Integrated Watershed Management

Overview key Issues, Experiences and Lesson Learned

ThailandChaing Mai

9-11 March 2011

Min Bunnara

Forest degradation

Mining

Pollution

Rubber Plantations

Hydropower development

Shifting Cultivation

Typical issues

How to address the key watershed issues

Get government and stakeholders together

Assess problems and potentials of watershed

Organise what needs to be done

Get funds and start working

Follow up and check for changes

Get government and stakeholders together

Sensitize government agencies for watershed management

Clarify the mandate of the institutional mechanism

Encourage a dialogue with all stakeholders

Clarify the procedures for their involvement

Assess problems and potentials of watershedBase Line Survey:

Compile and analyze data and information:

Water quantity Water quantity, and..Check land-use plan, development and investment plansConduct stakeholders survey

Climate Diagram Buon Ma Tout

Mean Annual Temperature 23.7 °C Mean Annual Rainfall 1876 mm

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Identify water relevant issues which impact on water quality and quantity

Clarify the importance tasks that need to address urgently

Compile results in a watershed profile for future WSM planning

Organise what needs to be done

WSM Plan of Action:

Long-term goal for the coming 20 years

Objectives to reach in 5 years

Prioritize the identified watershed issues

Solutions and Actions

Make sure they are taken up in relevant government plans

Define mechanisms to manage and update the Plan of Action

Get funds and start working

Elaborate concrete project proposals and budgets

Identify available funds, gaps and sources

Compile the total budget plan to complement the Plan of Action

Clarify roles and responsibilities for implementation

Follow up and check for changes

Establish a gender balanced task force

Monitor at different levels:

Health of the watershed

Implementation of the PoA

Check individual projects for necessary modifications

Evaluate implementation of PoA to see the progress

Document experiences lessons learned

Share results with relevant stakeholders and decision makers

Experiences and Lesson Learned

Seven Steps formulated

Step 1: Linking policy and institutional frameworkStep 2: Selection of WatershedStep 3: Creating the DialogueStep 4: Assessment of watershed situation Step 5: Preparing watershed Plan of

Action (PoA)Step 6: Implement PoA and integrate into

existing Socio Economic Development Plan

Step 7: Monitoring and Evaluation

Code of Conductfor Watershed Management in Cambodia

The Code of Conduct is based on the

Analysis of the legal framework and policies

Experiences gained in the Siem Reap Watershed

Consultations with national and international institutions and organizations

The Code of Conduct provides

General framework for WSM implementation

Technical guidance complemented by existing capacity building products

Encouragement of the integration watershed issues into sector development plans

Taking gender into account

One of solution in PoA:

-Transform waste into handicraft-Sell it in SR and PHM to tourists

Lessons learned

Watershed management must be considered by all relevant line agencies in planning and implementation at all levels

Watershed management must be considered by all relevant line agencies in planning and implementation at all levels

The more critical the watershed

issues are, the more sophisticated

institutional mechanisms are

necessary

The more critical the watershed

issues are, the more sophisticated

institutional mechanisms are

necessary

Strong support by local authorities is essential to build ownership

Strong support by local authorities is essential to build ownership

Think of funding

requirements right from

the startThink of funding

requirements right from

the start

Legal instruments for Watershed Management are very importance to support implementation processes

Legal instruments for Watershed Management are very importance to support implementation processes

Integration of Plan of Action into relevant government plans e.g. Socio Economic Development Plans, Land-use Plans, Investment Plans and others relevant plans

Financial support for Watershed Management

Coordination mechanism on watershed level

Institutional linking WS levels to river Basin level

Challenges

Practitioner Manual

7 Steps of IWSM

Existing Capacity Building Training Materials

Trainers’ Manual on Watershed Management

DRAFT

MRC‐GIZ2011

Trainers’ Manual on Watershed Management

DRAFT

MRC‐GIZ2011

WSM-Resource Kithttp://wiki.mekonginfo.org

Thanks for you attention

A healthy Watershed