Mr. Iwan then presented the three-days meeting agenda. On the first day, the meeting was scheduled to discuss the Q3 report. On the second day (morning), all participants will attend National Seminar on Capture Fisheries in Sam Ratulangi University, Manado. In the afternoon, participants will back to discuss the Q3 report again and conduct initial discussion on Annual Work Plan for the year 2013. On the third day PMO and UNDP will review the Q3 report and discuss the indicators and target deliveries of each outcome for the year 2013.

After presenting the meeting agenda, Mr. Iwan then overview the recommendation resulted from Mid Term Evaluation. There are 17 recommendations to project team, 5 recommendations to UNDP and 1 to GEF. PMO must response for each of these recommendations, and draft each response in a table prepared by UNDP. The meeting then discussed these recommendations.

On the first day, participants agreed to draft management response to MTE recommendation using the template prepared by UNDP.

In the next morning, participants attend the National Seminar on Capture Fisheries organized by Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. North Sulawesi was selected as a host because this region is one of important capture fisheries region in eastern Indonesia.  This seminar was attended by approximately 300 participants from scientist, local government staffs, NGOs, private sector, lecturer from Sam Ratulangi University, including ATSEA.  The objectives of this seminar are (1) to strengthen the network of Fish Resources management to support the ongoing science-based fisheries industry; (2) to formulate a concept to strengthen the fish resources management, particularly in the corridor MP3EI Sulawesi.

In the evening session, the participants were back to discuss the project budget for the year 2013. In the discussion, Ms Kwanruen informed all participants that project would end in mid-2014. She also commented that the project should focus on SAP/NAPs completion and demo project implementation for the next two years. The PMO agreed to refine the AWP and will be sent to UNDP-APRC by December 15 towards the KK-ed process.

The MTE is intended to identify weaknesses and strengths of the project design, and to develop recommendations for any necessary changes in the overall design and orientation of the project by evaluating the adequacy, efficiency and effectiveness of its implementation, as well as assessing Project outputs and outcomes to date. Consequently, the MTE mission is also expected to make detailed recommendations on the work plan for the remaining project period.  It also provide an opportunity to assess early signs of project success or failure and prompt necessary adjustments.
The evaluation is follow approaches adopted by GEF for the assessment of IW projects and UNDP M&E guidelines. The MTE mission also identify lessons learnt and best practices from the Project that could be applied to future and on-going projects.

Previous discussion on MTE recommendations was conducted  at the end of October. From this meeting, the Management Response was drafted. And this workshop is needed to finalised the Management Response to MTE Recommendation.

1. Advice and suggestion to assure ATS SAP in line with Timor-Leste marine, fisheries policy and planning, it could be well implemented.
2. Annotated-outline of ATSEA Timor-Leste NAP.

On the next day, ATSEA was discussing preparation of national demo project in Timor-Leste. As decided by the Project Board in PBM-2, national demo project implementation in Timor-Leste will use “Project Cooperation Agreement” (PCA) modality. It means that the Government of Timor-Leste will implement the national demo project. The meeting succesfully agreed on issues, proposed locations, budget, work plan and PCA draft.