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Inle Lake Watershed Pre-phase Proposal 2011

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Dharma Gaia Trust contributed $5000 in May 2011 towards the following

Proposal for the Community Based Inle Lake Watershed Rehabilitation

(6 months Pre-Phase, 2011)

By

Buddhist Youth Empowerment Program

In part with

SPIRIT IN EDUCATION MOVEMENT


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Table of Content

Title Page

Project summary 3

1 Background information 4

2 Issue need to be addressed 5

2.1 Societal issue 5

i) Culture 5

ii) Poverty 5

iii) Lack of empowerment

2.2 Agro-ecological issue 6

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i) Climate change effect 7

ii) Linking between climate change and agriculture 7

iii) Agro-chemicals impact on water quality 8

iv) Biodiversity and aquatic resource 8

v) Requisite affirmation 9

3 Goal and objectives 12

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3.1 Goal 12

3.2 Objectives

4 Pre-phase program 13

4.1 Time line for pre-phase 17

5 Operation

5.1 Pre conditioned statement 18

5.2 Project office 18

5.3 Organo gram 19

5.4 M & E reporting 20


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Project Summary

1. Project Name: Integrated Community Based Watershed Management for the Inle

Lake Watershed, Myanmar (Pre-Phase: April – September 2011)

2. Location: Inle Lake Watershed Area Souterhn Shan State, Myanmar

3. Target Area & Groups:

Western mountains (Taung Yo ethnic groups)

Western shoreline (Inn Thar ethnic groups)

Floating garden in the central lake (Inn Thar)

South west shoreline (Pa Oo ethnic groups)

Fishers in the Inle Lake (excluding Sagar Inn and Phe Khon in

the Pre-Phase)

(Specific target village selection will be made by consulting with local authority and other

existing NGOs and CBOs not to be overlapped)

4. Project Goal and Objectives:

Goal:

Strategizing community based watershed management’s components which will lead to

resource managements and community empowerments in participatory ways.

Objectives:

1) To raise the awareness of the local people on community development and

environmental conservation

2) To motivate the community for their active participation in future action planning

through leadership training.

3) To design locally relevant sustainable agricultural training program

4) To develop the long term community based integrated watershed management

program by utilizing the local natural resources systematically

5. Organizer Team: Buddhist Youth Empowerment Program in Part with 1SEM

6. Period: April – September 2011

7. Estimated Budget: USD $ 43,310

1 SEM: Spirit in Education Movement Thai based NGO


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1. Background information

The Inle, the second largest Lake in Myanmar, is situated in Nyaung Shwe Township, Southern

Shan State, Myanmar. According to the hydrologic unit, it falls in the “Sub-catchment” through

it is commonly called as “Inle Watershed”. The Inle Lake Watershed is measured as 1,358,080

acres encompassing Nyaung Shwe Township, Kalaw Township, Pin Laung Township, Phe Khon

Township and Shwe Nyaung Township.

In geographical parameter, it is situated at the elevation of 2915 feet above sea level. The

mountains surrounding the lake have an elevation of over 3500 feet which are very steep with

deprived of vegetation covers thus enhancing the soil erosion and sedimentation in the lake. The

Lake is nearly 14.5 km long North to South but only 5.5 km wide from east to west (the size of

the Lake is variable seasonably). Presently its surface area is measured as 23.42 sq miles or may

be 75.4 sq miles if the muddy periphery is counted.

It is famous due to its beautiful limnological features, high biodiversity and distinct livelihood

styles of local ethnic people. The native people, Inn-thar, have been living in and surrounding the

Lake for several years symbiotically with their natural aquatic resources. The Lake is sustaining

a lot of aquatic and terrestrial organism by its very wide watershed. The main business of the Inle

Lake region is floating garden agriculture. Tomatoes, the primary cash crop, comprise two-thirds

of the region’s agriculture. The remaining one third consists of flowers, vegetables and

sugarcane plantations.

There are three types of agricultural systems (or can be said as strata); floating gardens (Kyun

Myaw) in the Lake, low land farming on the shore line around the Lake and sloping land

agriculture (Taung Ya) on the ranges of mountains (about 3500-4000 feet above sea level). The

farmers routinely use pesticides and fertilizers for their crops. In the western area of the Inle

Lake Watershed, deforestation is a big concern. Slash and burn agricultural practice on adjacent

hills contributes to soil erosion enforcing increased siltation into the Lake. In addition, waste and

garbage from households, lack of proper sanitation and livestock breeding contribute to poor

water quality.

According to WWF classification system, Inle Lake is under the “Eco-region 190 (Small

Lakes)”. It is identified as a critical habitat for nine endemic fish species in three endemic

genera; supports 20 species of gastropods, of which one third may be endemic. The shallow

areas of the Lake are converted to cropland, which limits the habitats of freshwater organisms.

To date, Inle Lake is under threat mainly due to natural and human pressure. Publicawareness on

how to cope by which strategies is therefore playing a vital role in the preservation of Inle Lake

and protection of the health of the watershed residents. There have not conducted the research on

environmental impact assessment and measuring the tropic status of the Lake. Nevertheless,

there are some ways of knowing changes in the Lake Ecosystem and environment by visible


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indicators. Local people are the ones who know these changes and certain significant

phenomenon very well.

2. Issues need to be addressed

2.1 Societal issue

i) Culture

Inn Thar people have a big deal of lovely cultural and traditional belongings. They have been

maintaining their culture for several years. They love to wear their traditional cloths, eat local

food and live very simply. Most of the lovely things, they bear in their hearts are that they love to

host the guests, share the resources and information among people which is an essence of rural

lives. Helpful as well as friendly local ethnic people are also becoming the victims of

Globalization and their lovely culture is being threatened by modernization. Nowadays the

communities in Inle watershed suffered a lot from consumerism and profit-oriented exploitative

agri-business system. Due to that system, communities have to buy modified seed and use

numerous chemical fertilizers and pesticides which cause them huge amount of investments. At

the same time, the communities do not have any bargain power on their products’ market price.

The fluctuation of market price and huge investments have been driven the communities into

poverty. The uses of heavy chemical also result in water pollution and will lead to freshwater

species extinction. No more fishing scenes can be seen today like before as the fish population

decreased dramatically due to the water quality and improper fishing techniques. Furthermore,

the communities could not manage their household daily wastes such as plastic bags and bottles

which their grandparents have never seen in 20 decades before.

ii) Poverty

Recently, the statistics show that the population concentration is 230 people per square mile

around the Lake and 1000 people per square mile on the water. The expending of floating

gardens and human settlement are now strictly controlled by the local authority. In addition, the

private business groups like Agro-chemical companies, Hotel and Tour, Fertilizer, Plants and

Aquaculture Companies are encroaching to expend their business and it is threatening the land

right and environmental justice of native ethnic groups. Poverty is also one of the factors that

cause migration of young people from the lake to other countries for odd jobs and poor

accessibility to environmental information. Using agro-chemicals is the major cause of vicious

circle in which farmers cannot avoid using it anymore. Moreover the local farmers are being

exploited by the trade and business and they become more vulnerable under polluted water due

to the use of chemical products. Global warming which is one of the Climate Change have had a

great effects on the communities. In 2010, the extreme temperature have dried out the lake and

brought a lot of suffering toward people dwelling in the lake.


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iii) Lack of empowerment

The local people are intrinsically good and creative but they become the victims of market and

trade system. They flowed in the mainstream of so called development and they enjoyed in the

Consumerism and modern life-styles. Now they are in poverty in term of food security and

income per capita according to UN measurements. They become dependent on fertilizers and

pesticide as they could not control pest and diseases by local resources and environmental

friendly ways like their grandparents’ age. They buy the agro-chemicals at high price, use more

than recommended rate of dosage in inappropriate ways and have to sell the products in lower

price at exploitative market. They need to work together hand-in-hand among the farmers and

share the resources. A union of local farmers and cooperative agri-business like fertilizers

manufacturing from local resources to use in their farms could be a solution to the situation.

They need to be united and work in community spirit. Rural reconstruction will be very

important part for the resilience of such communities being suffered from modernized culture

cause by globalization. To empower the grassroots people and community, leaders will be the

most urgent requirement.

The project aims to promote the environmental awareness of the local people; especially farmers

will be empowered and encourage to form a civil society to be ready for community based

sustainable agricultural development and participatory aquatic resources conservation for the

sake of environmental sustainability of Inle lake Watershed Area.

2.2 Agro-ecological issues

i) Climate change effects

Myanmar is an agrarian country as the dependency of country’s economy and population’s

livelihood is upon climatic sensitive sector such as agriculture. The immediate observed effect of

climate change in Inle Lake, also known as a remarkable event, is critically descending water

level in the summer of 2010 due to the imbalance flow of water in and out. Some of the impact

of climate change that have been documented on basis of local knowledge are lesser number of

rainy days, erratic rainfall, longer duration of summer season, formation of flood occurrence and

more increase in frequency of drought, etc. The climate extreme events thus trigger for wide

range of loss of lives and disrupt the social and economic development. Such events also would

have shocking upon local populace and further increase their vulnerability. The livelihood of

people in Inle Lake are thus vulnerable to climate change as majority of them depend on

agriculture which is identified as vulnerable sector to climate change.

Due to limited number of meteorological stations, precipitation data may have to be extrapolated

for the project area, Likewise, there is data lacking of temperature due to missing data of daily

minimum temperature. The literature about rainfall distribution and rainy days for last 10 years

average and the years of 2007 and 2008 is described in following table.


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Month

10-year average 2007 2008

Rainy day millimeter Rainy day millimeter Rainy day millimeter

day mm day Mm day mm

January 0 25.4 0 0 1 18

February 0 0 2 9.9 0 0

March 1 2.5 1 7.1 1 1

April 4 114.3 4 18 5 101

May 20 156 20 205.9 18 156

June 10 113 12 186.9 20 113

July 18 182.9 18 154.94 16 179.8

August 22 318.5 23 300.12 23 317.8

September 16 218.4 16 309.12 20 210.1

October 16 197.9 16 176.02 21 297.9

November 5 114.05 5 69.85 5 113

December 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 112 1543.1 117 1438.9 130 1516.6

Source: Myanma Agriculture Service, 2009.

There is limited secondary data available especially on recent climate change data as per no

major address to climate change records and related survey done in project area even we were

not less concerned with climatic variations. Also there are studies that have failed to consider

socio-economic factors, their effect on adaptation and vulnerability. At present, attention had

been paid to people’s opinion on climatic variations and adaptation measures that they have

adapted to cope with climate change. Nevertheless, much research has yet to be done to

understand present state of livelihood of local people and identify vulnerable communities and

aspects of their livelihood that is vulnerable to climate change. There is still in need for adoption

of long term adaptation measures to cope with adverse effects of climate change. In addition,

before adoption any measures, it is necessary to understand how climate is changing, effects of

these changes on environment, climate threats faced by households and communities and their

capacity to cope with such threats.

The measures that are designed based on the livelihood state of households would fulfill the dual

objectives of adaptation to climate change as well as poverty alleviation. That is why considering

for rising the awareness level of local people on climate change effects as well as environmental

conservation would also reflect people’s aspiration and needs and thus would be more effective

and efficient.

ii) Linking between climate change and agriculture

Climate change might be favorable to agricultural productivity or undesirable in its productivity

impacts. All over the world, there is the considerable alarm about the climatic variability on

agricultural production. The observed knowing of change in temperature, change pattern of


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precipitation and possibly increased in extreme climatic events like drought and flood has

incurred loss of agricultural yield, increased poverty risk and lives. The climate change is

expected the consequences of higher temperature and rainfall which might lead lower the yields

as well as longer growing period of crops. Moreover, the higher CO2 concentration in

atmosphere under situation of climate change might act as an aerial fertilizer. While identifying

the linking of agricultural impact of climate change, all of these factors should have to be taken

into consideration. Such extreme climatic events hamper the people’s adaptive capacity and

undermine their resilience. Different adaptation measures to climate change have been adopted

in different parts of the world to cope with climate change impact on agriculture. To date, Inle

Lake watershed area has witnessed impacts of climate change as briefly discussed above.

Increase in extreme events such as flood and drought including gradual increase in temperature

has increased in vulnerability of agrarian households in this area. Adaptation of agrarian

households to these impacts of climate change therefore becomes inevitable.

Household’s ability and awareness on linking between climate change and agriculture for

undertaking any adaptation measures to reduce their vulnerability to climate change. But, various

local factors such as physical, socio-economic and institutional factors would have to be

considered to get hold of the desirable outcomes of the measures. Then, based on assessment,

different adaptation measures that designed due locally relevant sustainable agriculture by

delivering training program should be introduced, with modification if necessary, at local level.

iii) Agro-chemicals impact on water quality

The increasing population and developing agricultural technologies have lead to expending the

areas of floating islands and intensive use of agrochemicals which can consequently affect the

quality of water and its aquatic ecosystem. Moreover the local people are using imported hybrid

varieties more and more which are high chemical demanding. The lack of scientific knowledge

on agrochemical use is also threatening the health of users and the water pollution.

The modern agricultural technology and increased population exert heavy pressures on the

capacity of the lake. The sustainability of the Lake is solely depending on the awareness and

behaviors but there has not been found any program to promote the local people’s awareness and

empowerment for their community based natural resource management interventions.

Therefore, the environmental management and conservation of the Lake has been critical and the

sustainability of the Lake is solely depending on the awareness and behaviors of the local people.

iv) Biodiversity and aquatic resource

Inle lake watershed is one of the most famous ecologically important zones in Myanmar for its

richness in biodiversity. Some of the birds and fish species endemic to the watershed area are

nearly going to extinction and the survey results even showed that some endemic fish species are

under endangered situation if urgent conservative measure is taken. Nowadays, famers are very

much dependent on monoculture practices and using imported Hybrid seeds so it is threatening


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the agro-biodiversity and the use of toxic agro-chemicals are troubling the aquatic biodiversity

seriously. Moreover the local people need to explore more appropriate technologies for waste

treatment system and how to use the local natural resources for the betterment of their livelihood.

v) Requisite affirmation

For the convenient of the long term watershed project and specific actions needed to be done, a

survey team was formed and the feasibility study was conducted for about 15 days during month

of August 2010. It was reported by analysis of collected data. In accordance with the major

findings based on that need assessment survey research, the problems going to be addressed were

found out as follows;

Issues Ways to soothe Ways to carry out

Agriculture

Cropping pattern/system:

Mono cropping system had

been preferred by about 50%

of interviewed farmers.

Negative effects in long run

should have been aware.

Cropping practices like mix-

cropping, multi-cropping,

inter-cropping and

Crop rotation should have

been done.

Sustainable agricultural

training (SAT)

Demonstration plots

Common problem:

Climate change Farmers should have

awareness of weather situation

and weather broadcasting so

as to manage their farming

better.


training (SAT)

Pest management Awareness on integrated pest

management (IPM) should

have been improved to

distinguish pest and disease so

that management can be used

better.

Demonstration plots

Capital (Investment) Self reliant organic fertilizer

production and local resource

utilization plan should have

been set out.

Revolving fund for

community

Upland common problem:

Lack of soil conservation Local populace on the upland Need to introduce SALT


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should be supported with

sloping agricultural land

technology (SALT).

Reforestation

Deforestation >> Habitat lost Reforestation and agro-

forestry should be promoted.

Reforestation


training (SAT)

Crop residual management:

Mostly direct use and burn in

the field as waste

It was found that most of the

respondents are weak in crop

residual management; they are

also not aware of its utility and

no information how to

effectively use it by

composting.


training (SAT)

Fertilizer application:

Organic fertilizer use is still

weak and need to understand

more about nutrient balance

Organic fertilizer application

needs to be promoted and

better understanding on the

plant nutrition should be more

than before so as to fitly apply

the nutrients and

environmentally safe.


training (SAT)

Pesticide application:

Types and methods of

pesticides in current use have

high risk and impact on the

environment and human

health

Realizing on which types of

pesticide should be applied on

which such of pest/disease and

Integrated Pest Management

(IPM) is the most important.

Moreover, safety measure in

spraying agro-chemicals

should be boosted.

Technical innovation can be

more effective by way of Key

Farmers as they learn and

mostly adopt farming

techniques from neighboring

farmers.

Model (Key) Farmers and

Farmer led extension.

Environmental awareness


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Awareness level of

respondents does not show

satisfactory answer.

Respondents with less

awareness and moderate level

are the majority.

Environmental awareness of

farmers should be upgraded as

they are still in need having

common pool resources

management and conservation

plan even it plays a vital role

effecting on the Lake

ecosystem. In natural resource

management, they particularly

need to be aware of the water

pollution, how important role

of agro-biodiversity and

wildlife in ecosystem is.

Awareness raising trainings

Environmental workshops

Seed fund for the

communities’ initiatives

Environmental campaigns

(Biodiversity and ecosystem

awareness)

Endangered fish species and

aquatic resources

About 3-4 fish species are

now endangered and one is

going extinct. Local people

have no awareness on the

utility of aquatic resources.

Fishing techniques are

unlawful and the fishers are

not aware of it.

No strategic action plan for

the aquatic resource

management as there is not

sufficient data and research.

Currently the native people

face;

a. Fish catch decrease

b. Fishing area decrease

c. Some disappeared

d. Herbivores decrease

Conservation of endangered

fish species need to be done

urgently.

Awareness of community and

their participation will be the

most critical.

Capacity building for the

community and other

stakeholders concerned on the

fish and aquatic resources is

necessary.

More research on aquatic

resources should be carried

out.

Awareness raising on fish and

aquatic resources

Awareness raising on fishing

law

Promoting of involvement of

community on the aquatic

resources conservation for the

sustainability.

Supporting native students

with small research grants for

aquatic biodiversity and

wetland ecosystem.

Common pool resource

management


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No awareness on common

pool resources management.

They do no have HR

education and they need to be

united and solve the resource

issues as a good team work.

The private companies are

trying to expend their business

for producing organic

fertilizers by using local

resources.

Common pool resource

management system should

have been in a participatory

ways. Likewise, their own

fertilizer plants and

cooperative business should

have been run to avoid the

exploitation by the giant

business groups.

Civil society empowerment

CD awareness

Leadership skill

Gathering

Workshops

Meetings

Farmer’s circles

Conferences

3. Goal and Objectives

The goal and objective, which are stated based on assessment and findings, are as follows:

3.1 Goal

Strategizing community based watershed management’s components which will lead to resource

managements and community empowerments in participatory ways.

3.2 Objectives

This project seeks the feasible ways of contributing to sustainable development of Inle Lake

watershed area with the following objectives:

1) To raise the awareness of the local people on community development and

environmental conservation

2) To motivate the community for their active participation in future action planning

through leadership training.

3) To design locally relevant sustainable agricultural training program

4) To develop the long term community based integrated watershed management

program by utilizing the local natural resources systematically


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4. Pre-phase Program (April – September 2011)

No Activities Validation Expected results Stakeholders Period

1

Team building of

project personnel

To do trust-building

among project team

members.

To create a comfortable

working atmosphere.

Mutual understanding and

respect among Project staffs

and volunteers will be built

up.

They will happily take

responsibilities in a

harmonious and participatory

ways.

Proper guidelines and

regulations for team and

project activities will be set

up.

Project staffs and volunteers

(if available) April

2 Capacity building

on community

organizing skill for

staffs

To build up the skill of

staffs for effective

community organizing

and social dealing.

To draw clear lines and

action plans.

To oversee the available

resources.

CO skill of staff will improve.

Roles and responsibilities of

staffs will be identified.

Resource mapping

An external resource person

will facilitate for CO and all

project team members will join

the workshop.

April

3

Advocacy meeting

(with local

government and

village head)

To launch the project

team to the local

authority and make clear

understanding on the

The local authority will

recognize the project team.

The leaders of village tracts

Trustee, officers from different

departments such as

Agriculture, Irrigation, Forest,

Land Use, Fishery, Wildlife,

May


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project. and villages will also

understand the project and

their cooperation will be

achieved.

Education, Health and etc at

Nyaung Shwe Township and

project team.

4

Consultative

workshop

To define clear and

firmed strategies to cope

with the local situations.

To achieve the better

participation and

contribution of local

government and other

NGOs.

Responsible and concerned

departments will understand

the project’s trend and

strategies.

They will contribute their

expertise and available

resources.

Clear action plan with

respected strategies will be

output.

Department of forestry,

wildlife, Irrigation,

Agriculture, Land Use, UNDP,

Save the Children, Shwe Inn

Thu (CBO), Inn Literature and

Culture Association

May

5 Community

development

trainings

(4times * 25pax)

The potential community

leaders who are

interested in social work

will be selected for the

leadership training and

leading in future

activities.

About 100 people from the

targeted areas within

watershed will at least gain

basic knowledge on

sustainable development

concept, gender and

environmental issues.

They will then be active in

social work and more concern

on the society.

Youth, farmers, fishers, gender

in equal will be included.

Participants who are from

Lake, shoreline and upland

areas as well.

2 times in June

2 times in July

6

Environmental

awareness

trainings

(3 times * 25pax)

To build up the local

populace be aware of

environmental issues and

motivate them to

Participants will understand

more about global and local

environmental issues.

People who having different

types from targeted area but

youth will be considered as an

important allocation.

2 times in June

1 time in July


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participate in

conservative actions.

They will actively participate

in environmental conservation

activities and become

grassroots leaders.

7 Leadership

trainings

(1 time * 25pax)

To seek suitable potential

community leaders and

upgrade their

participatory leadership

skill for future organizing

and implementing.

The participatory leadership

skill will be improved and

community organizing and

development work will

actively be done.

Participant from development

trainings will be screened.

Gender ratio and youth will

participate in action

Planning.

August

8 Workshop on

watershed program

development

To deliver the sustainable

farming practices through

farmer led extension and

find locally suitable agri-

system to mitigate

Climate Change effects.

Project team will gather

information on technologies

and set a suitable training

design to benefit the local

farmers.

Experts (external)

Development workers

Project Team

Local farmers

Govt. staff from Agriculture

Department

August

9 Proposal

development for

the 5 years

program

To set up the long term

program for community

based integrated

watershed management

in Inle Lake.

A program propelled will be

released.

Representative leaders from

communities (who have

experienced in Development

and leadership trainings) will

learn how to do action

planning.

Project team

External consultant

Community representatives

September

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Monthly meeting

M & E to keep the

project on its right tract

forwarding to targeted

goal.

Staff’s sharing and

planning.

Monthly report on activities,

progress and some constraints

on the working environment.

Area need to improve for the

staffs.

Project team Every last week

of month


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Smooth process and

effective progress.

11 Mid-term review

(after first

3months)

To ensure all the process

and progress go smoothly

in time.

To be better of staff’s

cooperation.

To do recharging of

staffs.

To make figuring for

future.

To do M & E by program

coordinator.

Review report on first 3

months activities, progress,

challenges and lesson learned.

Only project team July

12 Evaluation on

pre-phase

To record the process,

achievement and

mistakes in the pre-

phase.

Lesson learned to be

drawn.

To feed back to the phase

(1).

Evaluation report of Pre-

phase.

Lesson learned.

Achievement records.

Key persons and areas need to

be considered for the main

program will be indentified.

Project team and representative

of communities September


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4.1 Time line for Pre-phase (April – September 2011)

No Activities April May June July August Sep

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

1 Team building TB

2 Capacity building CB

3

Advocacy meeting

(local government) LGO

4

Advocacy meeting

(village heads) VH

5 Consultative workshop CS

6

Community development

training (4 times) CD

1 CD

2 CD

3 CD

4

7

Environmental awareness

training (3 times) EA

1 EA

2 EA

3

8

Leadership training

( 1 time) Leadership

Training

9

Workshop on watershed

program development W

10

Proposal development

(5 years plan) Proposal

11

Monthly meeting

(6 times) M

1 M

2 M

3 M

4 M

5 M

6

12 Mid term review Re

13 Evaluation on pre-phase Evaluation


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5. Operation

5.1 Pre-conditioned statement

Buddhist Youth Empowerment Program (BYEP) has been working on youth empowerment

program for three years. Recently the program coordinator of the BYEP was invited by the

government to do his paper presentation on his research on “Environmental Awareness of the

Farmers in the Inle Lake” and then he tried to introduce to the local authority for projection in

the Inle lake watershed.

