BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, June 19 (PNA) — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources(DENR) here ended Friday its three-day workshop on sub-watershed management for affected communities in the province.
The Forestland Management Program (FMP)- Stakeholder Analysis and Strategies for Managing the Watershed Workshop was held June 17-19. The activity seeks to draw collaborative support among the stakeholders and strengthen partnership with allied government and private agencies.
“This will serve as a take off point where a plan will be crafted through a holistic, integrated and participatory approach and shall fully take into account the well-being of the affected communities including the indigenous peoples,” said Forester Marlon Agnar, provincial environment and natural resources officer.
He said the workshop mapped out activities for the Lower Matuno Sub-Watershed Management Plan (LMSMP) under the FMP of DENR.
The Lower Matuno Sub-Watershed (LMSW)covers Barangays (villages) Barat and Pallas of Bambang town; Sitios (sub-village) Tuppan and Balisyon of Barangay Nansiakan in Kayapa town; and Barangay Buenavista of Bayombong town, all in Nueva Vizcaya.
LMSW is one of the seven sub-watersheds of the Upper Magat and Cagayan River Basin in Cagayan Valley.
Through the FMP, preliminary activities in the LMSW – affected barangays will be the formation and strengthening of people’s organizations, watershed characterization and community-based resource management framework planning, Agnar said.
The workshop is embodied under DENR Administrative Order No. 2005-23 pushing for the adoption and implementation of collaborative approach to watershed management.
The FMP is a 10-year special project of the DENR through collaborative and holistic implementation of comprehensive and sustainable forestland management strategies in three critical river basins of the country. (PNA)