Water Taxi Training Pack - Caring for our coasts

This Training Pack is about caring for our environment and our future – particularly with regard to the coastal environment and the people who live in Caribbean islands. The materials in this Training Pack may be used by anyone who enjoys sharing information about environmental stewardship with others.

Why was this Training Pack created?
This Training Pack was originally created to serve as an easy reference for trainers and participants – mostly water taxi operators -- involved in workshops relating to environmental stewardship in the Grenadines.

The materials in this pack support endeavours to build awareness and encourage activities that advance management of marine resources and sustainable livelihoods in the Caribbean.

How can you best use this Training Pack?
The materials in this Training Pack provide you with effective educational and communications tools that can be used exactly as you find them – or, you can modify the materials to suit your own initiatives.

Please remember to acknowledge the source(s) of materials when you are using them, and state if you have adapted them.
– For example; “This graph, adapted from the book, “Coral Growth in the Caribbean” by E.D. Smith (1961)” or, “Photos courtesy of Edward Smith”.

Each of the materials in this Training Pack can be used alone or in combination with other materials from the pack. In addition, the effectiveness of these materials may be enhanced if you use them in combination with materials from other training packs. Two training modules prepared for the Barbados 4Cs Project are complementary to this Training Pack. They are called, “Collecting Information about Corals – Training Module”, and “The Caribbean Coral Restoration Training Module”.

Other Training Packs that are also very useful are: the, “People and Corals” training
pack that is available from the Caribbean Conservation Association ; and/or copies of the educational “Building Blocks” produced by the OECS-Natural Resources Management Unit during the 1990’s.

What is included in this Training Pack?
This Training Pack includes the following:

• Four Training Modules called –
  1. “Introducing Coastal Ecosystems”;
  2. “Interpreting a Poster”;
  3. “Telling Our Story”;
  4. “Using the Compass Approach to Guide Vision and Activities for Greening”.
  
  
• A collection of reference materials for coral reef outreach and education -- including fact sheets, identification slideshows, activities for children, videos, posters, papers, environmental dive briefs, sustainable recreation guides, monitoring manuals, brochures, and presentations. This collection was compiled by Kim Baldwin, Graduate Student at the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, University of the West Indies (CERMES-UWI 2006). An introduction to this collection of materials is also provided.
  
  
• Additional reference materials that were produced and used specifically during
  workshops held in the Grenadines, including:
  1. A sample Workshop Program
  2. A sample introductory Microsoft Powerpoint™ presentation; and,
  3. A copy of the booklet called, “Sustainable “green boat” practices for water taxi operators in the Grenadines -- Best practices for a cleaner marine environment through improved boating operations” (Lizama, D.T. and S.M. Mahon, published by CERMES-UWI, 2006). Management Unit during the 1990’s.

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