available. Attempts are being made to collect them. Some of
the available documents include:
- Project implementation document
- Final report
- Output 1 & 2 : Core Dataset Definition / Conceptual
Spatial Database Design
- Output 3 & 4 : Data Standard for Information to be
held in National and Sub-regional Databases / Metadata Standards
for Information to be held in National and Sub-Regional
Databases
- Output 6 : Conduct Pilot Data Transfers
- Output 10: Workshop on Data and Metadata Standards
- Output 12: Study Tours to Existing Data Exchange Networks
- Output 15: Hardware and Software Supplementation to allow
participation in the Network
- Output 16: Catalogue of Commercial Support Available
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