1. Building the Resilience of Communities and their Ecosystem to
the impacts of Climate Change in the Pacific using P3DM
(Participatory 3 Dimensional Modelling)
Kenn Mondiai
Executive Director
Partners With Melanesians Inc.
Port Moresby – Papua New Guinea
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Regional Policy Briefing No.7
Building resilience in small island
economies : from vulnerabilities to
opportunities
Hotel Victoria – Mauritius
23 – 224 April 2012

2. Outline of Presentation
1. Introduction 6. Our Experience from -
2. P3DM Partnership in Mboemboe/Manus
Melanesian & Pacific 7. Conclusion
3. Why with local coastal 8. Video Show P3DM
communities ?
8. References for P3DM
4. Major issues affecting and PPGIS
coastal communities
5. Need for proper tools
for planning

3. Introduction
• PwM is a national conservation and community
development NGO based in PNG (28 years)
• Applied many tools in our on environmental
conservation and community development with
local people and communities.
• 2005 CTA/EU supported Training on P3DM in Fiji
… intro to P3DM
• P3DM applied to projects & support partners in
Managalas, Solomon Island & Manus ..and we
found that to be very good tool for community
engagement and empowerment for decision
making.

4. What is P3DM ?
It is a integration of GIS/GPS data application
with information from maps and other
reference points used in a collaborative and
participatory manner with participants mental
knowledge guided by a facilitation team
working in a collaborative manner to develop
a 3 dimensional relief scaled model geo-
referenced.
PROCESS SIMPLIFIED
It is built using cardboard layers with guide of
base maps generated using GIS contours with
each contour layer glued with application of
paper and paints and point markers from the
lowest elevation up to the highest elevation.
P3DM Application :
• NRM
• Conservation Area Land use plans
• Coastal MPA project mapping and planning
• Land boundary demarcation
• Climate change adaptation activities
• Conservation area planning
• Food Security & Water Resource
management planning
• Disaster preparedness planning
• And many more …

5. P3DM Work Partnership/Applications
• PwM works in partnership with ENGO, Donors, Prov and Local
Governments, Academia and soon to be with Governments.
• PARTNERS so far are:
• TNC, WWF, AUSAID, Manus Prov. Govt, UNDP, Marshall Islands
NGO, PNGEFF, Afore LLG , Univ. of PNG, National Museum
PNG,
• APPLICATIONS
• Marine Protected Area
• Conservation areas, Heritage Site Mapping
• District Land use Mapping and Boundary demarcation
• Natural Disaster Preparedness planning
• Agriculture Research and Food Security projects

6. Why with local communities in Melanesia ?
• Little map reading skills
• Literacy levels
• working with coastal communities,
we clearly see the problems and
difficulties faced To help them
apart from apply other social tools
for generation of database and
information, we feel P3DM is a
very useful tool…people have very
little MAP reading skills and it is a
participatory tool whereby
everyone is involved from start to
end and generate discussions for
information for planning and
decision making.
• LAND TENURE ISSUES

7. Vulnerability Issues Visualised and Plans &
Decisions Generated from Model
• Issues of vulnerability
• Sea level rise, Coastal area erosion, Salt water intrusion into well water,
Agricultural land along coastal area becoming saline, Forest clearance,
Sedimentation of rivers and stream, Forest fire, Spread of invasive
species, Landslips , Low food productivity due to soil fertility, Land
dispute due to increased population. Reef damage, large scale mining
and logging etc.
• When this issues are discussed over a model in the communities,
people have a far better understanding and appreciation of their
vulnerable status and with this the people are motivated to seek
solutions to their problems and the model has helped them much
better to make decision on where to relocate their villages, where not
to harvest tree, where to leave for forest standing, where t plant
mangroves etc.

8. Conclusion
Based on the experience on P3DM in Melanesia
(Pacific).
• local communities are empowered to make
decisions based on knowledge on their
environment and surround.
• Motivates them to seek solutions to their
problems locally.
• Mobilises the community and creates
momentum for moving forward.

9. Video Show of Mboemboe
Boeboe P3DM – Solomon Islands, Choiseul
Province
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOL2CdCfRt
s&sns=em

10. REFERENCES
Here are relevant links:
www.ppgis.net – virtual community (English) ~2000 members + independent chapters
exchanging in French, Spanish and Portuguese.
www.iapad.org - main website dealing with Participatory 3D Modelling (P3DM)
www.iapad.org/p3dm_guiding_principles_2010_en.htm - Handbook on Participatory 3-
Dimensional Modelling: Guiding Principles and Applications; 2010 edition
www.p3dm.org - Locations where P3DM has been implemented – non exhaustive list
http://pgis.cta.int CTA initiatives concerning participatory mapping http://pgis2005.cta.int
Conference web site – Mapping for Change (Nairobi 2005)
http://participatorygis.blogspot.com (blog dealing with participatory mapping)
http://pgis-tk.cta.int (Training Kit on Participatory mapping practice)
www.iapad.org/p3dm_video.htm - 20 min video on P3DM
www.ppgis.net/pgis.htm About PGIS practice
www.ppgis.net/code.htm PGIS Ethics in the practice (12 language version)
www.iapad.org/video_good-pactice.htm - 25 min video about good practice in participatory
/ community mapping) (En, Fr, Es and Pt versions)
www.facebook.com/PPGIS
www.linkedin.com/e/gis/131362/56BA201FA389 - group of professionals interested in Pgis
/PPgis
www.youtube.com/user/ppgis#g/u - pgis/ppgis video collection on YouTube
http://vimeo.com/channels/pgis#16278246 - pgis/ppgis video channel on Vimeo

11. P3DM Links to the 2 videos are:
Boeboe P3DM – Solomon Islands, Choiseul Province
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOL2CdCfRts&sns=em
Manus P3DM – Papua New Guinea, Manus Province
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUatT4MryqY&sns=em