A fruitful year for the nine supervised cooperative based on the data obtained from its operation and observation conducted the coops are on their uptrend. Although there were some gray areas in the course of their operation but it was handily work out by coop leaders so that coop operation would not be hampered.
The Board of Directors had been doing their part and the organization had define their responsibilities. Although Vision, Mission and Goal had not been clearly understood by all of the members but the cloud of doubt was slowly wiped out with the positive response of the coop members to various activities conducted by their respective cooperatives.
Members Commitment to their coop had been pouring down the line because they have a sense of ownership of their cooperatives and they realized the benefits they acquired from the organization as shown in the establishment of members livelihood enterprise and the prompt payment of the loan the received from their respective cooperatives.
Although second line leaders had not been fully developed but current coop leadership had been initiating the move to discover and develop leaders from its pool of members.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
THE NINE SUPERVISED COOPERATIVE in the municipality of Calubian, Leyte maintained their uptrend. This was attributed to the all out support/cooperation and well oiled management of coop leaders and members.
Based on the preliminary data, 614 Jobs had been created out of the 530 Jobs targeted till CY 2010 while coop membership expand from 753 last December 2008 to 853 as of November 2009 or 13.28 % increased in General Membership.
On CBU generation of the five old Cooperatives, there had been an increase by 23% from 1,360,706.07 to 1,678,528.02 as of November 2009. While the four new supervised coop posted a higher average CBU increased of 28% from 628,297.20 to 804,909.02. and also the nine supervised cooperative had attained a net income of 1,020,232.51.
Sustainable Credit and Savings Services had been the major operation of the nine cooperatives. These services enhance the establishment and sustainability of members livelihood enterprise. A total of P8,032,943.24 loan had been released for CY 2009 while the coops collected/received P 6,601,036.10 loan payment from its member borrower.
Reinforcing factors included the provision of organization and technical trainings, cross visit to other areas and the continues technical and financial support provided by DISOP and CLAD personnel in the locality. Also worth mentioning was the outstanding management practices adopted and implemented by coop leaders which contributed to coop sustainability and viability.
CAPABILITY BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF
AGRICULTURAL AND COASTAL ASSOCIATIONS IN CALUBIAN,
( PHASE IV CY 2014-2016)
A PROJECT FUNDED BY BELGIAN THROUGH DISOP
ANNUAL NARRATIVE
REPORT
NARRATIVE REPORT OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
January to December 2016
PARTNER’S COORDINATES
NAME OF
IMPLEMENTER : CALUBIAN
LIVELIHOOD ASSISTANCE FOR
DEVELOPMENT
ADDRESS : Brgy. Cabalquinto, Calubian, Leyte
TELEPHONE
NO. : NONE
FAX
NO. : NONE
EMAIL/WEB
ADDRESS : agustindignos@yahoo.com
LEGAL
REPRESENTATIVE/ : JUANITO M. BARING
POSITION President/CEO
PERSON
RESPONSIBLE FOR : AGUSTIN L. DIGNOS
THE PROJECT/POSITION Operation Coordinator
BANK
ACCOUNT COORDINATES; 356702500010
HUMAN RESOURCES
INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT CY 2015
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Position
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Work Period
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Work Time
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Total Salary
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Portion of Salary
Paid by DISOP
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Social Security
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President/CEO
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Juanito M. Baring Sr.
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P156,000.00
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Operation Coordinator
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Agustin L. Dignos
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P144,000.00
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Operation Coordinator
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Antonio G. Nierras
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P144,000.00
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Community Organizer
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Fe Patricia A. Mapula
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P 132,000.00
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Community Organizer
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Minandro J. Napoles
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P 132,000.00
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Community Organizer
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Jacinto S. Ebero
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P 132,000.00
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Community Organizer
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Marecel M. Fiel
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P 132,000.00
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Credit Officer
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Renan M. Fiel
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Tuesday-Saturday
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8:00-12:00
1:00- 5:00
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P 132,000.00
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Posting Clerk
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Imelda R. Demillo
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Tuesday-Saturday
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8:00-12:00
1:00-5:00
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P 132,000.00
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Bookkeeper
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Lea C. Pecajas
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Tuesday-Saturday
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8:00-12:00
1:00-5:00
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P 132,000.00
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INTRODUCTION
This
year 2016 is the final year of implementation of the Phase IV of the project.
Activities centered towards rehabilitation of livelihood projects of partner
families were being undertaken and
introduction of disaster preparedness mechanism was initially introduced to the
recipients.
While
strengthening of the previous 13 associations were given emphasis, five new groups
had already been organized and were already successfully registered with the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
To make every
group sustainable in their operation, management has tried their best to
minimize membership withdrawal by adopting strict recruitment policies. CBU
generation which are mostly located in
the northernmost barangays had already been in sustainable phasing, in fact in
the first quarter of this year total CBU for all the organizations had posted
an almost 2 percent increase compared to 2015 totals.
Activities
conducted by the project had already been focused on developing value chain
especially for swine and vegetables. Heifer interventions are concentrated on
supporting the swine industry as well as giving direct benefit to the local
farmers by absorbing yellow corn production which is the main ingredient of the
feed mill which had been set up by the Heifer-BRESA project.
To improve the breeds
of swine used in fattening, another support services established was the
breeding center. Both breeding center and feed mill were established at Sitio
Santo Nino of Brgy Villalon. An agricultural cooperative which is the Bresa
Agricultural Cooperative was organized to act as the main actor in implementing
the project supported by the Calubian Central Farmers Association.
CAPABILITY BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF
AGRICULTURAL AND COASTAL ASSOCIATIONS IN CALUBIAN PROVINCE OF LEYTE (Phase IV
CY 2014-2016)
NARRATIVE REPORT OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
(JANUARY –DECEMBER 2016)
PLANNED ACTIVITIES
AND TARGET VERSUS ACCOMPLISHMENT AND
RESULTS
ACTIVITIES AND TARGETS ACCOMPLISHMENT
AND RESULT
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
THE BENEFICIARIES FAMILIES GAIN ACCESS TO A
(SELF) EMPLOYMENT OR STRENTHENED IT IN A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE
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SPECIFIC
OBJECTIVES/INDICATORS:
THE ASSOCIATIONS/NGOs ARE CAPACITATED TO MANAGE THEIR
AFFAIRS AND LINKED AMONG THEMSELVES AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS TO CREATE A
SUSTAINABLE AND CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE IMLPEMENTATION OF THEIR LIFE
PROJECT.
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DATA 1.Total No. of Association
(Cum.)
DATA 2. Total No. of Federation
OVI. No. of members of the Assn.
OVI. No. of Brgys. With integrated Natural Resources Mgt.
plans in collaboration with local authorities
OVI. Qualitative assessment of the achievement of
collective Goals in terms of change in attitude (scale 1 to 4)
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As targeted for this phase, five new
groups were already organized and just recently all of them had already been
registered with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
The federation of all 18
associations/coops had been revitalized. Election of the new set of officers
was conducted last April 8, 2016. Mr
Jonael Lubiano was chosen President while Mrs Luz Padoga was chosen as the
Chairman of the Board. Requirements for SEC Registration has been prepared
such as the By Laws and the Constitutions and the TIN of every prospective members. However, some problems were
encountered during the preparation of the documentary requirements especially
for the TIN number since the BIR is implementing strict policies thus
delaying the submission of this requirement. Another emerging problem which
was found a hindrance for the smooth operation of the federation was the
volatile political issues involving some of
the federation officers. Thus, operation of the federation has been
temporarily stopped.
At the end of December 31, 2016, the 18
associations had accumulated a total of 1,558 members which is 43 percent higher compared
to the baseline data of 1,091 in December 2013. A slight decrease in
membership had been observed due to membership withdrawal .
Most of the barangays supervised had
integrated natural resources management plan in their masterplan of
activities within the barangay specially info dissemination on the effects of
climate change. In fact, considerable number of barangays had already
undergone trainings on Disaster Preparedness and had even established early
warning devices for major rivers in the municipality of Calubian.
