Integrated Area Conservation and Resource Enhancement (I-CARE) Year 3 PO-Managed

Proponent: Third District Development Alliance of Resource Managers (TDDARM), Inc.
Amount: 1,562,400.00
Project Start Date: October 01, 2012
Project End Date: October 01, 2013
Grant Type: Site Grants
Area: Visayas
Grant Status: Past

Project Goals and Objectives

General Objective

Specific Project Objectives

To enhance the leadership capacity of the alliance and the member People’s Organizations;

To strengthen the role and capacities of Bantay Bukid Brigade towards resource management;

To capacitate TDDARM on business management to effectively and efficiently manage the businesses and to generate income through enhanced production and marketing;

To increase the education and awareness campaign throughout the 3^rd District of Negros Occidental in order to influence people’s participation in conservation.

Outputs and Outcomes

Strategy

Output

1. PO Governance Advancement and Standardization (POGAS)

Leadership training and organizational development of TDDARM as alliance, of each of the 8 PO members and the second liners. A 5-year road map will be drawn for each organization.
Networking and fund-raising skills training with an output of at least 9 proposals.
Review of 5-Year strategic plan
Review and respond to the organizational need of individual POs (Manual of Operations, networking skills etc.)

Conduct daily foot patrol
Increase support for BBB’s through provision of accident insurances, logistics support
Review and analysis of previous data of Biodiversity Monitoring and Evaluation
Provision of accident insurance

3. Upland Conservation-oriented Agriculture and Regenerative Economic (U-CARE) system’s

application

Training on Clustering Approach to Agro-enterprise – a module developed by MUAD that aims to bring the products of farmers to the market at a competitive price. The focus products will be abaca, coffee and taro or whichever is available during the training period.

Conduct market study on saleable abaca handicrafts which is a prerequisite to determine the appropriate product development training which will also be conducted.

Production of Marketing materials (brochure, calling cards) when the products are already available.

4. Uniting People’s Organizations and Diverse stakeholders for the conservation of NNNP

Natural resources (UPOD Na)

Printing of 10 billboards to be installed in the strategic areas
Printing of posters to be distributed to the schools and barangay halls near the park
Regular coordination with concerned government line agencies, Provincial Environment