INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION PLAN (IPDP) COLLECTIVELY FORMULATED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE INDIGENOUS MANOBO, B'LAAN AND TAGAKAULO OF THE SEVEN BARANGAYS LOCATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF MALITA AND DON MARCELINO IN THE PROVINCE OF DAVAO DEL SUR

A Project Assisted by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)

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Engr. Rafael Yabut Undersecretary for PMO Operations, DPWH Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila

Attention:

Subject:

Dear Undersecretary:

Director Carlos G. Mutuc Director, NRIM - PMO

National Roads Improvement and Management Project Phase II (Ln 7552-PH]: Indigenous People's Development Plan for R/.2.6: Malita-Don Marcelino

We have been encouraged by the efforts of the Department of Public Works and Highways in providing an opportunity for the Indigenous Peoples residing in the Municipalities of Malita and Don Marcelino in the Province of Davao del Sur. Through the support of the Department, we have finalized the Indigenous Peoples' Development and Protection Plan (/PDP] that covers the six barangays that had been affected of the NR/P-2 Road Project, and that eventually the Indigenous Communities may achieve sustainable development

Together with this Jetter, we submit to your good office the final /PDP, which was collectively approved and endorsed by our Indigenous Peoples' Councils, and which contained the list of priority programs and projects for the development of Indigenous Peoples in the area. We are hopeful for the immediate implementation of the /PDP through your favorable attention and support.

We, the Indigenous Peoples Chieftains of the Indigenous B'laan, Manobo and Tagakaulo, have jointly endorsed the /PDP for assistance and support from your Department Likewise, we expect that your good office can endorse the identified projects to other Assisting Agencies and Funding Institutions for support Likewise, we look forward to your assistance for the implementation of the priority community infrastructure projects contained in the /PDP and duly endorsed through our joint resolutions.

This is all for now and we shall anticipate your favorable response.

Very Truly Yours,

T · al Chieftain, arangay New Ar o

Datu ~io L. ~mt111i: B'laan Tribal Chieftain Barangay Talaguton

September 17, 2012

~~t · o eo C. Caluyan, Sr.

Tribal C ieftain, Barangay Culaman

D~ldel Tribal Chieftain, Barangay Tingulo

-------M-~~.JoseRimando Barangay IP Representative Barangay Lais

(NOTE: This is the English translation of the original letter in the vernacular Bisayan language)

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Engr. Rafael Yabut Undersecretary for PMO Operations- DPWH Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila

Attention: Director Carlos G. Mutuc Director, NRIM - PMO

Subject: National Roads Improvement and Management Project Phase II [Ln 7552-PH): Indigenous People's Development Plan for R./.2.6: Malita-Don Marcelino

Tinahud and Undersecretary:

Daku ang among kadasig sa tinguha sa Department of Public Works and Highways nga mahatagan og kahigayunan ang katawhang lumad nagpuyo dinhi sa Munisipyo sa Malita ug Don Marcelino sulod sa Probinsiya sa Davao del Sur. Pinaagi sa gipahigayon nga Plano sa Lumadnong Kalamboa-an kon Indigenous Peoples' Development and Protection Plan (IPDP), nanghinaot kami nga ang kalitingbang lumad sa unom ka barangay nga na­apektohan sa NRIP-2 project, maka-angkon og hingpit ug malahutayon nga paglambo.

Uban niining maong sulat-pamahayag ang gi-aprobahan nga IPDP nga naglatid usab sa mga pinili ug go-prioridad nga mga proyekto ug programa alang sa kalamabo-an. Nanghiinaot kami nga kini mahimong maimplementar sa labing daling panahon pinaagi sa inyong hinanaling pagtagad ug suporta.

Kaming mga pangulo sa katawhang lumad, nagkahiusa sa pagduso niining maong Plano sa Kalamboan aron masuportahan sa inyong buhatan ug nga inyo kining ma-endorsar sa lain pang mga ahensiya ug mga funding agencies. Sa samang panghinaot, kami naghangyo sa inyong buhatan nga mo-abag sa pag-implementar sa mga priority community-infrastructure projects nga gipadayag sa among nahiusang mga resolusyon.

Dinhi lang kutob ug madasigon kaming maghulat sa inyong tubag.

Kaninyo nagmatinahuron,

B'laan Tribal Chieftain Barangay Talaguton

September 17, 2012

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meo C. Caluyan, Sr. Tribal Chieftain,

Barangay Culaman

Datu~el Tribal Chieftain, Barangay Tingulo

Mremando Barangay IP Representative Barangay Lais

Engr. Rafael Yabut Undersecretary for PMO Operations Department of Public Works and Highways Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila

Attention: Director Carlos G. Mutuc Director NRIM- PMO

Subject: National Roads Improvement and Management Project Phase II (Ln 7552-PH}: Indigenous People's Development Plan for R.l.2.6: Malita-Don Marcelino

Dear Undersecretary Yabut:

We are glad to submit to your good office the final draft of the Indigenous Peoples' Development and Protection Plan (IPDP), a requirement of the widening and concreting of the Malita-Don Marcelino Road Section (referred to as the NRIMP-2 Project) in the Province ofDavao del Sur. The final IPDP has been adopted for implementation through the resolutions passed by the Indigenous Peoples' Councils and the Barangay Councils of the affected barangays covered by the road project.

The IPDP contained the list of the priority programs and projects identified and validated by the members of the IP Tribal Councils. These community-solicited projects are designed to address not only the poverty conditions of the affected IP families but also the resource impairments of the agro-aqua ecosystems in the covered barangays.

However, we need support from various assisting agencies and funding institutions to realize and implement the IP Development Plan. Thus, we request your good office to endorse the plan to the various Government Line Agencies and Funding Institutions, as stipulated in our Barangay Resolutions. Moreover, we look forward to the Inter-Agency'" Consultative Conference, which your office shall convene in Davao City, for us to present our proposals to the concerned Agencies.

Thank you very much and best regards!

Sincerely yours,

·~ ilou P. Bautista

Iaman

Punong Barangay, Brgy. Mana

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Siele Silue Senior Transport Specialist Task Team Leader, Philippines Transport and Mining Sector East Asia and Pacific Region World Bank

Subject: Philippines: National Roads Improvement and Management Project Phase II [Ln 7552-PH): Indigenous People's Development Plan for R./.2.6: Malita­Don Marcelino

SIR:

We would like to inform your good office that we have already submitted to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the final version of the IPOP that covers the six barangays in the Municipality of Don Marcelino and Malita in Davao del Sur. Attached, please find, a copy of our letter sent to Director Carlos Mutuc, NRlP-PMO dated September 11, 2012.

The final IPD P has been reviewed and validated by the members of the IP Tribal Councils of the Indigenous Manobo, Tagakaulo and B'laan who are residing in the project area. Likewise, it has been endorsed for implementation through the Resolutions passed by the respective Barangay Councils of the covered barangays.

Together with this letter is a copy of the IPDP document, including the project proposals that we shall be sending to several Assisting Agencies and Funding Institutions.

We hope that you can locate the merits of the IPDP and find it worthy of you kind endorsement and support. Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours,

September 12, 2012

• Honorable Marilou P. Bautista

Honorable Sebas · n L. Yap Punong Barangay, Brgy. Tingulo

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION PLAN (IPDP) COLLECTIVELY FORMULATED BY MEMBERS OF THE INDIGENOUS MANOBO, B'LAAN AND TAGAKAULO OF THE SEVEN BARANGAYS LOCATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF

· MALITA AND DON MARCELINO IN THE PROVINCE OF DAVAO DEL SUR

iPDP Covered Baranga,Y$=

Barangay 't¢.a9utDn. Don Mai®Jililo Barangay Cu/aman, Malita BariJngay NBw Argao, MB/ita. 8arangay 1Jngulo, Malita Barangay ~ Malila &uarJga.y l...ais, Malita. Ba!angay ~ Don .Ma.rcelioo

A Project ~ed by '/fie ~t.of Pui:Jiic WorlQ> and Hi!Jhw_ays (DFWH)

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Cover Letter addressed to DPWH

Cover Letter addressed to the World Bank

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Charts

Acronyms

Project Maps

Executive Summary

IPDP Digest

Part One :

Part Two:

Introduction

Background and Rationale

Legal and Policy Framework

Objectives of the IPDPP

Planning Methodology

Structure of the Report

Area Profile and Analysis of the IP Community Situation

Project Location and Description of the Area

Natural Resources and Resource-use

Forest and Land Resource

Water Resource and Use-Impairments

Brackish Water in the Small Wetlands

Fishing Grounds

Protected Seascapes and Fish Sanctuaries ,

Mineral Resources

Demographic Characteristics and IP Settlement Patterns

The IP Households

The B' laan

The Manobo

The Tagakaolo

Changing Leadership Structure

Persisting and Changing Indigenous Tradit ions

Current Livelihood Options of the IP Household s

Innovations in the IP Farming Systems

Network of Problems of IP Upland Farmers

Innovations in Traditionai/P Fishery Systems

Network of Problems of IP Marginal Fishermen

Summary of IP-focused Development Issues

Limited Livelihood Option s and Weaken ing Status of IP Women

Network of Development Potenti als

Relocation and Resettlement of IP PAF

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Part Five:

Annexes

Statement of Context

Core Development Principles

The IP Community Vision The Over-all Goal

The Desired Outcomes

Components of the IPDPP

Community Strengthening and Capability Building

Natural Resource Management Sustainable Livelihood Enhancement and Small Enterprise Development

Support to the Ancestral Domain Claim in Don Marcelino

Identified Priority Community Projects

Project Cost

Project Implementation

Project Beneficiaries

Assistance from Government Line Agencies

I PDP Implementing Mechanisms, Structures and Processes

Core Principles and Crosscutting Development Themes

Investment Plan and IPDPP Financing

Implementation and Management Structure

IPDPP Monitoring and Evaluation

Mainstreaming the IPDPP

I PDP Work-Breakdown and Project Cost Estimates

Matrix of Work-Breakdown of Priority Projects

Project Cost Estimates

I PDP Physical Targets I Deliverables

A. IP Council Resolutions

B. Barangay Council Resolutions

C. Omnibus Project Proposals

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D. Letter Proposals on the Barangay Priority Community Infrastructure Projects

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List of Tables

Table 1. Land Area, Length of Coastline and Projected Household Population as of 2010

Table 2. Demographic Distribution of the IPs in the Covered Barangays

Table 3. Matrix on the Levels of Stakeholders Well-Being

Table 4. Matrix of Cost-estimates of the Priority Projects in the covered Barangays

Table 5. Matrix on the Number of Beneficiaries in the Covered Barangays

Table 6. /PDP Investment Cost per Component

Table 7. Sources of Funds for the /POP

Table 8. BLGU Fund Contribution

Table 9. Matrix of the PI ME Processes and Outputs

Table 10. Matrix of Work Breakdown Structure I Priority Projects

Table 10: Distribution of /POP Target Inputs, Projected Cost And Funding Sources

Table 12. Summary of Project Cost Estimates Per Barangay

Table 13. Component 1 -#of IP Functional Organizations I Production Teams

Table 14. Component 1 -#Awareness Raising Sessions, Trainings and Monitoring Activities

Table 15. #of IP Farmers Engaged in NRM Activities for Farming Systems Enrichment

Table 16. #of IP Fishers Engaged in NRM Activities for Fishery Systems Enrichment

Table 17. #of IP Women Engaged in Component 3 Activities on Social Enterprise Development

Table 18. Matrix of Priority Community Infrastructure Projects

Table 19. Matrix of Identified Barangay-wide Ecosystems' Enrichment Projects

List of Figures

Figure 1. Project Locator Map Figure 2. Administrative Map of the Don Marcelino Municipality, Davao del Sur Figure 3. Administrative Map of the Municipality of Malita, Davao del Sur Figure 4. Locator Map of the Ancestral Domain Claim in Don Marcelino, Oavao del Sur Figure 5. Administrative Map of Baran gay Talaguton indicating the Areas covered by the

AD CLAIM in the Municipality of Don Marcelino,Davao del Sur Figure 6. Network of Problems confronting the IP Upland Farmers Figure 7. Network of Problems confronting the IP Fishers Figure 8. Network of Potentials and Key Interventions to improve the IP Farming System Figure 9. Network of Potentials and Key Interventions to improve the IP Fishery System

Figure 10: Results Chain of the /PDP Figure 11: !POP Management Structure

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Acronyms used in this Document:

AD

ADSDPP

BLGU

CADT

CEO

CSID

DA

DENR

DILG

DOST

DPWH

DTI

FGD

IP I ICC

I PAP

I PDP

IPRA

LARRIPP

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MLGU

NCIP

NRI P

NRM

PM E

Ancestral Domain

Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan

Barangay Loca l Government Unit

Certificate of Ancestra l Domain Title

Community Enterprise Development

Commun ity Strengthen ing and Institutiona l Development

Department of Agriculture

Department of Environment and Natura l Resources

Department of Interior and Local Government

Department of Science and Technology

Department of Public Works and Highways

Department of Trade and Industry

Focus-Group Discussion

Ind igenous Peoples I Ind igenous Cu ltura l Communities

Indigenous Peoples Action Plan

Ind igenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan

Indigenous Peoples Rights Act

Land Acquisit ion, Reset t lement, Rehabilita ti on and Indigenous Peoples Po licy

Learning Farms

Municipal Local Government Unit

Nationa l Commission for Indigenous Peoples

Nat iona l Road Improvement Project

Natural Resource Management

Partic ipatory Monitoring and Eva luation

Figure 1. Project Locator Map

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NOTE SHADED PORTIONS INDICATE THE PROJECT COVERED BARANGAYS

PROVINCE OF OAVAO OE SUR

MUNICIPALITY OF MALITA

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Areas covered by the Ancestral Domain Claim in Don Marcelino. Davao de l Sur

1} Portion ol Barangay Ta laguton ($ito Masand19. A1acpacon. fvligpango Range and Grand!:!, C<: !;gb.:Jc .. Uper Efib and Upper PattJiangoo);

2) Barangay Baluntaya : 3) Barangay Nueva Villa; 4) Barangay Oalupan: 5) Barangay Mabuhay: 6) Barangay West Lamidan:

7) Portion of Barangay Lapuan (Silo San Malbino);

NOTE: SHADED AREAS ARE COVERED BV THE ANCESTRA L DOMAIN CLAIM IN DON MARCELINO

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Executive Summary

1 The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH administers the widening

and concreting of the Malita-Don Marcelino Road Section (referred to as the NRIMP-2

Project) in the Province of Davao del Sur. This development project that spans to cover

eight (8) coastal and upland barangays that can directly contribute to the enhancement

of the socia l and economic conditions of the peoples residing in the area, most of whom

are Indigenous Peoples.

2 The Department, in its articulated LARRIPP and other Administrative Issuances,

guarantees the rightful share of the Indigenous on the benefits that the proposed

project can generate. Moreover the agency recognizes the Indigenous People's right to

se lf-determination and the right to pursue their own socio-economic development and

enhancement according their own cultures and traditions. Thus, the Agency has

supported the formulation of an Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan

(IPDPP) as part ofthe socia l preparation process ofthe NRIMP-2 project.

3 The IPDPP embodies the development goals and objectives, policies and

strategies of the IP communities and addresses the concerns for the sustainab le

management and development of the land and all other resources, including the human

and cultural resources that the Indigenous Peoples depend on for their survival as a

people.

4 The community planning processes employed a variety of participatory resource

appraisal (PRA) methods and was conducted with a high level of participation-mix

among the identified stakeholders --- IP Elders, Leaders, Women, Farmers, Fishermen,

Youth and some Officials of the culturally mixed Barangays.

5 Together, the participants of the participatory planning process substantiated

the biophysical, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the area and were

engaged in the discussion and analysis of the IP community situation that highlighted

several site-specific and culture-focused development needs and issues.

6 The community elders and leaders agreed that the greatest number of the

poorest of the poor households in the municipalities of Don Marcelino and Malita are

the IP households and the majo1·ity of them belong to the most vulnerable groups who

continually carry the burden of being marginalized. On the other hand, a number of IP

PAFs in the project area are still waiting for the implementation of the Resettlement

Plan attendant to the NRIP-2.

7 Insufficiency of income, assets or wealth is one of the most important determining

factors of socio-economic vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples. The poverty condition

does not only mean income-consumption deficiency. For most of the IPs, poverty implies

capab ility-deficiency and the lack of opportunities for them to cope up effectively to the

drastic changes that occur in their natural and cu ltural environments.

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8 Aptly said, poverty and marginalization are also results of social exclusion and are

manifested in the following conditions :

• Downtrend in production of the farming and fishery systems

Low income and lack of alternative sources of livelihood

Erosion of the traditional network of support

Lack of access to credit and capital

Inadequate support for IP-focused community infrastructures

Weak Delivery of Government Social Services Weakening of traditional governance and erosion of sense of self-esteem and

pride as a people

Limited Livelihood Options and Weakening Status of IP Women

9 The downtrend of farm productivity is mainly due to the degradation of the

natural resource-base and to other practices that result to massive and continuing

resource-impairments.

10 The limited application of conservation technologies contributed to the rapid

decline of soil fertility. Massive erosions and landslides in hazard and danger zones were

likewise recurring, that had seriously degraded the conditions of the coral reefs in the

municipal waters. The dumping of industrial and agricultural waste into the inshore

waters, the lack of comprehensive CRM Plan and the weak enforcement of Fishery Law

had aggravated the destruction of the coastal and marine resources.

11 Currently, the unpredictable severe weather conditions and the erratic changes in

seasons have affected the productivity of the upland farming and the coastal fishery

production systems. The Manila Observatory has noted that the Province of Davao del Sur ranks 61

h among the top 20 provinces all over the country that are at risk to

projected temperature increase and among the top 20 provinces at risk to drought. Moreover, the same report mentions that the Province ranks 81

h among the top 10

provinces in the country that are susceptible to landslide hazards and are at risk to

earthquake-induced shallow landslides . Indeed, climate change impacts constitute an

additional pressure to the generations of Indigenous communities who inherit the

problematic conditions brought about by the impaired natural resource-base.

12 Clearly the conditions of poverty and the marginalization of the IPs have likewise

caused weakening status of IP women and the erosion of the traditional network of

support among the members of the IP communities. The planning participants are quick

to affirm that "the traditional system of shared community labor is no longer practiced

and we need to revitalize this support system" ("nawala na ang hung/as ug a/ayon.

Kinahanglan gyud nga mapalig-on kini pagbalik") . They realize that the erosion of the

significant components of their traditional culture has likewise forced the Indigenous to

embrace their being socially vulnerable.

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13 Apparently, Indigenous peoples are reliant on their traditional social networks and maintain exchanges of food and labor through reciprocal links and local markets. Their

social support system has been an important component of their adaptation strategies

to environmental change in the past, and if can only be maintained, this is likely to

remain important, particularly in this period when resources have tremendously

declined.

14 Nonetheless, the part1c1pants in the planning workshop have identified the

interrelated factors and forces that could propel positive changes on their living conditions . Aside from the strategic location the covered Barangays that are situated

outside of the typhoon belt there exist the rich natural resource-base and other cultural

endowments that, if rightly addressed and maximized, could lead the Indigenous

Peoples into the path of sustainable development.

15 Evidently, IP communities in the area are still cohesive communities. Social

cohesion is significant as it anchors a "positive self-image" of a people. This "positive

self-image" guides the community members and determines community actions for

transformation --- transformation of the place, transformation of the people and

transformation of social structures. Without the positive self-image and sense of pride,

there will be no commitment and without commitment there will be no "excellence in changing their world".

16 The openness and, to a large extent, the readiness of some IP community

leaders and members to implement community-based resource management and

resource conservation programs could lead to a reversal in the downtrend of

productivity of the farming and fishery systems.

17 Moreover, the IP's sense of "stewardship of place" is a motivational factor that

could encourage the hardworking and diligent IP farmers and highly skilled fishers to bond together and collectively work towards in transforming their communities into "caring, nurturing and sharing communities" and their local associations into learning

organizations.

18 The long coastlines, good beaches, high index of biodiversity, scenic spots and

other unique and monumental sites are potentials for eco-tourism and cultural tourism

projects. Likewise the presence of assisting organizations and the convergence of inter­

agency programs could enable the IP communities to enhance their local potentials.

Various proven farming and fishing technologies have likewise been tested and in some

cases replicated.

19 Moreover, the supportive Local Barangays Officials endeavor to raise their

management capabilities to better serve their constituencies. The Barangay Local

Government Units could expand their efforts to generate the financial resources to

support the IP community initiatives. However, any development programs and projects

should be owned by the community and should reinforce their sense of pride.

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20 The IPDP is guided by the collective charted community vision: "A sustainably progressive Indigenous community where all members are continually safeguarding the natural and cultural environments that support the needs and enhance the wellbeing of all generations and where the empowered and self-determined Indigenous Peoples have acquired recognition of their Rights, enhanced their capabilities and secure a better future for all the succeeding generations of Indigenous Peoples."

21 The Plan gives emphasis to the following significant elements of the articulated IP

Community Vision based on the Network of Potentials:

a) Increased Productivity;

b) Improved Food Security;

c) Sustained Higher household Incomes;

d) Improved Well-being and Reduced Vulnerability;

e) Recognition of Indigenous People's Rights; f) Enhanced Capabilities of indigenous men, women and youth;

g) Empowered and self-determined IP communities; and h) Safeguarded Natural Environments to meet the needs of aiiiP generations

22 The above-stated conditions of outcomes can be realized through the following

measured, timely and IP-focused development interventions:

1. Community Strengthening and Capability Enhancement of the IP self-help

organizations of farmers, fishers and women's groups as well as their

respective Tribal Councils to plan, prepare, finance and manage their

conservation-focused and productivity-oriented development projects and

activities including the expansion of proven alternative livelihood sources;

2. Timely delivery of technical support and extension services to enhance and

improve the productive systems of the IP farming and fishing households as well as safeguard the natural environment and mitigate its further

degradation in the context of an intensifying climate-change conditions;

3. Development and expansion of small community enterprises and

alternative sources of livelihood based on farm and fishery related activities through the formation and strengthening of local entrepreneurs with special

consideration for self-help IP women's groups, and through the provision of

affordable and accessible/available credit facility .

23 The IPDPD, as a strategy in sustainable development of IP communities, is

designed to gather technical and managerial skills and expertise, resources, and political

influence into a consistent and coherent whole, as it enhances partnerships and

cooperation as well as the building confidence and capabilities of all the parties

concerned. Thu s, the major stakeholders and partners assume distinct and complementary roles and responsibilities in the major phases of the IPDPP

implementation and management.

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24 The IPDPP Management structure is designed on the basis of the need

strengthen the capabilitie s of the IP Leaders and Tribal Councils and to harness the

needed resources of cooperating agencies and pri vate partners for the effective and

efficient delivery of expected interventions and services.

25 The Plan envisages the strategic and comprehensive development interventions

that target the marginal ization and poverty condition of all members of the IP

communities, whether they are enterprising poor or vulnerable groups. And, to ensure

the implementation of the Plan, there is a need to mainstream the IPDPP in the Local

Development Plans of the Barangay, Municipal and Provincial Local Government Units.

26 Finally, the sustainable and effective development of the IP communities requires

the bu ilding of capacity, partnership and linkages among institutions that have proven

capability to improve not only the implementation process but also the process of

monitoring and assessing the impact of the development interventions outlined in the

IPDPP.

27 Hence, the IPDPP has likewise outlined a participatory Monitoring and

Evaluation system to ensure that the people in the community do not only participate as

information-givers but al so as active participants in the analytical processes on how the

project will be assessed vi s-a-vis its impact on the lives of the target groups and

communities.

28 The highlights of the I PDP are prese nted in the summative diges t shown in the

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Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan (IPDPP)

Project Digest

Nature:

Description:

Sites Covered:

Over-all Goal :

Target Outcomes:

The IPDPP is a strategic and comprehensive development

intervent ion that target the marginalization and poverty condit ion s of

IP communit ies (whether they are enterprising poor or vulnerable

grou ps) that was crafted and agreed upon by t he leaders and members of the IP communities

The IPDPP is the result of a part icipatory analys is and planning

process conducted in the IP communities in the municipalities of Don

Marcelino and Malita as a response to the continuing marginalization

of the IPs and in consonance with their goal to induce better standards of living among IP communities and to build a fairer and

better society that would equally benefit the present and future generations as well as provide quality well-being for all its members­

men, women, youth and children.

Th e IPDPP includes the IP communities located in seven (8) contiguous Coastal and Upland barangays affected by the NRIMP-2 Proje ct,

name ly: Culaman, New Argao, Tingulo, Mana, La is (in the municipality

of Malita), Talaguton and Kinanga (in the municipality of Don

Marcelino\

"Cohesive IP farming and fishing households have achieved higher in comes and better standards of living, through increase in

subs istence/cash crop and fishery production supp lemented w ith other IP-focused sustainable livelihood options and strategies. "

The achievement of the IP Development Goal can be indicated by the

following three verifiable conditions of success that are considered as the co ncrete outcomes of th e IPDPP:

1) IP households in all covered barangays are organized and their

duly constituted IP Councils are strengthened and are enabled to collectively implement th e plan and programs as well access funds to meet the identified priority projects

2) Better, culturally-appropriate and ecologically-sound farming and fishing technologies are introduced, innovated and replicated resulting to the improved productivity systems and the enrichment

of the natural resource; 3) Small community enterprises and other alternative livelihood

engagemen ts are developed, managed and expanded by organized and capacitated IP Women's groups and other IP self­help organizations operating in all covered barangays.

1 The Pob /acion Centro (Lawa) of Don Marcelino was not included in the /POP since there were no

IP PAFs in the area.

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Plan Components:

Intended Beneficiaries:

Concrete Outputs:

Executive Summary

The I PDP components focus on three significant elements of the IP

development process, namely: Enriched Natural Resource Base

(Environment), Enhanced IP Capabilities (Culture) and Sustainable

Livelihood Strategies (Economy) :

a)!£. Community Strengthening~ Capability Building is designed to strengthen community-management as well as institutionalize IP

governance in order to improve the capacity of the community

members to manage the identified development interventions as well

as access funds for the implementation of the community priority

projects.

b) Natural Resource Management (NRM) is comprised of two sub­components--- the Upland Resource Management and the Coastal

and Marine Resource Management--- that address food security,

environment protection and improved productivity of the IP upland

farming and IP fishery systems. Likewise, the component included the

improvement of Community Infrastructures in the project covered

area .

c) Sustainable Livelihood Enhancement and Small Enterprise Development envisions the reinvigoration of the economic activities of

the covered barangays and shall enable the IP community members to

pursue a diversity of sustainable livelihoods options through the

delivery of external services and training for entrepreneurial skills

enhancement including the installation of micro-credit facility in the

covered barangays.

The direct beneficiaries of the Plan are the members of the estimated

1,238 IP households belonging to the B'laan, Manobo and Tagakaolo

Indigenous groups and who reside in the eight covered barangays,

including the ir respective Tribal Councils and the organized self-help

associations of IP Farmers, Fishers, Women and Youth Groups.

However, the successful implementation of the IPDPP can likewise benefit all the other settlers, people's organizations and enterprise

groups in the upland and coastal areas of th e mentioned barangays,

most especially the Local Barangay Government Units.

The IPDPP endeavors to achieve the followin g concrete results in all

the sites, in various degrees and levels :

Majority of the IP farming and fishing households have increased their productive capabilities; Expansion of conserved areas to include upland farms, community forests and other coastal and marine resource especially the

established fish sanctuaries and habita ts; Diverse and viable alternative livelihood options and small community enterprises (including eco-tourism projects) are established and sustained; Various community infrastructures --- physical and eco-systems focused--- are installed and maintained;

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The IP Tribal Councils including the IP-self-help associations and

enterprising IP women 's groups are strengthened with an expanded

network of support.

Direct financial cost to implement the identified priority projects wou ld reach to almost 20,000,000.00 pesos to fund all the priority

projects in the seven covered barangays. The commun ity planners

have decided to generate resources, from internal and external

sources to realize the implementation of the IPDPP.

Funding from the Government Line Agencies such as the DPWH, DENR, DA-BFAR, NCIP, DILG, among others, are likewise sol icited and the

contributions from the Local Government Units (Barangay, Municipal

and Provincial) are also expected .

Management Structure : The IPDPP proposes a multi-tiered implementation and management

structure from the barangay and municipal levels to the provincial and

regional levels.

Executive Summary

At the Barangay level, the LocaiiP Development Team operates and

oversees the core of the project activities and to refine, screen,

implement, validate and evaluate the community projects with regard

to their viability and feasibility based on the approved project proposal

and operations plan.

An inter-Barangay IPDPP Management Council shall be formed to

manage the overall implementation of the key components of the Plan

and follow-through the agreed-upon Project Implementation Cycle as

well as ensure that the outline project interventions are delivered

timely and the outputs and outcomes are closely monitored and

assessed. Th e Indigenous Peoples Council I Tribal Councils are actively

engaged in the Management Council.

The Local Barangay Councils in every Barangay is considered as an

active co-implementer of the IPDPP and upholds the IPDPP strategy

that encourages and promotes partnership, complementation,

collaboration and cooperation of all the concerned stakeholders. They

sha ll serve as the conduit for funding and shall establish linkage with

Micro-Finance In st itutions to set-up the Micro-credit facility in every

barangay.

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Desired Impact :

Executive Summary

In line with the principles of co-initiative and convergence, the I PDP

recommends the functioning of active Advisory Bodies and Team of

Experts who shall provide technical support, advisory and oversight functions to refine the IPDPP strategy and implementation

mechanisms in a participatory manner. The Team of Experts shall help

in raising the capabilities of the I PDP Management Councils and enable

them to successfully manage their priority programs and projects as

outlined in the Pl an.

The Municipal Local Government Units through the respective Offices of the Mayor of Mal ita and Don Marcelino provides advisory roles and

technical services to refine the IPDPP strategy and implementation

mechanisms as well as to promote it as a community-initiative and

community-solicited development strategy in line with their policies

and priority programs geared towards increased productivity and incomes of their constituency.

At the Provincial level, a Team of Experts comprised of the Officers or

the designated Coordinators in the Provincial LGUs and the Provincial

Units of the National Line Agencies are tapped to assist the IP

communities and project implementers in the arena of capability

building, resource-management and conservation, product

development and management, market linkage among others.

At the regional level, an Inter-Agency Advisory is the convergence of

Line Agencies, composed of the senior staff of the regional offices of

National Line Agencies who collectively provide advisory on project

development and management as well as build linkages for funding

support and social marketing of the IPDPP components and outputs.

Two Years

After the project life, it is expected that the quality of life of the IP the

households in the area has improved according to the following index

of success:

Increased household incomes beyond poverty threshold (compared to 2011 baseline) Cohesive IP communities that institutionalizes self-governance Sustaining social enterprises eco-tourism projects Safeguarded and conserved ecosystems and enhanced cultural resources Revitalization of Indigenous Knowledge and traditional social support systems

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JPOP Covered Ba.ramgays:

Barangay Ta.laguton, Don ~linD Bamnga.y Culaman, Malita Bilrongay New Atgao, Wita Bamnga.y 1ingulo, Malita ~y Mana. Mlilila · Bararigay La.i.s, Malfta ·Sarangay Kinanga, Don MafcBiitrJD

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Part I. Introduction

The section explains the background and rationale of the IPDPP, the Legal and Policy Fram ework as well as the methodology of the participatory planning processes. The section also presents the

structure of the /POP report.

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Background and Rationale

1 The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is the principal

Government Agency that oversees the construction and/or improvement of the

national road network and other vital infrastructures undertaken by the

Government . Currently, one of the projects administered by the Agency is the

widening and concreting of the Malita-Don Marcelino Road Section in the

Province of Davao del Sur, also referred to as the NRIMP-2 Project.

2 This development project can directly contribute to the enhancement of the

social and economic conditions of the peoples residing in the area, most of whom are Indigenous Peoples (IP) . However, the improvement of the Malita­

Don Marcelino road section has severely affected more than 250 Indigenous

Peoples households, as the structures owned by them shall be severely or

marginally damaged during the project implementation phase.

3 Likewise, the direct and indirect impacts (positive and/or negative) of the

project can affect the majority, if not all, the members of the Indigenous

communities living in the area . Definitely, the road project can usher in changes

that would impinge on the lives of the Indigenous communities as their

identities and cultures are inextricably linked to their physical environment and

to the natural and cultural resources on which they depend.

4 Thus, this Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan or IPDPP is

formulated in the process of the NRIMP-2 project implementation. The I PDP is a

commitment of the DPWH to ensure that the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples to pursue their own socio-economic development and the Rights to safeguard

their cultural integrity are respected.

Legal and Policy Framework

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The formulation of an Indigenous Peoples' Development and Protection Plan

(IPDP) is in recognition of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples enshrined in the

Philippine Constitutions and in the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) or RA

8371 :

'7he /CCs/ IPs shall have the right to freely pursue their economic, social, political and cultural development. In the exercise of this right, the ICCs/IPs shall formulate and pursue their own plans for the sustainable management and development of the land and natural resources as

well as human resources within their ancestral domains and/or ancestral lands, based on their indigenous knowledge systems and practices and on the principle of self-determination. "

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the Right to :

8 "develop, control and use lands and territories traditionally occupied, owned, or used; to manage and conserve natural resources within the territories and uphold the responsibilities for future generations; to benefit and share the profits from allocation and utilization of the natural resources found therein; the right to negotiate the terms and conditions for the exploration of natural resources in the areas for the purpose of ensuring ecological, environmental protection and the conservation measures, pursuant to national and customary laws; the right to an informed and intelligent participation in the formulation and implementation of any project, government or private, that will affect or impact upon the ancestral domains and to receive just and fair compensation for any damages which they may sustain as a result of the project; and the right to effective measures by the government to prevent any interference with, alienation and encroachment upon these rights."

9 The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH}, in its Land Acquisition,

Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Indigenous Peoples Policy (LARRIPP}, upholds

the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples to pursue their own unique socio-economic

development and the Rights to Self-Determination . The LARRIPP indicates that

when an infrastructure project has been found through the social assessment to

have potentially adverse effects on Indigenous Peoples, then it is required to

formulate and Indigenous Peoples Action Plan (IPAP} .

10 The IPAP sets out measu res through which the DPWH and other government

agencies will ensure that Indigenous Peoples affected by the project receive

culturally appropriate social and economic benefits. It also specifies ways that

the identified adverse effects are avoided, minimized, mitigated, or

compensated, as mandated by DPWH Department Order No. 327 series of 2003.

11 On the other hand, the World Bank recognizes that indigenous peoples' cultures

and identities are "inextricably" related to traditional lands and resources and,

therefore, "different risks and impacts can be expected in development

projects." The Bank also acknowledges that indigenous peoples often have limited ability to assert and defend their rights and interests at the domestic

level and to participate in and benefit from development. Finally, consistent

with the Final Declaration of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable

Development, the Bank affirms that indigenous peoples "play a vital role in

sustainable development," and that their rights are receiving increased

attention and recognition in dom estic and international law.

12 The DPWH concurs with the World Bank's Indigenous Peoples Policy (O.P 4.10),

which explicates the followin g guiding principles:

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13 a. The World Bank recognizes that Indigenous peoples play a vital role in sustainable development, and it aims to ensure that the development process fully respects the dignity, human rights, economies, and cultures of Indigenous Peoples;

14 b. The World Bank recognizes that the identities and cultures of Indigenous Peoples are inextricably linked to the lands on which they live and the natural resources on which they depend. These distinct circumstances expose Indigenous Peoples to different types of risks and impacts from development projects;

15 c. Involuntary resettlement of indigenous peoples is to be avoided whenever feasible;

16 d. The project proponent or borrower undertakes a social assessment whenever screening shows that Indigenous Peoples are present in, or have collective attachment to, the project area. The social assessment is necessary to evaluate the project's potential positive and adverse effects on indigenous peoples;

17 e. When a project is found to definitely affect Indigenous Peoples, the project proponent engages in a free, prior, and informed consultation with them; and

18 f. On the basis of the social assessment and the free, prior, and informed consultation, the proponent ascertains if the affected Indigenous Peoples' communities provide their broad support to the project.

19 Thus, this particular I PDP of the Indigenous Manobo, B'laan and Tagakaulo, who

are affected by the NRIP-2 project, is formulated, as an expression of the

commitment of the DPWH, to ensure that the rights of the Indigenous Peoples

to their ancestral homelands and territories are recognized and their rights to

pursue their own unique socio-economic development and enhancement are

respected .

20 Furthermore, the Agency ensures that the Indigenous Peoples have their rightful

share in the benefits of the Road Project.

Objectives of the I PDP

21 The Agen cy has facilitated a community-based and IP-focused development

planning activity, the main output of which is the IPDPP --- a document that

embodies the development goals and objectives, policies and strategies of the IP

communiti es .

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22 The IPDPP address es the concerns for the sustainable management and development of the land and all other resources, including the human and cultural resources that the Indigenous Peoples depend on for their survival as a people. 1

23 The IPDP ensures that the Indigenous peoples who are affected by the Road

Project are deserving of special attention because of their unique vulnerability

and their distinct ways of relating to the physical environment . The Road Project

renders the IPs to certain types of risks and to intensified levels of impacts that

the dominant groups in Philippine society do not face when confronted by

infrastructure development projects.

24 Hence, the primary objective of the I PDP is to safeguard the socio-cultural and

economic wellbeing of the IPs as well as to ensure that DPWH-implemented

projects do no further harm to the members of the IP communities. The IPDP is

beyond a mere Action Plan as it addresses the strategic (medium and long term)

concerns as well as the immediate concerns of the IPs.

25 Specifically, after agreeing to plan, the IP community leaders and members,

through a participatory process, were enabled to:

26 a) Engage in a collective analysis of their community situation, identify the key problems and concerns as well as examine the extent of the impairments of th eir natural and cultural resource-base;

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b) Formulate their common vision and goals as well as chart positive community actions directed towards the development and/or enhancement of their agro-ecosystems and their resource-base to support their sustainable livelihood options;

c) Identify their priority programs and projects that would result to an increase in productivity and the enhanced wellbeing of the IPs; and

d) Develop strategies to expand the network of support within the IP communities and from other support agencies and institutions to ensure the implementation of the IPDPP .

Likewise, the IPDP acknowledges the social and cultural value s of the affected

Indigenous Peopl es' Communities and recognizes the primacy of customs,

tradition s, practices, and socio-politi cal structures of the ICCs/IPs co ncerned .

Moreover, the IPDP gives special attention to the concern s of Indige nous

women, you th, and children

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Planning Methodology

31 This particular IP-focused Development Planning Project employed a

participatory approach and multi-di sciplinary planning process, duly participated

by the local leaders and representatives of the IP households and members of

the IP clans as well as other stakeholders in the area including the officials of the

local barangays.

32 A variety of participatory action-research and participatory resource appraisal

(PRA) methods we re employed in the planning process. Likewise, a high level of

participation-mix among the identified stakeholders was achieved.

33 The IPDP was subjected to a community validation process last September 4 to

17, 2012 in all the covered Barangays. The Officials of the Barangay Local Government Units and the members of the IP Tribal Councils together leaders of

IP Associations had participated in the validation process.

Adoption ofthe IPDP

34 The final version of the IPDP was adopted and the priority programs and

projects were endorsed for implementation through a Petition signed by the

members of the IP Tribal Councils in all the covered barangays.

35 Moreover, the members of the Barangay Councils of the six barangays, in their

separate special sessions, had passed a Resolution to adopt and support the

implementation of the I PDP as well as endorse it to the DPWH for assistance .

Structure of the I PDP Report

36 This final draft of the IPDPP is presented to the DPWH for review. The document

is comprised of four parts :

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Part 1. Introduction

The Introduction section explains the background and rationale of the

IPDPP, the Legal and Policy Fram ework, the overriding objectives of the

/PDP and the participatory planning processes.

Part 2. Area Pro file and Analysis of the IP Community Situation

This section presents the bio-physical, socio-economic and cultural

characteristics of the area and an analysis of the IP Community situation.

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Likewise, a discussion of the cultural-historical contexts of the Indigenous Peoples in the area and some aspects of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices {IKSP} ore included. It ends with a presentation of

the site-specific development needs, issues and potentials.

Part 3. IPDP Development Principles, Programs and Priority Projects

This section discusses the agreed-upon IP-focused Development Directions and core program strategies agreed-upon by the IP participants. The program strategies outlined in the /PDP include: a) IP Community Strengthening and Institution Building, b) Natural Resource Management, Protection and Renewal, and c) Enhancement of IP Sustainable Livelihood Options and Development of Small Community Enterprises. The list of Priority Projects and the structure of implementation ore found at the end of this section.

Part 4. I PDP Implementing Policies, Structure and Mechanisms for

Sustainability

The lost section outlines the Policies and Structures of the implementation of the /PDP Programs and Projects. It includes the

funding requirements and investment plan as well as explained the roles of the project implementers and partner agencies. Likewise, the section outlines the /PDP participatory monitoring process.

Part 5 presents a series of Matrices of /PDP Work-breakdown Structure, Project Cost Estimates and Physical Targets or Oeliverables in the /POP.

42 Appended in the IPDP is an Omnibus Project Proposal formulated by the IP

Tribal Councils and Letter Proposals to the DPWH that focus on Assistance for

site-specific Priority Community Infrastructure Projects identified by the IPs and

their partner Barangay Councils. These proposals specify the nature and extent

of assistance requested from various Support Institutions and Funding Donors .

43 Thus, the IPDP planners propose that the DPWH-PMO convene an Inter-Agency

Consultative Conference to further review of the IPDPP Project Proposals and to

locate the nature and focus of the support of the various Line Agencies to help

realize the implementation of the priority projects contained in the I PDP.

44 The proposed Inter-Age ncy Conference shall be anchored by the DPWH Regional

Office, which also sha ll act as the Liaison between ESSO and the District Office to

ensure that the IPDP (in coordination with the NCIP and the affected IP

community) is implemented as planned.

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Part Two: Area Profile and Analysis of Community Situation

This section explains the biophysical, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the area as basis for an in-depth analysis of the IP

Community Situation . A discussion on the cultural-historical contexts of the Indigenous Peoples- the Manobo, the B'laan and the Tagakaolo, is likewise included and the section ends with a presentation of the site­

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Project location and Brief Description of the Area

1 The DPWH NRIMP-2 entails the expansion and concreting of a portion of the

national highway starting from Barangay Culaman in the Municipality of Malita

and ending in Barangay Lawa in Don Marcelino Municipality. The impacts of the

project can be directly and/or indirectly felt by both IP and non-IP populations of

the eight (8) contiguous coastal barangays that nestle along the southwestern

portion of the Davao Gulf. These barangays have common biophysical

characteristics and to some extent share similar socio-economic and cultural

features .

2 The 31.5-kilometer road project traverses from the coastal plains and into some

uphill landmass within a territory that is predominantly characterized as mountainous, with undulating terrain and rugged topography. Most lands have

very steep slopes (above SO%) and the elevation ranges from 0 to 400 masl.

Observably, there exist only limited coastal plains that gently slope towards the

numerous hills and mountains in the area . The lands within these coastal

barangays are largely rolling lands and steep mountain ranges .

3 The combined land area of the eight (8) affected barangays is 22J92 hectares.

Of the combined area, the five barangays belonging to the Municipality of

Malita occupy 73% of the entire land while the three barangays in Don

Marcelino cover only 27% of the total land area.

4 The coastline in all the eight (8) barangays is estimated at 37 kilometers .

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Barangay Talaguton (in Don Marcelino) has the longest coastline (14 kilometers

or 33% of the total) while Barangay Tingulo possesses the shortest coastline

(less than 2 kilometers) . The other barangays have an average coastline of about

4 to 5 kilometers.

Currently, the population in the project area is culturally mixed . Reportedly, the

estimated number of households is 4A37 1 in settlem ent clusters along the

coastal plains and in the inland portions situated in the sloping lands . The

average household has 5 to 6 members. Barangay Talaguton (Don Marcelino)

has the highest number of household population (1,114 or 25% of the totaiL as

indicated in Table 1.

1 Figures are taken from the avai lable Barangay Profil es provided by the Municipa l an d Barangay LGU s

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Table 1. Land Area, Length of Coastline and Projected Household Population of the

Affected Barangays as of 20102

Total Land Length of Estimated#

Area Coast line of HH

Affected Barangays Has % Km % HH % Malita Municipality

Culaman 3,418 15% 4 9% 303 7%

NewArgao 1,987 9% 2 5% 307 7%

Tingulo 2,650 12% 2 5% 346 8%

Mana 4,890 21% 3 7% 799 18%

La is 3,667 16% 7 16% 441 10%

Don Marcelino Municipality

Ta/aguton 3,696 16% 14 33% 1,114 25%

Kinanga 1,496 7% 4 9% 582 13%

Law a 988 4% 4 2% 545 12%

TOTAL 22,792 39 4,437

Natural Resources and Resource-use

6 The Indigenous Peoples in the Project area claim that they live in this typhoon­

free zone and are blessed with natural resources and other endowments such as rich marine and aquatic resources and relatively wide upland areas. However, they aptly explain that their access to and control of these resources have been

in the downward trend during the most recent period s.

7 Most of the limited flatlands and coastal plains in the area have already been

converted into plantations and as built-up areas for settlements. On the other

hand, most lands in the upland areas are marginally suitable for agriculture use

and/or more suited for Agro-forestry projects. For agricultural use, these lands

will require a high level of management for sustainability. The conversion on the

upland areas into non-agricultural use requires intensive analysis on its

environmental impact particularly on the stability of the uplands and its effects

on the lands situated below .

2 Data from the Municipal Pl ann ing and Development Offices of Don Marcelino and Malita

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Forest and Land Resource -------

8 The residents in almost all of the covered barangays (except in Barangays Lais)

claim that there are still few hectares of remaining secondary or residual forests

that dot along the steep slopes and gullies in the hillsides and mountain slopes.

There are some wildlife--- endangered flora and fauna including tarsiers, lemurs

and birds that exist--- albeit seriously threatened, in these community forests .

Moreover, the people in the area confirm that the denudation of the forest

resulted from the pressures of increasing population 3 and the unsustainable resource use of the people.

9 Traditionally, the forests, aside from being the main source of timber for

traditional housing and for construction of buildings and boats, are considered

part of the hunting grounds of the Indigenous Manobo, B' laan and Tagakaolo.

The members of these Indigenous Peoples are recognized as descendants of the

original inhabitants in the area . They affirm that the forest is likewise the source

of several culturally significant resources such as non-timber forest products

that are used in the production of trad itional craft, indigenous medicines and

other ritual uses.

10 As mentioned, the limited flatlands in the coastal plains have been converted

into coconut and banana plantations . Evidently, copra is considered as the main

source of income of the big landowners as well as for most of the farming­

households. Even the large portions of the sloping lands right above the coastal

shorel ines are heavily planted with coconut.

11 On the other hand, banana plantations have been long established in the coastal

and inland plains of Barangays Culaman, Lais and Talaguton. During the last ten

years or so, an increasing number of farmers in Don Marcelino and in Mana have expressed preference in growing Bananas (cardaba, lakatan and binangay

varieties) . Other farmers grow banana as under-storey in some coconut farms,

while some farmer-tenants or caretakers of coconut farms have started growing

cash crops (e .g. vegetables), which are under-cropped in between the rows of

matured coconut palms.

Water Resource use and Impairments

12 There are a number of rivers, creeks and springs within the coastal Barangays

th at serve as sources of water for household use . Most households in the

interior sitios rely on the springs for drinking water . Onl y a few percentage of

the population in the coa stal siti os (w ithin Barangays M ana, New Argao, Tingulo, and Talaguton) have availed of level 3 water distributi on systems.

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13 The river basins in the area underwent drastic changes due to the denuded

forest and the degraded landmass in the steep slopes. Majority of the people in

the area express that flash floods are recurring and in most cases have caused

the changes of the directions of the run-off waters and the rivers. In some cases,

man-made structures have been set-up to redirect the original flow of the

waters of some rivers .

14 Yet, there are still several pockets of springs and a few rivers that support the

needs of the people for water in the uplands. Lately, the Culaman River in

Malita, is reportedly to be tapped as the main source of water to generate the Hydro-electric power pump that is proposed to be constructed in the area.

Brackish waters in the Wetlands

15 Noticeably, there are pockets of brackish waters and wetlands or mangrove

areas that are found in Barangays Culaman, New Argao, Mana, Lais in Malita as

wells as in Talaguton and Kinanga in Don Marcelino . Noticeably, Barangays

Culaman, Tingulo and New Argao have the largest area of wetlands, which had

been converted into commercial ponds for fish and shrimp productions, but are now under-utilized .

16 In Mana, most parts of the original wetlands have been occupied as built-up

area for the expanding settlement that was established sometime in the early

1980's. At that the time some of the farming families in Barangay Lais were

dislocated due to the conversion of the agricultural area into Banana Plantation.

Moreover, the pressures of the increasing population in most of the Barangays have either converted the limited wetland areas into other uses that

consequently damaged the endemic mangroves in the area .

17 Over the past five years or so, there had been plans to rehabilitate and possibly

expand, the remaining small portions of mangrove forest in Barangay Lais, but

the plan apparently was not realized.

Fishing Grounds

18 Historically, the Municipalities of Malita and Don Marcelino (including the

neighboring municipality of Jose Abad Santos) have been considered as the fish

catchment of the province of Davao del Sur (including Davao City). The long

coastline and vast marine waters are abu ndant of fish stocks and other aquatic

resources. Specifically in Don Marcelino, large areas of natural coral reef are still

in satisfactory condition. Thus, the area is still considered very rich in marine and

aquatic resources 4

4 Culled from th e Municipal Profiles of Malita and Don M arcelino

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19 Recently however, the coastal resources of the affected barangays have suffered

from the destructive siltation of foreshore areas due to landslides and erosion 5.

This is true to some portions of Barangay Talaguton and Kinanga in Don

Marcelino as well as in almost all of the Barangays belonging to the Municipality

of Malita .

20 Moreover, the minimum enforcement of the salient provisions of the RA 8859

and other related fishery laws as well as the absence of a comprehensive Coastal Resource Management Programs (CRMP) have indeed, contributed to the

degradation of the marine resources in the area .

21 Thus, the fish catch of subsistence fishers has declined and indeed, has

depressed the output growth of the fishery sub-sector. The small IP fishers are

likewise alarmed of the conditions of over-fishing in the inshore waters, as

commercial fishing vessels have encroached within these areas.

Protected Seascapes and Marine Waters

22 With the intervention of the Bureau of Fishery and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)

and with the assistance of the Academic Institutions and NGOs in the Davao

region, some of the Barangays in the covered area have initiated their respective

Coastal Resource Management Programs or CRMPs including the delineation of

Protected Marine Areas during the last five to ten years.

23 Barangay New Argao particularly has declared its coast and shoreline as

protected seascape due to the recurring sighting of the Dugong (Dugong

dugan), an endangered large marine mammal. It has been observed that the volume of sea grass in the area is massive enough to serve as a favorable habitat

of the Dugong, which is also occasionally sighted in Barangay Talaguton.

24 Likewise, the large area of remaining natural coral reefs in Barangay Talaguton

and in Barangay Tingulo, albeit very limited in area, have been declared as

protected Fish Sanctuaries, where fishing commercial activities are prohibited.

25 However, there had been reports of chemical contamination of the seawaters in

Barangay Culaman, due to the presence of Agricultural Plantations in the area .

Moreover the prevailing practices of unregulated dumping of solid waste in the

rivers and other water bodies have destroyed the quality of marine waters and

the seascapes in Mana and in other Barangays as well. These resource­

impairments have not been effectively addressed or acted upon.

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Mineral Resources

26 Most recently, there have been exploration activ ities for mineral resources in

Don Marcelino but these are limited only in the northwest portion of Barangay

Talaguton. In other barangays, there are no reports that the people are engaged

in any form of mining activities .

27 In Barangay Talaguton, the practice of collecting pebbles and stones from the

shoreline is practiced as one of the alternative sources of incomes of some residents. However, there have been moves by the MAO to regulate this

practice.

Demographic Characteristics and Settlement Patterns

28 The Indigenous Manobo, B' laan, Bagobo and Tagakaolo clans and families, who

are affected, directly or indirectly, by the Proposed Malita-Don Marcelino Road

Project, presently reside in the areas that they claim as part of their Ancestral

homelands.

29 The Indigenous Peoples (IPs) comprise the slight majority in the populations

within the Project area, as shown in the Table below:

Table 2 . Demographic Distribution of the IPs in the Covered Barangays 6

Covered Bara ngays Total HH Estimated# %of

Population ofiPHHs IP HHs

Malita Municipality

Culaman 303 242 80% NewArgaa 307 184 60% Tingulo 346 173 SO% Mana 799 320 40% La is 441 176 40%

Don Marcel ino Municipality

Talaguton 1,114 947 85% Kinanga 582 249 40% Lawa 545 250 45%

TOTAL 4,437 2,773 63%

6 The figures are based on estimates of the IP Leaders and Barongay Officials who attended the FGDs and the

Planning workshop. The figures on Barangays Mana and Tinugla are computed projected estimates based on

the data taken from the Household Profiling conducted by the SPAMAST in the year 2004.

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30 At present, the members of the IP households in the area are either farming in

the sloping lands and/or fishing within the Davao Gulf marine waters. Some

have also been employed as farm laborers, farm caretakers or have gained

contractual jobs in plantations or in other establishments .

31 Aside from the descendants of the original IP inhabitants, there are a number of

IP families who came from the other parts of the Province of Davao del Sur and

who are now residing in the contemporary IP settlements within the project

area. Moreover, there are increasing numbers of IP households who have either embraced Christianity or the Islamic way of life.

31 The Planning Team consulted several anthropological studies as secondary

sources to provide a better ethnographic account and to describe some

significant socio-cultural aspects of the major groups of Indigenous Peoples

situated in the areas covered.

The B'laan

32 Available anthropological data explain that the southeastern portion of the

province of Davao del Sur is considered as the B'laan homeland. In the project

area, the B' laan settlements are now concentrated only in Barangays Talaguton,

Kinanga and Lawa (in Don Marcelino) as well as in Barangays Mana and Lais (in

Malita).

33 Currently, there are large B'laan settlements located in the barangays within the municipal it ies of Don Marcelino and Jose Abad Santos. In Malita, the B'laan the

core settlements are principally situated in Barangay Little Baguio but pockets of

B'laan households live together with other IPs in most Barangays within the

municipality. Traditionally, the B'laan inhabit the hills behind the west coast of

Davao gulf abutting the Bagobo territory to the north and the watershed of

Davao and Cotabato . In very recent time s they have moved toward the coastal

areas.

34 The B'laan language is cl ass ified as a group that includes the Tiruray and T'boli

and is distinct from other languages of central Philippine groups. The basic

culture is dry cultivation of a broad range of food plants including rice,

supplemented by food gathering and hunting. Culture change is evidently in an

advanced stage 7.

35 Traditionally, scattered houses compri se a B' laan settlement. However, this

pattern has changed particularly in th e coast al portions of the Barangays. At

present, the B' laan, w ith very limited lands left t o be owned as hom e lots, build

their houses closes t o one anothe r in small clusters .

7 Jesus Peralta. "G limpses of Indigenous Peo ples", Nationa l Commission for Cultu re and the Arts, 2004 .

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36 Although in the upland areas, the traditional pattern of settlement still exist but

the houses generally remain within sight of each other near the farms where

rice, corn, and millet are cultivated. Corn is gradually supplanting rice as the

staple. In most traditional B'laan households, home gardens are planted to sugar

cane, bananas and other rootcrops.

37 Some published earlier studies on the B'laan refer them as warrior society. The

lebe is the B'laan equivalent of the Bagobo magani or warrior. Each

neighborhood is organized under a local datu who has autonomous authority

over an area depending on his personal influence . The position is supposedly

hereditary and follows a rule of the firstborn assuming the position 8.

The Manobo

38 The Manobo are considered as the largest group of IPs are found in all of the

Barangays in the project area and there are large Manobo settlements in coastal

areas of Barangays Culaman, Mana, New Argao, Lais (in Malita) as well as in

Lawa and Talaguton (in Don Marcelino).

39 Various ethnographic studies mentioned that the Manobo are probably the most numerous of the ethnic groups of the Philippines in terms of the

relationships and names of the various groups that belong to this family of

languages9.

40 In the province of Davao del Sur, the Manobo are occupying the core areas from

Sarangani island into the mainland of the municipalities of Jose Abad Santos, Don Marcelino and Malita. They occupied and have adapted to various

ecological niches ranging from the coastal to the rugged mountain highlands of

the interiors of southeastern potion of the province 10.

41 Settlements are generally kin-oriented nuclear groups near the swidden fields

located on the ridges. The upland Manobo communities are widely dispersed

and are placed on high ridges above mountain drainage systems. The Manobo

subgroups in the upland areas engage in the cultivation of rice, corn, legume,

yams, and sweet potato which are multi-cropped and/or intercropped. Their

agriculture productions used to be supplemented by hunting and food

gathering.

8 F. Landa Jocano. Patterns of Soc ial Stru cture of Indigenous Peoples, 1995 9 Peralta 2004 10

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42 Currently however, a number of the Manobo households in the project area

opted to become farm workers in Banana Plantations or as farm labor in

coconut farms . On the other hand, there have been an increasing number of

Manobo households that are principally engaged in fishing, especially in the

coastal villages of Talaguton, La is, Mana, Culaman, New Argao and Tingulo .

The Tagakaolo

43 The settlements of the Tagakaolo are spread in both upland areas and coastal

plains especially in Barangays Culaman, Lais, Mana and New Argao (in Malita) .

44 The Tagakaolo belong to the Mandaya/Mansaka group of Indigenous Peoples in the Davao region. In Davao del Sur, the core areas of the Tagakaolo are in the

places between the coast and the B'laan homelands. They are in the tributaries

of Malita, Lais, and Talaguton rivers in the interior. Historically these were

composed of small, warring groups.

45 The traditional pattern of Tagakaolo subsistence is through dry cultivation of a

wide range of crops that include rice and tubers, which is supplemented by food

gathering. In contemporary times however, corn has gained importance as the

basic staple of the people.

46 Today, the Tagakaolo farmers mostly grow corn in two or three times in an

annual cropping period. Moreover, some of them have shifted to farm workers

in the Banana plantations or as farm labor in coconut farms.

47 The Tagakaolo traditional culture is similar to the neighboring Kulaman Manobo

and B'laan, where specific territories are ruled over by a strong man with special

status. The culture however has undergone many changes brought by many

factors and the linkage with the national market systems .

48 During the middle part of the last century, there had been increasing cases of

intermarriages between Tagakaolo and Bisayan settlers in the area. These mixed

households were more open to adopt influences from outside of their

traditional society.

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Changing Leadership Structure

49 Among the Indigenous groups in the project area, "leadership is traditionally placed on a highly skilled and socially powerful individual who builds up his following through various modes of alliances including marriage"11

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50 There are st ill evidences that members of the traditional kindred group would

recognize one Datu as the head of a settlement and a number of datus (or

fulong for the B'laan) would be united under a more sovereign Datu who holds

sway over a larger territory. Although the kin relationship is bilateral among the

three groups of IPs, there is a bias toward the male in terms of decision-making

and leadership.

51 Nowadays, this particular structure of leadership is gradually changing with an

overlay of the contemporary lowland political structure. Leadership in the area radiates from the governor of the province down to the leve l of the Barangay

councilmen who are, in most cases not members of indigenous groups. Some of

the IP Leaders and Elders in the area, who are now largely Christianized, albeit

the survival of some indigenous belief system, are in most cases appointed only

as members of the Barangay Mediation Board (Lupong Tagpamayapa ng Puok) .

Thus, the decisive role in the actual sett ling of disputes is now assumed by the

elected Barangay Officials. Last year however, the mandatory representation of

the IP in Legislative Councils has been in place in most of the Barangays.

Persisting and Changing Traditions of the Indigenous

52 The traditions of the Indigenous Peoples change as new values are developed,

adopted, and integrated by their societies. Change is as inevitable as time, and

this is true of what has been accepted as traditional cultures, because people

change as they alter their physical and social environments in order to respond

to some internal or external pressures that are imposed upon them.

53 The above statement is true to the Indigenous Manobo, B' laan and Tagakaolo

who claim to have lived in their ancestral homelands since time immemorial.

The IP leaders and elders attest that so many changes have had happened and

in fact some of the members of the IP groups, especially those who live near urbanized areas no longer look nor behave the way their predecessors used to.

54 As early as the first decade of the 20th century, several American soldiers and

other Philippine Scouts started to settle in the Southeastern part of Davao to

acquire landholdings and introduce new agricultural practices. Most of the

settlers married the Indigenous women and have acquired control and

ownership of vast tracks of lands. Soon coconut haciendas were estab lished.

11 Peralta, 2000.

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55 The newly acquired lands became enclaves of families of American-Indigenous

descent (e.g. Joyce, Johnsons, Palms, among others). On the other hand,

migrants from Luzon and the Visayas (e .g. the Peraltas, Rodriguez, Maruya) had

likewise found their way to the ancestral homelands and had acquired huge

tracts of lands as well .

56 As the settler population had increased in time, new ways of thinking and new

ways of doing were introduced . A new system of land ownership was made

prevalent. With the introduction of the "torrents title" as proof of ownership of

land, which most Indigenous peoples could not comprehend nor accept, the

relationships of the indigenous peoples to their land had likewise changed with

the changing landscapes. Whilst they had been tightly connected to their lands

for several years, through livelihoods and spiritual bonds, their tenure and

access had not been legally recognized. Thus, the Indigenous Peoples were more subjected to changes that drastically alter several aspects of their traditional

cultures .

57 As early as 1936, Malita was recognized as a municipality and became an up­

and-coming market center in the southern part of the Davao region. Likewise,

Barangay Talaguton, the old site of Don Marcelino, became an extension of

Malita as emerging catchment area . And the introduction of the network of the

national market system had affected the micro-economies of the indigenous.

Indeed, some of the Elder Manobo in the area commented- "we have been the first to be assimilated into the lowland economic and political system that consequently altered our traditional life-ways".

58 Without doubt, more pressures from outside were even more compelling in effecting changes in the indigenous life-world in shorter time frames. The

western concept of public education system had effected changes in the

systems of ethnic knowledge, values, loyalties, perspectives, internalizations,

needs, and the whole sets of cultural traits. The mass media , initially through

the transistor radios and lately through televisions, helped in introducing new

tastes and needs that further contributed to the destruction of traditional value

systems. The great religions introduced by the Western missionaries were an

efficient leveling device that destroyed entire systems of beliefs and resulted, as

Dr. Peralta opined, in the gradual eradication of ethnic boundaries especially in

areas of greatest contact between groups 12.

59 Inevitably, commercial clothing replaced the distinctive character of the ethnic

dress with the authentic ethnic materials finding their way to the antique trade

and shops, particularly in the Aldevinco Shopping Center in Davao City.

12 Pe ralta , 2004

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Livelihood Options of the IP Farming and Fishing Households

60 The IP households in the covered barangays, especially those who are residing

near the road, exhibit a diversity of livelihood options . The traditional practice of

slash-and-burn shifting cu lt ivation only persists in the more remote interior

areas, which are far from the market centers . And, the self-sustaining domestic economies of the Manobo, the B'laan and the Tagakaolo have begun to change

as they are linked with the market network.

61 From being merely engaged in production for consumption, the IP households in

the area began to embrace the cropping patterns and/or fishery systems that

are prevalent among the lowland settlers. Increasingly, IP upland farmers are

forced to produce more-and-more cash crops while more and more IP fishers

are tied to the established network of financing and trading in fishing

communities . Undoubtedly, the IP farmers and fishers are compelled to shift

their traditional subsistence patterns and have developed a variety of

innovations in their farming-fishing systems and practices.

Innovations in the IP Farming System

62 For most of the small upland farmers, corn is the principal annual crop grown in

their small farmlands. The effective cultivation averages to about one-fourth of

a hectare only. They usually intercropped corn with root crops and other annual

or perennial crops, albeit lim ited in terms of varieties or species. To augment their incomes, they have to engage in other non-farm or off-farm activities --­

weaving coconut palm leaves, gathering of firewood and/or as seasonal farm laborers ("hornal") ---whenever possible .

63 Some of these farming households in the uplands maintain some parcels of land

devoted as tree farms --- e.g. fruit tress (mango, coffee, cacao), timber

(g'melina, falcata, mahogany) and in more recent times, industrial trees such as

rubber. Thi s shift in traditional practice is interesting since in the olden times,

the practice of planting trees is not ea si ly acceptable to the culture 13.

64 Integrating perennials and the annual crops in IP farms forms part of the

innovative practices of conservation farming among the Indigenous, as evident

in the few representative cases described below:

13 Most Indigenous Peop les adhere to the belief th at a farme r should not cultivate something that would

outgrow him since the planting t rees could bring back luck to the farmer.

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a) Inter-cropping and Rotation Cropping

65 Lutang is a B'laan farmer and his Cebuana spouse Cresencia were farmers who

used to live in Matan-ao, a neighboring municipality, before they transferred

residence in Barangay Mana . The couple was entrusted by an absentee

landowner to take care of a parcel of rolling land planted with coconuts and

mango trees . Not contented on the share of the harvest of coconut, Lutang and

his wife developed the open portions of the other open parcels of land into

productive vegetable gardens.

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The couple likewise raised corn, banana, coffee, as under-storey crops in

between the matured coconuts while maintaining multiple and rotation

cropping of diverse vegetables species and varieties --- eggplants, beans,

tomatoes, petchay, bitter melon, gourds and a variety of rootcrops. They also

raised chickens and other livestock.

The combined produced of their integrated farm enabled them to purchase

motorcycles (for transporting their farm produce to the market) and an electric

generator used by the family in special occasions . However, Lutang and his wife

complain of the occasional but recurring flashfloods that had wiped out their

annual crops and induce great damage on their livelihood options .

b) Establishing Hedgerows and other SWC innovative measure

68 Jaime is a B' laan-Manobo who is residing in the interior sitio of Magpacon within

Barangay Talaguton. He is convinced that the low productivity of his upland farm

is principally due to the denudation of the fertile topsoil. Thus, after he was

exposed to the Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT) farming as an

affordable measure for soil and water conservation (SWC), he immediately innovated his farming system by establishing hedgerows of flemengia and

rensoni in the contour lines of his small farm .

69 He likewise convinced his farmer neighbors to install SWC measures and

practice integra ted farming. Today, there _..;~re more than ten sma ll upland

farmers in their village who have successfully replicated the innovations in their

respective farms .

c) Integrated Farming : Trees-crops-garden

70 A B' laan woman farmer, Genoveva has been raising livestock and maintaining a

small parcel of farmland in Barangay Talaguton . A portion of the small farm that

is devoted to coconut, which Genoveva intercropped with other annual crops in

addition to root crops during certain seasons. She is also waiting for th e cacao

trees to mature in between some rows of coconut palm trees that wou ld

become added perennial in the farm.

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71 Moreover, this B'laan woman-farmer grows her preferred annual crops in

mounds in order to install well-drained plots in her home-garden. Moreover,

together with her sister, she engaged in harvesting coffee beans and processing

and retailing of native coffee as another source of income. Sometimes she goes

to Barangay Lais to gather the rejected and thrown-away bananas of the

Plantation to be used either as feeds for her livestock or for consumption .

d) Tree Farm Establishment, Livestock and Fuel wood gathering

72 Tiyo Jose in Barangay Lais inherited a small parcel of land from his Ceburano father who married her Manobo mother. Matured coconuts dominated the

more than three quarters of his upland farm situated in a moderately sloping

land. In addition, Tiyo Jose grew tree crops (predominantly lpil-ipil) either as fuel

wood or as forage tree. Moreover, some rock-wall were established in the farm

to prevent soil erosion and the cover-crop under the coconut had been

maintained as protein bank to the more than six heads of cattle used to be

raised by them .

73 However few years ago, Tiyo Jose was hospitalized due to kidney problems and

the swollen prostrate. The family had not only sold all the livestock but also

loaned a sizeable sum of money with the harvest of the coconut as collateral.

Since they could not repay back the huge amount spent for hospitalization, until

now, the family of Tiyo Jose has to contend with the small harvest of annual

crops in addition to the meager sale of their gathered firewood .

e) Intensive cash-crop cultivation

74 However, the system of multi -cropping and intercropping that characterized the

indigenous farming system could no longer be considered viable for some IP

farmers. Since an increasing number of IP farmers are now tied to the market

system, there is a need for the production of surplus in the trade-off with the

market. Some endowed IP farmers in Barangay Talaguton as well as in other

barangays, have preferred to engage mainly in cash cropping, a common

practice among the settlers, and with it they recourse to mono cropping and

intensive agriculture.

75 A Manobo farmer residing Barangay Talaguton who married a Cebuana wife

engaged in intensive agriculture practice. After having been granted security of

tenure on the six-hectare farm, their cultivation pattern gradually shifted to

focus more on mono-cropping and as opposed to broad-spectrum cultivation. During the last six years, they mainly raised cardaba (a variety of banana) and

have to employ seaso nal farm laborers for the intensive maintenance of the

farm. However, they still practice innovative technologies in the cultural

management of their banana farm, such as the use of salt-water from the sea to

prevent fungus to spread and damage the qu al ity of the banana during its fruiting stage. He explains: "the cost of farm inpu ts is really high, yet we are still

able to achieve a substantial/eve/ of profit from our banana venture".

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76 Indeed, more and more the IP farming households have become dependent on

the market system, as in the case of Mr. Duarte and to some extent as

experienced by Lutang, Jaime, Genoveva and Tiyo Jose . And the use of money

has become a necessity for survival in the market relationships. On the other

hand, the seasonality of cultivation activities also has implications on the social

behavior of the members of Indigenous groups, which together with other

concerns builds-up to a number of urgent problems confronting the IP farming

households.

77 Toping the lists of problems or sustainability issues raised during the series of

FGDs are :

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a) Lack of access to credit forcing IP farmers to be tied up in usurious practices that led to

b) Loss of control of the farm produced; and eventually the

c) Increasing the number of landless farmers among the IP farmers.

Moreover, the impact of climate change has seriously affected the production

seasons of upland IP farmers . There have been numerous accounts of recurring

flashfloods, landslides and other calamities. It has also been raised that mono­

cropping and seasonality make crops more vulnerable to pests and disease.

Massive infestation of rats has been reported . And together with the

intermittent occurrence of either long drought or an over-extended rainy

season, the conditions of the IP farmers have been more miserable as these seasonal problems aggravated the threat of grave shortage of food supplies.

79 The situation of the upland IP farmers can be characterized by threatened food

security due to declining agricultural productivity, very low income and

increased vulnerability as illustrated in the Network of Problems that the

participants in the planning process had illustrated.

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Figure 6. Network of Problems confronting the IP Upland Farmers14

THREATENED FOOD SECURITI~ VERY LOW INCOME & INCREASED VULNERABILITY

CONTINUING DO WNTREND IN

FARM' PRODUCTION

Innovations in TraditionaiiP Fishing System

80 Traditionally, IP fishermen use low-cost fishing techniques that provided them and their families with means of subsistence . Most of them operate small row­

boat and use the common methods and gears such as hook and line, gill nets,

fish traps, baby trawls and minor gears such as long line, manual push nets, spear guns and drive-in nets. The employment of these fishing methods will

depends on the conditions of the inshore waters and the seasonality of the fish

population that abound the in area .

81 However, in the past two decades, their traditional way of life has been

threatened by many factors that had affected the coastal resources and marine

waters in the area. The IP fishermen collectively expressed that they now face

an uncertain future as their daily catch steadily drops below their subsistence

needs. They have to venture farther out to sea and correspondingly increased

their expenses and reduced their time for supplemental farming. These

conditions are further aggravated by the effect of the drastic change of seasons

and the climate.

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82 One participant explains : "koran, wala nay kaon and isda, dili na pud nama kayang kan-on ang gamay namong kuha. " {With our meager catch, we can't afford to eat the fish that we caught.")

83 Data on the municipal fishery production from the Office of the Provincial

Agriculturists in Davao del Sur over a four-year period (2006 to 2009) reveals a

downtrend of 68% in the volume produced--- from 9,155 metric tons in 2006 it

had dropped to 2,886 metric tons in 2009.15

84 Moreover, intensified harvesting in offshore fishing grounds has correspondingly

lowered the productivity of the traditional coastal fishing grounds on which small fishermen rely . Thus, small-scale fishing has become increasingly

marginalized and now must compete with the large trawlers and purse-seiners

for resources to meet local subsistence requirements.

85 In addition, coastal populations have swelled in recent years, due in part to

general population growth and in part to more complex demographic trends .

Some participants in the FGD explains that the economic hardship in upland

farming areas, particularly where mono-crop farming dominates and aggravated

by other conditions of insurgency and other political instability have displaced

farmers and farm-workers thereby pushing them to the coast. The net impact

has been increased stress on coastal ecosystem and a steady decline in fish

stocks.

86 In order to meet their former production levels, coastal fishermen now have to

venture farther and farther out to sea . One fisherman opined: "Kaniadto, daghang isda muduol sa paon, koran komi na ang naggukod sa isda." {"Before, fishes were abundant that they came to us, but now we have to go after the fish.")

87 This was further substantiated by a Barangay Councilwoman of Barangay Lais

when she said : "Dili nato malilong nga sa atong kadagatan sa Malita, halos wala nay isda, mao na nga ang kadaghanan sa mga mananagat, mosulong na sa lawod sa Iaing barangay. Kaniadto and kasagaran dinhi lang kutob sa Lois koran gukdon na ang isda hangtud na sa Lawa". (We cannot deny that here in Malita, the volume of fish stocks had terribly reduced hence our small-scale fishers have to encroach in the marine waters of other Barangays. Before, most of them would fish only up to Lois, now they go after the fish up to the marine waters of Lawa. ")

88 "Going after the fi sh" entails motorized vessels and substantially higher costs

than the traditional methods . In addition, sm all fishers spend longer hours at sea

as they must increa se their production to cover the high cost.

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89 In some areas, fishermen who are unable to absorb these costs have turned to

illegal fishing methods that further devastated many fishing grounds, to the

detriment of the fishermen and other community members themselves. But

their rationale is clear. Of the techniques available, the indiscriminate and illegal

fishing methods bring the greatest immediate returns with the least short-term

cost.

90 Common illegal fishing practices include the use of dynamites, cyanide and

other type of poising, fine mesh nets, electro fishing (using superlight,

electrocution, etc .) and commercial fishing in shallow waters that some IP

fishers indiscriminate employ.

91 Moreover, massive erosions and landslides in the upland areas have increased

siltation in the inshore waters. And, while the coral reefs have suffered serious

damage from destructive fishing practices, commercial fishing fleets owned and

operated by companies or corporations from other municipalities have had also

been depleting the municipal waters. 16

92 UP until now, the destruction of habitats and the damaging coral reef continue

unabated, except in only one sitio in Don Marcelino where the fishers

organization has successfully installed a fish sanctuary. The rest of the six

barangays within the covered area are yet to conscientiously implement their

respective Coastal Resource Management Programs.

93 Other fishermen have been forced to become wage-laborers or "pasahero" to

those who are more endowed fishers (who are owning and operating a larger

motorized boat) or to those who belongs to non-fishing boat owner-financiers.

However, the sharing covers only the net earnings, with operating expenses

being defined by the owner. Often, the owner of the boat is also the local

buyer/distributor of fish and is able to buy the fish his crew catches at a price

that he sets. Thus, complaints of exploitation are widespread.

94 Thus, the combined effect of all of these forces has been a steady reduction in

the standard of living of IP fishermen, including even the small-scale non-IP

fishers in the area . Below is the network of problems that the IP fishers in the

area had constructed during the planning workshop.

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Summary of IP-focused Development Issues

95 In its Agency Report released la st 2010, the Nationa l Statistic and Census Board

(NSCB) report ed that Davao de l Sur had the lowest poverty incidence in 2006,

wh ich mea ns that the province had regist ered a low proportio n of househo lds

w ith income less than the poverty thresholds .

96 However, the same report cl ai m that the latest poverty st atistics at the

munic ipality level t hrough the Smal l Area Estimation conducted by t he NSCB

indicated t hat the Jose Abad Santos ranked l 5t, Don Marcelino ra nked 2"d wh ile

Ma lita ranked 6 th among the t en poorest municipalities in th e Davao Region 18.

17 Constructed du ring the Community Planning Workshops in Don Ma rce lino and Ma lita

18 NSCB : " Davao Reg ion Socia l Prot ect ion and Development Repo rt", 20 10 Edition

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97 Beyond doubt, the greatest number of the poorest of the poor households in the municipalities of Don Marcelino and Malita are the IP households. Majority of

them belong to the most vulnerable groups who continually carry the burden of

being marginalized . Below are the priority development issues and concerns that

must be responded to by the Indigenous Peoples in the area with the active

support from concerned Assisting lnstitut!ons.

a) Poverty and Marginalization

98 Insufficiency of income, assets or wealth is one of the most important determining

factors of socio-economic vulnerability of indigenous and traditional peoples .

They remain among the poorest in the province and their type of poverty condition does not only mean income-consumption deficiency. For most of the

IPs, poverty means capability-deficiency or the lack of opportunities to hone and

improved their capacities based on their traditional knowledge in order for them

to cope up effectively to the drastic changes that occur in their natural and

cultural environments .

99 Aptly said, poverty and marginalization are results of socia l exclusion of the IPs

and their overall situation has worsened because of the following interrelated

factors and forces:

o Erosion of the traditional network of support

o Decline of farm productivity

Lack of access to credit and capital

o Inadequate support for IP-focused community infrastructures

Weak Delivery of Government Social Services

b) Environmental degradation and Resource-Impairment

100 The downtrend of farm productivity is mainly due to the degradation of the

natural resource-base and to other farming practices that re sult to mass ive and

continuing resource-impairments . The limited application of conservation farming

t echnologies contributed to the ra pid decline of soi l fert ility. Likewise, with the

lack of timely agricultural exten sio n se rvi ces and the high cost of farm inputs, the

upland IP farmers have to contend with low productivity .

101 Mass ive erosions and landsl id es in haza rd and dange r zones are likewise rec urr ing due to degradation of the remaining forest and/or the depletion vegetative cover

in the sloping and steep landm ass in the area.

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102 The same conditions of resource depletion and resource-impairments are

experienced by the IP fisher folks. This is compounded with the enduring

unsustainable fishing practices, pollution of the coastal and marine waters from

industrial and agricultural waste, lack of comprehensive CRM Programs and weak

enforcement of Fishery Laws.

c) Threats of Climate Change

103 The members of the IP communities have recognized the occurrence of severe weather events, such as droughts, pronounced long rainy seasons and the

unpredictable changes in the seasons of Northern (Amihan) and Southern

(Habagat) monsoons. These erratic climatic changes have affected both the

upland farmers and the coastal fishers .

