Developing Watershed Management Organizations in Pilot Sub-Basins of the Ping River Basin

In order to help clarify the overall context of activities under this project, the first part of this report begins with an overview of the Ping River basin in the context of national and provincial patterns of economic growth and environmental change. The overview includes a brief introduction to some of the key natural resource management problems that are perceived as resulting from these changes, and major policy responses that have sought to address these problems. This is followed by a brief review of efforts that have sought to move toward development of basin and sub-basin level plans and organization in the Ping River Basin, including introduction of concepts related to natural and administrative hierarchies, and discussion of some key gaps and operational issues. This sets the stage for subsequent parts of the report. The second part seeks to pursue in greater detail concepts, processes and data associated with surveying the diversity of Ping River sub- basins. These are then used to develop technical criteria and indicators for use in helping to select pilot sub-basins for the project. This approach is then compared with the actual pilot sub-basin selection process that occurred during implementation of the project. In its third part, the report seeks to build on theory and both international and local experience in developing an array of organizational alternatives, and a process for developing sub-basin level management organizations in the Ping Basin. The fourth part of the report seeks to review progress in project implementation up to the time this report was written, and to identify some key lessons from experience under the project. The fifth and final part of the report seeks to draw on learning under this project to contribute to development of the agenda for further RSBO development in the Ping, and possibly other river basins of Thailand.

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