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A4. The Eleven Community Nursery Depot
In 1992, the Municipal Government of Liloan and the Metropolitan Cebu Water District inked a Memorandum of Agreement granting MCWD its request to extract water from the municipality under certain conditions that it has to protect the natural water resources of Liloan. This paved the way for the different tree seedling nursery establishment in the 11 barangays of San Vicente, Santa Cruz, Jubay, Cotcot, San Roque, Lataban, Mulao, Tabla, Cabadiangan, Yati, and the Poblacion. Other than the nursery establishment, MCWD shall also conduct tree planting activities within the areas of Liloan.
This project is already a 16-year old project which is well coordinated with the Local Government Unit of the Municipality of Liloan.
The mechanics of the said project is that the seedlings are purchased at 3.50 per seedling by MCWD from the caretakers. Payment is by means of the so-called progress billing, based on certain criteria like height of seedling and the healthiness of the stock. On the other hand, a quota is set to 10,000 seedlings per nursery caretaker.
The Tree Nursery Program have proven itself very successful with the implementation of the buy-out scheme of the seedlings production. It has also complemented the initiative of the Cebu Provincial Government called eGWEN Program which focused on the clean and green objectives for Cebu Province.
This 16-year old MCWD Initiative is not limited only to establishing seedling banks, rather it has also facilitated tree growing activities within the area. In fact, the forest cover of the Municipality of Liloan have greatly improved. Tree plantations have been existing in the fourteen (14) different barangays namely, Barangays Tayud, Yati, Poblacion Liloan, San Roque, Catarman, Jubay, Sta. Cruz, Cabadiangan, Cotcot, Tabla, Calero, Lataban, Mulao, San Vicente which totaled to forty-three hectares.
A total of four (4) tree seedling species have been propagated for the year, such as mahogany, jackfruit, talisay, and bungalon.
For the whole year of 2008, seedling production totaled to 82,900 seedlings and the total seedling dispersal amounted to 87,834. The total cost of the seedlings produced for the year 2008 amounted to PhP 293,005.00
On the other hand, the estimated area planted with the seedlings dispersed in the Municipality of Lilo-an covered a total of 43 hectares in various areas like schools, roads and private lands.
The biggest planting area are located in Barangay San Roque in the lots of the Barangay Officials.
The seedlings were dispersed now to the new plantation sites in the neighboring municipalities namely: Consolacion and Compostela.
The components of the Liloan Tree Seedling Nursery Program covers four (4) components namely:
1. Massive Information Drive
2. Seed Gathering and Seedling Production
3. Central Nursery
4. Tree Planting Nurseries
1. Massive Information Drive covers different information, communication and education strategies such as lectures, orientations to be conducted in the barangays. It also involves posters of environmental education materials including environmental film showing.
2. Seedling Gathering and Seedling Production
Metro Cebu Water District annually allocates PhP
35,000.00 for each nursery of the 10 seedling nurseries. Each caretaker has a quota of 10,000 seedlings each year.
The nursery caretakers are responsible for the
procurement for the seeds requirements like polyethelene bags (4 x 6 for forest trees and 6 x 10 for fruit trees), garden tools/equipment, fertilizers and other needed supplies and materials for the nursery operations.
Seedlings must be maintained and seedling
mortality must be replaced.
Seedling banks must be always kept clean and properly maintained.
A recording book or logbook provided by MCWD must be maintained by the caretaker to log the in and out of seedlings produced.
Attendance to regular meetings and tree planting sessions scheduled by the MCWDs Agricultural Field Technician must be observed.
Joint monthly evaluations are conducted by the representatives of the Municipal Agriculture Office and MCWD. This will be the requisites for payment of the production.
3. Central Nursery
This is where seedlings which are not withdrawn
and planted within the next five months are
deposited thus designating it as the main
nursery.
A caretaker is also assigned to operate and to
maintain the central nursery. MCWD allocates
PhP 2,250.00 pesos every month for the
maintenance of the nursery. This is an additional
annual appropriation to the PhP 35,000.00
allocation for the 10 community nurseries.
B. The Integrated Watershed Development Program
The different components under this program are the reforestation sites spread across
the Central Cebu Protected Landscape and some at the peri-urban areas of Cebu City. Such undertaking
of these reforestation sites are based on signed memorandum of agreements between MCWD and the
contracting party like corporations, academe, media and other stakeholders of the civil society.
The reforestation sites of MCWD are the following:
B.1. Under the Mananga Watershed Forest Reserve Cluster:
The Jaclupan Weir Reforestation Area with an area of 65 hectares
Sinsin Reforestation Site with an area of 20 hectares
Buot-Taup Reforestation Mosaic with an area of 10 hectares
Lagtang-Lawaan Reforestation Mosaic with an area of 8 hectares no maintenance
Bonbon Reforestation Mosaic with an area of 4 hectares
Pung-ol Sibugay Reforestation Peak with an area of 80 hectares. Twelve (12) hectares were planted with 20,00 assorted exotic and indigenous tree species. Regular monitoring is conducted 2 times a week
Distinctly, the Pung-ol Sibugay Reforestation Peak is in collaboration of Barangay Pung-ol
Sibugay and its community through its Barangay Chairman Jose Cadampog. Likewise, the Ayala
Nature Park Reforestation Partnership is a joint effort with Cebu Holdings Corporation.
This brings to a total area of reforestation projects to 187 hectares for this Cluster.
