Setting Foundations For Integrated Catchment Management (IWC5 Presentation)

Setting Foundations For

Integrated Catchment Management

Setting Foundations For

Integrated Catchment Management

Dr. Allan DaleDr. Allan Dale

Overview:Overview:

• Terrain: Who we are?

• Our role in Integrated Catchment

Management (ICM).

• The need for healthy institutional

arrangements for ICM.

• The institutional structures needed.

• Key institutional functions needed.

• Towards managing institutional systems.

Terrain NRM: Who We AreTerrain NRM: Who We Are

• A community-based not-for-profit charged with

seeking consensus on catchment health.

• We negotiate plan targets, mobilise resources

and monitor progress and results.

• We seek to improve the health of the

institutional arrangements for catchment

management.

• Personal background in adaptive management

research, policy and management.

From This to This :From This to This :

From This to This :From This to This :

From This to This :From This to This :

What it Takes: Healthy Institutional Arrangements

What it Takes: Healthy Institutional Arrangements

• Systems need to create the capacity for adaptive decisions at all levels.

• Systems need to enable integrated use of knowledge.

• Systems need to facilitate connectivity and integration.

What It Takes: Key Institutional Structures

What It Takes: Key Institutional Structures

•Strong regulatory agencies.

• Science institutions prepared to co-manage.

• Knowledgeable industry/conservation sectors.

• Agencies prepared to invest in outcomes.

• An integrative organisation that can bring people together to agree targets and mobilise effort.

What it Takes: Institutional Functions

What it Takes: Institutional Functions

• Planning and target setting.

• Research and development.

• On ground actions and delivery.

• Education, capacity, engagement.

• Monitoring, evaluation, reporting.

Some Achievements From Our Systemic Approach

Some Achievements From Our Systemic Approach

From Projects to Systems:From Projects to Systems:

• It is easy to think about projects, much more difficult to get integrated catchment systems.

• This will take time, but without it, progress will tend to stop-start depending on funds. • Terrain encourages all countries to start building the health of their catchment management systems alongside projects.

• Terrain is a specialist organisation that can support donor agencies, countries and catchment regions to build systems.

Who to Contact?Who to Contact?

Dr. Allan Dale

CEO, Terrain NRM.

alland@terrain.org.au

40438000/ 0418736422