The
ultimate performance of the different organizations depends on how they
perform to achieve their personal and group goals. Personal goals were set
and agreed by all the members of the different associations and this pertains
to the performance of every member on improving themselves economically and
how they contribute to the improvement of the environment. The overall rating
of the individual goal obtained during the final evaluation in the last
couple of months was 2.0. This simply
means there are much of the members to be done to really achieve the
identified goal. Capitalization is still in the minimum level ranging from
3,000 to 3,500; moderate involvement of the members towards supporting
association activities, although environmental activities had slowly been
conducted and achieved.
For
the group goal, the performance of the individual associations towards
improving their economic standing such as capital build-up generation and
strengthening the services of the group and their involvement towards
improving the environment is the primary parameters to be rated. The final
rating result of 1.60 is lesser
compared to the rating of the personal goal which was 2.0. The rating could
be attributed to the performance of leaders of the respective associations.
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RESULT 1. The
Families are provided with skills training in sustainable Agriculture and
Animal raising to diversify their Agriculture Enterprise.
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OVI. No. of persons (formed) ;percentage of women
Percentage of youth(< 30 yrs. Old)
OVI. No. of Barefoot Tech or Farmers
Multiplier/CAHW(Cumulative) percentage of women percentage of youth (<30 o:p="" old="" yrs="">
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There was not much technical
trainings conducted during the first semester of 2016 since the effect of El
Nino in the later part of 2015 had extended up to the first semester of 2016.
However, series of trainings on
Improved Animal Management(IAM) were
conducted in nine different venues, those trainings were intended for new
partner families who were scheduled to receive different livestock with a
total participants of 157 persons. Two other technical trainings were
conducted in the second quarter of 2016 which include Plant Nursery
Establishment and Plant Propagation and Fish Processing which were conducted
in Abuyog, Leyte and Brgy Caruyucan of Calubian, respectively. For the last
two quarters, two batches of Vegetable
trainings were conducted at Brgy Villalon and Kawayan Bugtong. Another two
batches of Rice Production training were conducted also in the same barangays
of Villalon and Kawayan Bugtong. Another seminar was conducted to support
members of different associations who had started supplying the Display
Center with different processed products and this is the “Packaging, Labeling
and Store Management Seminar. Two co-equal important seminars which were the
Corn and Cacao Production were also conducted last October and November. The
cacao production was conducted by the Provincial Training Staff of the Office of the Provincial
Agriculturist at the ABC Hall, while the corn production was a season long
training which was conducted at Brgy Guadalupe.
CLAD with the assistance of the
Office of the Municipal Agriculturist
had conducted significant numbers of different organizational and technical
trainings that had influenced and changed the lives of our clients, the
marginal farmers and fishermen.
OVI No. of person involved in the Application of
Diversified and Sustainable Agriculture Production Technique
OVI. No. of persons involved in non-agricultural
micro-enterprises
OVI. No. of persons involved both in diversified and
sustainable Agriculture and in non- Agricultural Micro Enterprise
Final evaluation on the effect
of these different technical trainings
to the members of the associations was conducted before the year ended. In
all the players evaluated, only the youth component has fallen short of the
target (only 59% accomplished). This is probably due to different priorities
of the youth instead of agricultural activities. Women showed greater
participation in all aspects in agricultural development. In fact, 61% of the
clients who joined different trainings and formed were women. Even as
farmer-multiplier or barefoot technicians, women had showed their
contribution; number of participant had even surpassed our target.
During this last year of project
implementation, more farmers had shown interest in adopting agricultural
production technologies. This is because they had already seen the good
effect of adopting and applying the seed technologies. Other farmers had even
requested for a technical demonstrations of different crops in their farm
areas. A total of 541 farmers or 361% had already applied sustainable agricultural
production technologies, 169 of them (282%) were also involved in
non-agricultural micro-enterprise while 124 persons (138%) had applied both
agricultural and non-agricultural enterprises.
