TOPIC 1.3

• • Process of identifying key existing and future problems and

  opportunities

  • Designing solutions to problems

  • Designing development activities to capture opportunities (i.e.,

  ecotourism potential, high-value crop production potential)

  • To achieve desired ultimate goal?

  watershed management planning
• Planning is a process of making decisions now on

  what needs to be done tomorrow to achieve a

  desired future

  • it is laying down a blue print to influence

  the future
• Major Considerations in Watershed

  Management Planning?

  multiple goals, multi-ecosystem, multi-stakeholders, multi-sectoral, multi-agencies, multi-disciplinary, multi-temporal, multi-scale and level
• Decision-making domain transcends traditional boundaries and methods

  • Beyond forests and forest lands

  • Beyond forestry sector

  • Beyond forest management planning, budget allocation and

  implementation
• ADP means Area Drainage Plan
• FLUP means forest land use plan
• ADSDPP means ancestral domain sustainable development and protection plan
• PAMP means protected area management plan
• CIP means capital improvement plan
• Features of Watershed Management Plan?

  Unifies policies, plans, and programs of various agencies

  unifies all sectoral development plans and programs

  horizontal integration
• Watershed Management Planning Process

  1. Form interagency planning team
  2. watershed situational analysis
  3. synthesis of issues and concerns
  4. vmg and target setting
  5. land allocation
  6. land suitability assessment
  7. sector developmental planning
• DENR 2021-41 : Guidelines on the Creation of Watershed Management Councils
• Section 5 of DENR AO 2021-41 entitiled as Creation and Institutionalization of the watershed management councils
• SWOT means strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats