In the Davao Region of Southern Mindanao, Philippines, Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) has been a key framework for promoting sustainable land use in local ecosystems. However deteriorating trends continue across the watersheds and there is an absence of critical reviews to validate whether the current set of policies are providing a supportive environment for sustainable socio-ecological production landscapes .
Pros and cons of community based natural resource management.
Policy Impacts in Davao Watersheds
1. A review of Policy impacts
in the upper watersheds of Davao, Philippines
Declan Hearne | Strengthening Governance and Institutions
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2. Policy* a statement of intent
S Policy -> Action -> desired impacts
S But who is measuring?
S Are there unexpected outcomes?
S If we are not measuring, how can we adapt?
3. Overview
S Watershed Code
S Rapid review
S Power structures governing the uplands
S Impacts on two user groups
S Refining policy's and actions
4. Watershed Code
S In 2006, the HELP Davao Network developed a draft IWRM framework
S Watershed Management Codewas enacted by the City Council in 2007 - lays down
the provisions for protection, conservation, and management of the watersheds.
S The code regulates the use of 34,000 hectares of watershed areas that are
classified into conservation areas, agro-forestry non-tillage areas and prime
agricultural lands. Infrastructural development and mono-crop plantations are
banned in the first two of these categories.
S a shift from narrow issues based policy to recognition of the need for more holistic
and integrated approaches for the management of water resources.
S 4 years on - Risk that the Code has has alienated two sets of major land users
5. Methods
A rapid assessment of policy impacts
S Review of secondary data (maps, bio, physical and
social)
S Conduct of rapid field assessments and community
interviews
S Conduct of review of decision making tools to guide more
effective actions and reinforce the intended policy
impacts
9. Status of Banana land use systems
S impacting on human and
S an increase in demand by the ecosystem health
market
S loss of productivity on existing S Banana & its associated
production lands economic opportunity is a
driver of change in cultural &
S Encroachment on IP Lands land use practices
10. Impacts
Banana IP’s
S Resistance to formation of S Unsure of requirement
the WMC
has lead to resistance.
S Outsourcing of production
S Fear of loss is costly.
S Organizing marginalised
famers ‘loss aversion’
S Scoping lands outside the
region
…Costs of non participation?
11. Both impacted
S Yet both are valued by society.
S The challenge: how to guide the evolution of landscape
management practices to reap some of the economic
rewards seen in agri-business production models but still
retain desirable levels of cultural and ecological integrity
across the region.
14. Who advocated for the policy?
Corporate
Development
Religious
Chambers
Government
Civil Groups
Academe
User Groups
User Groups
Indigenous
Peoples
15. Are we are addressing change at a
sufficient pace?
Competitive
Collaborations
(Comfortable?)
Collaborations
2010
Integrated
Sectoral Interests
2004
16. Deepening appreciation
S awareness of full participation of all stakeholder
Development
Religious
Chambers
Government
Civil Groups
Academe
User Groups
User Groups
17. Plural governance systems
S formal law has the highest legal authority that guides and
controls management of natural resources, however…
S failure to consider traditional systems can result in costly
barriers to implementation.
18. The value of working with local traditions
and culture
Recognizing Conceptualizing … to
Implementing
S Recognized and reinforce the
S Put aside planned ‘solutions’
multi layered power structures
and embrace a real
partnerships to achieve real
S Customary Knowledge is user-driven outcomes
adaptive.
20. Mapping Change in Marilog, Davao
Responses harmony with IWRM Spiral Model
Societies in
Productive
nature?
2015
13. 2010 Resistance to W Code 10. IPRA law 1992
Societal
11. Watershed
1990 12. 07 NGO Partnership Approach Code 2007
9. 80’s Logging
Slows down 6. 60’s Logging peak
Increasing Impacts
7. 70s Banana
8. 80’s Christian & IP conflicts becomes
major crop
5. 1950’s first plantation
2.1900 only 3.1920 1st Christian
1940 Matigsalugs tribes Settlers
Enacted forest
Minimal
ecosystems
Impact
4. 1940’s Logging picks up Source: LincklaenArriens 2009
Adapted from UNESCO-NARBO Guidelines
21. Refining management units
S leaders in both the private and public sectors have been
slow to incorporate ecosystem benefits into decision
making.
S Why? a complex web of factors that goes beyond
science, and reflects a need to consider social, cultural
and economic factors.
S Scale - initiatives need to be undertaken at the landscape
level and coupled with consideration for people and
ecosystem services.
26. In summary
Critical for involvement of a full
spectrum of stakeholders
Invest time to aligning with
customary approaches
Localization of decision support tools
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Methods adopted in the study. we started with a review of existing data. However since it is poorly studied catchment there was very little characterization data available. CLUP and Geo hazards maps were reviewed. We then had the opportunity to conduct field study with 60 local and International participants. The study tour looked at downstream impacts on urban communities and impacts on the vegetation in the stream channels. After which we visited upstream area to gain perspectives of the state of land cover and to explore possible reasons for the devastating flood last June 28th.
Location of the Matina River Basin. Noted its in Southern Philippines and within the boundaries of Davao City. It is a very small catchment of approx 81 sq km.
Deforestation since 1930 Deforested by 80s. Now heavily degraded ecosystems – impacting on human health and wellbeing.Subsistence farming and agro forestry. Perception both internally and downtown believe that the practices are neither productive or sustainable. 84% of families on less than 4 dollars a day. Their resilience to shocks be it climate change or land conflicts is low.
Opportunities for change: Market driven approaches must be considered where capacity to enforce laws is low.
To Value or at least enumerate the cost of not effectively engaging the end users Resulting negative outcomes stem from poor attention procedure and lack of understanding of the target audience.
Sometime we are happy with our small achievements, and we should, but we should also build on our achievements!We need partnerships that can monitor, report, absorb and respond to learning from the field. With a rigorous attention to results.
Recognizing; Perceptions indicate that local knowledge is static- how through partnership KFI observes the local leader draft new policy to better guide their community in the face of economic and social changes
In this and the next few slides we look at how I delineated the landscapes. I started with the 2002 city land cover map. This shoed only to landscape types in the matina river basin - urban built up areas and Tree Plantation.
Riparian Landscape. Saw the large loses in open forest cover (-6.6%) and this was supplanted by built up areas. This sample are probably has the greatest Patch density, though this was not measured only observed.
Results summary. I delineated 3 landscapes based on land cover reviews, hazards maps and socio, production and ecological uses. We then identified 3 sample area for more detailed assessment. Originally the sample no. 3 was targeted to be in the urban landscape but cloud cover in the Google earth image inhibited finding a good sample site. So we shift sample area number 3 back into the lower portion of the riparian landscape.