OVI. Degree of application of recommended technical skills
(scale of 1-4)
All technical trainings planned
to be conducted last year had been conducted. In fact, some trainings were
conducted several times in different locations such as the livestock seminars
and some technical trainings for different crops. In terms of degree of
application of the recommended technical skills, the rating of 3 was not
achieved. This happened since overall rating was pulled down by the rating of
some inactive organizations. However, the project garnered a fair rating of
2.46 .
R.I.A. Technical training for implementation/Establishment
of sustainable enterprises
1.A. No. of technical training conducted
Instead of conducting trainings
for crops during the first semester of 2016, series of trainings on Improved
Animal Management(IAM) were conducted
in nine different venues, those trainings were intended for new partner families
who were scheduled to receive different livestock with a total participants
of 157 persons. This happened since the 2015 El Niño has extended in the
first semester of 2016. Another technical trainings were conducted in the
second quarter of 2016 which include Plant Nursery Establishment and Plant
Propagation and Fish Processing which were conducted in Abuyog, Leyte and
Brgy Caruyucan of Calubian, respectively. For the last two quarters, two batches of Vegetable trainings were
conducted at Brgy Villalon and Kawayan Bugtong. Another two batches of Rice
Production training were conducted also in the same barangays of Villalon and
Kawayan Bugtong. Another seminar was conducted to support members of
different associations who had started supplying the Display Center with
different processed products and this is the “Packaging, Labeling and Store
Management Seminar. Two co-equal important seminars which were the Corn and
Cacao Production were also conducted last October and November. The cacao
production was conducted by the Provincial Training Staff of the Office of the Provincial
Agriculturist at the ABC Hall, while the corn production was a season long
training which was conducted at Brgy Guadalupe.
A total of 18 technical trainings were
conducted during the last year of implementation. These effort coupled with
dedicated field facilitators was conducted to ensure the success of project
implementation.
R.I.A.2. Follow-up in the Implementation of Technical Training
R.I.A.3. Identification/formation of barefooted
technician/CAHW
1.A. # of seminars/Conference conducted
Barefoot Technicians (BTs) were
among the priority in terms of formation activities conducted for the past
six months. A special training of Plant nursery establishment and plant
propagation training was conducted giving BTs augmentation of their knowledge
on crop production. Support for materials and inputs were also provided such
as plants to serve as scion groove and budding knives. These were given to
the successful participants of the training.
BTs were required to set up
their own nurseries, produce their own grafted plantlets, maintain their own
scion groove and conduct other
activities relevant to plant propagation. Evaluation of their work is yet to
be undertaken.
COMPONENT ANALYSIS RESULT 1
Capacity
building not only on the organization but also on the individual family
enterprise is a must. Transfer of new technologies in crop and animal
production should be emphasized to develop family enterprise to command on an
increase in family income.
Training needs survey should be a regular
activity to have an updated information on the technology gap of coop members
and officers especially in Agriculture and non- agriculture enterprise. This
must be done in such a way that the coop management and members could plan on
what enterprise they wish to undertake.
Development and formation of
barefoot technician should be enhanced to buy-out efficient transfer of technology
thru modelling and farmer to farmer approach.
RESULT 2. The
Beneficiaries families are trained to manage their organization/federation,
while making sure that they are viable, efficient and in synergy with all the
local development stakeholders around a common platform
OVI. Degree of maturity of the previously assisted assns.(OCSAT-
Before 2014)
OVI. Degree of maturity of the newly assisted assns.(OCSAT
after 2013)
Although association officers
can effectively managed their association, problems had been cropping up in
the course of its implementation. Organizational stability had been in
questioned. Nevertheless, things can be managed effectively by the officers
and members of the association.
Five new associations are on
the right track. Learning by doing although rather slow but benefits on the
things that they do in their respective associations had been filling up. Based
on the OCSAT result which was conducted in last month of the year, ratings
were a little lower than its forecast. For the older 13 associations, the
rating was 2.56 instead of the target of 3.5
while for younger group, 2.23 instead of 3.
