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Collaboration Initiatives Towards Comprehensive Landscape PHILIPPINE WORKING GROUP (PWG) on promotion of localizing natural resource management (NRM) Collaboration Initiatives towards Comprehensive Landscape Management and Greater Human Security Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat PWG-NRM Alliance Documentation Visit Report 5 to 9 December 2006 Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) With support from Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)-Philippines and its program Sharing and Promotion of Awareness and Regional Knowledge (SPARK) in community-based natural resource management TABLE OF CONTENTS OVERVIEW............................................................................................................ 3 FORMATION AND FOUNDATIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION ................... 3 DESIGN OF THE GROUP.......................................................................................... 3 THE FUNCTION OF THE GROUP...................................................................... 4 THE GROUP’S OVERVIEW AND STRATEGY................................................. 5 POINTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION........................................................... 5 POLICY TO IMPLEMENT ................................................................................... 6 MECHANISMS TO ACTIVATE CHANGE ......................................................... 6 VIEWS TO FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY............................................................ 6 KEY LEARNINGS ................................................................................................. 8 ESSC Project Team Project Manager: Mariel de Jesus Project assistance: Dallay Annawi, Myra Colis, Mars Tan, SJ, Maria Lourdes Salcedo Advisory support and inputs: Pedro Walpole, SJ, Sylvia Miclat, Jose Andres Ignacio ESSC-PWG Report: Collaboration initiatives towards comprehensive landscape management and greater 2 human security Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance, 5 to 9 December 2006, South Cotabato & Sultan Kudarat Overview The Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance (AVLDA) is a multi-stakeholder group comprised of representatives from the province of South Cotabato (municipalities of Lake Sebu, T’boli, Surallah, Sto. Nino, Banga and Norala) and the province of Sultan Kudarat (city of Tacurong, and the municipalities of Isulan, Esperanza, Lambayong and Bagumbayan). The alliance is composed of representatives from the 13 local government units, plus five national government agencies and one NGO Coalition. The agreement among the parties was signed in 2003, with the local chief executives as the signatories to the memorandum of agreement. AVLDA is an important local initiative, in that it is a collaborative effort between municipalities and provinces, and is focused on the management of a protected landscape that has implications beyond the two provinces. In this sense it has a valuable role and an important contribution. In one sense, the contribution is to greater environmental sustainability, brought about by a more comprehensive and coherent management effort among the different stakeholders in the landscape. In another sense, AVLDA’s effort to work on this very broad level is really helping to strengthen and sustain relationships between local government units that are dealing with actual needs, and not because of any political agenda or nationally driven program. Formation and Foundations of the Organization Basically, the AVLDA is a response of local government units to the situation of poor environmental management resulting in increased risk for communities in their areas. Based on the analysis of the project management office of the AVLDA, the formation of the alliance was triggered by intensified flooding events along the Allah and Banga Rivers and massive siltation of the river systems leading to negative impact on infrastructure. Experiences of other natural disasters, such as earthquakes and landslides, led to increased risks and vulnerability especially of the poor communities. Weak enforcement of national laws, especially those related to environment and natural resource management, is another factor pinpointed as one of the factors that led to the formation of the alliance. It appears that in many cases of natural management alliances weak policy implementation related to environment compels local government units and other local stakeholders to take matters into their own hands. In the case of AVLDA, provinces and their municipalities that were bearing the brunt of the flooding brought the groups together in order to develop the necessary actions to respond. The alliance objective is to protect and manage the Allah Valley landscape towards to improve the socio-economic condition of the people. Design of the Group Because the Allah Valley Landscape is a proclaimed protected area, there is actually a Protected Area Management Board for the management of the area. The alliance is a parallel group acting more as a comprehensive network of the local government units who are involved in the landscape. ESSC-PWG Report: Collaboration initiatives towards comprehensive landscape management and greater 3 human security Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance, 5 to 9 December 2006, South Cotabato & Sultan Kudarat The Board of Directors is the main decision-making arm of the AVLDA. It has an indirect relationship with the PAMB of proclaimed Allah Valley protected landscape and coordinates with them regarding the formulation of plans and programs that the alliance will implement within the Allah Valley. It is responsible for the review and approval of the budget and for adopting policies and regulations for the protection and management of the area. For the daily operations of the alliance, there is a Project Management Office (PMO). The PMO is the Secretariat of the alliance. It prepares budgets and project proposals for recommendation to the Board, and is also responsible for preparing the work plan, financial report and annual report for the Board. There is also a technical working group that reviews plans and proposals before submission to the Board. The technical working group is comprised of the different planning officials of the member local government units. Both the Board and the Technical Working Group meet quarterly. The Function of the Group Observations on how the alliance is functioning were made based on attendance at the planning session of the TWG and with meetings with the different groups involved in the alliance. Based on attendance, it seems that there is already a certain level of commitment to the alliance and a willingness to pursue a plan of action. However some members seem to still have a limited view of what needs to be done and perhaps a limited understanding about what can really be done within a realistic time frame. Because of limited budgets, local government units (and also local government alliances, like AVLDA) are always on the lookout for projects that can be financed by external partners. There is also a certain preoccupation with projects that have immediate and tangible outputs that they can then use to justify further activities. The problem with this framework is that when working on natural resource management concerns, impact is not immediately tangible after only three years, and this is one of the realities of working with the environment. Investments in building capacity to respond to environmental issues and in appropriate and applicable technologies takes time. The time element is critical for AVLDA, especially since the memorandum of agreement signed by the different stakeholders expires in 2008. The pressure on local leaders to justify working in an alliance approach is strong, as well as the need to show actual gains from the approach. Hopefully, there is enough support from among the local leaders to warrant a new agreement that will allow the alliance to continue after 2008. An existing partnership with ESSC is set to wrap up in early 2007. The focus of this was to build capacity in using existing technologies to help improve local land use planning. One of the main outputs of this partnership was a series of maps illustrating some of the NRM and other related concerns of the Allah Valley landscape as well as the concerns articulated by four pilot communities through community resource mapping. It is not uncommon for people to stop with the maps, to see the maps as the final output. The focus would then be to replicate the process and produce more maps. However, in this ESSC-PWG Report: Collaboration initiatives towards comprehensive landscape management and greater 4 human security Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance, 5 to 9 December 2006, South Cotabato & Sultan Kudarat case, the maps are meant to serve a larger purpose, to serve as a basis for more informed, relevant and realistic planning. This idea perhaps still needs to sink in with the alliance. In order for them to have real impact and tangible effects, they need to invest time, and they need to be clear in terms of their objective, which is to improve land use planning. Leadership is an important factor in the success of local alliances, and the chair of the AVLDA Board, Daisy Fuentes (the Governor of South Cotabato), has been instrumental in driving AVLDA and pursuing its agenda. She appears to have a good sense of what needs to be done, but is also under pressure to show that the alliance will indeed benefit to them. This is especially true since the alliance asks a financial contribution from the member LGUs. It is understandable
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