A team of survey research was formed by inviting the graduates from Asian Institute of

Technology (Bangkok) (who specialized in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management),

and the youth who are strongly committed to get involved in environmental conservation work in

July 2010. Then a feasibility study was conducted by the team and it was reported to the Inle

Lake Watershed Management Committee (Govt.) and related departments. Then the team joined

the Environmental Workshop organized by BYEP in October 2010 and prepared the work plan

for Inle Lake project.

The coordinator tried to learn more about watershed management from Climate Change

workshop in Vietnam and Community Based Integrated Watershed Management Courses in

Philippines for the better integration of all the multidisciplinary concepts. Now the Pre-phase

program is launched and it will be followed by the 5 year watershed development program by the

participation of community.

5.2 Project office

BYEP office is residing in Yangon and all the main office and administrative work is done there.

The Inle Lake Watershed Project is an extensive one and it also has a lot of operations at the

community level, so the small office should be opened at project site. The staff for Inle Lake

Project shall abide the same rules and regulations of BYEP and the project team will choose the

proper name for the sake of convenience and safety in community.

The project staff shall be reconsidered for the next phase based on their performance in the Pre-

phase, improvement and no more staffs from outside (of project area) will not be recruited as the

program aims to empower the local people and plan to set up a community based long term

management program.

The project staff can use the BYEP office when they have to come to Yangon for some training,

workshops or meetings and they can share the resources and support the staffs from Buddhist

Youth Leadership Training Project if they need to come to Inle Lake for some meeting.

All the assets of Watershed Project shall belong to BYEP at the end of the Pre-phase and they

will be transferred to the Long term program of watershed development.


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5.3 Organ gram

The project team for Pre-phase will be composed of;

No. Name Qualification Position Responsibilities

1 Bo Bo Lwin 2B.Agr.Sc.,

3M.Sc

(NRM)

Program

Coordinator

Proposal development

Project end report writing

Overall mentoring

Coordinating with local authority and

partners

Coaching the staffs

Program development

M&E

2 Mae Suu Han B.Agr.Sc., 4M.Sc (AS)

Project Officer Coordinate on whole project

Manage activities and budget on project

site

Reporting to Program Coordinator

monthly

Coordinate the different activities

Mentor the project staffs

Allocate the resources

Coordinate with local authority and

other local partners

Extend the new network and facilitate

the development of long term program

3 Chan Lae

Mon

5B.Sc (Envt),

6M.Sc (EEM)

Training

Coordinator

Prepare training design and coordinate

Report on trainings to Project Officers

Community organizing

Follow up on alumni

M&E on participants and their

performance

Facilitate in the Community

Development initiated by the alumni

5 Myo Myat 7B.C.Sc Assistant

Training

Coordinator

Assist Training Coordinator

Prepare training design for all training

Empower and organize the local people

for local initiatives

Lead the environmental campaigns

2 B.Agri.Sc: Bachelor of Agricultural Science

3 M.Sc (NRM): Master of Science (Natural Resource Management)

4 M.Sc (AS): Master of Science (Agricultural System)

5 B.Sc (Envt): Bachelor of Science (Environment)

6 M.Sc (EEM): Master of Environmental Engineering Management

7 B.C.Sc: Bachelor of Computer Science


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Report to Program coordinator monthly

6 - Accountant Financial clearance

Prepare monthly financial report to PC

Help and teach the staffs for financial

work

7 - Logistic &

Office Admin

Purchasing materials

General logistics for staff travel

Arrange meetings and workshop

Facilitate in fund transfer and hostiz7ng

guests

See overall activities and staff affair

5.4 M&E and Reporting

Monitoring on overall project will be done by Program Coordinator and he will be coaching the

staffs. The project end report will be submitted by Program Coordinator in a participatory way.

The Project officer will mentor the project activities in detail and report to Program coordinator

by monthly M&E and Progressive report. The Team leader of Environment and Aquatic

Resource Conservation will monitor on environmental awareness trainings, workshop and other

campaigns organized by field facilitator.

The training coordinator will closely monitor on the training process and progressiveness of the

participants and reporting to the project officer about the performance of the alumni. The field

facilitator will mainly work with community and do more focusing on community organizing,

mobilizing for initiatives and reporting to Program Coordinator through Project Officer.

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