Allan Dale, Terrain Natural Resource Management Presentation given during the 5th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Cairns, Australia from a key sponsor. Overview: Terrain: Who we are? Our role in Integrated Catchment Management (ICM). The need for healthy institutional arrangements for ICM. The institutional structures needed. Key institutional functions needed. Towards managing institutional systems.

1. Setting Foundations For
Integrated Catchment
Management
Dr. Allan Dale

2. Overview:
• Terrain: Who we are?
• Our role in Integrated Catchment
Management (ICM).
• The need for healthy institutional
arrangements for ICM.
• The institutional structures needed.
• Key institutional functions needed.
• Towards managing institutional systems.

3. Terrain NRM: Who We Are
• A community-based not-for-profit charged with
seeking consensus on catchment health.
• We negotiate plan targets, mobilise resources
and monitor progress and results.
• We seek to improve the health of the
institutional arrangements for catchment
management.
• Personal background in adaptive management
research, policy and management.

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7. What it Takes: Healthy
Institutional Arrangements
• Systems need to create the capacity
for adaptive decisions at all levels.
• Systems need to enable integrated use
of knowledge.
• Systems need to facilitate connectivity
and integration.

8. What It Takes: Key
Institutional Structures
•Strong regulatory agencies.
• Science institutions prepared to co-manage.
• Knowledgeable industry/conservation sectors.
• Agencies prepared to invest in outcomes.
• An integrative organisation that can bring people
together to agree targets and mobilise effort.

9. What it Takes:
Institutional Functions
• Planning and target setting.
• Research and development.
• On ground actions and delivery.
• Education, capacity, engagement.
• Monitoring, evaluation, reporting.

10. Some Achievements From
Our Systemic Approach

11. From Projects to Systems:
• It is easy to think about projects, much more difficult to get
integrated catchment systems.
• This will take time, but without it, progress will tend to stop-start
depending on funds.
• Terrain encourages all countries to start building the health of
their catchment management systems alongside projects.
• Terrain is a specialist organisation that can support donor
agencies, countries and catchment regions to build systems.

12. Who to Contact?
Dr. Allan Dale
CEO, Terrain NRM.
alland@terrain.org.au
40438000/ 0418736422