Coastal Resource Management - LGRC DILG 10

2 COASTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT❙ COLLABORATIVE UNDERTAKINGS AMONGINTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL, AND LOCALINSTITUTIONSIn 1991, the Department of Agriculture (DA) embarked on the biggest program so far initiated bythe government in coastal resource management. The Fisheries Sector Program (FSP) wasimplemented from 1991 to 1997 with a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The programtargeted 12 bays, which are all major fishing grounds beset with over-fishing, growing poverty intheir coastal communities, and other critical management issues and problems. The programwas a test and challenge for the DA since the design required the incorporation of community-basedmanagement as a mainstream approach to CRM. Its primary strategy involved contracting NGOsto facilitate the planning and community organization process. The project was continued in1999 under a new name, the Fisheries Resource Management Project (FRMP), targeting themanagement of 18 bays (including some of the former FSP areas), for the duration of another fiveyears.The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) established the Coastal EnvironmentProgram (CEP) in 1992. In 1994, it began to implement RA 7584 or the National Integrated ProtectedAreas System (NIPAS) Act of 1992.The Coastal Resource Management Project (CRMP), which began in 1995, is another seven-yeartechnical assistance project by the DENR and funded by the USAID in selected coastal areas,which include Palawan, Masbate, Bohol, Cebu and Davao Provinces, among others. Building onthe experience and lessons of past efforts, CRMP assisted local government units in terms ofbuilding capacities, generating baseline information/coastal environment profiles in the areas wherethey operate, and catalyzing the establishment of legal and institutional arrangements. It hasintroduced as well resource management innovations (e.g., CRM certification system), and72SERVICE DELIVERY WITH IMPACT: RESOURCE BOOKS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT