Participatory Mapping for Community-Based Watershed Management, Lesson Learn from Central Java and West Nusa Tenggara

Abstract

The rehabilitate degraded watersheds efforts at the national level tends to ineffective, due to the lack of synergy between stakeholders and community involvement. This paper aims to give an idea that planning for rehabilitation of degraded watersheds can be started from the community level, through the involvement of the community in spatial planning. It can be done by integrating watershed and administration unit with participatory mapping method. From two locations in Central Java and West Nusa Tenggara, it shows that participatory mapping could be implemented as a method to identify existing land use, land cover and finding the problem in their environment. Furthermore, spatial planning can be developed together by the community in different village but in the same watershed area.