Setting Foundations For

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Setting Foundations For Integrated Catchment
Management
Dr. Allan Dale
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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.

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Terrain 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.

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From This to This
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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.

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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.

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What it Takes Institutional Functions

• Planning and target setting.
• Research and development.
• On ground actions and delivery.
• Education, capacity, engagement.
• Monitoring, evaluation, reporting.

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Some Achievements From Our Systemic Approach
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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.

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Who to Contact?
Dr. Allan Dale CEO, Terrain NRM. alland_at_terrain.or
g.au 40438000/ 0418736422