104 This observation is validated by the Manila Observatory, which noted that the

Province of Davao del Sur ranks 61h among the top 20 provinces at risk to

projected temperature increase and among the top 20 provinces at risk to

drought. Moreover, the same report mentions that the Province ranks 81h among

the top 10 provinces that are susceptible to landslide hazards and are at risk to

earthquake-induced shallow landslides

105 The contiguous barangays are at threat from large-scale impacts of climate

change on the ocean . One sitio in Barangay Lais is currently experiencing rapid

recession of the shoreline. Moreover; there is a danger of a recurrence of massive

coral bleaching that is brought about by the El Nino phenomenon. And an increase

in sea level due to thermal expansion would likely threaten the coastal

communities, which are already experiencing haphazard coastal development.

106 The threat of climate change impacts will further marginalize indigenous peoples whose customs and livelihood are deeply rooted in the wellbeing of the

environment. It would devalue their "contribution to the conservation and

protection of biological diversity and ecosystems which is crucial for the

prevention of climate change . Indeed, climate change impacts constitute an

additional pressure to the succeeding generations of Indigenous communities

who shall be inheriting the cost of an impaired natural resource-base .

e) Social vulnerability

107 Poverty, illiteracy, lack of food security and poor health are among the leading

conditions that brought about the continuing vulnerability of the Indigenous

Peoples in the area . Social vulnerability is made apparent among peoples--- "who

could barely provide their basic family needs such as foo d, clothing, shelter and education; who may have the resources but are less knowledgeable in utilizing them; who seldom or never participate in any community activities because they see themselves as inferior; who don 't speak up and jus t choose to remain passive

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and unconsciously detached to the changes that happen around them. n19 And,

they choose to be vulnerable because they feel so little and accept their being less

empowered.

108 Their vulnerability is likewise considered as a consequence of social and political

exclusion that is largely due to the historical loss of their control and ownership of

the huge portions of their ancestral homelands. Most of the indigenous

households have been pushed to marginal and oftentimes fragile lands. With

exceptions of a few endowed IP families, most of the IPs has very limited access to

power and decision-making.

d) Erosion of Traditional Social Network of Support

109 The participants in the planning session agreed that the traditional network of

support among the members of the IP communities has eroded . In one session in

Don Marcelino one participant expressed: "Nawala no ang hung/as ug a/ayon. Kinahanglan gyud nga mapalig-on kini pagbalik" ("Our traditional system of

shared community labor is no longer practiced, we need to revitalize this support system.")

110 Clearly, Indigenous peoples are reliant on their traditional social networks and

maintain exchanges of food and labor through reciprocal links and local markets .

These have been important components of adaptation strategies to

environmental change in the past. If they can be maintained, they are likely to

remain important, particularly if resources decline in local availability .

111 Diversified livelihood systems also allow communities to draw on various sources

of food and income and in doing so spread the risks of climate change. Thus,

opportunities should be maximized to diversify the alternative livelihood sources for the IPs in the area . More importantly, the IP leaders and elders must put to

place effective mechanisms for the revitalization of their Indigenous Knowledge

Systems and Practices, which if re-invigorated and enriched could provide them a

wide range of livelihood options.

e) limited livelihood Options and the Weakening Status of IP Women

112 The aggravating conditions of rural poverty and the continuing deprivation of the

IPs, have resulted to the miserable status and dismal marginalization of IP

Women . Evidently, the IP Women suffer most in a socio-cultural context where

social exclusion and discrimination prevail.

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113 Most women elders in IP communities express that women embrace the

conditions of low literacy and capability-deficiency. The circumstances where IP

Women are highly regarded because of their crucial role in the survival of the

indigenous knowledge and practices have now been considered only as memory

of the past.

114 In traditional societies, where the indigenous cultural systems and traditional

political structures are relatively intact, the community members strictly

observe the recognized gender-domains. While men focus their energies on the

defense of the community against external aggressors or in the clearing of new farm plots, Indigenous women engaged themselves in agricultural production

and in safekeeping the significant and diverse species and varieties of seeds.

115 IP Women, traditionally choose what particular species and varieties to plant as

well as choose as to when and where to propagate them . They likewise decide

what products to barter as well as control the means of production . IP women

are relatively economically dependent then than now .

116 In times, when the husband would decide to get a second wife (duway), the

consent of the wife is sought and the woman decides as to who shall be chosen

as the second wife . Men and women likewise share the tasks in the childrearing

as well as in the orientation of their children . Young boys grow as apprentice of

the father and the young girls willingly become assistants of their mothers.

117 However, the traditional control of the IP women on the modes of economic

production of the households has been drastically changed when the practice of

shifting agriculture and the traditional patterns of settlement had transformed.

Most especially when the IP farmer has embraced the plow and other farm tools

and equipment, the traditional gender-domains had been altered. Worst, when

the parcels of lands once owned by the IP households were sold to lowland settlers, the status of IP Women has veritably weakened .

118 With the introduction of the plow, the men decide and control the entire

process of production. Moreover, as the traditional IP community started to

engage with the lowland market forces, the men, in most cases, make a decision

as to what products are to be sold and at what price . The men likewise

determine what items are bought in the market.

119 IP Women in the project areas have very limited livelihood options. They also

suffer from discriminatory practices of the lowlanders and rarely participate in

the activities related to lowland governance. Because of the low level of

educational attainment, an increasing number of young IP women have moved

to the municipal centers or to nearby urban areas seeking employment as

household helpers. In some case s, they are forced to deny their ethnic origins

and cultural identities due to fear of being discriminated, neglected or abused.

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Table 3. Matrix on the Levels of Stakeholders Well-Being

FINAL GOALS Indigenous Peoples Other Stakeholders

Very low harvest I downward trend in Productivity of farmers and fishers 1 Productivity productivity on both farm and fishery is relatively better than the IPs

systems

Land Most do not have security of farmlands Most have acquired land titles and

2 and home lots. Ancestral Domain Claim I or other arrangements for Security

is yet to be recognized security of tenure

Health Increasing trend of malnutrition among Most have accessed to health

3 Security

children; could not access enough services and are relatively "healthy" medicine for the sick;

Education and Very low educational attainment; More Most can access Basic Education

4 Training

women have less access to education and a good number of women have and training participated in training programs

5 Disaster Not well in place; relying on the Can access support in times of Preparedness established community support-system disasters

Active Traditional leaders are disenfranchi sed; Quite well-represented and

6 Participation in majority are not actively participatin g majority are active in the selection

Governance in local governance; in most cases of governing leaders; more women women are marginalized are active in local governance

7 Access to

Limited access to capital and credit A good number can access credit

Capital from various sources

Peace and Intermittent conflict situation exists; Relatively peaceful community but

8 Security of however the IP can resolve conflicts with latent conditions that would among themselves through traditional cause for the un-peace situation

Abode peace-keeping efforts

Access to Limited social services and assistance Social services are extended by

9 Social Services for social welfare

both government and non-government agencies

Market Less engagement in cash-economy and Most do not have secured market-

10 Linkages

lowland market links for the their farm and fishery products

Support for expediting the Recognition of the Ancestral Domain Claim in Don Marcelino

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During the planning process in Don Marcelino, the IP leaders and elders raised

the concerns concerning their Ancestral Doma in Claim. The claimed area covers

the five upland barangays in addition to the port ions of the coastal barangays in

the mun icipa lity.

Thus, there is an urgent need to expedite the app roval process of t he claim of

Ancestral Domain s and consequently the issuance of Ancestral Domai ns Titles

(CADT) to the IP claimants in Don Marcelino. The claimed areas cover several

barangays, including portions of Baranga y Tala guton (refer to AD Claim map) .

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determined by interrelated social and biophysical as well as cultural-political

factors . Biophysical vulnerability is exacerbated by social aspects such as poverty

and marginalization, lack of entitlements to networks, resources, power and

decision-making, among others . Thus, assisting institutions and support agencies

have a key role to play in empowering indigenous and traditional peoples by

securing and enhancing their entitlement to resources and improving their

adaptive capacity to climate change.

105 With the recognition of their Ancestral Domain Claim, the members of the IP

communities would not only regain their collective ownership of their ancestral

domains as well as achieve security of tenure but would be greatly mobilized in

the protection and restoration of the life-support systems and the conservation

of their natural resource-base. And where institutions and agencies fail to secure these entitlements, climate change and other stressors could exceed the

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Network of Development Potentials

106 The participants in the planning workshop identified the interrelated factors and

forces that could propel positive changes on their living conditions, if rightly

addressed and maximized . Aside from the strategic location of the covered Barangays that are situated outside of the typhoon belt there is an existing rich

natural resource-base and other cultural endowments.

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Social Cohesion

There is an apparent synergy and cooperation among the members of the

Indigenous groups. Evidently, IP communities in the area are still considered as

cohesive communities .

108 Social cohesion is significant as it anchors a "positive self-image" of a people .

This "positive self-image" guides the community members and determines the

community actions for transformation --- transformation of the place,

transformation of the people and transformation of social structures.

109 The openness and, to a large extent, the readiness of some IP community

leaders and members to implement community-based resource management

and resource conservation programs could lead to a reversal in the downtrend

of productivity of the farming and fishery systems.

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Culture as energy

110 On one hand, the tight bond of kinship and the presence of Indigenous leaders

and elders who can command respect and allegiance from most members of the

clan and communities serve as a positive force. On the other hand, the presence

of assertive culture bearers, who are still invoking the traditions of the

Indigenous and who are still keepers and guardians of the wealth of indigenous

knowledge systems and processes, are sources of energy that could encourage

the IPs to actively engage in the community strengthening process.

111 Moreover, the IP's sense of "stewardship of place" is a motivational factor that

could encourage the hardworking and diligent IP farmers and highly skilled

fishers to bond together and collectively work towards transforming their

communities into "caring, nurturing and sharing communities" or the local

associations as learning organizations.

Potentials f2..r. expanded options f.Qr.livelihood and community enterprises

112 The long coastlines, good beaches, high index of biodiversity, scenic spots and

other unique and monumental sites that are potentials for eco-tourism and

cultural tourism projects. Likewise, the presence of assisting organizations and

the convergence of inter-agency programs could enable the IP communities to

enhance their local potentials. Livelihood training that had been implemented

can be made more enriching and inspiring. Various proven farming and fishing

technologies that had been tested can be replicated.

113 Moreover, the supportive Local Barangays Officials endeavor to raise their

management capabilities to better serve their constituencies. The Barangay Local Government Units could expand their efforts to generate the financial

resources to support the IP community initiatives.

114 Topping the list of development potentials in the IP communities are the

following : sense of social cohesion, presence of assisting institutions and the

political will of the Local Barangay Officials. These conditions could help propel a

community-initiated development project and could replace the negative

conditions that the Indigenous Peoples are confronting at present.

115 However, any development programs and projects should be owned by the

community and should reinforce their sense of pride. Without the sense of

pride, there will be no commitment and without commitment there will be no

excellence .

116 The community strategy to transform the IP farming and fishery systems,

sheltered by the network of development potentials, is illustrated in the two

figures below .

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Resettlement and Relocation of Project Affected IP Families

117 There are more th an 250 families who have been affected by the Road Project

improvement, either severely or marginally. Minor community infrastructures

(e .g. hoses of water distribution system installed by the roadside) were likewise

damaged, severely or slightly, during the construction process. As of this writing,

most of the Project affected IP Families who were severely affected and who

were asked to relocate their dwellings have already moved their houses a few

meters away from the edge of the widened road. Only a few of them have re­

constructed their houses or structures considering the right easement zone from the concreted road.

118 However, for most of the IP PAFs, the sites where they have now relocated their

old structures are still considered as hazard zones, with the dwellings built just

beside the gutter of the rehabilitated national road . And, if in the future, the

national road would again be expanded into a four-lane highway, then these

relocated dwellings would again be removed .

119 Observably, there are still ten (10) IP affected households in Barangay Culaman

and four (4) in Barangay Tingulo, who have expressed that they are still waiting

for the planned resettlement intended for the PAFs, since they do not have any

access to residential lots where they could rebuild their houses. They have

moved their dwellings temporarily, a few meters away from the original place

that they had occupied prior to the road improvement project . The other IP

PAFs in Barangays Mana, New Argao and Talaguton share this particular

sentiment. A number of the IP affected families still seek assistance from the

DPWH for relocation and resettlement.

110 Apparently, upon the implementation of the Road Improvement Project, there

had been plans to ensure that resettlement areas are in place. The Municipal

Mayors of Don Marcelino and Malita, during the project start-up phase, had

allegedly agreed to address the concern for the relocation within their respective jurisdictions. Noticeably however, the original Resettlement Plan had

not yet been materialized for various reason s.

111 Hence, the IP Council Representative of Barangay Mana, during the community

validation process, has raised the concern to push through with the need to

acquire a parcel of land, specifically in Barangay Mana, for the relocation of IP

affected families and other IP families that are currently residing in hazard ­

prone areas. He further suggested that the DPWH should assist, financiall y, in

the land acquisiti on for a resettlement area intended for the IP PAFs.

112 On the other hand, almost all of the tombs that were likewise affected by the

Road Improvem ent Project have been tran sferre d to undisturbed sites, most ly in

vacant portions of house lots or farm lots ow ned by the relatives and kin s. Only

the remaining seven (7) families Sitio Cabalantian have still to relocate the

tombs of their kinfolk to other safer places.

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Part Three: The Indigenous Peoples Community Development and

Protection Plan (IPDPP)

This section discusses the agreed-upon /P-focused development directions and core program strategies agreed-upon by the /PDP planners. The program strategies include:

a) IP Community Strengthening and Institutional Linkages,

b) Natural Resource Management, Protection and Renewal, and c) Enhancement of IP Sustainable Livelihood Options and Development of Small

Community Enterprises. The list of Priority Projects, the corresponding cost estimates and

the identified assisting institutions are found at the end of this section .

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Statement of Context

1 The poverty condition in the communities and the continuing marginalization of

the Indigenous Peoples top the list of priority concerns that should be addressed.

The component barangays in Don Marcelino and Malita are among the poorest

and least developed in the Province of Davao del Sur. Evidently, farming and

fishing productivity is in the downward trend and is not keeping pace with

population growth. Cases of resource-impairments have heightened while the

large segment of the IP population live at subsistence level and are vulnerable to

year-to year weather changes while confronting the high-risk conditions.

2 More people claim that the younger generations have distanced themselves or

have been alienated from the traditions of their elders . While there are still a number of cultural masters and culture-bearers that continue to hold on to their

indigenous knowledge and cultural practices, they have not been given due

attention and are made visible only during the community showcases in

community cultural fest ivals .

3 On the other hand, the drastic changes experienced by the Indigenous Peoples in

the area have lead to several negative impacts such as but not limited to: a)

disintegration of some indigenous social institutions, b) the seemingly

disempowered traditional councils of elders, and c) the weakening of traditional

network of social support among the members of the IP communities .

4 The above conditions serve as the socio-economic and cultural contexts that the

community-formulated Indigenous People's Development and Protection Plan

anchors itself. The members of the IP communities desire to rebuild and

strengthen the foundations of their being indigenous and redirect the changes in

their natural and cultural environments towards building a fairer and better

society that would equally benefit the present and future generations and provide

quality well-being for all its members- men, women, youth and ch ildren .

Core Development Principles

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IPDP Vision Statement

The collectively expressed and shared societal Vision that is stated as follows:

A sustainably progressive IP community where all members are continually safeguarding the natural and cultural environments that

support the needs and enhance the wellbeing of all generations. The empowered and self-determined Indigenous Peoples have acquired recognition of their Rights, enhanced their capabilities and secure a better future for all the succeeding generations of Indigeno us Peoples.

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8 The participants of the community-planning workshop have identified the key and

significant elements of the articulated IP Community Vision based on the Network

of Potentials that they have constructed during the planning workshop. These key

elements are as follows:

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a) Increased Productivity;

b) Improved Food Security;

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Sustained Higher household Incomes;

Improved Well-being and Reduced Vulnerability;

Recognition of Indigenous People's Rights;

Enhanced Capabilities of indigenous men, women and youth;

Empowered and self-determined IP communities; and Safeguarded Natural Environments to meet the needs of all IP

generations

Guided by the essential elements of the IP community Vision the representatives

of the planning workshop crafted the over-arching Goal of the IPDPP:

The over-arching Goal of the !PDP is stated as follows :

"Cohesive IP farming and fishing households have achieved higher incomes and better standards of living and have improved their livelihood with greater resiliency, through increase in subsistence and/or cash crop and fishery production supplemented with successfully managed social enterprises and other IP-focused sustainable livelihood options and strategies."

12 The achievement of the IP Development Goal can be indicated by the following

verifiable conditions of success that generate sustainable positive impacts on

the lives of a large segment of the IP populations --- men, women, youth and

children:

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a) A large number of IP households in all covered barangays are

organized and the constituted IP Councils are strengthened and enabled

to collectively implement the plan and programs as well access funds to

meet the identified priority projects;

b) A menu of effective, culturally-appropriate and ecologically­

sound farming and fishing technologies are innovated and replicated

resulting to an improved productivity of farming and fishing systems as

well as the enrichment of the natural resource in all covered barangays;

c) A number of small community enterpri ses and other alternative

livelihood engagements (on-farm, off-farm and no n-farm and fishery­

re lated) are developed, m anaged and expanded by organized and

capacitated IP Women 's group s and other IP self-help organization s.

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measured, timely and IP-focused development interventions:

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a) Community Strengthening and Capability Enhancement.

Intended for the IP self-help farmers, fishers ' and women's organizations and their respective Tribal Councils (including their assisting Barangay

LGUs) to plan, prepare, finance and manage their production-oriented projects and activities including the expansion of proven alternative

livelihood sources.

b) Timely delivery of technical support and extension services.

Designed to enhance and improve the IP production systems that give emphasis on community responsibility and management as well as safeguard the natural environment and mitigate its further degradation

in the context of an intensifying climate-change condition

c) Development and expansion of small community enterprises.

Intended to be based on farm and fishery related activities through the formation and strengthening of local (individual or group) entrepreneurs

with special consideration for self-help IP women 's groups.

Components of the I PDP

23 The IPDP focuses on three significant elements of the IP development process,

namely: Enriched Natural Resource Base (Environment), Enhanced IP Capabilities (Culture) and Sustainable livelihood Options (Economy).

24 Thus, the components of the plan are designed to emphasize participatory

implementation to cover three key results areas. 1

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1) IP Community Strengthening & Capability Building

The objective of this component is to improve the community capacity to

manage the identified development interventions as well as access funds

for the implementation of the community priority projects . The component

mobilizes the community members --- the elders, leaders, women and

youth--- in all phases of IP community development process.

1 The framework is based on th e successes of the WMCIP-IFAD Co-Initiatives Project and the Sustainab le

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Accordingly, it shall include the introduction of innovative practices towards

the strengthening of community-management as well as the

institutionalization of IP governance. This component shall lay the

groundwork for the formation and strengthening of the Indigenous Peoples'

Management Councils, Local Indigenous Peoples' Development Teams and

IP self-help groups who shall be actively engaged in the implementation of

the agreed upon programs and projects.

The engagement of the Barangay Local Government Units' (BLGU) and the

partnerships with National Line Agencies are necessary to ensure the

implementation of the key activities and interventions under this

component. Hence, capacity-related needs of the BLGUs must be addressed

to strengthen their timely support to and engagement in the IPDP.

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comprehensive development strategy, the NRM component is comprised of

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b.l) The Upland Farmers Extension Services

This sub-component shall benefit the IP upland farmers who shall be

trained in culturally viable, appropriate and affordable upland integrated

conservation farming technologies to be adopted, innovated and replicated.

This sub-component envisions the upward productivity of IP upland farmers

and the expansion of the conserved areas of upland farms as well as the

areas of restored community forest within the covered Barangays.

The activities under this sub-component shall focus on the regeneration of

natural resources, mitigation of further resource-impairments and

installation of affordable farming technologies that integrates short-term

production (crop, poultry and livestock) and perennial crops or trees .

Several on-farm technology trials are encouraged, supported and

monitored. Moreover, the activities of this sub-component are directed to

organize and train local para-technicians who shall be responsible for the

popularization and replication of the proven and effective upland farming

technologies by most upland farmers in the target barangays .

b.2) Assistance to IP Fishers and Marine-resource Management

This sub-component shall likewise address food security, environment

protection and improved productivity of IP fishing households in accordance

to the Community Vision and Goal statements articulated in the Plan.

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The objective is to increase fish production with the introduction of proven

and culturally appropriate fishing technologies with built-in environmental

protection features. Likewise it stri ves at expanding of the coverage of

barangay-based coastal resource management interventions thus ensuring

its positive effects on the marine environment and fish population within

the covered coastal barangays .

As IP small fishers are organized, oriented and trained in proven fishing

technologies, the sub-component outlines the following concrete outputs:

new marine sanctuaries are delineated and declared, habitats of marine life are rehabilitated and coral reefs have regenerated and have expanded in

areas. Special care however shall be given due attention considering the

possibilities of environmental disturbances beyond human control.

The NRM component encourages the upland farmers and IP smal l fishers to engage in cross-visits and learn from other peoples' experiences within and

outside of the covered barangays. These learning activities can help the IP

community members to sharpen the identified livelihood stra tegies

technologies for greater productivity.

Likewise, the conduct of regular cross visits are designed to improve the

capabilities of the trained local para-technicians in transferring technologies

to other farmers and/or fi shers in the community. Likewise, the members of

the local IP Bantay-dagat Cooperators shal l be strengthened with greater

resolved through these regularized area-visits or lakbay-aral.

Moreover, the NRM component shal l include the support for Community Infrastructure Enhancement. The Department of Public Works and

Highways shall be the principal assisting Institution in the realization of this

sub-component .

The IP leaders and the members of the Local Barangay Councils have

identified priority community infrastructures that must be installed in their

respective areas, such as barangay road rehabilitation, installation of belly

bridges, improved flood control and drainage for water run-off during

seasons of heavy rain, among others. These community-solicited projects

intend to improved transport access of people and products as well as

mitigate the risks associated with the intermittent flooding in the area.

42 3} Sustainable Livelihood Enhancement and Small Enterprise Development

43 This component sha ll enable the IP community members to pursue a

diversity of sustainable livelihoods options and community enterprises,

resulting from the enhanced and productive farming and fishing systems

th at cou ld reinvigorate the econom ic activities of the covered

barangays.

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This component shall facilitate the availability and accessibility of

effective technical assistance, advisory services and series of training

that shall prepare the intended IP beneficiaries to develop, own,

manage and operate several small enterprises or alternative livelihood

projects .

The involvement of the Local Barangay Councils is necessary in order to

establish closer and tighter linkages with government, academic and

private institutions that shall provide research and advisory services to

expand market linkages as well as to develop strategies in social

marketing that address the concern of fair pricing of fish catch among

the fisher-folks in the area .

46 The IPDP components are directed towards the achievement of the following

interfacing key results or desired outcomes:

47 Outcome 1: Capacitated IP Organizations are successfully managing their priority community projects

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Outcome 2: Proven farming and fishing technologies are innovated and replicated by IP farmers & Fishers

Outcome 3: Expansion of the conserved areas through community­based resource conservation programs

Outcome 4: IP Women's groups have successfully developed and expanded community micro-enterprises

51 The integrated outputs and outcomes of the IPDP or the Results Chain is

illustrated in the figure found in the next page.

Identified Community Priority Projects

52 During the community validation phase of the IPDP, the IP community leaders

and the members of the Barangay Councils have rationalized and refined the list

of priority projects that are intended to realize the four strategic IP development

outcomes.

53 The priority projects under the three components vary in terms of scope, scale

and focus in every Barangay, in accordance to the preference of the IP farmer­

fisher cooperators and the women associations as well as on the concrete

opportunities that ex ist in each of the covered Barangays.

54 The menu of priority projects includes the followin g:

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Component 1: !.P. Community Strengthening & Capability Building

55 1. Formation of FunctionaiiP Organizations

56 The IP Management Council strives to strengthen the IP organizations

and the Production Teams of the Farmer-Fisher Cooperators as well as

encourages the active participation of the IP Women's Associations in

every Barangay.

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2. Conduct of Community Awareness Raising Sessions

The Local Barangay Council seek assistance from various Government

Agencies (NCIP, DILG, DENR, BFAR, etc.) in the conduct of community

awareness sessions focused on IPRA Orientation, IP Development

Framework. Environmental Conservation. IP Customary Laws and

Culture-focused Alternative Dispute resolution processes, among others.

59 3. Training for IP Cooperators

60 Likewise, the BLGU and the IP Tribal Council shall seek assistance from

Government and Non-Government Organizations in the conduct of

training that intended to increase the capabilities of the IP Cooperators

and Production Teams in the areas of: Organization Development,

Project Development, Production Systems Enhancement, Project

Management, among others .

61 Component 2: Natural Resource Management

62 4. Training of IP Para-Technicians (Farmers and Fishers)

63 The timely Extension Services shall be provided by the Municipal

Agriculture Office through the request of the Barangay Local

Government for the training of IP Farmer-Fishers Para-Technicians who

shall initiate in the innovation of proven Farming and Fishing

Technologies .

64 5. Establishment of 11 learning Farms" (LF)

The IP Para-Technicians shall initiate in the establishment of Learning

Farms or Technology Demo Farms focused on the diverse Soil and Water

Conservation (SWC) technology innovations towards the establishment

of Integrated Upland Farming System or Sloping Agriculture Land

Technologies (SALT}, including the establishment of Community

Seedlings Nursery.

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66 The /P Upland Farmers shall be assisted in their innovations, adoption or replication of improved conservation farming technologies. The assistance includes but not limited to provision of farm inputs and tools for an enhanced integrated farm, livestock and forage production and

integrated tree farms. The IP farmer cooperators shall provide labor as counterpart in the farming systems enrichment.

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7. Improvement of IP Fishing Systems

Likewise, the BLGU and the IP Management Councils shall tap funding institutions to provide assistance for adoption and/or replication of proven fishing technologies. The fund support shall include: a) Assistance for vulnerable fishing households for technology Innovations, b)

Assistance to Group Trials on Fishing Technology Innovations and/or start-up capital, and c) Assistance for the acquisition of motorized fishing equipment.

69 8. Barangay Environment Conservation Projects

70 The respective cooperating Barangay Local Government Units (BLGU} shall implement barangay-wide projects in line with the conservation of the agri-aqua ecosystems. The Barangay Projects, among others,

include: a) Revisit I Refining of Barangay Natural Resource Management Program (NRMP}, b) Rehabilitation and/or expansion of delineated Fish Sanctuaries and/or Community Protected Forests, c) Enforcement of Environmental Laws, and d) /ED for Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction Program.

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9. Barangay Community Infrastructure Projects

Moreover, the IP Management Councils and the Barangay Councils shall tap the support of the DPWH to assist in the implementation of their identified priority community infrastructure projects. These projects are intended either for the enhancement of farming-fishing productivity

systems, improvement of transport access to the market centers and/or the mitigation of disaster-risks or hazards. Among others, these community infrastructure projects include the installation of mini-belly bridges for improved drainage and flood control, and the rehabilitation

of barangay roads.

Component 3: Community Enterprise

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The BLGU and the IP Management Councils shall seek the assistance of Government and Non -Government Organizations for the conduct of Training series that shall be participated by the members of IP Women 's Associations and other self-help groups. The training, among others,

shall focus on the following: a) Product Development, b) Project Proposal Writing, c) Project Feasibility I Market Studies, and d) Social Enterprise Development

11. Support for Product Development & Enhancement

The IP Women Self-Help associations shall be assisted in their initiatives in Product Development and Enhancement of Social Enterprise. Initially, the identified products or enterprise projects include: financing and marketing of marine products, production of condiments, processing and marketing farm-product, hog fattening, poultry raising, and production of traditional crafts, among others.

12. Fund for Alternative Livelihood I Community Enterprise Development

The BLGU shall seek the support of Funding Institutions to provide support fund for IP Women's Groups Social Enterprises. Local counterpart fund shall come from the cooperating IP Women 's Groups and from the BLGU.

13. Special Support to the IP Ancestral Domain Claim in Don Marcelino

Another priority project identified and endorsed by the IP management Council in the IPDPP is the support for the recognition of the Ancestral Domain Claim of the IPs in Don Marcelino. The IP communities, in partnership with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) ensure the recognition of their Rights and security of tenure by the immediate conduct of monumental ground survey and the awarding of the Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title {CADT} . Likewise, IP leaders need technical and funding assistance in the conduct of their Ancestral Domains Sustainable Development and Protection Plan {ADSDPP}.

82 The above-identified priority projects envisions the generation of the following

desired social impacts after the project life:

a) Increase in household incomes above the poverty line b) Cohesive IP communities have institutionalized self-governance c) Successful social enterprises sustained and managed by self-help groups

d) Expanded areas of safeguarded and conserved ecosystems e) Revitalized of Indig enous Knowledge Sys tems and Practices

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Figure 10: Results Chain of the /PDP

Overriding Goal: Increased Incomes of IP Households beyond

subsistence levels through the enhanced Farming & Fishing Productivity Systems with greater resiliency

I I I Outcome 1: Capacitated IP Outcome 2: Proven farming and Outcome 3: Expansion of the Outcome 4: IP Women's groups

Organizations are successfully fishing technologies are innovated conserved areas through community- have successfu ll y developed and managi ng their prior ity community and replicated by IP Farmers & based Barangay Resource expanded community micro-

proj ects Fishers Conservation Programs enterprises - -

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l Component 1: Community Component Z: Natural Resource Management Component 3: Community

Strengthening (NRM) Enterprise Development

1. Organizational Consolidation & 2.1 Productivity Systems 2.2 Community-based 3.11P Women-managed Social Institutional Development Enhancement Ecosystems' Enrichment Enterprise Projects

r r r r Outputs: Outputs: Outputs: I Outputs:

! I 1.1 Formation of 2.1 Extension Program for IP 2.6 Revisit/Refineme nt of 3.1 Community

Functional IP Farmers and Fishers Barangay CRMP Entrepreneurship Training Organizations 2.2 Training of IP Para-Technicians 2.7 En richment of de lineated series

1.2 Community Awareness 2.3 Establishment of "Learning Community Forest 3.2 Assist ance for Product

Raising Sessions Farms" 2.8 Enhancement of Development and

1.3 Organizational Training 2.4 Assistance for Farm/Fishery delineated Fish Sanctuaries Production Trials Seri es Production Trial s 2.9 Enforcement of 3.3 Ass istance for IP

2.5 Adoption I Replication of Environmental Laws Women Socia l EntNpri se Proven Farming / Fish ing 2.10 Enhancement of

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83 The computed estimated cost of all the priority projects to be implemented in

the seven barangays has reached to 19,981,250 pesos as indicated in the Table

below.

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PRIOIRITY PROJECTS

Formation of Functional and Strengthened IP Organizations

Conduct of Community Awareness Raising

Sessions

Training for IP Cooperators

Training of IP Para-Technicians {Farmers and

Fishers)

Establishment of IP "Learning Farms" (LF)

Enrichment of IP Upland Farming Systems

Improvement of IP Fishing Production Systems

Barangay Environment Conservation Projects

Barangay Community Infrastructure Projects

Community Entrepreneurship Training series

Support for Product Development &

Enhancement

Fund for Alternative Livelihood I Community

Enterprise Development

Special Support to the IP Ancestral Domain Claim

in Don Marcelino*

Project Monitoring

Project Administration and Management

TOTAL

NOTE:

AMOUNT

130,000

140,000

315,000

100,000

385,000

3,645,000

2,340,000

1,285,000

8,000,000

80,000

200,000

620,000

135,000

2,606,250

19,981,250

%of TOTAL

0.7%

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1.6%

0.5%

1.9%

18.2%

11.7%

6.4%

40.0%

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1.0%

3.1%

0.7%

13.0%

A separate letter proposal is being prepared to cover the Support to the IP

Ancestral Domain Claim of Don Marcelino;

For details, please refer to Annex A: Project Implementation Plan Matrix and Cost

Estimates

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Project Implementation

85 The IPDP Management Council (IPMC) has projected that the IPDP priority

projects can be implemented in a two-year period, provided that funds from

support agencies and funding institutions is avai led . Likewise, they shall refine

the Implementing Policies that govern the provision of fund assistance for the IP

Project Cooperators or Production Teams during the pre-implementation stage.

86 The IPDP Barangay Development Teams (IPBDT) in each of the covered

Barangays sha ll finalize the IPDP Implementation Plan as well as select and

screen the Project Cooperators or Production Teams. During the pre-project

start-up, the IPBDC shal l get the commitment from the Office of the Municipal Mayor and the Municipal Agriculture Office for the implementation of IP­

focused Extension Services.

87 The leaders of the IP Associations (Farmers, Fishers and Women's Groups) who

are members of the BDT shall conduct the series of sectoral orientation and the

planned awareness-raising sessions, with the support of the NCIP . These

community education processes are part of the socia l preparation required by

the I PDP . Likewi se, Development Team s of each covered Barangays prepare the

short list of priority IP beneficiaries who shall be engaged.

88 At the ground level, the Production Teams and Project Cooperators (Farmers,

Fishers and Women's Associations) shall be responsib le for the implementation

of the key project activities as enumerated in the I PDP Implementation Plan .

89 Year 1 Activities:

• Community Orientation on the /PDP

• Selection of Project Beneficiaries, Production Teams or Project Cooperators

• Conduct of Awareness-raising sessions and series of Training

• Training of IP Farmers-Fishers Para-Technicians

• Establishment of Learning Farms

• Innovation, Adoption, Replication of Farming and/or Fishing Technologies

Training on Women-focused Social Enterprises

• Production Trials of Community Enterprises

• Revision of Community Resource Management Program (CRMP)

• Review and/or Enactment of Localized Environmental Ordinances

90 Year 2 Activities:

• Expansion of Farming-Fishing Technology Replication

• Enhancement of Community Resource Management Program

• Rehabilitation or Expansion of Fish Sanctuaries and/or Community Forest

• Expansion of Women's Group managed Social Enterprises

• Strict Enforcement of Environmental Laws

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Post-Project Evaluation

91 Project Monitoring

92 The !PDP Management Council shall organize Composite Project Monitoring

Teams who shall be tapped to develop and install culture-focused monitoring

and evaluation mechanisms to include --- traditional meetings and rituals, creative monitoring boards, gender-oriented monitoring activities, among

others.

93 During the pre-project phase, the Composite Monitoring Team of each Barangay

is tasked to compile a comprehensive socio-economic baseline on the

Indigenous households and organizations that shall be the basis for the periodic

PIME-related activities. The PME related activities, frequency of conduct and

participants involved are detailed in the succeeding chapter.

Project Beneficiaries

94 The project beneficiaries include the vulnerable and or marginalized farming and

fishing Indigenous Households residing in the seven (7) Barangays covered in the

IPDP. Likewise the IP Women's self-help groups or associations constitute the

priority project beneficiaries .

95 Direct beneficiaries: 1,238 IP Households engaged in Farming and Fishing in the

seven Barangays. They constitute the following :

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The first priority beneficiaries is comprised of the 425 IPs Households within the area of impact of the Road Improvement Project, who are required to reorganize their houses or move to the resettlement sites as well as the identified Vulnerable IP Households (who have always been left out in the local development process in the are) and the IP Women Self-Help associations in the covered Barangays;

The second in line are the 448 IP Farming and /fishing households living within thP Rnmnany whn will nnt hP rhyc;ically di5placed but \Vho will

nevertheless be affected because the road project had affected the community infrastructure or had entailed loss of livelihoods opportunities or temporary restriction to sources of subsistence and/or

income.

The third pnonty beneficiaries are the 365 IP Farming and Fishing Households who live in the affected barangay but who are neither physically nor economically displaced by the project

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100 All the members of the non-IP households in the Barangay who shall share the benefits of improved community-based Natural Resource Management, enhanced community infrastructure and technology transfer of proven technologies on the production systems

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The indirect beneficiaries also include the members of the IP communities in the neighboring barangays who shall benefit the positive impact of the activities that promote the conservation of the natural resource base and the re-invigoration of the cultural integrity of Indigenous Peoples.

Table 5. Matrix on the Number of Beneficiaries in the Covered Barangays

NO. OF IP FARMING-FISHING HOUSEHOLD DIRECT BENEFICIARIES INDIRECT

BARANGAYS TTL# OF IP PRIORITY 1 PRIORITY 2 PRIORITY 3 TOTAL DIRECT BENEFICIARIES

HOUSEHOLDS BENEFICIARIES BE NEFICIARIES BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARIES IP HH s

TALAG UTON 947 145 245 150 540 407

KINANGA 130 20 25 20 65 65

CU LAMAN 242 65 45 40 150 92

NEW ARG AO 184 so 31 25 106 78

TINGULO 173 63 40 so 153 20

MANA 320 52 42 so 144 176

LA IS 176 20 30 30 80 96

TOTAL 2, 172 425 448 365 1,238 934

% of Tota iiP HHS 57 .0% 43 .0%

Assistance from Government Agencies and Non-Government Organizations

103 One of the assumptions in the crafting of the IPDP is that the Government Line

Agencies view I PDP as an express ion of the partnership between the Ind igenous

Peoples' Council and the Local Government Units together with the identified

assisti ng Agencies and support Institution s. It is impe ra ti ve that the Government

Line Agencies value the convergences of initiatives and to del iver the desi red

deve lopment intervention s sought from them by the IP comm unitie s.

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1. Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)

The OPWH, as the principal Assisting Institution is petitioned to support the implementation of the identified priority Community Infrastructure Projects.

Likewise, the Department is asked to endorse the !PDP to various line agencies and funding institutions for support and assistance.

2. National Commission for Indigenous Peoples {NCIP}

The NCIP is asked to assist the BLGUs and the IP Councils in the conduct of capability-building activities in the /POP. Specifically, the Department is requested to provide trainers and resource persons for the outlined awareness­raising sessions and organizational consolidation processes of the IP Councils and cooperating IP Organizations.

3. Department of Agriculture {DA)

Funding and non-funding assistance is sought from the DA in the training of IP Para- Technicians in the innovation, adoption or replication of technologies geared towards Farming Systems Enrichment.

4. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)

Likewise, technical assistance is sought from the BFAR for the enrichment of the

fishery systems as well as in the rehabilitation and/or expansion of fish sanctuaries and other measures for the conservation of marine life in the covered Barangays.

5. Department of Environment and Natural Resources {DENR)

The IP Councils and the partner BLGUs seek funding and non-funding support from the DENR towards the establishment of community Tree Farms, seedling nurseires and in the conservation of protected forest areas within the covered Baran gays.

6. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)

The DTI shall be asked to help in the conduct of capability building for IP Women's associations who shall venture on the development of social enterprises as well as to provide market advisory for the IP production teams.

7. Department of Science and Technology {DOST}

111 In line with the soc;ial enterprise development wmnnnPM. thP nnw mn)t hr requested to provide inputs on new technologies and/or IP-affordab/e equipment

that the IP Women's Groups could avail as they engaged in thP. pmriur:t development activities.

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Technical assistance is requested from the DILG towards capability-enhancement

of the respective BLGU Officials in the mainstreaming of the /PDP and in

managing the priority programs and projects. Likewise, the Agency is asked to

endorse the /PDP to possible partner funding institutions.

Through the Assistance of the DILG and the NCIP, the cooperating BLGUs and

the partner IP Councils shall enter into agreements with the above-mentioned

Government Line Agencies covering their assistance and specific support for the

implementation of the I PDP.

Hence, it is imperative to pursue the planned Inter-Agency Consultative Round­

table Conference that shall be convened by the DPWH for the IPDP proponents

to submit and explain their proposals for partnerships with the various National

Line Agencies.

The IPDPD, as a strategy in sustainab le development of IP communities, is

designed to gather technical and managerial skills and expertise, resources, and

political influence into a consistent and coherent whole, as it enhances

partnerships and cooperation as well as the building confidence and capabilities

of all the parties concerned . Thus, it is imperative that the I PDP should include a

support fund for Administration and Finance (10% of the total budget) as well as

for Management Consultancy (5% of the project cost) in the budget. This

particular line-item budget shall be sourced partly from the contributions of the

cooperating Local Barangay Units and partly from the Assisting Funding Donors.

116 In the strengthening process of the IPDP proponents to harness the needed

resources of cooperating CJgencies and private partners for the effective and

efficient delivery of expected interventions and services, there is a need to tap

the consultancy services from Consultancy Firms or Agents . The latter shall be

tasked to enable the IP Management Councils and the Local Barangay

Development Teams in the formulation or refinement of project policies,

administrative systems and procedures as well as in the building of partnerships

with support Institutions and Assisting Agencies .

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The IPDPP Implementing Mechanisms, Structures and Processes

This section starts with the discussion of the Development Principles and Core Values espoused by the IPDPP. It continues with the presentation of

the /POP Investment Plan and the proposed funding arrangement the Implementing mechanisms as well as the Operational Structure. Finally

the section ends with an explanation of the IPDPP Monitoring and Evaluation Framework .

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Core Principles and Crosscutting Development Themes

1 In response to the continuing marginalization of the IPs and in consonance with

the goal to achieve better standards of living among the members of the IP

communities, the IPDP upholds the following cross-cutting themes relevant to

the development of the IPs, and constitute the over-all Core Guiding Principles and Values being incorporated in the IPDPP.

Community Participation

2 The IPDPP promotes the active partnership between the existing local IP

organizations, the Barangay Councils and the Assisting Institutions. It shall

facilitate dialogue and consultations among all stakeholders. Likewise, the IPDPP

aspires that IP community and Indigenous People's Organizations maintain

ownership of the process and the outcomes of the planned programs projects .

Here, empowerment means allowing the people to learn and internalize the

value of participatory development process.

Advancing Indigenous Governance

3 Founded on the principles of Self-determination and in recognition of the Rights

of the Indigenous Peoples to Self-Governance, the IPDP put emphasis on the

lead role of the Indigenous Peoples' Councils in each of the covered Barangays

to manage the implementation of the IPDP Programs and Projects, in

partnership with the support Institutions and Assisting Agencies.

4 It is indispensable that the IPDP should build the sustainable capacity of the

Indigenous Manobo, B'laan and Tagakaulo to continue the work towards the

achieving their shared goals . Accordingly, the IPDPP ensures an increasing

responsibility for the IP Tribal Councils . As suggested, this may also mean

greater delegation of responsibilities from government as well.

Capacity-Building f2.I. Responsive Governance

5 The engagement of the Barangay Local Government Units, as partners in the

IPDP implementation is based on the principles of the Local Government Code.

Th e Code dictates that priority is given to develop an effective development

administration, efficient service institutions, strengthened people's

organizations and the links between them . "Mutual confidence should be built up by a continuous interchange of ideas so that the local administrators become more sensitive to the needs of the Indigenous Peoples and the rural poor."

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6 The IPDPP essentially strives to develop local capabilities and gender balance in

the implementation of both strategic and on-the-ground programs. The

activities provide for information, education, awareness ra1smg, skills

development, new technologies, new perspective and ideas, and possible

revenue sources . The development of such capability will empower local

authorities and the IP Councils to confront development issues and concerns as

well as to resolve social and ecological problems by themselves .

7 Moreover, this principle will ensure that actions are responsive to local needs

and circumstances . It will make the best use of traditional or indigenous

knowledge and appropriate technology in resource management and assets­

enhancement. It will also increase the efficiency and effectiveness in the

delivery of programs and services.

Cultural Sensitivity and Managing Diversity

8 Recognition of and sensitivity to diverse cultures and "ways of doing" are the

first steps in carving harmony in diversity . Harmony in diversity implies not just

tolerance to individual differences but being open to and work with different

ways of thinking, behaving and doing. This is important for developing trust

among peoples, in being open to different ideas and practices, and in building

alliances with those who may have different perspectives.

9 Diversity, therefore, is closely related to the skills of listening, learning,

responding and influencing- the strengths of culturally sensitive peoples that

the IPDPP components should developed.

10 Thus, the IPDP encourages sensitivity of local cultures and the observance of

new codes of conduct that reaffirms the self-worth and sense of pride not only among the indigenous communities but also with the lowland non-indigenous

peoples within the project area.

Technology Transfer

11 The IPDPP emphasizes on the capacity building and technology transfer, most

especially in the arena of local knowledge and traditional skills to the younger

generations. This is one factor that will guarantee rootedness of the

development interventions and in the revitalization of indigenous knowledge

towards sustainable development. Furthermore, developing the capacity of local

IP organizations will ensure that the processes can be sustained.

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Gender-Fairness and Participation of Indigenous Women

12 Differentiation of roles by gender is deep rooted in the traditional communities

and gender disparities are particularly noticeable in the lower socio-economic

strata of rural communities. Thus, attention to Gender Fairness is integrated

throughout the IPDPP implementation . IP Organizational Gender-gap Audits are

strongly recommended at the incipience state and Gender-sensitivity trainings

are advocated in the training programs and activities .

13 Likewise, more investigations and analysis of gender-related factors and issues

in IP communities are needed and the continuous con sultation with stakeholders- men, women and community groups- will enable the project

implementers to evolve a relevant strategy towards gender equity, shared

participation and empowerment, in resolving community issues. The monitoring

and evaluation framework will likewise integrate gender-equity indicators to

determine the overall impact of the project to gender and development goals.

14 Indigenous Women leaders are actively involved in the local Project

Management and Project Monitoring committees. The organizing of Women

Production Teams is designed to further capacitate the B'laan, Manobo and

Tagakaulo women members of the IP communities.

15 On the other hand support for women cultural masters especially in the

production of traditional weaves and other crafts must be in place . Likewise, the

technologies to be popularized for farming and fishing systems enhancement

shall see to it that women are not over-burdened with multiple tasks and roles both in the farm, non-farm and off-farm productions.

16 Moreover, the IP Women Self-Help groups shall anchor the priority projects under the 3'd component of the IPDP - Community Enterprise Development­

not only to access additional sources of incomes but also to enhance their capacities in managing social ente rprises as well as to ensure that the IP Women

can achieve economic sufficiency and control of assets in the households levels .

17 Lastly, the awareness-raising sessions shall attempt to genderize the IP homes.

The !PDP assures that the provision of community infrastructures that the

project advocates will lessen the burden of women in the performance of their

respective tasks within their gender-specific domains .

Potential Effects on the Environment and Mitigating Factors

18 All implementing units, participating agencies and othe r stakehold ers shall take

reasonable measures to ensure that the project is carried out with due diligence,

with regard for environmental factors, and in conformity with the Philippine

Environmental Laws and Policies and Intern ati onal Environmental standard s.

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19 Thus, all IPDPP-related activities should take into account the effect on the

environment and address the need for climate-change mitigation and

adaptation.

20 Moreover, the IPDPP give due consideration to the sustainable resource-use as

well as account the factors that contribute to the resource-impairments within

the community watersheds. A more in-depth participatory resource inventory

and assessment will be undertaken as part of the Review of the Barangay

Resource Conservation Programs to determine the availability (quality and quantity) of re sources as well as the actual constraints and potentials of the

natural environment .

21 The Project lmplementers will ensure that the resources to be procured and the

technology that will be employed in the social enterprise component are all

biologically and ecologically safe and friendly .

22 This I PDP actively promotes a range of conservation measures to regenerate the

wellness of the agro-ecosystems and other life-support systems. As such, the

positive effects of the project include the expansion of conserved areas --- both

farmlands and community agri-aqua-ecosystems within the ancestral

homelands. This is an acceptable intervention and congruent to the tenets of

the survival of the indigenous--- working with nature and not against nature .

23 However, there is an urgent need to propagate cash crops and augment the

traditional farming systems of the indigenous. This would entail a more

measured and timely approach to extension and requires that the extension

agents employ more appropriate and affordable agro-forestry technologies . The

traditional practice of slash and burn shifting agriculture may seemed not to be

environmentally-sound nowadays considering the short fallow period observed

by the indigenous farmers due to limited landholdings being maintained. It is in

this context the agro-forestry technologies shall be popularized including the

practice of nutrient pumping or improved fallow systems .

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The project expects that not all farming and/or fishing households would readily

change their traditional modes of production and innovate a menu of the

conservation technologies . On the other hand, the production of enhanced

traditional crafts relies mainly on forest minor products and necessitates that

the forest should remain intact .

However, the project foresees a negative impact --- i.e. dependency on the

support funds and after the project life, the intended beneficiaries may revert

back to the re source-use or practices that are detrimental to the environment .

Thu s, the mitigating factors that would be emp loyed are contained in the

project strategy --- community awareness raising, timely and appropriate

extension and a more culture-focu sed dispute resolution .

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26 The implementation of the IPDP require s an investment in the amount of

19,981,250 pesos to cover the cost of all the projects under the three (3}

components as well as to underwrite the expenses for Administration and

Management (pegged at 15% of the total project cost) . The Table below

indicates the distribution of cost per component.

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IPDP COMPONENTS COMPONENT 1: Organizational Strengthening and Capability Building COMPONENT 2: Natural Resource Management

COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENT 3: Community Enterprise Development I Alternative Livelihood for Wom en's Groups

SUB TOTAL- PROJECTS

ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

OVER ALL TOTAL

AMOUNT

720,000

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8,000,000

900,000

17,375,000

2,606,250

19,981,250

The IP Tribal Council s and their partner Barangay Council s seek the assistance of

funding donors to cover 42 .9% of the required IPDP investment. Moreover, the

IPDP proponents have submitted their letter pro posals to the DPWH to assist in

the implementation of the si te -specific prio rity Community Infrastructure

Projects.

The funding and non-funding support for the IPDP priority program s and

projects shall be sourced out from variou s sources as summarized in the Table

below .

Table 7. Sources of Funds for the I PDP

SOURCES OF FUNDS AM OUNT % ofTOTAL

BLGU FUNDS 1,384,750 6.9%

FUNDING GRANT/ DONOR AG ENCY 8, 57 8,750 42 .9%

NATI ONAL LINE AGEN CY SUPPORT 1,883,750 9.4%

DPW H ASS ISTANCE 8,000,000 40.0%

IP LOCAL COUNTE RPART 134,000 0. 7%

TOTAL 19,981,250

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shall be sending their respective letter proposals to the various line agencies for

assistance and support.

32 The Offices of the DENR, DA and BFAR are tapped to support the community

solicited projects and activities under component 2 (Natural Resource

Management). The DENR and the DA are asked to grant 887,500 pesos to realize

the desired outputs on Upland Farming System Enrichment and Forest Resource

Conservation Program. Meanwhile, the BFAR is asked to provide non-funding

assistance (training and technical assistance computed at 340,000 pesos) for the implementation of the projects on Enhancement of Fishery Systems and the

enrichment of the Barangay Coastal Resource Management Programs.

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Moreover, the IPDP proponents request the NCIP and the DILG to provide

funding and non-funding assistance to support the activities under Component 1

and to enable the efficient and effective delivery of the I PDP Administration and

Management functions . Each Agency is asked to provide financial support in the

amount of 332,000 pesos.

Both the MLGUs of Malita and Don Marcelino are likewise asked to contribute

non-funding assistance for the training of IP Farmers and Fishers as part of the

Extension Services of their respective Municipal Agriculture Offices. Moreover,

support in terms of use of equipment from both MLGUs is sought in the

implementation of the identified Community Infrastructure Projects in the

covered Barangays.

35 The respective partner BLGUs in the covered areas shall contribute to the IPDP

FUND that shall be signified in their respective Annual Investment Plans to fund

specific activities under the components 1 and 3 of the IPDPP.

36 Table 8. BLGU Fund Contribution

COVERED BARANGAYS AM OUNT %of TOTAL Year 1 Year 2

Barangay Ta!aguton 341,900 24.7% 205,140 136,760

Barangay Kinanga 146,124 10.6% 87,674 58,450

Barangay Cu!aman 179,345 13.0% 107,607 71,738

Barangay New Argao 179,345 13.0% 107,607 71,738

Barangay Tin gu/o 179,345 13 .0% 107,607 71,738

Barangay Mana 179,345 13.0% 107,607 71,738

Barangay Lois 179,345 13.0% 107,607 71,738

TOTAL 1,384,750 100% 830,850 55 3,900

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37 Other Government Line Agencies are asked to continue their support services and

funding assistance, based on their respective mandates and areas of interventions

to the seven Barangays covered by the I PDP.

38 Moreover, the locaiiP communities and beneficiary self-help groups shall likewise

campaign for savings mobilization among the cooperating households intended as

their "equity" for the realization of the identified community projects . Moreover

the IP Farmer and Fisher Cooperators are required to contribute community labor

in the implementation of the identified community-solicited projects .

39 The engagements of the Academic Institutions and the Private sector shall

likewise be encouraged most specifically in establishment new investments in the

arena of Knowledge Management and Area Conservation or to establish joint­

venture schemes with the local IP enterprise groups to develop new sustainable

enterprises and expand new markets.

Implementation and Management Structure

40 It is desired by the Indigenous Peoples leaders and elders in the area that the

concerned Government Agencies, Local Government Units and other partners

shall recognize the IPDPP as a key strategy for the sustainable development of

the indigenous communities . The IPDPD is designed to develop technical and

managerial skills and expertise, resources, and political influence into a

consistent and coherent whole, as it enhances partnerships and cooperation as

well as builds confidence and capabilities of all the parties concerned .

