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preparations for the next day's presentation. Tomorrow's major activity was a
presentation of the reports and every group aims to bring out their best.
September 29,2000, Friday
Although the CPW staff had a long day the previous night, they were back to the function
room working as early as six in the morning. Final preparations for the presentations had
to be finished by eight o'clock, the presentation time. The series of presentations was
presented in the following sequence: Socio-econ group, Arthropods, Vertebrates,
Freshwater, Marine and Plant group.
SOCIO-ECON (Annex 15)
After running through the corrections they made as well as the additional information
they provided on the maps, Dr. R. Boquiren presented in brief the information generated
by the group's discussions on the socio-econ criteria. In leveling-off the group's opinion
on the definition of the different variables, scoring for some of these criteria was
reversed. A relatively low per capita income of a certain area for example should call for
high prioritization. Likewise, scoring for the variable cultural diversity was reversed, as
high priority should be given to areas whose customary land rights, beliefs and practices
have already been influenced by outside factors. The same is true for conservation
initiatives and opportunities, to give high priority to areas to those without any
conservation effort.
The major achievement of the socio-econ group was validation of information and testing
of the criteria set for the socio-econ group. With the able facilitation of Dr. Boquiren,
information and site experiences of the PASUs, DENR personnel and NGO representatives
were used as pre-testing materials for the effectivity of the criteria for prioritization.
Results came to show that there is consistency and effectivity in identifying priority sites
for the socio-econ group.
Cr'tera and scoring
A. Leveling-off of experts' opinion on the definition of variables
1. Population pressure
In discussing the importance of identifying population pressures, the group
touched on whether to consider "pressure points with on-going
interventions/efforts" in setting priorities since efforts can otherwise be
directed to other areas without conservation efforts. Since, disregarding
these areas might lead to its 'omission" in setting conservation priorities in
the country, the group agreed to include areas with on-going interventions.
And in doing so, the following should further be identified:
what and where are the pressure points
are the interventions working?
effect of Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) and
Certificate of Ancestral Domain Claims (CADC)