Cau River Basin Poverty and Environment Case Study

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Cau River Basin Poverty and Environment Case
Study Further Perspectives
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Presentation Overview

• Challenges in the case study
• Strong points in the findings
• Next steps
• Shaping the recommendations

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1. Challenges in the Case Study
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Challenges of the case study

• River Basin has 2 definitions (map)
• Administrative boundaries
• Physical boundaries
• (upstream) some important environmental issues
  are not well monitored in the statistical system,
  e.g. mining (figure)
• (downstream) Craft industry development takes
  place at village level but statistical data is
  only available at commune level

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2. Strong Points in the Findings
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Strong points in the findings

• Detailed picture (and proof) of poverty contrasts
  between upstream and downstream
• e.g. access to services
• Issues and opportunities in upstream are broader
  than forestry only
• Upstream downstream have shared interest in
  environmental management
• Access to clean water
• Biodiversity and landscape management.

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3. Need for further work
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Need for further work

• Poverty-Environment at village Vs commune level,
• Upstream villages from different ethnic groups
• Downstream industrial and agricultural villages
• Mapping the linkages between poverty and
  environment

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4. Shaping the recommendations
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Shaping the recommendations

• Balance between soft and hard investments
• Soft environmental awareness, stakeholder
  coordination
• Hard investments, e.g. engineering work
• Do not wait for further research (although this
  is needed) to target the villages with hard
  investments, e.g. clean water
• Design appropriate awareness messages that build
  on shared interests between upstream and
  downstream