41 Thus, the major stakeholders and partners must endorse the Plan and at the

same time assume distinct and complementary roles and responsibilities in the

major phases of its implementation and management .

42 The IPDPP Management structure is designed on the basis of the need to

strengthen the capabilities of the IP Leaders and Tribal Councils and to harness

the needed resources of cooperating agencies and private partners for the

effective and efficient delivery of expected services .

(The I PDP Management and Implementation Structure is illustrated in the next page.)

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Figure 11: IPDP Management Structure

/PDP Advisory Bodies·

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Barangay Local Development Team

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a) IPDPP Management Council at the Municipal Level

43 An lnter-Barangay IPDPP Management Council shall be formed, duly

represented by the acknowledged leaders of the Manobo, B'laan and Tagakaolo

in the area and all the Punong Barangays (or their duly-appointed

representatives). Likewise, the IP Women Leaders shall be members of the I PDP

Management Councils .

43 The IP Management Council in Don Marcelino and in Malita shall manage the

overall implementation of the key components of the IPDPP. Collectively, the members shall follow-through the Project Implementation Cycle as agreed upon

and to ensure that the outline project interventions are delivered timely and the

outputs and outcomes are closely monitored and assessed.

44 Specifically, the Council performs the following tasks and responsibilities :

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Help finalize the design, policies and implementation mechanics of all the identified priority projects Endorse the project proposals submitted to the identified partner agencies and assisting institutions Provide policy guidance and advice on systems, procedures and processes

• Assist in the consultative processes and project-start-up components and activities

• Review the annual and quarterly operational plans and budget as well as the periodic report on the project implementation

• Participate in the capability-building activities in the arena of Local Governance, Project Development as well as in Business and Financial Management

• Organize the local site-based Project Monitoring Committees; • Provide relevant information on the project status to the institutional

partners and assisting agencies Facilitate linkages between assisting institutions and the IP beneficiaries

• Appoint its representative to the Municipal Development Councils • Initiate the dispute-resolution or conflict-transfprmation processes that

may arise during and after the project life • Endorses the fund transfer from the Funding Donor to the Local Barangy

Government Unit as Conduit Organization and to the Barangay Development Team that operates in the respective Barangays Refine and finalize its operational structure and select from among the Councils members the Officers of the Council

The IP Management Council shall request the Offices of the Municipal Mayors to

provide technical back up and support from the LGU-based service providers,

particularly from the following Offices:

a) Municipal Planning and Development Office;

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b) Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office;

c) Municipal Agriculture Office;

d) Municipal Engineering Office;

e) Municipal DILG Officer and other Service Units

b) LocaiiPDPP Development Team at the Barangay Level

The Barangay Development Team is composed of th e LocaiiP Chieftain/sin the

area together with the members of the Tribal Council, the Punong Barangay or his/her duly appointed representative and the local IP Leaders representing the

organized groups of Farmers, Fishermen, Women, Youth and other IP interest

groups.

The Team oversees the core of the project activities that happen in the barangay

level. It is at this level where all the local project activities are refined, screened,

implemented, validated and evaluated with regard to their viability and

feasibi lity based on the approved project proposal and operations plan

To ensure th e active involvement of the other members of the IP communities,

the BDTs shall organize several clusters of IP cooperators--- Farmers, Fisher folk,

Women's Groups, etc. ---who shall develop, implement and eventually susta in

the various production technologies and systems as well as the community­

managed sustainable livelihood and community small enterprises .

49 The IPDPP Barangay Development Team shall :

• Finalize the design and operational mechanics of all the identified priority

projects

• Prepare the project proposals for review of the IP Management Council

and for final submission to the identified partner agencies and assisting

institutions

• Identify, orient, mobilize and monitor the core of IP cooperators who shall

be engaged in the implementation of all the project and activities under

the Plan Components, to include the following :

a) IP Farmers' Para-Technicians

b) IP Conservation Farming Cooperators

c) IP Women's Self-help Association

d) IP Fishers ' Production Teams

e) IP Savings and Credit Association members

f) IP Youth Organizations

g) Local Barangay Monitoring Team

h) SL T Cultural masters and Learners

i) Community Infrastructure Team

j) Other IP Interest Groups

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• Plan and implement the establishment of the IP School for Living Traditions (SL T) and identify the cultural masters and IP constituents that

will be involved in the SL T • Assist the IP Cooperators in the preparation of the annual implementation

plans and the quarterly work plans • Assist and follow-through the implementation of all approved projects and

activities in the barangay level • Assist the IP Cooperators in the preparation of the periodic reports for

review of the IP Management Council and submission to the funding

donors and assisting institutions • Participate in all training and capability-building activities that will be

conducted in the area • Actively participate in the review, refinement updating the Barangay

Coastal Resource Management Program and the Barangay Forest Conservation Programs

• Recommend policies and guidelines for the successful implementation of

the project • Set-up the necessary working mechanisms, implementation procedures

and processes for the smooth operationalization and administration of the Plan components

Each of the IPDPP Barangay Development Teams is co-chaired by the Punong

Barangay and the recognized IP Chieftain of the more dominant IP group. The

members are tasked to oversee the implementation of the various projects and

activities undertaken by the IP Cooperating Groups. The BLGU personnel,

particularly the Barangay Secretary and the Barangay Treasurer shall be asked to

provide secretariat (administrative and finance) functions to the Local

Development Team.

c) Barangay local Government Unit (BLGU)

51 The Local Barangay Council in every Barangay, as Project Partner and Funding

Conduit Institution, is considered as an active co-implementer of the IPDPP. The

BLGU upholds the IPDPP strategy that encourages and promotes partnership,

complementation, collaboration and cooperation of all the concerned

stakeholders . Thus, the BLGU realizes its mandate to strengthen the social

capital of the IP community as the principal partner in the sustainable

development of the locaiiP communities .

52 The roles and responsibilitie s of the BLGU include but not limited to the

following:

• Actively participate in grassroots consultations related to the IPOPP • Help set-up the Barangay Development Team, the /POP Monitoring Team,

the Administration and Finance Staff among others

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• Encourage the active involvement of the Municipal Personnel in the course of the Plan implementation

• Endorse the project proposals, action plans and operational procedures and processes duly prepared and finalized by the Loca/IPDPP

Development Team, including the agreed-upon Financial Management Systems and Procedures

• Act as conduit for the Funding Support from all the Donors and Assisting In s titutions; establish a Trust Fund intended for the IPDPP project and activities

• On a need basis, provide counterpart funding and ensures that

counterpart funds are programmed in the Barangay Annual Investment Plans and Budgets;

• Identify the priority Barangay Community Infrastructure Project and prepare the project feasibility study and proposal to be submitted to funding donors for assistance

• Ascertain that project development actions are in line with priorities set in the Barangay, Municipal and Provincial LGUs

• Review the periodic reports and recommend actions for more efficient project implementation

• Actively support policy advocacy in the Municipal and Provincia/levels for the implementation of the /PDP

• Undertake promotions and linkage building to support the IPDPP implementation especially in the area of Social Marketing and Market Advisory

53 Advisory Bodies and Team of Experts . In line with the principles of co-initiative

and convergence, the !PDP recommends the creation of active Advisory Bodies

and Team of Experts who shall provide advisory function s and technical

assistance to refine the IPDPP strategy and implementation mechanisms in a

participatory manner. The Team of Experts shall help in raising the capabilities of

the I PDP Management Councils and the Barangay Development Teams to enable

them to successfully manage their priority programs and projects as outlined in

the Plan .

Municipal Local Government Unit (MLGU}

54 Th e res pect ive MLGUs of Malita and Don Marcelino perform vital roles in the

reali za ti on of the IPDPP. Th e Office of the Mayor endorses and promotes the

IPDPP as a community-initiat ive and community-solicited Devel opment Strategy

in line w ith the policies and priority programs of Municipality geared towards

increased productivity and incomes among its constituency.

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Endorse the formation of the IPDPP Management Council and the Local

IPDPP Development Teams Endorse the Project Proposals developed by the Barangay Local Government Units, the IPDPP Development Teams duly reviewed by the

IPDPP Management Councils • Designate the Municipal Planning and Development Officer or Senior

Staff to coordinate the implementation process at the community level • Provide assistance in the capability-building interventions and in the

implementation of the Community Infrastructure Projects

56 The Municipal Planning and Development Office plays a vital role in supporting

IPDP Management Councils in the preparations of project proposals, in the

finalization of the mechanics of implementation and in the conduct of project

monitoring and assessment .

57 The Office shall ensure availability of necessary baseline data and other

pertinent information (e.g. development plans, project designs, area appraisal, barangay data). Moreover the MDPO assumes as the main link to the Provincial

and Regional Agencies that are tapped in the project implementation.

Moreover, the Office is tasked to provide orientation or to train the Municipal

and Barangay Personnel to assist in the training of beneficiary organizations .

At the Provincial Level

58 Assisting the IP Communities in the IPDPP implementation is a Team of Experts

that is comprised of Officers or designated Project Coordinators in the Provincial

LGUs and the Provincial Units of the National Line Agencies with proven capability to deliver the required services and build local capacity for sustainable

and effective development of the IP-focused programs and projects . They shall

assist the IP communities and project implementers in the arena of capability

building, resource-management and conservation product development and

management, market linkage among others .

59 The Team of Experts shall:

• Review and endorse the Project Proposals for the IPDPP implementation

• Provide assistance in the programming and operational concerns of the Project as well as advisory to avoid duplication of initiatives and support

services; • Ensure that technical expertise are available and provided in all the phases of

the IPDPP implementation; • Refine the mechanisms and content of the proven technologies in farming

and fishing systems to be innovated and replicated by th e IP cooperators Provide referrals on areas for cross-visits and "lakbay-aral" activities;

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• Help set-up an effective linkage for accurate and timely weather forecast to be made available to the IP communities;

• Assist in the mainstreaming of the IPDPP components in the Provincial/eve/ • Conduct periodic on-site monitoring on the key components of the IPDPP.

At the Regional Level

60 An Inter-Agency Advisory is the convergence of Line Agencies, composed of the

senior staff of the regional offices of National Line Agencies. Collectively they

shall provide advisory on project development and management as well as build

linkages for funding support and social marketing of the components of the

IPDPP.

61 Concretely the Inter-Agency Advisory Body shall:

Endorse the Project Proposals for the IPDPP implementation • Ensure top-level support from offices of the line agencies in the region

particularly with regard to the system of inter-agency involvement and service engagement;

• Review the monitoring reports on progress of the IPDPP implementation

62 Private, Professional and Academic Sectors shall:

• Assist in the promotion of the project as well as support the community local initiatives undertaking;

• Build linkages for social marketing and market advisory; • Assist in the conduct of feasibility and market studies; • Participate in the multi-sectoral review of the Project's Impact Assessment

Process.

IPDPP Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

45 The IPDPP envisions a participatory Monitoring and Evaluation system to ensure

that the people in the community do not only participate as inform ation-givers

in the project conceptualization and project planning but also as active

participants in the analytical processes on how the project will be assessed vis-a­

vis its impact on the lives of the target groups and communities .

46 However, as the IPDPP implementation process evolves, new management

approaches may emerge and there may be so me confusion encountered by the

implementing agencies, partner in stitutions and beneficiary communities,

especially in the early phases. As such, a system that facilitate s an early

monitoring and eva I uation feed back is esse ntia I.

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of indicators including institutional performance. Specifically on the community­

level development processes, the indicators used are anchored on the agreed

upon phased Implementation of the IPDPP components .

48 On the other hand, the DPWH, in its Land Acquisition, Resettlement,

Rehabilitation And Indigenous Peoples Policy (LARRIPP), has outlined the

Monitoring Mechanism that is specifically focused on the Indigenous Peoples'

Action Plan (!PAP). This shall complement the participatory monitoring

processes that shall be conducted on ground by the I PDP Management Councils .

49 The Environmental and Social Services Office (ESSO) of the Department,

alternately called the Internal Monitoring Agent (IMA) under D.O. 58 of the

DPWH, shall conduct the superv1s1on and in-house monitoring of

implementation of the !PAPs (for affected IPs outside the ancestral domain) and

is particularly tasked to:

50 a. Regularly supervise and monitor the implementation of the /PDP in coordination with the concerned District Engineering Office (DEO} and Regional Office (RO). The findings will be documented in the quarterly report

to be submitted to the DPWH-PMO.

51 b. Coordinate with the NC/P regarding the monitoring and evaluation of the

situation of affected IP communities, inside or outside ancestral domains;

52 c. Coordinate with the NCIP and the affected IP community in the monitoring and evaluation of the MOA;

53 d. Verify that there-inventory baseline information of all PAFs has been carried out and that the valuation of assets lost or damaged, the provision of compensation and other entitlements, and relocation, if any, has been carried out in accordance with the LARRIPP;

54 e. Ensure that the /PDP, and (with the NCIP and the affected IP communities) the MOA are implemented as designed and planned;

55 f. Verify that funds for implementing the MOA, and /PDP are provided by the PMO in a timely manner and in amounts sufficient for the purpose;

56 g. Record all grievances and their resolution and ensure that complaints are dealt with promptly;

57 h. With the relevant branch of the NCIP and the MRIC, monitor th e implementation of the /POP covering th e affected IP communities living outside ancestral domains .

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58 In addition to what has been prescribed in the DPWH-LARRIPP, a Local

Monitoring Team shall be organized in each Barangay, with the assistance of the

MPDO and in concurrence with the IPDPP Management Council, for the conduct

of community-based participatory monitoring and evaluation process. The Team

is tasked to gather field-data that are collected by the organized groups of IP

cooperators.

59 The Local Monitoring Team shall consolidate the gathered data before

submission for further tracking and validation by the IPDPP Management

Councils and its partners . The collected data should provide relevant information to assess the effectiveness of the interventions, provide clear

evidence of progress or lack thereof, and allow the IPDPP Management Council

to make iterative management changes if necessary.

60 In consultation with the Local Development Teams, the Project Monitoring Team

shall compile a comprehensive socio-economic baseline on the IP households

and organizations serving as basis for the periodic M&E related activities .

61 The stages and frequency of the Monitoring Activities that the Barangay

Monitoring Teams shall be conducting is presented in the Matrix found in the

next page.

Mainstreaming the IPDP

61 The Plan is designed as a comprehensive strategy that targets the marginalization

and poverty conditions of all members of the IP communities, whether they are

enterprising poor or vulnerable groups. A Sustainable and effective development

requires the building of capacity, partnership and linkages among institutions that

have proven capability to improve identification of needs and ensure the delivery

of services.

62 The IPDP takes on a proactive approach to include women in all community

engagements and livelihood activities . This can only be evident if women's

associations are being formed, capacitated, strengthened and institutionalized . This is done with the end view of balancing and harmonizing roles of men and

women in the IP communities and not just to compartmentalize the gender

participation in development.

63 Thus specific conditionality and mechanisms are necessary to mainstream the

IPDPP in the respective Development Plans of th e LGUs and in the assi sting Line

Agencies . This is to ensure the administrative vi ability and management efficiently

in the Plan Implementation Phase.

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Table 9. Matrix of the PME Processes and Outputs

PME Activities Actors Involved Frequency Desired Outputs

Regular Meetings Production Teams Month ly

Tr ibal Council Monthly Identify and discuss issues and

Local Development Monthly discoveries in project

Team implementation; chart

Project Management Every two months effective mechanisms &

Steering Committee Quarterly actions

Advisory Bodies Bi-annual

Periodic Monitoring Monitoring Team Monthly Determine gaps

Local Development Monthly Provide status report

Team Trial Counci l Monthly Recommend actions

Project Management Every two months Refine strategies

Advisory Bodies Bi-annual Recommend Strategies

Periodic Assessment Production Teams Monthly Identify st rengths and

Tribal Council Quarterly

Local Development Quarterly weaknesses; recommend concrete actions to take &

Team st rateg ies

Project Management Quarterly

Impact Assessment Tribal Council End of the Project

Production Teams Determine positive and

Local Development negative changes that are

Tram likely to happen based on the

Steering Committee project's log frame

Assisting Agencies

Project Evaluation Tribal Council Annual

Local Development Identify over-all impact and Team effect of the project as well as

Project Management lessons learnt for future

Consultative Bodies replication

The IPDP Management Councils shall install culture-focused project monitoring and

evaluation mechanisms to include --- traditional meetings and rituals, creative

monitoring boards, gender-oriented monitoring activities, among others .

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Table 10. Work Breakdown Structure I Priority Projects Matrix

Component 1: Component 2.1

Component 2.2 Component 3 :

NRM Farming- Commun ity Community

Fi shing NRW- Barangay-

Enterprise Strengthen ing

Productivity wide Environment

Development of and Capability Conservation

System IP Women's Building

Enhancement Programs

Groups

18) IP Fishing 25) Enforcement of 26) IP Women's

Technology & Forestry and Fishery Social Enterprise Productivity Laws and other Project Enrichment re lated issuances Development

17) Enhancement 24) IEC on Disaster- 23) Product

of IP Farming Risk Reduction Development & Systems Program Enhancement

9) Organizational 15) Conduct of 21) Establishment of 22) IP Focused

Development Cross-visits for Community Socia l Enterp rise Training for IP advance Fi sher Infrastructure Orientation I

Production Teams Cooperators Projects Training

8) Se lection of 14) Training on 20) enrichment of

Priority IP HHs proven fishing delineated

Beneficiaries techno logies community forest

7) Awareness 13) Establishment 19) Enrichment of

Raising Session- of in-situ "Learning delineated Fish series : Farms" (LF) Sanctuaries

6) Formation of 12) Municipa l-wide 16) Refinement of

Sectoral Production Para-Technicians Teams Training

Barangay CRMP

5) Barangay-wide 11) Extension IPDP Community Services for Upland

Orientation IP Fa rmers

PROJECT ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

1) Formation of 2) Formation of 3) Instal lation of

4) Functioning of

I PDP IPDP Barangay Adm in istrative and

the IPDP

Management Development Financial Systems

Monitoring

Counci ls Teams Teams

10) Periodic 27) Preparat ion 28) IPDP indicative 29) IP DP Post

Monitorin g and Submission Im pact Project

Assessment and of Periodic Assessment Evaluation

Evalu ation Project Reports

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Table 11: Distribution of I PDP Target Inputs, Projected Cost and Funding Sources

Priority Projects Deliverables I Outputs I Sites TARGET UNIT COST AMOUNT TIM ELINE REMARKS

/PDP Community Orientation Barangay Assembly on I PDP conducted 7 Assemb lies 10,000 70,000 1st BLGU Funding

Awareness Raising Session-series: 40-50 participants in each Barangay

TALAGUTON 4 Sessions 5,000 20,000 1st BLGU Funding

KINANGA 4 Sessions 5,000 20,000 1st BLGU Funding

CULAMAN 4 Sessions 5,000 20,000 1st BLGU Funding

NEWARGAO 4 Sessions 5,000 20,000 1st BLGU Funding

TINGULO 4 Sessions 5,000 20,000 1st BLGU Funding

MANA 4 Sessions 5,000 20,000 1st BLGU Funding

LA IS 4 Sessions 5,000 20,000 1st BLGU Funding

Organization Development Training 30 to 40 leaders and members of IP

associations attended

TALAGUTON 3 Trainings 15,000 45,000 2nd BLGU Funding

KINANGA 3 Trainings 15,000 45,000 2nd BLGU Funding

CULAMAN 3 Trainings 15,000 45,000 2nd BLGU Funding

NEWARGAO 3 Trainings 15,000 45,000 2nd BLGU Funding

TINGULO 3 Trainings 15,000 45,000 2nd BLGU Funding

MANA 3 Train ings 15,000 45,000 2nd BLGU Funding

LA IS 3 Trainings 15,000 45,000 2nd BLGU Funding

Accreditation of Community Associations Three IP Sectoral Self-help Associations are organized and duly accredited

IP Wom en's Self-Help Associat ion 1 in each Barangay 7 Associations 3,000 21,000 3rd Local Counterpart

IP Upland Farmers Cooperators 1 in each Barangay 6 Associations 3,000 18,000 3rd Loca I Counterpart

IP Smal l Fi shers Cooperators 1 in each Barangay 7 Associations 3,000 21,000 3rd Loca l Counterpart L__ - -----

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Priority Projects Deliverables I Outputs I Sites TARGET UNIT COST AMOUNT TIM ELINE REMARKS

Formation of Barangay Monitoring Teams M & E Team members Organized &

Oriented

Don Marcelino M&E Team- 10

members 1 Team 2,000 2,000 2

nd BLGU Funding

Malita M & E Team -10 members 1 Team 5,000 5,000 2nd

BLGU Funding

COMPONENT 2: NRM

Establ ish ment Extension Services for MAO installed time ly and effective

Upland IP Farmers extension services for IP upland farmers

Don Marcelino Extens ion for IP Farmers 1 Extension 2nd _

6th

MAO Counterpart

Malita Extension for IP Farmers 1 Extension 2nd_6 th MAO Counterpart

Municipal-wide Para-Technicians Training Skilled and capable Para-Technicians

on Farming System diagnosis, SWC and are trained to assist in farmer-to-

Integrated Farming Technologies, Livestock farmer lea rnin g

and Forage Management, Conservation Para-Tech Training in Don Marce lino 4 Sessions 12,500 50,000 2nd_

3rd

BLGU Fund ing Farming Approaches, among others Para-Tech Training in Malita 4 Sessions 12,500 50,000 2

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rd BLGU Funding

Establishment of in-situ "Learning Farms" Learning Farms (LF) on Innovations of NOTE: Labor sha ll be

(LF) such as: improve Conservation Farming provided by the Farmer

technologies established Coeprators

SWC technology innovations TALAGUTON 12 LF 14,167 170,000 Funding Grant

Organic Forming & /PM CULAMAN 3 LF 13,333 40,000 Funding Grant

Integrated Tree Farm NEWARGAO 3 LF 13,400 40,000 Funding Grant

Cultural Management in Banana Farm TINGULO 4 LF 15,000 60,000 Funding Grant

Community Tree Farm MANA 2 LF 10,000 20,000 Funding Grant

LA IS 4 LF 13,750 55,000 Funding Grant ------ - - - ---

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Priority Projects Deliverables I Outputs I Sites TARGET UNIT COST AMOUNT TIM ELINE REMARKS

IP farmer-cooperators have broadened Conduct of Municipal-wide Farm Visits their knowledge on conservation

farming technologies

Don M arcelino Form ers' Cross Visit At least 30 farmers participat ed 1 Farmers' Day 5,000 5,000 3rd Local Counterpart

Molito Farm ers ' Cross Visits At least 30 farmers participated 1 Farmers' Day 5,000 5,000 4th Loca I Counterpart

Enhancement of IP Farming Systems 186 IP Farming households are assisted

in technology innovations

TALAGUTON 80 IP HHs 13,125 1,050,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

CULAMAN 25 IP HHs 10,000 250,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

NEWARGAO 25 IP HHs 10,000 250,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

T/NGULO 28 IP HHs 9,821 275,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

MANA 12 IP HHs 10,833 130,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

LA IS 16 IP HHs 12,500 200,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

138 IP Farming households are assisted

in technology adoption I re plication

TALAGUTON 70 IP HHs 10,000 700,000 4th to 6th Funding Grant

CULAMAN 24 IP HHs 10,000 240,000 4th to 6th Funding Grant

NEWARGAO 16 IP HHs 10,000 160,000 4th to 6th Funding Grant

T/NGULO 15 IP HHs 10,000 150,000 4th to 6th Funding Grant

MANA 13 IP HHs 10,000 130,000 4th to 6th Funding Grant

Conduct of Cross-visits for advance Farmer 24 adva nced IP farmer cooperators

Cooperators have embraced conservation farming and influenced other IP Farmers

Dan Marcelino Farmers ' Cross Vis i t At least 12 f arm ers participa ted 12 IP HHs 4,167 50,000 5th BLGU Funding

Malito Farmers' Cross Visits At least 12 f arm ers participated 12 IP HHs 4,167 50,000 5t h BLGU Funding . . .

