Integrated Coastal

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Integrated Coastal Management The Bataan
Experience
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• To showcase ICM activities in Bataan
• To highlight the lessons learned from the Bataan
  experience.

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• 1. A Brief Profile of Bataan
• 2. How the ICM Program Began
• - Our Response
• - Our Goal
• - Our Organization
• 3. The Bataan Coastal Strategy
• Program Achievements
• 5. What Works Strengths Lessons Learned

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• Composed of 12 municipalities, land area is
  137,296 ha with coastline length of 177 km.
• Population of 562,597 (as of Year 2000).
• The industrial heartland of Central Luzon.
• A prime business hub and tourism spot

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2. How the Program Began
Economic progress means environmental
degradation, which prompted two immediate action
points
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• KONTRA KALAT SA DAGAT (KKD or Movement Against
  Sea Littering) - Sept. 1999
• Executive session on coastal resources
  management. December 1999
• MOA Establish the Bataan Integrated Coastal
  Management Program (BICMP), a public-private
  partnership program for sustainable resource use
  development. February 2000

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Our Response

• Creation of a Project Coordinating Committee and
  Project Management Office. March April 2000
• Formation of the Bataan Coastal Care Foundation,
  Inc. to manifest concrete support from the
  private sector. July 2000
• Adoption of a suitable name appealing to
  beneficiaries Bigay Galing sa Kalikasan ng
  Bataan (BIGKIS-BATAAN) ICM Program. August 2000

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The Bigay Galing sa Kalikasan ng Batan
(BIGKIS-Bataan) program aims to develop and
strengthen existing environmental action programs
in Bataan to address transboundary issues such as
pollution, overfishing and other resource use
concerns through steadfast partnership among the
private and public sector, non-government
organizations and other key stakeholders.
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The Bataan Coastal Care Foundation, Inc.
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3. The Bataan Coastal Strategy

• Statement of VISION and MISSION
• Formulated through consultative workshops and
  focus group discussions involving

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VISION
A well-developed community with abundant natural
resources, clean environment and a responsible
citizenry committed and empowered to care for
nature and its bounty.
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MISSION
To clean the environment, develop it sustainably
and make it safe from harmful human activities
for us to live peacefully, blissfully and
honorably amidst natures bounty through active
participation in integrated resource management
efforts.
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Through the BCS, BIGKIS-Bataan aims to integrate
long-term solutions to the following problems
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Strategies and Actions
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• Directly benefits about 29,925 households in
  coastal communities.
• Reduction of red tide occurrence (no red tide in
  last four years) as observed by local
  communities.
• Received both local and international awards in
  fostering awareness partnerships among
  stakeholders in Bataan
• Communities do KKD now in their own initiative

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• 3.5 hectares covered with 85 survival (as of
  Dec. 2002).
• Additional 10.5 ha enriched / planted as of June
  2003
• More than 2,000 volunteers from stakeholder
  groups including community residents (as of June
  2003)
• More than 240,000 propagules planted (as of June
  2003)
• Benefits fisherfolk organizations (more than 400
  households) tasked to maintain the enriched
  planting areas in Abucay, Balanga City, Pilar,
  Orion Limay).

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Mussel Culture
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Pawikan Conservation Fish Consignacion Fuel
Buying Center Project of Bantay Pawikan, Inc.
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• BIGKIS-BATAAN AVP Tagalog English
• Hands-on Awareness Campaign KKD, Mangrove
  Enrichment
• FGDs Consultation meetings
• Television coverages
• Radio broadcasts interviews
• Press releases in local national newspapers
• Photo exhibits
• Annual Fellowship night with CEOs of the Bataan
  business community

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• Development of more area-specific and
  supplemental livelihood options
• Development of Integrated Coastal Zonation Sea
  Use Plan (municipal consultation workshops
  ongoing coordination with MBEMP-PMO)
• Full Scale Mangrove Rehabilitation
• Marine Ecotourism (Marine turtle conservation,
  whale shark sighting)
• ICM Legislations Institutionalization from
  Municipal to Barangay Levels

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• CLEAR DIRECTIONS Bataan Coastal Strategy
• EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP LGU Commitment,
  managerial expertise of private sector)
• ACTIVE PARTNERSHIP AND ENTHUSIASM OF STAKEHOLDERS
• DIRECT PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT
• APPROPRIATE SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURE
• PERSONAL GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES/ EMPOWERMENT

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BIGKIS-BATAAN Key Advocacy Lessons Learned

• Constituents must own the program awareness
  through hands-on experiences to understand the
  nature extent of the problem (e.g., Kontra
  Kalat sa Dagat, Mangrove enrichment, etc.)
• PARTNERSHIP and COMMITMENT is the KEY to
  successful advocacy and action.
• Use the program structure as venue for consensus
  building and awareness and not simply as a
  management body overseeing the implementation of
  ICM.

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Why Pursue Such Activities?
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It improves the LGUs, LGAs, private sector
civil society groups services and response system
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It improves the the LGUs, LGAs, private sector
civil society groups relationships with the
community other sectors.
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It strengthens the the LGUs, LGAs, private
sector civil society groups management
capability
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It enhances the image of the the LGUs, LGAs,
private sector civil society groups .
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For the first time in the Philippines, and
perhaps globally, an ICM project is being
financed and implemented solely by a local
government in partnership with the private
sector. It is also the first time for Manila Bay
that an ICM program is being established to
mitigate and prevent further deterioration of its
coastal and marine resources.
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• Advocacy for regular conduct of coastal clean-ups
  around the bay from Cavite, NCR, Bulacan,
  Pampanga Bataan.
• Bataan as an ICM learning center in the Manila
  Bay Region and as take-off point for coastal
  resources management efforts around the bay.

The environment has done a lot for us it is time
that we give something in return IT IS THE
RIGHT THING TO DO.