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Management Approach:
The Magat Watershed Experience
Dulce D. Elazegui
University Researcher
ISPPS, UPLB
Edwin A. Combalicer
Faculty Member, College of Forestry
Nueva Vizcaya State University
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Introduction
…showcase the
experience of the
Magat
watershed…
…Proclamation
No. 573 on June
26, 1969
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Introduction
policy and political
environment
Watershed financial
actors and
Sustainability support
players
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MAGAT
WATERSHED
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MAGAT
WATERSHED
Classified Area within the Magat
Watershed
Lower Magat Forest Reserve
Barobbob Watershed
Imugan-Cabanglasan Sub-
watershed
Dupax Watershed Forest
Reserve
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MAGAT
WATERSHED
Biophysical Characteristics
Type II
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MAGAT
WATERSHED
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MAGAT
WATERSHED
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MAGAT
WATERSHED
Sedimentation
250
Accumulated Sediment Vol. (Million
200
150
cu.m)
100
50
0
1982 1984 1989 1995 2000
Ye ar
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Socio-economic Conditions
Population
Watershed population as of May 2001 …
483,411
Nueva Vizcaya accounts … 76% …watershed’s
population
Average household …4.92 persons
Average population density ….205 persons/km2
Population growth rates of Nueva Vizcaya and
Isabela are lower than the national average …2%
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Socio-economic Conditions
Ethnicity Interaction with
external Societies
• Ilocano and Ifugao
• Others Some communities
Bugkalots enjoy intensive
Ilongots support, resources,
information or
Kalanguya
influence from NGOs
Gaddang and donors
Other communities
are quasi self-reliant
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Socio-economic Conditions
Revenue Generation
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Socio-economic Conditions
Revenue Generation
Magat watershed resources
Timber (From Natural and Plantation Forest)
Rattan
Quarry (Gravel and sand, mines)
Wildlife
Agroforestry land
Rangeland for grazing
Reservoir surface area
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Socio-economic Conditions
Revenue Generation
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
Economic considerations or
financial capital
Technical and administrative
capacity/intellectual capital
Capacity for social governance,
i.e., social and institutional capital
Legal framework within which
the management approach
operates, i.e., political capital
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Economic Considerations
(Financial Capital)
DENR- JICA (2003)…Master Plan Study for
Watershed Management in Upper Magat and
Cagayan River Basin
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Scope of Projects
1. Reforestation by 7. Grow a Family Tree for
Administration (REFO-A) Legacy
2. Reforestation by Contract 8. Barobbob Watershed
(REFO-C) Resource Management
3. Watershed Rehabilitation Project
Project (WRP) 9. Lower Magat Forest
4. International Tropical Management Project
Timber Organization 10. Center for People
(ITTO) project Empowerment in the
5. NIA and NPC project Upland (CPEU)
6. Provincial Waterworks 11. Comprehensive Agrarian
Office Activities Reform Program (CARP)
Project
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Technical/Administrative Capacity
(Intellectual Capital)
NVSU
Watershed
ISU Management ISCAF
Discipline
QSC
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Community Participation
b 18 POs
b Twelve POs are in Nueva Vizcaya
b Five in Quirino
b One in Isabela
b POs … CBFM projects, trainings on
accounting, entrepreneurship, leadership,
IPM, and reforestation
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Co-management agreement
LMFMO … Governor and RED
DENR appropriated funds for research … transfer
of technologies to LMFMO
Provincial government … operating budget
22% of the forest reserve … 28 Agro-forestry Land
Management Agreements and Community-Based
Agro-forestry Land Management Agreements
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
National Policies
Proclamation 573 of 1969
Executive Order 281 of 1995
DENR Memorandum Order No.
14 of 1994
DAO No. 05 of 1993
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Memorandum of Agreement
Land Tenure Agreement
Certificate of Tree Ownership (CTO)
and Certificate of Usufruct (CU)
Certificate of Land Ownership Award
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Local Policies
Sangguniang Panlalawigan No. 321-1993
Executive Order No. 64-1996
Sangguniang Panlalawigan Ordinance No. 209-
1997
Sangguniang Panlalawigan Resolution No. 98-138
LMRMS Administrative Order No. 99-01
Sangguniang Panlalawigan Ordinance No. 99-013
Barangay ordinances
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REALITIES:
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Conflict Management
Water use
Land use
Tree harvesting rights
Strategic Agriculture and
Fishery Development Zones
(SAFDZs)
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FACILITATING AND
CONSTRAINING FACTORS
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Conclusion
Watershed as a ‘lifeshed’
Land
Human
Water resources
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Conclusion
Competence and Motivation
Political
Leadership
LGU
Participatory
Resourceful
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Conclusion
‘Lifelines’
Partnership/ Incentives
Co-management
Sustainable
Watershed
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Salamat sa
Pakikinig…
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