Project planning was sufficiently flexible to adjust and reflect the comparable capability to build local capacity. Project proponents were able to sell the benefits of ICM by demonstrating better use of human and financial resources. This was also done by improving monitoring and analytical capacities of participating institutions that enhanced reliability of data and information and increased sustainability of the monitoring activities. The framework incorporates prevention and mitigation of adverse impacts into the planning, development and operational activities of the stakeholders, thus minimizing conflict. To effectively integrate policy development and implementation requires that a coordinating mechanism be developed, specific for that local.
Future activities involve using the two sites as demonstration for other communities and countries.
Further efforts will be undertaken to link land-use to the water quality of each site so that at the interface they are consistent. There is also a need to further define the roles and relationships between the major stakeholders, including between national and local government entities as well as between government and non-government entities. The coordination councils presently in place are excellent tools for facilitating the discussions on these issues. Quezon City 1165, Philippines Tel.