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Rosen, Emily

This research project presents a watershed health monitoring framework developed under a community-based model to increase decisionmaking on environmental issues in the Philippines. It is part of a larger project administered by the Canadian Urban Institute, and was developed under the leadership of Philippine staff from the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) of the Iloilo Provincial Government and University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV). Improving the evidence-based decision-making for watershed management is an urgent and under-addressed need the Philippines. The framework specifically uses the Tigum-Aganan Watershed in the Province of Iloilo as a case study to develop a Watershed Report Card as a tool to assess and record data, communicate current environmental health conditions, encourage community participation in local decision-making, and increase watershed stewardship. The monitoring framework developed through this project helped to create a systematic approach for collecting and evaluating data and information to facilitate decision-making, priority setting, and both short-term and long-term initiatives to protect, restore, and celebrate watersheds. When all across the Philippines the demand for water is increasing, social inequality is spreading, and climate change is exacerbating, this project can be used by other regions in the country as a model to adopt a community-based, evidence-based, and ecosystem-based approach to planning and watershed governance and management.

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University of British Columbia. SCARP Graduating Projects

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0305823

Applied Science, Faculty of; Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of

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