Integrated Watershed Management System...

In order to enhance local community and private sector cooperation on biodiversity conservation and natural resource use, TCF is facilitating local communities to establish Watershed Management Committee (WMC) between nine districts in two provinces (Hovsgol and Bulgan).

The WMC is the ecosystem advisory body for the EUWA, and responsible for designing policies and passing regulations with the consent of the local governments through the District committees (DCs) for the EUWA concerning natural recourse uses and conservation activities. The District Committees are the most inclusive, high participatory link for the local communities in the EUWA inter-district management system. They are feedback channel for the local residents to voice their opinions to the WMC in order to influence the policy and regulation development processes. As such, the main responsibility of the DCc is to coordinate activities and policies related to conservation and use between district governments and local residents.

The WMC of two provinces and the DCs from nine districts are established. The second WMC meeting is scheduled in September.