OVI. Degree of maturity of the federation (OCSAT)
As of this date the
organization of the federation is in place pending on the completion of
numerous requirements that has to be completed. Coop leaders were required to
get their respective TIN numbers being one of the requirements for
registration to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
OVI. Percentage of Assn. which have agreement with
governmental institution/private organizations which can give them technical
or financial assistance
Most of the association supervised by CLAD have an
agreement with govt. institutions/private organization which have given them
technical and financial assistance. For the private sector, one of the very
active International NGO was the Australian Red Cross who helped our
beneficiaries not just only technical
but also housing needs of some members. This NGO had also actively
linked with us in terms of technical collaboration. Heifer international had
always been there to support our common clients as well as other church-based
organizations like the UCCP, Catholic church and others. As per result of
evaluation, we surpassed our target of 50% since 60% of our POs had accessed
support from private organizations.
OVI: Percentage of associations which have agreements with
governmental institutions which can give them technical or financial
assistance.
For 2016, a target of 75% of the assisted POs could come
up with an agreement with government institutions. However, final evaluation
showed that only 50% were able to access some assistance from these
government institutions. Usually, the following government agencies had
extended assistance to our clients; the
Department of Agrarian Reform which had some agreement with most associations
especially those under Agrarian Reform activities, the Philippine Coconut
Authority (PCA), DA Regional Office,
the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), DENR for the
National Greening Program, DTI, and DOST among others.
R.2. A.1.
Organizational Assessment of 18 Associations assisted by the project.
1. A. % increase in membership of the 13 old Assn.
1.A. % increase in membership 5 new Assn.
For this phase, a very limited
increase of membership for old POs had
been recorded which is 3 percent only of the targeted 15%. However, a soaring
increase of membership was recorded for the new POs which is 52%, a 347%
increase of the targeted 15%. This happened since the areas for new
associations still have plenty of potential members who could readily be
absorbed for expansion.
1.A. % increase CBU
in the 13 old Assns.
1.A. % increase in CBU of the 5 new Assn.
Same as the limited increase in
membership had been experience by old coop. The twin towers of
sustainability, membership and CBU had been dipping in the 13 old
Cooperative. Things should be iron out on this important aspect of
sustainability.
With the increasing percentage
of new members, a trajectory increase in capital generation had been achieved
by the five new Cooperative/Associations. This means a systematic
implementation of activities in the association/cooperatives.
R. 2. A.2
Organizational and human resources management training
1.A. No. of Pre-Membership Seminar
R. 2. A.3. Strengthening sessions for coops and federations
1.A. Number of Sessions
At the end of the third
quarter, one pre-membership seminar had been conducted at Brgy Cristina
intended for the members of MVCROP, a newly organized PO which has recently
been registered with DOLE. A total of 46 persons attended the said PMES.
However, series of PMES were also conducted to barangays considered as
expansion areas of the project which include barangay Dulao, Anislagan,
Igang, Guadalupe and Bunacan. A total of
181 persons had attended the said PMES.
Only one strengthening session
had been conducted with primary aim of helping coops/associations to achieve
stability not only in membership/CBU generation but on the Coop/Assn as a
whole. However, this strengthening
session had been supported with series of organizational capacity enhancement
activities and seminars conducted in different POs. These include 16 sessions
of Cornerstone Workshop, six sessions of Participatory Self-Review and
Planning, 17 General Assembly Meetings, two sessions of Value Based Holistic
Community Development, one Simplified Bookkeeping and Accounting intended for
newly organized POs, one session for Entrepreneurial Values Enhancement
Seminar and one Strategic Planning Workshop Seminar.
R. 2. A.4. Organization of cross visit to other project
1.A. No. of cross visit
This year, the target for cross
visit was the Biodiversity Complex at Bilar, Bohol since some our POs will
soon establish forest reforestation project which is in collaboration with
the DENR’s National Greening Project. Other sites visited by the group was
the Sikatuna Protected Landscape which displayed nature being cared of
properly by the government or NGO and other POs assisted by Soil and Water
Conservation Foundation.
R. 2. A.5. Project staff formation
1.A. No. of seminars/conference(Disop)
1.A. No. of seminars/conference other agencies
CLAD staff had attended seminar
workshop not only sponsored and conducted by DISOP but by other government
and non-government organization this was done to develop the staff competency
in the implementation of DISOP program and project.
