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4. Results and Lessons Learned
Achievements
- Increased the awareness of key stakeholders, project participants and the general public on environmental issues affecting the city. This awareness was translated in the demo-communities into practical gurban home gardensh sustained through the segregation of waste at the household level.
- Created a group of EPM champions from the LGU and civil society organizations who are currently continuing the initiatives started by the L-EPM project outside the formal LGU structure and gradually institutionalising the process inside the LGU, focusing in particular on solid waste and water resources issues.
- The L-EPM process has been institutionalized in the Water District, a quasi government corporation, which is now taking the lead together with the NGO Pusod,Inc. in addressing watershed resource issue .
Lessons learned during project implementation
- Political leadership, commitment and support is critical and should be mobilized throughout. The establishment of a continuous feedback mechanism is essential to secure this support which is fundamental for institutionalization in the LGU.
- Community mobilization is a very important component for implementing sustainable demonstration projects.
- Trust and confidence among the key actors on project implementation should be seeded from the start for effective project implementation.
- Capacity building in problem analysis, strategy formulation, project implementation, confidence building, conflict management and consensus building is very necessary, and must be timely and practitioner-oriented.
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