The Forum is primarily designed for:
- Government, civil society and business executives and their senior technical and management staff;
- Land use planners;
- Government officials responsible for water, natural resources and environmental management and regulation;
- Board members and leaders of watershed associations/ councils and water/ resource users federations; and
- Senior staff of civil society organizations and corporate units actively involved in implementing or supporting the implementation of watershed-based development strategies, management programmes and projects.
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SEARCA, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines |
May 2011 (four days) |
The objective of the Forum is to introduce participants to key concepts, governance models, practical tools and techniques for conceptualizing, designing, implementing and managing processes and institutions for effective, equitable and ecologically sustainable use and management of watersheds and their ecosystem goods and services.
Ultimately, the Forum seeks to promote effective and equitable watershed governance based on the recognition of watersheds as ecosystems and on the realization that the allocation, use and management of watershed resources, goods and services impact not only the resources, goods, services and watersheds themselves, but also human well-being within and beyond the watershed, at present and in the future.
MODULE 1: Key Concepts in Watershed Governance
Session 1: Watersheds, Ecosystems and Human Well-being
Session 2: From Management to Governance of Watersheds
MODULE 2: Watershed Governance Issues and Challenges
Session 1: Complexities of Watershed Governance
Session 2: Scales, Trade-offs and their Governance Implications
MODULE 3: Resource-Related Collaboration and Conflict, Rights and Equity
Session 1: Dynamics of Collaboration and Conflict
Session 2: Rights and Equity in Resource Access and Decision-Making
MODULE 4: Models and Institutional Designs for Watershed Governance: Theory and Practicalities
Session 1: Governance Models and Mechanisms
Session 2: Institutional Design Principles
Session 3: Review of Empirical Evidence
Session 4: Case Studies