B.2. The Kotkot-Lusaran Watershed Forest Reserve Cluster
Ayala Nature Park Reforestation Partnership with Metro Cebu Water District with began
in 2008. There is an existing 4 hectares planted with 7,000 assorted indigenous tree
species planted by San Miguel Corporation personnel. Kan-irag Nature Park allocated
about 16-20 hectares for MCWD reforestation activities.
Lusaran Reforestation Site was completed way back in 2007.
B.3. The Buhisan Watershed Forest Reserve Cluster have conducted a series of tree planting activitites conducted by Cebu Uniting for Sustainable Water Fdn., Inc., Philippine Business for Social Progress, 7 RCDG ARESCOM and 53rd Engineer Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
B.4. The Mahiga Creek Reforestation Project (CENTCOM Area) forms part of the headwater of Mahiga Creek covering approximately six (6) hectares. Since the project started, a total of 10,000 trees were planted. In 2008, there were 1, 200 trees planted by the MCWD field workers
for replanting to cover up seedling mortality with a fund support from San Miguel Corporation.
B.5. The Liloan Community Reforestation Initiative conducted by the different barangays in the Municipality of Liloan led by the Local Government Unit.
Kan-Irag Nature Park Reforestation Partnership with San Miguel Corporation and MCWD
Through an existing Memorandum of Agreement between Metro Cebu Water District and San Miguel Corporation and in partnership with Cebu Holdings Inc. provided the tree planting area as their corporate social responsibility to nature which started this year 2008. Kan-Irag Nature Park allocated a total of 20 hectares to MCWD for reforestation.
There are now 7,000 tree seedlings planted for a total of 4 hectares
Sixteen (16) hectares are awaiting reforestation intervention from multi-stakeholder groups.
Tree seedlings will not be a problem for this engagement as MCWD assures the project with an abundant supply of seedlings from its various tree seedling nurseries.
This engagement will encourage MCWD to market its seedlings to other sectors and likewise, be a continuing advocacy for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies.
The Mahiga Creek is one of the micro river basin of Cebu City which plays a vital role in the supply of water resources of Metro Cebu. This is a part of the responsibilities in a memorandum of agreement between San Miguel Corporation and MCWD on reforestation projects
For 2008, activities was focused on re-planting within the area of 6 hectares totaling to 1,700 trees.
As a brief background, the engagement in the Mahiga River Catchment Rehabilitation Project was binded by a Memorandum of Agreement dated October 25, 2005. Contracting parties were the Armed Forces of the Philippines/ Central Command (AFP/CENTCOM) represented by its former Commanding General Emmanuel R. Teodosio, and Metro Cebu Water District represented by the General Manager Engr. Armando H. Paredes.
However, at present with the area turned over to the Cebu Provincial Government, all we can hope that after discussions with the Cebu Provincial Government the trees in the Mahiga Reforestation and Rehabilitation will be continuously taken cared and nurtured.
C. The Integrated Water Resources Management Initiative
It was in 1992 when the United Nations General Assembly declared that March 22 of each year shall be observed as a World Day for Water. In fact, World Water Day grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janiero, which recognized the objectives set out in Chapter 18 (Freshwater Resources) of the Agenda 21 document. During the International Conference on Water and the Environment (Dublin, Ireland 1992), all nations expressed the need for an integrated approach to water management and it has never been greater, as more countries and regions face water scarcity. Competition for water among agricultural, domestic and industrial users and between them and the natural environment will become more and more acute. Hence, aimed at translating the Dublin and the Rio principles into practice, and in particular to improve management of scarce water resources around the world by providing the widespread adoption of a set of principles known as the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), a number of international water NGOs, namely the World Water Council and Global Water Partnership were established. The first steps in this process are to generate interest among stakeholders, like water policy makers and water users, and then based on this interest, have them set up regional and country water partnerships and take actions in line with the IWRM at national, regional and local levels.
This all started the campaign for integrated water resources management. Philippines is one of the participating country in both international environmental conferences.
Integrated Water Resources Management became the countrys national policy on water
resources. However, the general framework was crafted later in the year 2007 led by the National Water
Resources Board during the directorship of Ramon Alikpala.
In Metro Cebu, Integrated Water Resources
Management (IWRM) started its noise in mid-2001 when
Cebu Uniting for Sustainable Water (CUSW), a coalition
of different sectors and stakeholder conducted its series of
consultations on IWRM. Metro Cebu Water District is then
a partner of CUSW took active participation in the
campaign. Two (2) stakeholders workshops were
conducted in the promotion of IWRM. However, due to a
very dynamic political situation, Metro Cebu faces a
threshold in the institutionalization of IWRM and creating
the IWRM Water Partnership among the local government
units comprising the major river basins of the Central
Cebu Protected Landscape.
The journey of the IWRM advocacy promotions
had underwent through six (7) secretaries of the Department
of Environment and Natural Resources starting from
Secretary Vicente Ramos, to Secretaries Cerilles, Heherson
Alvarez, Elisea Gozun, Mike Defensor, Angelo Reyes and
now Atienza. To add, it also undergone three (3) Regional Directors of Region 7 namely, Director
Augustus Momongan, Celso Lorriega and Leonardo Sibalucca. To highlight all the more, it went through
three (3) Presidents of the Republic namely, Presidents Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-
Arroyo.
This is evident that the IWRM travelogue is indeed, a process. It is a journey of patience,
meekness, steadfastness and beating the odds to address seriously the impending water crisis. This is a journey of a people and of a race for a preservation and posterity of a civilization.
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