ICIWaRM Holds Shared Vision Planning Training Course for Dominican Republic Water Professionals
On October 13-15, ICIWaRM engineers led a virtual training course on shared vision planning for about thirty water professionals from the Dominican Republic. The objective of the course was to help develop and prepare a planning team for collaborative development of a decision model for integrated water resources management of the Guayubín sub-basin in the northeastern part of the country. The course was part of a USAID-funded project, “Development of a Decision-Support Tool for the Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the Guayubín Subbasin, Yaque del Norte River Basin, Northwestern Dominican Republic”.
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Participants in the course came from many of the key entities that will be involved in watershed planning or management for the Guayubín. These included:
- The Presidential Commission for the Land Use Planning and Management of the Yaque del Norte River Basin (CRYN);
- Government agencies such as the National Water Resources Institute (INDRHI) and its UNESCO center CEHICA, and National Institute for Potable Water and Sanitation (INAPA);
- NGOs such as the Fundacion REDDOM (Rural Economic Development Dominicana) and Plan Sierra;
- Irrigation Boards (Horacio Vasquez, Gral. Fernando Valerio, Ms. Bogaert, Canal UFE);
- The Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM); and
- The private sector company Consultores & Asesores Profesionales-CAP
USAID also participated in the course.
The course consisted of an introduction to the concepts of SVP; constructing the team, identifying problems and opportunities; develop objectives and indicators; developing a decision support model and a baseline; formulating alternatives; evaluating the alternatives; selecting, validating and approving alternatives; working with decision-makers; and incorporating climate change. Further work with the agencies, stakeholders and interest groups who participated in the training course is anticipated in the next phase of the project.