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Priority Projects Deliverables I Outputs I Sites TARGET UNIT COST AMOUNT TIM ELINE REMARKS

Orientation and Training on proven Provincial Te chnicians & BFAR

conducted CRM orientation to the conservation fishing technologies

identified IP cooperators

Don Marcelino Fishers Orientation At least 100 IP Fishers participated 2 Sessions 10,000 20,000 3rd BLGU Funding

Malita Farmers' Orientation At least 100 IP fishers participated 2 Sessions 10,000 20,000 3rd BLGU Funding

Improvement of IP Fishing Technology & 225 IP fishing households have

Productivity Systems Enrichment improved th e productivity of their small -sca le fishery system

Assistance to Vulnerable IP Fishing HHs 80 Vulnerable IP fishing house holds in for acquisition of fishing gears/banco the covered Barangays assisted

TALAGUTON 20 IP HHs 10,000 200,000 3rd Funding Grant

KINANGA 5 IP HHs 10,000 50,000 3rd Funding Grant

CULAMAN 20 IP HHs 10,000 200,000 3rd Funding Grant

NEWARGAO 10 IP HHs 10,000 100,000 3rd Funding Grant

T/NGULO 10 IP HHs 10,000 100,000 3rd Funding Grant

MANA 10 IP HHs 10,000 100,000 3rd Funding Grant

LA15 5 IP HHs 10,000 50,000 3rd Funding Grant

Assistance to Group Trials on Fishing 70 organized IP Fishermen assisted for Technology Innovations initial capita l o group trials innovations

TALAGUTON 20 IP HHs 10,000 200,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

KINANGA 5 IP HHs 10,000 50,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

NOTE: IP HHs beneficiaries sha ll double in CULAMAN 10 IP HHs 10,000 100,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

two {2} years due to the repayment scheme NEWARGAO 5 IP HHs 10,000 50,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant policy TINGULO 15 IP HHs 10,000 150,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

MANA 10 IP HHs 10,000 100,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

LAI5 5 IP HHs 10,000 50,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

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Priority Projects Deliv era b les I Outpu ts I Sites TARGET UNIT COST AM OUNT TIM ELINE REMARKS

Acquisition of motorized vessels 75 units of motor acquired for IP Fisher Cooperators

TALAGUTON 25 IP HHs 10,000 250,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

KINANGA 5 IP HHs 10,000 50,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant NOTE: Th e number of acquired motor

CULAMAN 10 IP HHs 10,000 100,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant equipment and the number of IP HHs

NEWARGAO 10 IP HHs 10,000 100,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant beneficiaries shall double in two {2) years

due to th e repayment scheme policy TINGULO 10 IP HHs 10,000 100,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

MANA 10 IP HHs 10,000 100,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

LA/5 5 IP HHs 10,000 50,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

Conduct of Cross-visi ts for advance Fisher 24 advanced and active fisher-

Cooperators cooperators participated in cross-visit

Don Marcelino Fishers Cross Visit At least 25 IP Fishers partic ipated 1 Cross-visit 25,000 25,000 4th BLGU Funding

Malita Fishers Cross Visits At least 25 IP fishers participated 1 Cross-visit 25,000 25,000 4th BLGU Funding

BARANGAY-WIDE ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION PROJECTS

All barangays have revisited and

Revisit/Updating/Refinement of Barangay updated th eir resp ective CRMP CRMP in cludi ng the identification of potential

eco-tourism sites

TALAGUTON 1 CRMP 40,000 40,000 3rd Agency's Support

KINANGA 1 CRMP 20,000 20,000 3rd Agency's Support

CULAMAN 1 CRMP 20,000 20,000 3rd Agency's Support

NEWARGAO 1 CRMP 20,000 20,000 3rd Agency's Support

TINGULO 1 CRMP 20,000 20,000 3rd Agency's Support

MANA 1 CRMP 20,000 20,000 3rd Agency's Support

LA/5 1 CRMP 20,000 20,000 3rd Agency's Support - -

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Priority Projects Deliverables I Outputs I Sites TARGET UNIT COST AMOUNT TIMELINE REMARKS

Enrichment and/or expansion of Delineated fish sanctuary enriched and delineated Fish Sanctuaries expanded

2 Protected Coral Reefs (>50 has) TALAGUTON 2 Areas 50,000 100,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

Rehabilitation of Coasta l Area CULAMAN 1 Area 50,000 50,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

Protected Dugong Habitat I Ecotourism 1 Area 100,000 100,000 3rd to 4th NEWARGAO Funding Grant

Protected Natural Reef (5 has) TINGULO 1 Area 50,000 50,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

Protection I enrichment of delineated All Barangays have an enriched the community forest area of protected forests

Assistance for ANR & Community Nursery TALAGUTON 2 Projects 50,000 100,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

Assistance for ANR & Community Nursery CULAMAN 1 Project 50,000 100,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

Assistance for ANR & Community Nursery NEWARGAO 1 Project 50,000 50,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

Assistance for ANR & Comm unity Nursery TINGULO 1 Project 50,000 50,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

Enforcement of Forestry and Fishery Laws Resource-use and resource-

and other related issuances impairments in all Barangays are 7 Project 60,000 420,000 3rd to 4th Funding Grant

effectively regulated

Community-based IEC on Disaster-Risk BLGUs' effective community-based

Reduction Program Disaste r-preparedness Plan and 7 IEC Projects 15,000 105,000 3rd to 4th BLGU Funding

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Priority Projects Deliverables I Outputs I Sites TARGET UNIT COST AMOUNT TIM ELINE REMARKS

PRIORITY COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE BLGUs are assisted in the

PROJECT implementation of priority Community

Infrastructure

TALAGUTON Community Infrastructure Belly bridge and FMR rehab 1 project 2M 2,000,000 2nd Assistance from DPWH

KINANGA Community Infrastructure FMR Rehab & Flood Control 1 project 1M 1,000,000 2nd Assistance from DPWH

CULAMAN Community Infrastructure FMR Rehab & Flood Control 1 project 1M 1,000,000 2nd Assistance from DPWH

Box Culvert Installation & Flood project 1M 1,000,000 2nd Assistance from DPWH

NEW ARGAO Community Infrastructure 1

Control '

TINGULO Community Infrastructure Belly Bridge and FMR Rehab 1 project 1M 1,000,000 2nd Assistance from DPWH

MANA Community Infrastructure 1 project 1M 1,000,000 2nd Assistance from DPWH

LAIS Community Infrastructure 1 project 1M 1,000,000 2nd Assistance from DPWH

COMPONENT 3: CED

Barangay Officials and IP Leaders have

Community Entreprise Training series tapped assisting institutions for the successful conduct of the training-

se ries

IP Focused Community Enterprise IP Women lea ders have prioritized 10

Developmen t alternative live lihood or enterprise projects

Don Marcelino Training - 30

participants 10 Training 10,000 40,000 BLGU Funding

Malita Training - 30 participants 10 Training 10,000 40,000 BLGU Funding

IP Women are assisted in ten (10) Product Development & Enhancement Production trials /alternative livelihood

projects

Production Trials in Don Marcelino 5 Enterprises 20,000 100,000 Agency's Support

L____ ____ Production Trials in Malita 5 Enterprises 20,000 100,000 Agency's Support

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Priority Projects Deliverables I Outputs I Sites TARGET UNIT COST AMOUNT TIM ELINE REMARKS

31 diversifi ed of alternat ive live lihood Alternative Livelihood/ Community opt ions and community enterp ri se are Enterprise Development developed and managed by IP women's

groups

TALAGUTON / KINANGA 6 Enterprises 20,000 120,000 Funding Grant

CULAMAN 4 Enterprises 25,000 100,000 Funding Grant

NOTE: IP Women beneficiaries and small NEWARGAO 4 Enterpri ses 25,000 100,000 Funding Grant

enterprises developed shall double in two (2) TINGULO 4 Enterprises 25,000 100,000 Funding Grant years due to th e repayment scheme policy MANA 4 Enterprises 25,000 100,000 Funding Grant

LA IS 4 Enterprises 25,000 100,000 Funding Grant

IPDPP im plementation is close ly Functioning of the I PDP Monitoring Teams monit ored and projects are evaluated 8 Reports 5,000 40,000 Quarterl y BLGU Funding

by the community

Don Marcelino Composite Monitoring and Regular submission of M&E reports by

Evaluation (M&E) Team the duly designated multi-secto ral M & E 8 Reports 5,000 40,000 Quarterly BLGU Funding Team in Don Marcelino

Malita Composite Monitoring and Regular subm iss ion of M&E reports by

Evaluation (M&E) Team the duly designa ted multi -secto ral M&E

Team in Malita

IPDP Management Meetings Monthly meetings conducted by the

Cou nci l

Counci l Meetings in Don Marcelino 24 Reports 1,000 24,000 Monthly BLGU Funding

Counci l Meetings in Malita 24 Reports 1,000 24,000 Monthly BLGU Funding

SUB-TOTAL PROJECT COST 17,375,000 ----- --

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Priority Projects Deliverables I Outputs I Sites TARGET UNIT COST AMOUNT TIMELINE REMARKS

Project Management & Administration

Administrative Cost {10%} Don Marcelino Administrative Cost 1 Project 868,750 Shared by the BLGU and

Mal ita Administrative Cost 1 Project 868,750 the Agency's Support

Consultancy for Management {5%} Don 1 Project 434,375 Funding Grant

Malita 1 Project 434,375 Funding Grant

OVER-All TOTAL 19,981,250

Table 12. Summary of Project Cost Estimates Per Barangay

BLGU Counterpart Requested from Funding Donors Assistance from Line Agencies IP Community Counterpart TOTAL Fund Requirement %of Total

TALAGUTON 447,781 3,239,583 2,559,583 37,000 6,283,948 31.4%

KINANGA 175,594 354,792 1,244,792 15,000 1,790,177 9.0%

CU LAMAN 152,275 1,246,875 1,275 ,875 16,400 2,691,425 13.5%

N ARGAO 152,275 1,066,875 1,225,875 16,400 2,461,425 12.3%

TINGULO 152,275 1,151,875 1,225,875 16,400 2,546,425 12.7%

MANA 152,275 846,875 1,175,875 16,400 2,191,425 11.0%

LA IS 152,275 671,875 1,175,875 16,400 2,016,425 10.1%

TOTAL 1,384,750 8,578,750 9,883,750 134,000 19,981,250 100.0%

%of Total 6.9% 42.9% 49.5% 0.7% 100.0% ------------- ---

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IPDP PHYSICAL TARGETS I DELIVERABLE$

Table 13. Component 1- #of IP Functional Organizations I Production Teams

PROJECT AREAS NUMBER OF FUNCTIONAL IP ORGANIZATIONS I ASSOCIATIONS I TEAMS

MUNICIPALITIES MUNICIPALITIES FUNCTIONAL FARMERS' FISHERS' WOMEN'S PARA-TECH ACCREDITED MONITORING

ASSOCIATIONS PROD TEAMS PROD TEAMS PROD TEAMS TRAINED ASSOCIATIONS TEAM MEMBERS

DON MAR TALAGUTON 3 20 28 10 12 3 7

DON MAR I<INANGA 3 20 1 1 3

MALITA CULAMAN 3 7 12 5 6 3 5

MALITA N ARGAO 3 6 8 5 6 3 5

MALITA TINGULO 3 6 12 5 6 3 5

MALITA MANA 3 3 14 5 6 3 5

MALITA LA IS 3 4 6 5 6 3 5

TOTAL 21 45 100 36 ~--____ 19 35 --

Table 14. Component 1- #Awareness Raising Sessions, Trainings and Monitoring Activities

PROJECT AREAS AWARENESS TRAININGS FREQ. OF M ID-TERM PROJECT IMPACT

MUNICIPALITIES BARAN GAYS SESSIONS CONDUCTED MONITORING ASSESSMENT EVALUATION ASSESSMENT

DON MAR TALAGUTON 8 3 Month ly 3 2 1

DON MAR I<INANGA 2 3 Monthly 3 2 1

MALITA CULAMAN 4 3 Monthly 3 2 1

MALITA NEW ARGAO 4 3 Monthly 3 2 1

MALITA TINGULO 4 3 Monthly 3 2 1

MALITA MANA 4 3 Monthly 3 2 1

MALITA LA IS 4 3 Monthly 3 2 1

TOTAL 30 21 21 14 7 -----

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Table 15. #of IP Farmers Engaged in Component 2 (NRM) Activities for Farming Systems Enrichment

IP FARMER HH COOPERATORS INNOVATING INTEGRATED FARMING TECHNOLOGIES

MUNICIPALITIES BARANGAYS LEARNING FARMERS SWC TECH CROSS TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY TOTAL# OF

FA MRS TRAINED TRIALS VISITS ADOPTION REPLICATION IP FARMERS

DON MAR TALAGUTON 12 150 80 60 20 50 162

DON MAR KINANGA

MALITA CULAMAN 3 52 25 20 24 0 52

MALITA NEW ARGAO 3 44 25 20 16 0 44

MALITA TINGULO 4 43 28 20 15 0 47

MALITA MANA 2 20 12 20 13 0 27

MALITA LA IS 4 25 16 15 10 0 30

TOTAL 28 334 186 155 98 so 362 - -- --

Table 16. #of IP Fishers Engaged in Component 2 (NRM) Activities for Fishery Systems Enrichment

IP FISHING HH-COOPERATORS INNOVATING FISHING TECHNOLOGIES

MUNICIPALITIES BARANGAYS FISHERS VULNERABLE GROUP UP SCALED TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY TOTAL# OF

TRAINED FISHERS TRIALS PRODUCTION ADOPTION REPLICATION IP FISHERS

DON MAR TALAG UTON 95 20 20 25 45 30 140

DON MAR KINANGA 20 5 10 5 10 5 35

MALITA CULAMAN 50 20 10 10 10 10 60

MALITA NEW ARGAO 30 10 5 10 5 10 40

MALITA TINGULO 40 10 15 10 15 10 60

MALITA MANA 40 10 10 20 10 20 70

MALITA LA IS 20 5 5 5 5 5 25

TOTAL 295 80 75 85 100 90 430 --

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Table 17. #of IP Women Enga ged in Component 3 Activities on Social Enterprise Development

IP WOMEN'S SELF-HELP GROUP COOPERATORS ENGAGED IN SOCIAL ENTERPRISES I

MUN ICIPALITI ES BARAN GAYS IP WOMEN PRODUCTION ENTERPRISES CAPITAL FUND ACCUMULAT ED ENTERPRISES TTL MEMBERS I

TRAINED TRIALS DEVELOPED SUPPORT SAVIN GS EXPANDED OF IP WOMEN

DON MARCELIN O TA LAGU TON 40 4 5 100,000 50,000 7 80

DON MARCELINO KINANGA 10 1 1 20,000 10,000 2 20

MALITA CULAMAN 30 1 5 100,000 40,000 6 60

MALITA NEW ARGAO 25 1 5 100,000 40,000 6 60

MALITA TINGULO 30 1 5 100,000 40,000 6 60

MALITA MANA 30 1 5 100,000 40,000 6 60

MALITA LA IS 30 1 5 100,000 40,000 6 60

TOTA L 195 10 36 620,000_ 260,000 39 -

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Table 18. Matrix of Priority Community Infrastructure Projects

TALAGUTON KINANGA CULAMAN NEW ARGAO TINGULO MANA LA IS I

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In stallation of Box Construction of I

Co nstruct ion of one (1) Rehabi litat ion of Rehabilitation of Rehabilitation of i Culvert for one (1) unit of Bel ly Flood Contro l '

unit of Belly Bridge in Sitio Farm to Market the Barangay Farm-improved drainage Bridge near the Structures

Farm to Market

Magpacon Road to-Market Road Road in Sitio Tubod Barangay Centro

Php 2M PhP 1M PhP 1.5 M PhP 1M PhP 1M PhP 1M PhP 1M

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Table 19. Matrix of Identified Barangay-wide Ecosystems' Enrichment Projects

PROJECTS TALAGUTON CULAMAN NEW ARGAO TINGULO MANA LA IS

1 Revisit I Refinement the Assessment I Assessment I Assessment I Assessment I Assessment I Assessment I Barangay CRMP Appraisal Appraisal Appraisal Appraisal Apprai sa l Appra isal

2 Regular Community Coastal Bi-an nual Coastal Bi-annual Coastal Bi-annual Coastal Bi -a nnual Coa stal Bi-annual Coast al Bi-annual Coastal Clean-up Clean-up Clean-up Clean-up Clean-up Clean-up Clean-up

3 Enrichment I Expansion of 80 ha. Conserved Fish Protected "Dugong" Prot ected Coral Reef Fish Sanctuaries Sa nctuary habitat (2.5 hectare)

4 Establishment of Seedling Establishment of 2 Establishment of 1 Establishment of 1 Estab lishment of 1 Nurse ry nurseries nursery nursery nursery

5 Expansion of Protected Protected Secondary Protected Natural Tree-P lanting and Estab lishment of Tree-P lanting and Estab lishment of I

Community Forest Growth Forest Forest AN R Interventions Comm'ty Tree Farm ANR Interventions Comm' ty Tree Farm

6 Enforcement of Loca lizat ion of Localization of Local izat ion of Locali zation of Localizati on of Local iza tion of Environmental Laws Envi ronm ental Laws Environmental Laws Environmental Laws Environmenta l Laws Environmenta l Laws Environm en tal Laws

Strict Enforcement of Environmental Ordinaces

7 IEC on Disaster-Risk Purok-Leve iiEC Purok-Leve iiEC Purok-Leve iiEC Purok-Leve ii EC Purok-LeveiiEC Purok-LeveiiEC

Reduction Measures cond ucted conducted conducted conducted cond ucted conducted

8 Appraisa l of Eco-Tourism Dugong Sigh ting & App raisa l of High land Established Dugong App raisa l of Upland

Sites I Desti nations Natural Cora l Reef Adventu re Sightin g Area Water bodies

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT AND PROT:ECTION PLAN .(IP.DP) COLLECTIVELY FORMULATED SY MEMBERS OF THE INDIGENOUS MANOBO, B'LAAN AND TAGAKAULO OF THE SEVEN BARANGAYS LOCATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF MALITA AND DON MARCELINO IN THE PROVINCE OF DAVAO DEL SUR

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KASABUTAN',SA MGA PANGULO SA INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' COUNCILS SA TRIBONG TAGAKAULO,ug MANOBO sa BARANGAY TINGULO

Kami nga mga sakop sa Konseho sa Tribong Tagakaulo ug Manobo dinhi sa Barangay Tingulo, nagpamatuod nga kami miuyon sa giliimo namong

Indigenous Peoples Developp:tent and Protection Plan {IPDP) ug kami molihok sa pag-implementar sa mga programa ug proyekto nga nahasubay

niining maong Plano, ug hugot kaming naghangyo sa buhatan sa DPWH nga mo-endorsar mining IPDP ilgadto sa mga Ahensiya ug Funding Institutions

aron masuportahan og pundo ang implementasyon niining maong Plano sa Kalambo-an

l{aming mga sakop sa Lumadnong Katilingban sa Tagakaulo ug Manobo nagpamatuod ng<»:

Sukad pa kaniadto, and among kaliwatan dinhi na nagpuyo ug nanginabuhi sa Barangay Tingulo;

Ang buhatan sa Department of Public Works and Highways nagpasiugda og pryekto nga gitawag ofNRIMP R-26, diin palapdon ug sementohon ang kalsada gikan sa Munisipyo sa Malita ngadto sa Munisipyo sa Doh Marcelino;

Ang maong kalsada nag-agisa Barangay New Argao ug tungod sa muong proyekto, naapektohan ang pagpuyo ug panginabuhian sa pipila ka mga sakop sa among lumadnong katilingban, gani ang uba>ng pumupuyo gidasig nga moblahin ug pinuy­anan;

Ang buhatan sa DPWH midasig sa mga pangulo ug sakopsa lumadnong katiingban nga makamugna og Plano alang sa Kalambo-an sa Katawhang Lumad kon IPDP, diin and mga hingtungdan lideres ug sakop sa katilingban lumad mao ang ilagplano ug nag-pili sa mga programa ug proyekto sa kalambo-an;

Subay sa among pagsusi sa n~human nga IPDP, among nasuta nga ang maong Plano nagpunting sa maayong kalambo-an sa Katilingban Lumad~ nagtah1.1d sa Katungod sa Katawhang Lumad, nagpili og mga proyekto sa pag-amping sa Kinaiyahan ug sa

. pagpa-uswag sa panginabuhian sa mga mag-uuma ug manarwgat nga sakop sa mgalumadnong katilingbang sa Tagakaulo ug Manobo,·

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Tungod niini, kaming mga sakop sa Lumadnong Katllingban sa Manobo ug Tagakaulo, dinhi niining among panagtigum nga gipahigayon niinng ika-12 nga adlaw sa bulan Septiyembre tuig 2012, nagpadayag sa among pag-uyon sa rnaong IPDP ug sa pagdasig nga matuman ug ma-implementar kini sa labing dali nga panahon;

Dugang pa niini, among gihangyo ang buhatan sa Department of Public Works and Highways nga mo-endorsar niining Plano sa Kalambo-an sa Katawhang Lumad ngadto sa Jain-laing Ahensiya sa Gobyerno ug rnga Funding Institutions aron mahatagan og pundo ang·implementasyon sa mga proyekto ugprograma nahasubay sa IPDP.

,... , Ang among pagpirma ug paglagda nagpamatuod sa among nahiusang pag-uyon niining maong kasabutan )con resolusyon; .

Gipadayag namo ang among pag-uyon ug pagdawat sa Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan (I PDP) niining lka- 12 nga adlaw sa bulan sa Septiyembre tuig 2012 dinhi sa

Baran gay Tingulo, sakop sa Munisipyo sa Malita, sulod sa Probinsiya sa Davao del Sur.

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KASABUTANSAMGA PANGULO SA INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' COUNCILS .:· ·SATR:IBONGB'LMN, ug MANOBO sa BARAN GAY TALAGUTON

Kami nga mga sakop sa Konseho sa Tribong B'laan ug Manobo dinhi sa Barangay Talaguton, nagpamatuod nga kami miuyon sa gihimo namong

Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection.Plan (IPDP) ug kami molihok sa pag-implementar sa mga programa ug proyekto nga nahasubay .

niining maong Plano, ug hugot kaming naghangy() sa buhatan sa DPWH nga mo-endorsa:r niining IPDP ngadto sa mga Ahensiya ug Funding Institutions

aroh masuportahan og pundo ang implementasyon niining maong Plano sa Kalambo-an

Kaming mga sakop sa Lumadnong Katilingban sa B'laan ug Man.obo nagpamatuod nga:

Sukad pa kaniadto, and among kaliwatan dinhi na nagpuyo ug nanginabuhi sa Barangay Talaguton;

Ang' buhatan sa Department of Public Works and Highways nagpaslugda og pryekto nga gitawag of NRIMP R-26, diin palapdon ug sementohon ang kalsada gikan sa Munisipyo sa Malita ngadto sa Munisipyo sa Don Marcelino;

Ang maong ka/sada nag-agi sa Barangay Talaguton ug tungod sa maong proyekto, naapektohan ang pagpuyo ug panginabuhian sa pipila ka mga sakop sa among lumadnong katilingban, gani ang ubang pumupuyo gidasig nga moblahin ug pinuy­anan;

Ang buhatan sa DPWH midasig sa mga pangulo ug sakop sa lumadnong·katiingban nga makamugna og Plano alang sa Kalambo-an sa Katawhang Lumad kon /PDP, diin and mga hingtungdan lideres ug sakop sa katilingban lumad mao ang nag plano ug nag-pili sa mga programa u,g proyekto sa kalambo-an;

Subay sa among pf19susi sa nahuman nga /PDP, among nasuta nga ang maong Plano nag punting sa maayong kalambo-an sa Katilingban Lumad, nagtahud sa Katungod sa Katawhang Lumad, nagpili og mga proyekto sa pag-amping sa Kinaiyahan ug sa pagpa-uswag sa panginabuhian sa mga mag-uuma ug mcinanagat nga sakop sa mgalumadnong katilingbang sa B'laan ug Marwbo;

Tungod niini, kaming mga sakop sa Lumadnong Katilingban sa B'Iaan, Manobo ug Tagakaulo, dinhi niining among panagtigum nga gipahigay~n niinng ika-5 nga adlaw sa bulan Setiyembre tuig 2012, nagpadayag sa among pag-uyon sa maong IPDP ug sa pagdasig nga matuman ug ma-implementar kini sa Ia bing dali nga panahon;

Dugang pa niini, among gihangyo ang buhatan sa Department of Public Works and Highways nga mo-endorsar niining Plano sa Kalambo-an sa Katawhang Lumad ngadto sa lain-laing Ahensiya sa Gobyerno ug mga Funding Institutions aron mahatagan og pundo ang implementasyon sa mga proyekto ug programa·nahasubay sa IPDP .

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Ang among pagpirma ug paglagda nagpamatuod sa among nahiusang pag-uyon niining maong kasabutan kon resolusyon; ·

Gipadayag namo ang among pag-uyon ug pagdawat sa Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan (IPDP) niining Ika- 5 nga adlaw sa bulan sa Septiyembre tuig 2012 dinhi sa

Barangay Talaguton, sakop sa Munisipyo sa Don marcelino, sulod sa Probinsiya sa Davao del Sur.

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Punong Barangay

PINIRMAHAN:

Datu A:i Mamoc . Tribal Chieftain; Tribong B'laan

D~a~ante Tribong B'laan

Dominkrandia, )r. Tribong Manobo

Witnessess:

Hono;~jamin Ang, Sr. Barangay Kagawad

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Republic of the Philippines Office ofthe Punong Barangay

Baran gay Talaguton, Municipality of Don Marcelino Province of Davao del Sur ·

Excerpts from the minutes of a Barangay Council Special Meeting, held last September 4, 2012 at the Barangay Session Hall, Barangay Talaguton,

Municipality of Don Marcelino, Province of Davao del Sur

Present:

1) Hon. Elizabeth Maruya, Punong Barangay, Presiding 2) Hon. Benjamin Ang, Sr., Barangay Kagawad 3) Hon. Nesitasion B. Bansil, Barangay Kagawad 4) Hon. Gilbert Solana, Barangay Kagawad 5) Hon. Ernesto B. Bicol, Barangay Kagawad 6) Hon. Crissologo Maruya, Barangay Kagawad 7) Hon Vicente Maruya Ill, Barangay Kagawad 8) Hon. Dorivic Maruya, Barangay Kagawad 9) Hon. Frank Hero Suansing, SK Chairman

Resolution Number 20 Series of 2012

A Resolution to adopt and implement the Indigenous Peoples Development Plan (/PDP) of the B'laan, and Manobo Indigenous Communities in Barangay

Talaguton, Municipality of Don Marcelino, Province of Davao del Sur, and to petition the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to

endorse the /PDP to several assisting Agencies and support Institutions for funding and support.

Whereas:

The descendants of the indigenous B'laan, Manobo and Tagakaulo, has been co­existing in Barangay Talaguton since time immemorial;

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has recently engaged in a road improvement project from the Municipality of Malita to the Municipality of Don Marcelino also known as NRIMP- R-26 Project;

The said improvement of the road traverses through Barangay Talaguton and had affected several families belonging to the indigenous B'laan and Manobo. The IP households that are severely affected by the projects were advised to relocate their dwellings or to re-organize their settlement;

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The DPWH has required the Indigenous Leaders and members of the community to come-up with an Indigenous People's Development and Protection Plan (IPDP), the planning process of which was duly facilitated by the Agency and participated by the Tribal Chieftains and other formal leaders of the Baran gay and the Indigenous Communities;

The Indigenous People's Development Plan (I PDP) contains the development principles and priority programs and projects that are directed towards the enhancement of the quality of life of the indigenous peoples, the protection of the environment, the recognition of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the improvement of the productivity of the farming and fishing systems of the members of the indigenous communities;

Thus, through the motion by Honorable Kagawag Benjamin Ang, and duly seconded by Honorable Kagawad Nesitasion Bansil, it has been resolved that:

The Officials ofBarangay Talaguton Local Government Unit adopt the Indigenous Peoples Development Plan (IPDP) and strive {9r the implementation of the Plan the soonest possible time.

It is further resolved that:

Together with the Leaders of the Indigenous People's Councils of the B'laan and Manobo, the Officials of the Barangay Local Government Unit shall petition the Department of Public Works and Highways to endorse the IDPP to the various Assisting Agencies and Institutions for funding support.

Done this 4th day of September year 2012 in Barangay Talaguton Municipality of Don Marcelino, Province of Davao del Sur.

