RCE Penang-2011

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Submitted by asyirah on Wed, 2011-07-06 12:18
1. General Information
Contact Name(s): 
Dr. Salfarina Abdul Gapor
Organizational Affiliation : 
RCE Penang, Centre for Global Sustainability Studies
Role in the project: 
Project Leader
E-Mail Address(es): 
farina@usm.my
2. Project Information
1. Project title: 
Showcasing Balik Pulau as a Sustainable Village
2. Project Description: 
This project is undertaken by the School of Social Sciences at Universiti Sains Malaysia and in collaboration with RCE Penang and the Centre for Global Sustainability Studies. The project objective is to help communities reconnect with the resources that promote human well-being by enhancing social and political empowerment, community self-reliance and self-determination.
3. Project Status: 
Ongoing
4. Key Words
Key Words: 
Biodiversity
5. Project categories
Project categories: 
Education
Research
Awareness building
Networking and partnership development
Material production
6. Expected outcomes:: 
create a sustainable village as a showcase of sustainability which can be used later as platform for students' research
7. Duration of the Project:: 
1 April 2011 - 30 March 2012
3. Project Leadership & Vision
8. Project coordination (e.g. teams): 
Centre for Global Sustainability Studies, CGSS; RCE Penang; local authority; schools and villagers
9. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
2
b. Transactional: 
4
c. Transformational: 
4
4. Project results
10. Project results : 
Awareness on biodiversity of local herbal plants to community; distribution of herbal plants to local community
13.Core Partners: 
Universiti Sains Malaysia, RCE Penang, Centre for Global Sustainability Studies, Balik Pulau District Office
5. Partnership and networking
14. Project Network
a. Information network: 
5
b. Knowledge network: 
4
c. Innovation network: 
1
6. Participation
15. Type of involvement: 
Participatory approach has been adopted through conducting several workshops and focus group discussions
16. Participation opportunities
a. Informational participation: 
4
b. Consultation participation: 
4
c. Decision influencing participation : 
2
7. Education & Learning
17. Educational activities: 
There have been several workshops conducted for the villagers in the area to train them on different sustainability strategies and practices.
18. Learning activities: 
post mortem meetings were conducted after the focus group and workshops discussion.
19. Educational activities
a. Theory: 
3
b. Discussion: 
4
c. Interactive and Multidimensional "action oriented education": 
3
8. Research Integration
20. Research & Development (R&D): 
Biotechnology related to plant reproduction
21. Research partners: 
Centre for Global Sustainability Studies; School of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, School of Industrial Technology
22. Description of research
a. Disciplinary: 
2
b. Interdisciplinary: 
6
c. Transdisciplinary: 
2
Type: 
Project Reports
Region: 
Asia-Pacific
Community: 
Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity
Community_second: 
SCP,Livelihood and Well-being
Issue: 
Sustainable Consumption and Production
One More Issue: 
Traditional Knowledge and Medicine
Country: 
Malaysia