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PCSD Staff Corner:Madrono Cabrestante- Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) Training

                                                                     Alex S. Marcaida                                                                                                                                    Media Bureau Chief PCSD                                   


Second stop: Nonthaburi, Thailand to Bali, Indonesia



Madrono P. Cabrestante, Jr.
OIC-EMES Division, PCSDS

Mr. Cabrestante was one of the 5 Filipinos lucky enough to be chosen as participant to the 8th Regional Short Course on Environmental & Resource Economics sponsored by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA).

Funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada, for 3-weeks (April 12 – May 5, 2009) he stayed at the Nonthaburi in Bangkok, Thailand.  This  course upgraded the skills of the participants in preparing research proposals for possible funding by the EEPSEA, and the opportunity for Mr. Cabrestante to network PCSDS with other international funding institutions for future collaboration. As a highly-abled PCSDS Senior staff, Cabrestante had been exposed to working with foreign consultants, experts and specialists as PCSDS had been implementing foreign-funded projects,  thus, representing Palawan in these multi-nationality event is not new to him. With him in this course are four other Filipinos, 6 Indonesians, 5 Vietnamese, 4 Chinese, 6 Thais and one each from Laos and Cambodia.

Cabrestante expressed his utmost gratitude to PCSDS management for giving him this opportunity to exchange thoughts with famous international experts and resource persons such as: Dr. Olewiler of Canada’s Simon Frazer University, Dr. Jeffrey Bennet of the Australian National University and Dr. Benoit Laplante, a World bank consultant. Three major subject areas had been studied: Natural Resources Economics, Valuation tools in Environmental Economics and Cost Benefit Analysis and the Economics of Control.

As the global community continuously faces the challenge of climate change, this course is aptly relevant and timely to the current overall agenda of PCSDS in undertaking studies on carrying capacity for Palawan, environmental economics and resource valuation, among others.  

Mr, Cabrestante emphasized that this Thailand course is an offshoot of the 30th Biennial workshop of EEPSEA that he attended held in Bali Indonesia in November of 2008.

First Stop: Netherlands
Tess Batul
Netherlands Fellowship grant to the International Training of Trainers on wetland management 2009 (6th edition)