Cagayan de Oro River Basin

Management Council

Vice Mayor Giovanni M. Dahino

Executive Committee
CDORBMC
PRESENTATION OUTLINE:

1. CDORBMC

2. Ecosystem Services (ES)

3. Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in CDORB

The Cagayan de Oro River Basin

• Total land area of 137, 934 hectares

• Has eight (8) tributaries from six (6)

municipalities /cities
What is Cagayan de Oro River Basin
Management Council (CDORBMC)?

• Governing body
• Created on November 10, 2010
• Protection, rehabilitation and
management of the CDO river
basin
Vision
• A rehabilitated, sustainably
protected and preserved, and
well-managed CDO river basin in
2020

Mission
• To oversee and catalyze multi-
stakeholders for the rehabilitation,
protection, preservation, and
management of the CDO River
Basin
 Members of the CDORBMC
• Co-Chaired by the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro,
DENR 10, DILG 10, City of Cagayan de Oro and DA 10

• 90 members from 8 sectors

– National Government Agency (NGA)
– Local Government Unit (LGU)
– Non-Government Organizations (NGO)
– Security
– Religious
– Academe
– Private/Business
– Indigenous People/People’s Organization (IP/PO)
 Board of Stakeholders
(BOS)

The CDORBMC
Executive Committee
(ExeCom)
Structure
PMO
Technical Working
Sectoral Group
Group (TWG)

Rehabilitation
LGU Academe
Local Governance
NGA Security Group
Community Development
NGO Business/Private
Resource Management
PO/IP Religious Group
Payment for Ecosystem
Services
PRESENTATION OUTLINE:

1. CDORBMC

2. Ecosystem Services (ES)

3. Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in CDORB

Mt. Kitanglad Mt. Kalatungan
R3 Program
(Ridge, River, Reef)

CDO River

Macajalar Bay

CDO River Basin, Region 10, Philippines

Warwin Sabasaje & Hilly Ann Roa- - Quiaoit 2014
 What are
Ecosystem SERVICES?

“The direct and indirect contributions of

ecosystem to human well-being.”

“Ang mga direkta ug indirekta nga mga tampo

sa ekosistema para sa kaayuhan sa katawhan.”

The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity

www.teebweb.org
 Regulating Services
are BENEFITS obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes
REGULATING FLOOD
 Regulating FLOOD and EROSION

Erosion on hills
Varied Upland Activities
 Flow of Sediments
Eroded sediments from Iponan River drains
Iponan River
to Macajalar Bay showing extensive landslide
slumps or slips along its riverbank slopes

Elpidio Paras

www.kagay-an.com/UP-NIGS
 Soil EROSION
(Pag-anas sa yuta)
Siltation Rivers Siltation Hydro Dams
Sedimentation of Coastal Seas

Description English: Flooding from Tropical Storm Washi

Date 22 December 2011, 03:39:14

Before After
Source NASA official- GeoTIFF
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76780&eocn=image&eoci=morenh
Author NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team.
Regulating FLOOD and EROSION
(and DISASTER)

Nartea/Malacañang Photo Bureau/PNA

 Perfect Recipe for Disaster
PRECARIOUS DENUDED HEAVY
GEOMORPHOLOGY HEADWATERS RAINFALL
What have we done to ensure flow
of ES?
Ecosystem Restoration
 Restoration
POOR GROUND COVER FAIR GROUND COVER GOOD GROUND COVER
10% of ground covered 37% of ground covered 60-75% of ground
with plants and litters with plants and litters covered with plants and
litters

Surface run-off Surface run-off

Surface run-off
= 75% of rainfall = 14% of rainfall
= 2% of rainfall or 12.4 mm

Source: RBCO
Philippines ESP
National Network

on
PRESENTATION OUTLINE:

1. CDORBMC

2. Ecosystem Services (ES)

3. Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in CDORB

What is Payment for Ecosystem Services?

Voluntary transaction in which an

environmental service (ES), or a form
of land use management likely to
secure that services.

In order to achieve:
• improvements in ecosystem
service (ES) flows
• promote sustainable livelihood
and income
PES in Mt.Kalatungan
 Adequate Water Supply
CORPORATIONS
Flood Control SELLER:
BUYERS COOPERATIVES
MILALITTRA

SUSTAINABLE
HOUSEHOLD FINANCING
SCHEME
FUND MANAGER
(intermediary party)

MONITORING
SCHOOLS
BODY
-CDORBMC
-- PAMB
--NGO
--Private reps
CHURCH
Fig.1 MILALITTRA Community Development Plan
Highlights on PES

“Sustaining Green Growth by

Valuing Ecosystem Services in the
Cagayan de Oro River Basin, Mindanao”
•IUCN Netherlands for 1-year
•Implement PES in Mt.Kalatungan
•Establish new PES in Mt. Kitanglad
•Creation of M&E in CDORBMC PES-Technical
Working Group
•Social marketing campaign on PES CDORB
Prepared by:

Hilly Ann Roa – Quiaoit, PhD

Angeline E. Edyesca

THANK YOU!