The HELP Davao Network is committed to engaging a full spectrum of water stakeholders to work collectively for management of water for all. Formed in 2004, our efforts have focused on ensuring decision key stakeholders have had access to sound science that can better inform complex decisions and hard choices in relation to the management and wise use of water.
2. A City of (8) Watersheds
Davao River Watershed
Tuganay River
Lasang River
Sibulan River
Bunawan River
Talomo Watershed
Lipadas Watershed
Matina River
Davao del Sur
Bukidnon
NorthCotabato
Davao River
Lasang
Tuganay
Talomo
Lipadas
Sibulan
Bunawan
Matina
City Area: 236,124 Hectares
4. Wide range of
initiatives that
have piloted
IWRM, but…
Largely
focused in the
Davao, Talomo
and Lipadas
watersheds.
5. A range of formal and informal
approaches have started
Davao on the IWRM Journey
HELP Davao has helped provide
a consolidating framework
6. What is HELP Davao…
• Formed in 2004 as a ‘Water Partnership' that brought
together the various water actors to work collectively
under the UNESCO HELP Global Network of River
Basins.
• Committed to engaging a full spectrum of water
stakeholders to work collectively for management of
water for all.
• Focused on ensuring decision makers and key
stakeholders have access to sound science that can
better inform complex decisions and hard choices in
relation to the management and wise use of water.
8. Hydrology for the Environment, Life
and Policy
http://www.unesco.org/water/ihp/help
To deliver social, economic and environmental
benefit to stakeholders through sustainable and
appropriate use of water by directing hydrological
science towards improved integrated catchment
management basins
Real people Real catchments Real answers
12. Tentative Program areas
1. Water Knowledge & Social Learning: legislation,
policy guidance notes, social learning to track how
science is guiding decision making
2. Water Monitoring for Ecosystem Health: research,
classification and monitoring of water bodies to better
understand pressures, drivers, pathways, trends and
impacts.
3. Water for Development: capacity enhancement with
water users
– Water and Agriculture: the single most intensive water user in the Davao region
– Water and Health: ensuring basic human rights and equitable platform of sustainable
development – improving access to water and sanitation through non subsidy driver approaches
such as CLTS
– Water and Energy: understanding how we supply energy critical for economic development
while ensure ecosystem services continue to secure benefits to local marginalized communities
and down stream urban communities.
4. Water adaption and preparedness for global
changes: researching and piloting managing water
under uncertainty and risk.
13. Strategic Action Areas
1. Strengthening Community action
2. Developing personal Skills
3. Creating Supportive Environments
4. Building Healthy Public Water Policy
5. Reorienting Water Service Providers
6. Developing and access water markets
Adapted from WHO and Ottawa Charter
15. HELP Davao would like to think
we have gone some way to break
this paradigm
Wouldn’t we?
16. HELP Davao
• To date has large been a platform for
discussion.
• There has been good healthy discussions.
• Discussion that have positively and scientifically
influence public policy.
• And these discussion have been recognized at
the highest international levels as process for
IWRM and good governance…
• But the benefits are often seen to as ‘intangible’
and difficult to measured
17. Tracking progress
Starts with a understanding of IWRM…
– An open-ended process that evolves in a
spiral manner over time as one moves
towards more coordinate water resources
management.
21. Integrating the fragmented
sectors
– formal organizational initiatives in major river
basins
– importance of IWRM, was then brought to
public attention.
22. Integrating the fragmented sub-
basins
– framework under the international HELP
network & enacted under local ordinance
– Local NGOs took on the coordination role,
which resulted in an effective participation of
the different stakeholder groups.
23. Awareness of importance of
technology for water management
• local actors realized the importance of
understanding hydrological processes
through HELP
• collection of reliable and appropriate data
and the making of rigorous analysis paved
the way toward resolving water and
environment issues.
24. Participation in International
learning initiatives
• to maintain awareness of the benefits of
good water management and the risks of
ignoring the challenges.
• NARBO, the GWP and Satoyama
Initiative.
• global initiatives and frameworks are
proving to be a powerful tool to motivate
and engage local actors.
26. Finding solutions through
interactive approaches that
combine accepted
international principles
adapted with the details of
specific settings
Common Wealth, Jeffery Sachs (2008)
27. Finding solutions through interactive approaches
that combine accepted international principles
adapted with the details of specific settings
33. Priority Actions
1. Establish a new 3 year Davao Water
Partnership focused on pooling of local
resources and strengthen collaboration.
2. Develop a locally adapted training
guideline for IWRM theory, tools & practice
3. Development of river basin health
scorecards.
4. A review of current decision-making
systems and structures
36. greater levels of sustainability
• working to develop a greater levels of
sustainability through:
– Deeper collaboration with government service
providers
– development of a greater level of self-
awareness among key actors and
– self-sufficiency at community level.
37. Aiming for high impacts
We must be
• Focused on a specific measurable issue(s)
• Have a solid business plan
• A rigorous system to monitor our
performance, track our impacts and to
be able to prove it, to anyone.
• We must know our customers
• Their views must be represented
Muliti uses and services and few are truly valued in an economic sense.
The principles and concepts of IWRM have been widely recognized, but the implementation of IWRM is not satisfactorily progressing in many basins. This is, perhaps, because the practitioners responsible for water resources management at the basin level encounter difficulties in understanding where and how to begin, or the advantages of applying IWRM with respect to their actual situation may not be apparent enough