ANALYSIS RESULT 2
Based on
the overall performance of the different assisted POs, the project still at
the passing mark. Although old associations’ performance was leveling off,
new organizations performed high being in their honeymoon stage. The good
thing CLAD management observed was the expansion of the sources of assistance the majority of our
POs had received. This therefore improved the co-funding strategy the project
has been promoting.
In terms
of sustainability which is one of the basic goal every association or
cooperative has been aiming for, practices and experiences learned by our
assisted POs had been already imparted to other organizations outside the
municipality who are also neophytes in organizing POs. Visitors coming from
Eastern Samar had learned some insights in organizing farmers through
interactions from our POs.
CHART 1. PERCENTAGE INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP FOR 13 OLD
ASSOCIATION JANUARY TO DECEMBER 2015
CHART 2. PERCENTAGE INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP FOR 5 NEW
ASSOCIATION
CHART 3. CBU GENERATION
OF 13 OLD ASSN./COOPERATIVES
CHART 4. CBU GENERATION
OF 5 NEW COOPERATIVES
Result 3. The Local
Organization implement activities to improve their environment
OVI. Degree of perception of the improvement of the
environment (scale 1 to 4)
OVI. No. of trees planted cumulate
Awareness setting on the importance of
conserving the environment should be actively undertaken in a way that local
populace would initiate activities that would in a way enhance the perception
of populace on the environment.
Being part of the Impact
Assessment, our different POs had tried their best to conduct activities
relevant to improving the environment. The scheduled synchronized tree planting was
conducted in the month of November. A rating of 2.35 on the perception of improving
the environment was achieved which means that much should still be done to
further enhance and rehabilitate mother earth.
OVI. No. of marine protected areas(MPA’s) (cum.)
OVI. No. of water system implemented
A marine protected area had
been established in Brgy. Ferdinand, a mangrove area conservation project
more than 2000 mangrove propagules had been planted in the one hectare
protected area last year. Additional propagules had been prepared to further
expand the planted area with mangrove trees.
R. 3. A.1 Establishment of Nurseries and Agricultural
formation site and production areas
1.A. No. of nurseries established
Another nursery was established
at Brgy. Casiongan which was a joint undertaking by the Casiongan Brgy
Council and the association based in the barangay under the supervision of
CLAD which is the Casiongan Farmers Association with financing from DISOP
Philippines. The nursery and formation center was established near the
Brgy Hall besides the huge Balete
tree.
R.3.A.4.
Mangrove rehabilitation and
maintenance
1.A. No. of has planted
A ¼ ha. Mangrove area had been planted and rehabilitated
this year. This is planted at the rehabilitation site in the mangrove areas
in Brgy. Ferdinand. Maintenance of the new mangrove planted this year and
prior years had been undertaking by the brgy council in coordination by the
association in the area. This had been done to sustain the growth of the
mangrove. The DENR through its National Greening Program had also provided
funds for additional planting of mangrove forests. A total of 2,500 mangrove
forest were planted in 2016.
R.3. Production of IEC
materials
No. of Leaflets produced and
distributed
Five hundred IEC materials which focused on environmental
conservation had been distributed for CY 2015. This is in consonance with the
creation of awareness on the importance of conserving the environment.
R.3.A.6 Conduct of Disaster
Risk Reduction Seminar
1.A. No. of Barangays conducted
DRR
Disaster Risk Mgt. Seminar had been conducted to 23 Barangays covered by Disop to bolster
awareness and preparedness during calamities.
COMPONENT ANALYSIS RESULT 3
Improvement and conservation of
our natural resources is everybody’s concern but who cares along this line.
Typhoon and other calamities is attributed to man’s destruction of the
environment.
It is on
this premise that campaign for the rehabilitation and improvement of the
environment had been undertaken. Massive
planting of mangrove along the shore line is a must and planting of fruit and
forest trees upstream and denuded mountain areas should be done in a way to
conserve our natural resources and environment.
