Increasing Capacity of Calamianes Watersheds Towards Resilience II - Phase 2
(IC-Resilience II-Phase 2)
Basic Info
AREAS COVERED
Coron (Mabentangen watershed)
:Brgy 6
Busuanga (Sinibayan watershed)
:Brgy New Busuanga
Culion(Dita watershed)
:Malaking Patag
Duration: 2 years (July 1 2023 to June 30, 2025)
Context / Background
- Watersheds are very important to communities (today & future)
- Sustainable water availability is one of the major concerns in Calamianes
WCVA (2020) at 4 major watersheds reveals:
- threats to watersheds — deforestation, timber and wildlife poaching, unsustainable livelihood practices, quarrying, grazing, pollution, illegal settlement, forest fire, soil erosions, landslides, floods, drought and other climate impacts
- Weakening capacity of these watersheds attributed mostly to anthropogenic reasons (man made factors)
- Climate change impacts aggravate conditions
- Limited management mechanisms
The WCVA (2020) study recommends
- Establish / delineate watershed
- Establish Watershed Management Committee (WMC)
- Implement environmental management and protection strategies
- Apply 3R technologies
- Support / promote sustainable livelihood practices
- Enhance DRR/CCA & mitigation measures
- Establish PES mechanism
- Strengthen collaboration and networking towards watershed management
Generally, putting in-place management system and mechanisms for effective watershed management .
This project takes off from the IC-Resilience study (2020) and from the actual experiences & learnings in IC-Resilience II-Phase 1 (Pula watershed, San Miguel, Linapacan)
Project Goal and Objectives
GOAL:
Strengthen watershed / forest management and governance towards resilient communities.
Strategies and Major Activities
Objective 1
- Organize & capacitate brgy-level Watershed Management Committee
- Establish and delineate the watershed
- Update and finalize the Watershed Management Plans
- Establish Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme
- Establish municipal-level Watershed Management Council
Objective 2
- Organize, capacitate & deputize bantay gubat
- Validate potential forest and mangrove planting sites
- Organize and train 3R (water recharge, retention & reuse) facilitators and apply 3R technologies in watershed
Objective 3
- Conduct baseline profiling of target communities
- Promote organic farming technologies to farming groups
- Organize & capacitate women-managed savings groups (VSLA)
Objective 4
- Enhance partnership with LGUs, agencies & CSOs
- Conduct Environmental Summit to share good practices
- Develop knowledge product
Project Team
