while regional and countrylevel frameworks can contribute to directing donor funds into the areas which need them most it is also important for governments and multilateral groups to support networking and collaboration between different groups in order to avoid duplication and foster complementarity and synergy between activities however there have been a number of promising collaborations on esd between ministries and mass media outlets in an innovative approach from samoa the climate change quiz competition involved colleges across the country and was televised live over a period of several nights this competition engaged students and teachers and helped to raise public awareness of environmental issues and information in guyana under the mangrove management programme the moe developed teaching materials as well as a complementary dvd of a programme entitled holding back the sea on their own these resources might be unremarkable but what is special is that the programme is aired regularly on guyana s learning channel