Awareness
campaign is a vital tool in the upsetting of this activity especially to
younger generations which would be the recipient of a clean and healthy
environment.
IX. Analysis: evolution of the project toward achieving
the Specific Objective. (for every result or component of the project)
The main purpose of the project is capacitating local leaders in
managing their respective associations to be sustainable in bringing economic
advantage to their members without sacrificing the environment. And at the end
of every year, CLAD’s influence of obtaining these objectives are being
measured based on direct observations from the different groups as well as the
end results of the different activities undertaken.
As presented
in the bar chart earlier, differences or
variation of the two main indicators which are the increase in membership and
capital build (CBU) can be clearly seen among the different associations.
Although there are some organizations who showed impressive performance for
these two indicators, it is from the new four organizations where higher
percentage increase has been observed.
In terms of
recruitment of new members, 13 old organizations had learned their lessons; the
most important of which is not just increasing the number of members based on
target but by maintaining quality standard of their new recruits. That’s the
main reason old associations are way behind target especially with regards to
recruitment. And for this reason that increasing capital is also affected.
Also, with regards to CBU augmentation, targets had not been met since majority
of the associations had already accumulated large amount of funds and members
had already felt they had reached optimum contribution.
One of the project’s success was to enable to influence the members of
the different associations to get involve with environment regeneration
activities. Target for number of trees planted has been over shoot last year by
82 % higher. The synchronized tree planting activities were conducted in
different locations municipal wide and were both conducted in the both the
mountainside as well as shoreline and mangrove ecosystem.
X. VIABILITY:
Although not much
funds had been accumulated by CLAD as a result of implementing the project
being a non-stock non-profit organization, it has effectively capacitated
different associations to become self-reliant and sustainable organizations by
enabling them to mobilize their own funds to support the livelihood projects of
their members. The 18 organizations were able to accumulate a total of 5.4 million as part of their continuous capital
build up with Calubian Association of Rural Enterpreneurs of Brgy Villanueva
having the highest CBU of 1.42 million
followed by Petrolio Farmers with
884,385.25
In terms of
capacitating both officers and general membership of the different
organizations, there is always some advantage for veterans. 13 old associations
showed a maturity rating of 2.56 with
newer organizations pulled the rating down. However, the new five organizations
still have plenty to learn, however, their maturity rating of 2.23 is not that far compared to older
associations.
The viability
of these different organizations were further enhanced through the introduction
of livelihood support coming from Heifer in the form of different livestock.
Values were also strengthened by exposing partner families to cornerstone
workshop focused on introducing important values necessary to successfully
implement the program.
Based on
interviews of some members of the different associations as to the impact of
the project, reactions of partner families has been positively imparted by them. The augmentation of their
income through the sales of different livestock is a very much of help to their
families.
Income
generation activities of some organization through the assistance of the
services of the Display Center is also another welcome development. The
Calubian Association of Rural Enterpreneurs (CARE) has already been a constant
supplier of processed meat products to the display center. Another processed
product contributors are the members of PetFAMPC of Brgy Petrolio for processed
peanuts and tablea, and Calubian Central Farmers Association and Kawayanan
Farmers Association for the banana chips and other products.
For the
organic fertilizer production, three associations had already been producing
their products for sale. These are the Calubian Agri-Products Producers
Association of Brgy Tagharigue, Calubian Central Farmers Association of
Villalon and PetFAMPC of Brgy Petrolio.
XI. Most
Significant Linkage/s Established and What Came Out of It.
The visibility
of the project municipal wide and with strong collaboration, between CLAD,
DISOP, Heifer and the Local Government Unit of Calubian had urged other funding
institutions both national and international to just tie up to CLAD-LGU or
directly to existing associations scattered municipal wide. Other organizations
therefore recognize the existence of the project in the field.
Among
government agencies with extending livelihood assistance to assisted
organizations include PCA, DAR, BFAR, DA, DTI, DENR , DOLE and DOST. While
International NGO who had tie-up with different associations include
Phil-Australian Red Cross and a church-based UCCP Haiyan Rehab Project.
