|
This
page
was
last updated on:
June 29, 2010
See the Process
|
|
|
 |
Participatory Land
Use Planning In Solomon Island |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
1:20,000 scale (2 x vertical exaggeration) Participatory
3D Model (P3DM) of Chivoko village in the Tavula ward, Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands.
(June, 2009).
Note:
The model measuring 1.2 m x 0.4 m (192 km2 on the
ground)
has been the 1st Participatory 3D Model
constructed on the Solomon Islands.
The model has been done to serve a key
negotiation tool for the Chivoko community to map out
the watershed and coastal areas it depends on to address
the challenges facing sustainable resource management
and conservation.
A total of
60 representatives from the Chivoko community including youth,
elders, women and men, students and chiefs;
representatives from "Sasamunga Live and Learn", The
Nature Conservancy (TNC), the "Lauru Land Conference of Tribal
Communities" (LLCTC), and the Choiseul Provincial Fisheries
attended the exercise.
The initiative aims at securing the
conservation of the Chivoko Watershed forests (approx
8000 ha) and place them legally beyond the reach of
industrial logging ventures. The project will draw on
national expertise to produce a collaborative watershed
management plan which will provide guidance for
sustainable forest development practices by a community
cooperative. |
|
View P3DM Where ? in a larger map
|
|
Recommended readings:
|
 |
Method/tools:
P3DM
and GIS |
|
|
Details on the exercise:
|
|
|
Highest elevation on model: 4,120 m a.s.l. |
|
|
Lowest
elevation on model: 2,380 m a.s.l.
|
|
|
Contour
interval: 20 m |
|
|
Tips for practitioners
|
|
 |
Process documentation
[ PDF: 0.4 MB
| 8 pages ].
To read, you need Adobe Acrobat. |
|
|
|
Image courtesy of
C. Siota and and J. Kereseka © / 2009 |
|
Image courtesy of
C. Siota and and J. Kereseka © / 2009 |
Image courtesy of
C. Siota and and J. Kereseka © / 2009 |
Image courtesy of
C. Siota and and J. Kereseka © / 2009 |
Image courtesy of
C. Siota and and J. Kereseka © / 2009 |
|
P.S. This exercise is a follow-up to the
regional P3DM training organised by
CTA and
WWF In Fiji in 2005. A number of delegates from NGOs and CBOs were trained in organising
and conducting P3DM exercises. C. Siota attended the training and put acquired skills into
practice in replicating the process inSolomon
Islands. The P3DM exercise was a
success! The resources and watersheds were mapped and
this project will move on to the next stage of
implementing the sustainable milling of timbers from the
forest with a sustainable management plan of use. This
P3DM will be replicated in Sasamunga in Choiseul this
year and SILMMA network members have shown interest in
this mapping tool if they could be trained as well. This
tool has indeed boost community confidence in
interacting with foreign visitors! |
|
Contacts:
Catherine Siota, The Nature Conservancy,
P.O.Box 759, Honiara,Solomon Islands,
csiota@tnc.org
www.nature.org
Jimmy Kereseka, Lauru Land Conference of
Tribal Communities (LLCTC), Taro Island,Choiseul,
Solomon Islands, email:
jkereseka@tnc.org
|
|
 |
 |
 |
|
The exercise has been made possible by the
coordinated effort of The Nature Conservancy, the
Lauru Land Conference of Tribal Communities (LLCTC)
and funding provided by the by Swiss Reinsurance
Company, Switzerland. |
More case studies on P3DM used in the
context of PLUP around the globe
            
|
 |
