Impact Evaluation Study of LISCOP Project in CALABARZON

Description

The Laguna De Bay Institutional Strengthening and Community Participation (LISCOP) project is one such development program aimed at improving the environmental quality of Laguna Lake and its watershed and strengthen the development of institution that will support the lake’s sustained management. LISCOP project started in 2004 and lasted until April 2014.

This study entitled ‘Impact Evaluation of LISCOP Project’, is essentially an assessment of how the LISCOP project, (being considered in here as an intervention), being evaluated affects the outcomes, the effects of which maybe intended or unintended. More generally, this evaluation establishes whether the intervention has a welfare effect on individuals, households and communities, and whether this effect can be attributed to the concerned
intervention.

The objectives of the LISCOP’s impact evaluation study were to measure the environmental impacts; participation and involvement of communities and other stakeholders in watershed planning and management; environmental compliance of regulated establishments; and LLDA transformation as an apex organization for lake basin management. Moreover, the study evaluated and identified lessons learned in the implementation of the
program in support of decision-making in the conduct of similar program/projects in the future.