Coordinating catchment management is a matter of oversighting the activities of many organisations (including one's own), examining whether what each organisation is doing is
- consistent with its commitments (under catchment and stormwater plans, and its own corporate plan, for instance), and
- currently appropriate given the actual needs of the catchment and receiving water bodies (understanding of these needs continues to evolve, so their commitments need to be kept under review as well).
A well developed catchment management or stormwater management plan will include a 'plan / do / review' loop. It will identify who is responsible for reviewing performance and outcomes , and it will describe how the implementing bodies are to receive feedback so they can improve and adapt their practice.
See Reviewing Catchment Management for specific information on how to evaluate organisational performance and ecological outcomes.
Analysis
Coordinating catchment management (Australian Parliamentary Report)
Methodologies and tools
see also Organisational Change
Examples
Australia
Catchment Management Authorities (NSW)
Working together, coordinating management (South Australia)
Includes a useful matrix illustrating overlapping responsibilities.
An integrated catchment management framework for the ACT
Catchment Management Case Studies (Australia)
See also Existing Water and Land Management Plans (NSW)
International
Coordinating catchment management (Kentucky, USA)
This site describes arrangements for coordinating activities of a network of stakeholders operating under diverse plans.
Linking Local Watershed Management Efforts Across the Lake Ontario Basin (Conference Report, USA)
Watershed Management Planning publications (Chesapeake Bay, USA)
