CRMP Implementation
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Posted by Odin Olaya on February 15, 1998 at 19:53:26:
I do understand that CRMP implementation in the
Phillipines is just limited to a 5-year program
and with concentration on the so called Learning
Areas. Working on these limitations, the CRMP and
the USAID being detailed and gregarious in their work
must have considered other areas based on some criteria,
which is unknown to this writer. I wish CRMP would be so kind to publish the criteria
of selecting 'Learning Areas'. I have much interest on
this because as a Bantay Dagat/bantay dagat organizer
and a fishery monitoring officer in Eastern Visayas, I
have had the opportunity to assess areas here where
CRMP could be of much use also. I am not implying that
the present Learning Areas are of less importance, but
areas in region 8 also deserve concern, or just attention. One such area is Guiuan, Eastern Samar where illegal fishing
activities such as dynamite, cyanide, trawl and foreign
fishing vessels intrusion are destroying the most fragile
and diverse marine eco-system in region 8. In a desperate
move, the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the
Visayas stationed in Borongan has organized the Guiuan
Task Force on Illegal Fishing in 1996, but since then the
only things that it has made are equally desperate programs
devoid of substance but full of echoes of political words.
This area deserves more than an attention.The Eastern Visayas
Regional Council on Sustainable Development has identified
it as an endangered area years ago when Agenda 21 was still
on the drawing board. It still is an endangered area and nothing
has been done about it. Many people and NGOs are hoping to have a much funded
program in Guiuan,especially the coastal residents. CRMP
would be praised there as if it is in a pedestal.
But sad to say, Guiuan is not a priority Learning Area.
Maybe nothing could be learned there. At least it was
considered in the general study years ago. I hope it
would console people from that area to know that after
the 5-year learning process of CRMP it will finally
learn that Guiuan and Olango and the rest of the
islands are truly one and connected. in hell
beckons
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