CRMP Implementation

Posted by Odin Olaya on February 15, 1998 at 19:56:13:

In Reply to: CRMP Implementation 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.

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