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A CFTU Network activity
funded by the Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development (ALO)and US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

 
       
 
 
 
 
 
 

THEME #3
Empowering Local Decision Makers

- Project #3 -
Institutionalizaion of Watershed Health Monitoring
in Loboc Watershed

      Project Leader: Ms. Evy Elago


• Project Summary • Objectives
• Progress • Documents

PROJECT SUMMARY

This project had an active program to build capacity of communities in the Loboc River Watershed (Province of Bohol) for monitoring water quality and quantity. 

Implementing Institutions of the project included:
Bohol Alliance of Non-Government Organizations (BANGON) Bohol Environmental Management Office (BEMO); Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO); Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR); ; Central Visayas State College of Agriculture, Forestry and Technology (CVSCAFT); International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF); and Asia Forest Network (AFN)

Some of the activities completed during 2004 are listed below. A more complete listing of activities and accomplishments are available in the document Stakeholders Support Generation for Watershed Health Monitoring.

Name of Training

Number of Participants

Institutions Involved

F

M

Total

Initial data analysis for Riverside monitoring site, October 29, 2004

8

8

16

BANGON, ICRAF,  and Riverside community

Initial data analysis for Dagohoy monitoring site, December 15, 2004

3

7

10

BANGON, ICRAF, and Dagohoy community members

Riverwatch Facilitators’ Training

6

13

19

VICTO, SWCF, PROCESS, PFTAC, FTCPI, FCBFI, UBCDFI,ICRAF,BIRD, BEMO, DENR, CVSCAFT, BANGON

Project Development Workshop, November 20, 2004

10

6

16

DENR, BEMO, PPDO, ICRAF, CVSCAFT, BANGON, VICTO, UBCDFT, Barangay Riverside, World Neighbors

BMS Workshop

10

26

36

POs, VICTO, SAC, FCBFI, BANGON, BEMO, CVSCAFT, PFTAC, BIRD, SWCF, LGU-Bilar, UBCDFI, PROCESS

Land Use Monitoring

10

25

35

POs, VICTO, SAC, FCBFI, BANGON, BEMO, CVSCAFT, PFTAC, BIRD, SWCF, LGU-Bilar, UBCDFI, PROCESS, PPDO, DENR

 

 

OBJECTIVES

 
  • Conduct IEC activities to increase awareness level, involvement, and participation of stakeholders and communities in watershed health monitoring and management of water catchments.
  • Establish a pilot site for water quality, biodiversity, socio-economic, and land and resource use patterns monitoring using a multi-stakeholder approach
  • Build capacity of stakeholders to generate information
  • Initiate activities directed towards institutionalization of watershed health monitoring at the provincial, municipal and barangay levels.

PROGRESS

The CFTU (WHM) – Loboc AFA Support project is directed towards addressing the gaps identified during the operation of the program. Among these gaps include the need to establish watershed-wide impact indicators that will be used in assessing the program’s development impact to the community and to the environment (health of watershed). There is also the challenge of coming up with a unified vision that shall set the direction towards achieving effective management of resources in side the watershed. The program implementers also see the need to popularize all the program’s experiences and insights among different stakeholders. This would hopefully impact on the improvement of the Loboc AFA program management through establishment of systematic program monitoring and evaluation system and action learning methodology to address key watershed-wide problems.

DOCUMENTS

2005. Stakeholders Support Generation for Watershed Health Monitoring. 11 p. Conservation Farming in the Tropical Uplands (CFTU)