Provision of
agricultural inputs and the use of agricultural machineries for free,
rehabilitation of their dwellings, and financial support to their livelihood
were among the major contributions these organizations had provided to the
members severely affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda.
One important
activity is the collaboration of few players which include the Red Cross, BFAR,
OMA-LGU and CLAD and partly by JICA. These project include the seaweeds culture at Brgy Limite and
Caruyucan, the Fishery Aggravating Device (FAD) of Brgy Inalad and Oyster
Production of Brgy Cristina and Cauyucan. Just before the year-end, some trials
on seeding the oysters with pearl had already been conducted at Brgy Cristina.
At least 15 oysters were seeded which
will be observed for one year if it will successfully produce a pearl.
XII. CROSS CUTTING
THEMES.
CLAD personnel had tried their best to meet the
targets that had been set between DISOP and CLAD. Among the most important
issues are the protection of the environment and Gender.
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Themes
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Description and
analysis
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Protection
of the environment
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Denuded
forest is one of the most visible description of Calubian even if it is viewed from the neighboring island of
Biliran. This happened because cutting
of trees had been used as the source of livelihood for a number of persons living in the mountainside. The illegal cutting of trees had been
unregulated ever since that made these people think the act is legal.
All
assisted associations had been actively involved and joined synchronized tree
planting every year. This main activity has been done each year to combat the
fast elimination of the remaining
forest. In fact, number of trees planted last year had surpassed the target. For this year’s target of 7,500 trees, the
different organizations had planted a total of 7,723 trees which is 103%
accomplishment. This include forest
and mangrove trees and including trees supported by the National Greening
Program of DENR.
For crop
production, the technology introduced to farmers discouraged the use of
synthetic chemicals that could increase toxic residues on fruit vegetables. Farmers were thought the
use of organic attractant using freshly harvested coconut sap (tuba) and raw
sugar. Other commercial attractants were also introduced to farmers since it
is better compared to contact insecticides. Other farmers used the bagging techniques
which utilized plastic bags and individually wrap fruits to avoid the attack
of pests.
One
important activity to support organic farming being advocated by the
government, CLAD in collaboration with
Other
activity which encouraged protection of the environment is the regular
sea-borne patrol operation wherein one motorized banca owned by CLAD was
constantly used for surveillance and even used for apprehension of illegal
fishing perpetrators.
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Gender
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To
encouraged the participation of both male and female, husbands and wives were
both invited during technical demonstrations for different cash crops in
order for them to synchronize family learning
and avoid quarrel once they already implement their projects. Besides,
there are part of farm operations where the wives can effectively conduct
such as during training of branches for the creeping plants as well as during
drenching.
Gender
issues had been fully addressed by the project. In fact, 62 per cent of the general membership of
the associations are composed of females and their officers are made up of 63%
females. This happened since wives in the family had ample idle time
compared to husbands who devote their times in land preparation and other
farm activities. Wives also are much eager to explore new things compare to
men that’s the reason majority of participants in trainings and seminars are
women.
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xIII. General Conclusions and Recommendations
CLAD has tried its best to accomplish all the
predetermined targets. Accomplishments, however is dependent on the absorption
of members of the different associations of the
knowledge imparted to them by the technical personnel of CLAD.
For this last
phase of project implementation, the 13 old associations had continued their
economic activities and still gaining. Although five new associations had posted
higher gains and higher accumulation of CBU, this happened because the base of
computation is still small.
In terms of
recruitment of new members, old associations were extra cautious of accepting
new recruits. They were not anymore concern of increasing their number, they
had already given emphasis on the quality of their prospects.
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Last year, numerous
new projects had been incorporated in the whole project which had encouraged
members to strengthen their involvement in different activities. These include
the establishment of feed mill and establishment of breeding center. The most important factor CLAD has ever
done to ensure the success of project implementation is the dedication of its
field personnel to perform their duties even beyond office hour and even
without extra compensation.
Some
associations had also started income generating activities. This effort had
been fully complemented by CLAD and LGU. In fact, they were encouraged to
produce processed products which could be sold in the Display Center such as
the processed meat products and processed food crops such as banana chips and
others.
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