Certified True and Correct:

FLO~ODA Barangay Secretary

Date: September 5, 2012

Attested by:

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Office of the Punong Barang3y Barangay Lais, Municipality ofMalita

Province of Davao del Sur

Excerpts from the minutes of a Barangay Council Special Meeting, held last September~. 2012 at the Barangay Session Hall, Barangay Lais, Municipality

ofMalita, Province ofDavao del Sur

Present:

Hon. Lawrence C. Ansa, Punong Barangay, Presiding Hon. Emeliana C. Bande, Barangay Kagawad Hon. Leah W. Campaner, Barangay Kagawad Hon. Roger 0 . Aradani, Barangay Kagawad Hon. Margarita R. Banual, Barangay Kagawad Hon. Victoria S. Rimondo, Barangay Kagawad Hon. Felicidad C. Sarcauga, Barangay Kagawad Hon. Marie Femma M. Maturan, Barangay Kagawad Hon. Renante C. Joseph, Jr.Barangay Kagawad Mr. Jose R. Rimando, IP Representative

Resolution Number~~ Series of2012

A Resolution to adopt, support and implement the Indigenous Peoples Development Plan (!PDP) ofthe B'laan, andManobo!ndigenous Communities inBarangay

Lais, Municipality ofMalita, Province ofDavao del Sur, and to petition the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to endorse the !PDP to several assisting Agencies and support Institutions for funding and support.

Whereas:

The descendants of the indigenous B'laan, Manobo and Tagakaulo, has been co-existing in Barangay Lais since time itmnemorial;

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has recently engaged in a road improvement project from the Municipality ofMalita to the Municipality· of Don Marcelino also known as NRIMP- R-26 Project;

The said improvement of the road traverses through Barangay Lais and had affected several families belonging to the indigenous B'laan and Manobo. The IP households that are severely affected by the projects were advised to relocate their dwellings or to re­organize their settlement;

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The DPWH has required the Indigenous Leaders and members of the community to come-up with an Indigenous People's Development and Protection Plan (IPDP), the planning process of which was duly facilitated by the Agency and participated by the Tribal Chieftains and other formal leaders of the Barangay and the Indigenous Communities;

The Indigenous People's Development Plan (IPDP) contains the development principles . and priority programs and projects that are directed towards the enhancement of the quality oflife of the indigenous peoples, the protection of the environment, the recognition of the Rights oflndigenous Peoples, and the improvement of the productivity of the farming and fishing systems of the members of the indigenous communities;

Thus, the Officials ofBarangay Lais Local Government Unit adopt and support the Indigenous Peoples Development Plan (IPDP) as well as strive for the implementation of the Plan the soonest possible time.

It is further resolved that:

Together with the Leaders of the Indigenous People's Councils of the B'laan, Tagakaulo and Manobo, th~ Officials of the Barangay Local Government Unit shaD petition the Department ofPublic Works and Highways to endorse the IDPP to the various Assisting Agencies and Institutions for funding support.

Done this JSI_ day ofSeptember year 2012 in Barangay Lais Municipality ofMalita, Province of Davao del Sur.

Certified True and Correct:

Attested by:

Date: September _1!_, 2012

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Project Title:

Project Description:

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OMNIBUS PROJECT PROPOSAL Focused on the IP Commun ity Priority Projects Identified in the

Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan (IPDP)

In Seven Project Covered Barangays located in the

Muncipalities of Malita and Don Marcelino

Province of Davao del Sur

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROJECT In Seven Barangays located in Malita and Don Marcelino Municipalities covered

by the National Road Improvement Project (NRIP-2)

A component of the Indigenous Peoples Development Plan {!POP} jointly

prepared by the leaders and members of the Indigenous B'laan and Manobo

residing in Barangays Talaguton in the Municipality of Don Marcelino and in

Barangays Culaman, New Argao, Tingulo, Mana and Lois in the Municipality of

Malita

This is an IP community-solicited project that ai ms to strengthen and

consolidate the B'laan, Manobo and Tagakaulo Indigenous Peoples' Councils

through a series of capability building activities and interventions for

productivity enhancement.

Essentially, the Project is focused on Natural Resource Management that

encourages the adoption and replication of proven environmentally sound,

culturally appropriate and affordable farming and fishery technologies to

improve the production systems ofthe Indigenous Communities .

As the project envisions the uptrend in the productive capacities of the IP

farming and fishery systems, it shall likewise implement effective measures for

protection and conservation of the agro-aqua ecosystems in the seven covered

Barangays. Likewise, the project interventions shall help enrich the diversity of

IP traditional products--- farm, non-farm and off-farm--- and would eventually

increase household incomes and enhance the wellbeing of the members of the

IP community.

The project is an expression of the partnership between the Indigenous Peoples'

Council and the Local Government Unit of Barangay Talaguton together with

several ass isting Agencies and support Institutions, who shall collectively deliver

the desired IP -focu sed development interventions in the covered Barangays.

The development framework of this culture-focu sed and area-based su stain able

livelihood project encourages co-initiative s in indigenous community towards

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Project Type:

Project Sites:

Beneficiaries:

the full implementation of a comprehensive, ecosystem's sensi tive and

integrated development of IP's ancestral homeland.

A multi-dimensional and integrated area-based Sustainable Livelihood Project

that encompasses capability enhancement, natural resource management and

development of IP-managed community socia l enterprise.

Barangay Talaguton (Municipality of Don Marcelino)

Barangay Kinagan (Municipality of Don Marcelino)

Barangay Culaman (Municipality of Ma/ita)

Barangay New Argao (Municipality of Malita)

Barangay Tingulo (Municipality of Malita)

Barangay Mana (Municipality of Malita)

Barangay La is (Municipality of Malita)

Marginalized and Vulnerable IP Farming and Fishing Indigenous House holds and

the Self-Help IP Women's Associations

Direct beneficiaries: 1,238 IP Households

The first priority are the 425 IPs Households who are within the area of impact of the

Road Improvement Project, who are required to reorganize their houses or move to

the resettlement sites as well as the identified Vulnerab le IP Households who have always been lagging behind the local development process in the area;

The second in line are the 448 IP Households living within the barangay who will not be physically displaced but who will nevertheless be affected because the road

project had affected community infrastructure, traditional support social s tructures or had entailed permanent loss of livelihoods or temporary restriction to sources of subsistence and/or income.

The third priority beneficiaries are the 365 IP Households who live in the affected

barangay but who are neither physically nor economically displaced by the project.

Indirect Beneficiaries:

All the members of the non-IP households in all the covered Barangays who shall share the benefits of improved community-based Natural Resource Management,

enhanced community infrastructure and technology transfer of proven technologies that shall upscale protection and production of the agri-aqua ecosystems.

The members of the IP communities in the neighboring barangays within the Municipalities of Don Marcelino and Malita who shall also be benefit from by the

positive over-all impact of the activities that promote the conservation of the

natural resource base and the re-invigoration of the cultural integrity of

Indigenous Peoples.

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Table 1. Matrix on the Number of Beneficiaries in the Covered Barangays

NO. OF IP FARMING- FISHING HOUSEHOLD DIRECT BENEFICIARIES INDIRECT

BARANGAYS TTL# OF IP PRIORITY 1 PRIORITY 2 PRIORITY 3 TOTAL DIRECT BENEF:CIARIES

HOUSEHOLDS BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARIES IP HHs NON-IP

TALAGUTON 947 145 245 150 540 407 134

KINANGA 130 20 25 20 65 65 362

CULAMAN 242 65 45 40 150 92 49

NEWARGAO 184 50 31 25 106 78 98

TINGULO 173 63 40 50 153 20 138

MANA 320 52 42 50 144 176 383

LA IS 176 30 20 30 80 96 212

TOTAL 2,172 425 448 365 1,238 934 1,376

%ofTTLIPHHS 57 .0% 43.0%

Project Period 24 months (two years)

Project Cost and Budget: (for seven covered barangays)

Total Project Cost: PhP 19,981,250

BLGU Local Counterpart: PhP 1,384,750

Assistance from Support Agencies : PhP 9,883,750

Amount of Grant from Funding Agencies : PhP 8,578,750

IP Community Local Counterpart PhP 134,000

Table 2. Matri x on the Distribution of Project Cost per Barangay

BLGU Requested from Assista nee from IP Community TOTAL Fund %of

Counterpart Funding Donors Line Agencies Cou nte rpa rt Requirement Total

TALAGUTON 447,781 3,239,583 2,559,583 37,000 6,283,948 31.4%

KINANGA 175,594 354,792 1,244, 792 15,000 1,790,177 9.0%

CULAMAN 152,275 1,246,875 1,275,875 16,400 2,691,425 13.5%

N ARGAO 152,275 1,066,875 1,225,875 16,400 2,461,425 12.3%

TINGULO 152,275 1,151,875 1,225,875 16,400 2,546,425 12.7%

MANA 152,275 846,875 1,175,875 16,400 2,191,425 11.0%

.I LAI 5 152,275 671,875 1,175,875 16,400 2,016,425 10.1%

TOTAL 1,384,750 8,578,750 9,883,750 134,000 19,981,250 100.0%

% of Total 6.9% 42.9% 49.5% 0.7% 100.0%

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Information on the Beneficiary Organizations

Name of the Local Organization : Indigenous Peoples' Councils of the B'laan, Manobo and

Tagakaulo IP Communities in the Seven covered Barangays duly

represented by the recognized Tribal Chieftains .

The IP Tribal Council is a duly constituted Advisory and Policy­

Making Body of the following local se lf-help organizations: IP

Upland Farmers Group, IP Fishers Association, IP Women's

Organizations.

Table 3. Matrix of Proponent Tribal Councils and Assisting Local Barangay Units

Covered IP Tribal Name of Tribal Partner Assisting

Baran gays Council/s Chieftains Institutions

Talaguton I B'laan Tribal Datu Antonio L. Mamoc

Kinanga Council Barangay Talaguton

Manobo Tribal Government Unit

Countil Datu Danilo W. Bungan

Barangay IP Council Datu Romeo Caluyan. Barangay Culaman Local

Culaman Representative Sr. Government Unit

Barangay New Barangay Tribal Bai Clara R. Alcasabas

Argao Council Barangay New Argao

Manobo Tribal Datu Sergio M . Local Government Unit

Chieftain-UTOM Marquez

Barangay IP Triba! Chieftain

Datu Rodino V. Fidel Barangay Tingulo Local

Tingulo Government Unit

Barangay IP Council Datu Eveden A. Saripa

Barangay Mana Local

Mana Representative Government Unit

Baragay IP Council Mr. Jose Rimando

Barangay Lais Local

La is Representative Government Unit

Socio-economic condition

Current HH Population {2010)

Household Composition

Average Household Incom e:

4,437 Househo ld s

Five to six members average

2,000 to 3,000 per month

Farming and Fishing Principal Occupation:

Name of Punong

Barangays

Hon . Elizabeth E. Maruya

Hon . Marilou P. Bautista

Hon . Leo Y. Angliongto

Hon . Sebastian L. Yap

Hon . Norman B. Mariano

Hon . Lawrence C. Ansa

Common Farm Products:

Other Off-farm Products:

Coconut, Corn, Rootcrops, Vegetables, Marine Products

Craft: traditional weaves, bamboos, etc.

Traditional Skills:

Representation in Governance:

Craft: weaving, basket making, etc.

Member of Barangay Lupon Tagapamayapa and the

Barangay Development Council and other Special Bodies

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Access to Services:

Health Barangay Health Center

Day-Care Day-care centers managed by the Barangay

Education Public Elementary School (Except in Brgy Culaman)

Trainings Implemented Few skills training conducted by agencies

Network and Linkages: Municipal Tribal Council, Government Line Agencies

Classification of site: The Municipalities of Don Marcelino and Malita are generally

cons idered as 3rd and 1 st cla ss municipalities respectively. However most

of the covered barangays in the area, which are mostly populated by

Indigenous peoples, are among the poorests in the Province of Davao

del Sur. In these barangays the IP household populations have limited

access to the development programs and projects that are installed.

Most of the upland household population in these remote IP barangays

lived below the determined poverty line .

(NOTE: A more detailed discussion of the poverty situation in the area is

found in the Situational Analysis section of the attached Indigenous

Peoples' Development Plan .)

Information on the Intermediary Organizations

As stated, this particular project is a joint initiative of the B'laan Tribal Council and partner

assist ing agencies and government institutions. The BLGUs in each of the covered Barangays take on the

role as intermediary organization of the project.

Table 4. Matrix of Proponent Intermediary Institutions

Intermediary Institutions Name of Punong Barangays Address

Baran gay Ta laguton Local Honorable Elizabeth E. Maruya

Barangay Site, Barangay Talaguton,

Government Unit Don Marcelino Municipa lity

Barangay Culaman Local Honorable Marilou P. Bautista

Barangay Site Barangay Culaman,

Government Unit Municipality of Malita

Barangay New Argao Local Honorable Leo Y. Angliongto

Barangay Site, Barangay New Argao,

Government Unit Municipality of Mal ita

Barangay Tingulo Local Honorable Sebastian L. Yap

Barangay Site, Barangay Tingulo,

Government Unit Municipality of Malita

Barangay Mana Local Honorable Norman B. M ar iano

Barangay Si t e, Barangay Mana,

Government Unit Municipality of Malita

Barangay Lais Local Honorable Lawrence C. Ansa

Barangay Sit e, Baranga y La is,

Gove rnment Unit Municipality of M alita

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Project Background and Rationale How was the project thought-of and developed?

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is the principal Government Agency that

oversees the construction and/or improvement of the national road network and other vital

infrastructures undertaken by the Government including the widening and concreting of the

Malita-Don Marcelino Road Section in the Province of Davao del Sur, otherwise known as the

NRIMP-2 Project.

The improvement of the Malita-Don Marcelino road section affects some __ Indigenous

Peoples households, as the structures owned by them shall be severely or marginally damaged.

Definitely, the road project can usher in changes that would impinge on the lives of the

Indigenous communities as their identities and cultures are inextricably linked to their physical

environment and to the natural resources on which they depend.

Thus, the DPWH facilitated the formulation of the IPDPP during to the implementation of the

NRIMP-2 project. This is a commitment of the DPWH to ensure that the rights of the Indigenous

Peoples to pursue their own socio-economic development and enhancement are respected.

Likewise, the /PDP guarantees that the Indigenous Peoples can have their rightful share on the

benefits that the proposed road improvement project can generate.

However, the poverty condition in the communities and the continuing marginalization of the

Indigenous Peoples top the lists of priorities that should be addressed by the IP communities

and the Local Barangay Units, which are among the poorest and least developed in the Province

of Davao del Sur. Evidently, the farming and fishing productivity is in the downward trend and is

not keeping pace with the high rate of population growth. Cases of resource-impairments have

likewise heightened while the large segments of the IP population are vulnerable to year-to year

weather changes while confronting the high-risk conditions in the area.

On the other hand, the drastic changes experienced by the Indigenous Peoples in the area have

lead to several negative impacts such as but not limited to: a) disintegration of some indigenous

social institutions, b) the seemingly disempowered traditional councils of elders, and c) the

weakening of traditional network of social support among the members of the IP communities.

The above conditions served as the socio-economic and cultural contexts that the community­

formulated /PDP anchors on . The members of the IP communities desire to rebuild and

strengthen the foundations of their being indigenous and redirect the changes in their natural

and cultural environments towards building a fairer and better society that would equally

benefit the present and future generations and provide quality well-bein g for all its members­

men, women, youth and children .

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Context of the IP Communities in Project Area: The Sustainability Issues that the Project shall address

This particular project responds to the prevailing poverty situation in the upland and coastal

areas where the members of the indigenous communities reside. However, the situation is,

most often, complex and poverty condition of the IP is due to a number of interrelated Issues

which are discussed in details in the Situational Analysis contained in the IPDP, among others,

the following:

1) low level and downward trends in Productivity

There are various factors that explain the declining productivity and the increasing

threat to food security in the uplands and in marginalized coastal areas .

Resource impairments and the unsustainable resource-use of natural resources

continue which then led to the led to degradation of agro-aqua ecosystems and

declining production of both farming and fishing systems.

On the other hand, off-farm and non-farm engagements that would augment

households' incomes are limited in scale or not been provided with enough assistance

to further develop and expand.

The Barangay and Municipal LGUs assured its commitment to the project and shall

scale-up the extension services in the field of agro-forestry and conservation fishing

technologies enhancement through a timely and measured Extension Program .

On the other hand, through the project, the community shall expand their established

School for Living Traditions as a vehicle for improved production of enhance and

marketable traditional crafts.

2) Marginalization of the Indigenous Communities

The poverty situation experienced by the indigenous B' laan and Manobo is not only

expressed in terms of income-consumption deficiency but also by a sense of capability

deficiency. Only a few members of the IP communities have successfully accessed

formal education and other skills-related training programs.

Moreover, most of the IPs are pushed to the fringes because of a number of factors . In

the remote villages, the following conditions continuall y prevail and lead to the further

deprivation and marginalization of the IPs :

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• Limited access to technical and financial assistance, credit and extension services that normally reach only less than 10% of the municipal population;

• Poor social and infrastructure support services, with only few paved or proper roads, sporadic absence or scarcity of assured potable water and limited access to health services;

• Weak delivery and reception mechanisms of development interventions--- the line agencies having high specific mandates but limited resources, LGUs inadequate finances and management and communities' minimal involvement in planning;

• Lack of employment opportunities; and

• Th e on-going un-peace situation and the unstable peacekeeping efforts in some isolated pockets of settlements in the highland areas.

3} loss of traditional knowledge and low level of self-esteem

The members of the Indigenous communities do not only witness the continuing

degradation of the natural resource-ba se, they are burden ed by the loss of indigenous

wisdom and tradit ional practices and concomitant to this, the prevailing low-level of self

esteem among the members of the tribe .

With the depletion of the diverse flora, fauna and marine life in the area, changes in the

people's life-ways occur and only few elders and cultural masters maintain the passing

on of the age-old wisdom and indigenous knowledge to the new generations, who most

often are ashamed to claim on their ethnicity with their exposure to the lowland

majority culture.

This is one of the urgent concern s of the project because--- "sustainable development

and the flouri shing of culture are always seen as interdependent." Thus Sustainable Livelihood interventions recognize the significance of cultural diversity and the value of

indigenous knowledge in achieving human se curity.

One of the development principles that the project abides to is that --- "the poverty of the spirit --- the inability of people and communities to express themselves is as debilitating as the poverty of goods."

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4) Breakdown of indigenous structure of governance and the potential conflict-situations within the ancestral homelands

Historically, the attempts on integration of the indigenous in the mainstream society,

but with the disregard of their unique ways of doing things, had put IPs at a

disadvantage position. The traditional modes of governance had been displaced in favor

of the institutionalization of lowland body-politic which most often, do not accommodate to the fullest extent, the voice of the indigenous. Eventually, the system

of indigenous governance breaks down and contributed to further ma rginalization of the IP leaders who are stripped of the traditional roles in village administration .

On the other hand, IP communities submit themselves, forcibly or otherwise, to the principle of " open-access" to natural resource base. Thus, various forms of conflicts

ensue . Indeed, in the ancestral territory of the B'laan, Manobo and Tagakaulo, several

conflicts on resource-use and resource access emerge .

5) limited livelihood Options and Marginalized Status of IP Women

The aggravating conditions of rural poverty and the continuing deprivation of the

IPs, have resulted to the miserable status and dismal marginalization of IP

Women . Evidently, the IP Women suffer most in a socio-cultural context where

social exclusion and discrimination prevail s.

Most women elders in IP communities express that women embrace the

conditions of low literacy and capability-deficiency. The circumstances where IP

Women are highly regarded becau se of their crucial role in the survival of the

indigenous knowledge and practices have now been considered only as memory

of the past.

In traditional societies, where the indigenous cultural systems and political

structures are relatively intact, the community members strictly observe the

recognized gender-domains. While men focus their energies on the defense of

the community against external aggressors or in the clearing of new farm plots,

Indigenous women engaged themselves in agricultural production and in

sa fekeeping thP. significant and diverse species and varieties of seeds.

IP Women, traditionally choose what particular species and variet ies to plant as

well as choose as to when and where to propagate them. They likewise decide

what products to barter as well as control the means of production. IP women are

re lati vely economically dependent then than now.

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Today, the traditional control of the IP women on the modes of economic

production of the households has been drastically changed when the practice of

shifting agriculture and the traditional patterns of settlement had transformed .

Most especially when the IP farmer has embraced the plow and other farm tools

and equipment, the traditional gender-domains had been altered .

Worst, when the parcels of lands once owned by the IP households were sold to

lowland settlers, the status of IP Women has veritably weakened.

With the introduction of the plow, the men decide and control the entire process

of production. Moreover, as the traditional IP community started to engage with

the lowland market forces, the men, in most cases, make a decision as to what

products are to be sold and at what price. The men likewise determine what

items are bought in the market .

IP Women in the project areas have very limited livelihood options. They also

suffer from discriminatory practices of the lowlanders and rarely participate in

the activities related to lowland governance. Because of the low level of

educational attainment, an increasing number of young IP women have moved to

the municipal centers or to nearby urban areas seeking employment as

household helpers. In some cases, they are forced to deny their ethnic origins and

cultural identities due to fear of being discriminated, neglected or abused.

The series of community dialogue and participatory life-long learning processes that the

project shall facilitate are designed to heighten the critical reflection of the community

members on the urgent issues and concern as well as on the un-peace situations within

the ancestral homelands of the IPs.

Moreover, the project endeavors to help build and strengthen the participation of the

Council of Elders in local governance. It is hoped that, with the opportunities that the

project shall bring to the IP community, new and re-invigorated structures of

administration shall be established and eventually mainstreamed .

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Hierarchy of Project Objectives What are the objectives of the project?

The over-arching goal of the project is "increased Incomes of IP Households beyond subsistence level through the enhanced Productivity Systems with greater resiliency"

In line with the above-stated goal, the project implementers envision that after the project life,

the following conditions of outcomes are achieved:

Outcome 1:

Outcome 2:

Outcome 3:

Outcome 4:

Capacitated IP Organizations are successfully managing their priority community

projects

Proven farming and fishing technologies are innovated and replicated by IP

Farmers & Fishers

Conservation areas have expanded through the effective implementation of

community-based resource conservation programs

IP Women's groups have successfully developed and expanded community

micro-enterprises through improved access to capital

As a multi-dimensional co-initiative development intervention, the project is comprised of the

following vital components and key result areas :

Component 1: Community Strengthening

1. IP Development Council is institutionalized and IP Organizations are

consolidated and capacitated

Component 2: Natural Resource Management (NRM)

2.1/P Productivity Systems (Farming & Fishing) are enhanced

2.2 Agri-Aqua Ecosystems are enriched and conserved

Component 3: Community Enterprise Development

3.1/P Women successfully managing the Social Enterprise Projects

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Figure 1. IPDP Results Chain

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Overriding Goal: Increased Incomes of IP Households beyond

subsistence levels through tlie enhanced Farming & Fishing Productivity Systems with greater resiliency

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I I I Outcome 1: Capacitated IP Outcome 2: Proven farming and Outcome 3: Expansion of the Outcome 4: IP Women's groups

Organizations are successfully fishing technologies are innovated conserved areas through community- have successfully developed and managing their priority community and replicated by IP Farmers & based Barangay Resource expanded community micro-

projects Fishers Conservation Programs enterprises

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Component 1: Community Component 2: Natural Resource Management Component 3: Community

Strengthening (NRM) Enterprise Development

1. Organizational Consolidation & 2.1 Productivity Systems 2.2 Community-based 3.11P Women-managed Social

Institutional Development Enhancement Ecosystems' Enrichment Enterprise Projects

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1.1 Formation of 2.1 Extension Program for IP 2.7 Revisit/Refinement of 3.1 Community FunctionaiiP Farmers and Fishers Barangay CRMP Entrepreneurship Training Organizations 2.2 Training of IP Para-Technicians 2.9 Expansion of delineated series 1.2 Community Awareness 2.3 Establishment of "Learning Community Forest 3.2 Assistance for Product

Raising Sessions Farms" 2.10 Expansion of delineated Development and 1.3 Organizational Training 2.5 Assistance for Farm/Fishery Fish Sanctuaries Production Trials Series Production Trials 2.11 Enforcement of 3.3 Assistance for IP

2.6 Adoption I Replication of Environmental Laws Women Social Enterprise

Proven Farming I Fishing 2.12 Enhancement of Projects Technologies Community Infrastructure

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Priority Projects and Development Interventions What are the concrete priority projects that shall be implemented?

During the community validation phase of the IPDP, the IP community leaders and the members of the Barangay Councils have rationalized and refined the list of priority projects that are intended to realize the four strategic IP development outcomes.

The following priority projects under the three components vary in terms of scope, scale and focus in every Barangay, in accordance to the preference of the IP farmer-fisher cooperators and the women

associations as well as on the concrete opportunities that exist in each of the ~overed Barangays:

Component 1: !£.Community Strengthening & Capability Building

1. Formation of FunctionaiiP Organizations

The IP Management Council strives to strengthen the IP organizations and the Production Teams of the Farmer-Fisher Cooperators as well as encourages the active participation of the IP Women's Associations in every Barangay.

2. Conduct of Community Awareness Raising Sessions

The Local Barangay Council seek assistance from various Government Agencies {NCIP, DILG, DENR, BFAR, etc.) in the conduct of community awareness sessions focused on IPRA Orientation, IP Development Framework. Environmental Conservation . IP Customary Laws and Culture-focused Alternative Dispute resolution processes, among others.

3. Training for IP Cooperators

· Likewise, the BLGU and the IP Tribal Council shall seek assistance from Government and Non-Government Organizations in the conduct of training that intended to increase the

capabilities of the IP Cooperators and Production Teams in the areas of: Organization Development, Project Development, Production Systems Enhancement, Project Management, among others .

Component 2: Natural Resource Management

4. Training of IP Para-Technicians (Farmers and Fishers)

The timely Extension Services shall be provided by the Municipal Agriculture Office through the request of the Barangay Local Government for the training of IP Farmer­fishers Para- lechnicians who shali initiate in the innovation of proven Farming and Fishing Technologies.

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The IP Para-Technicians shall initiate in the establishment of Learning Farms or Technology Demo Farms focused on the diverse Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) technology innovations towards the establishment of Integrated Upland Farming System or Sloping Agriculture Land Technologies {SALT), including the establishment of Community Seedlings Nursery.

6. Enrichment of IP Upland Farming Production System

The IP Upland Farmers shall be assisted in their innovations, adoption or replication of improved conservation farming technologies. The assistance includes but not limited to provision of farm inputs and tools for an enhanced integrated farm, livestock and forage Production and integrated tree farms. The IP farmer cooperators shall provide labor as counterpart in the farming systems enrichment.

7. Improvement of IP Fishing Production System

Likewise, the BLGU and the IP Management Councils shall tap funding institutions to provide assistance for adoption and/or replication of proven fishing technologies. The fund support shall include: a) Assistance for vulnerable fishing households for technology Innovations, b) Assistance to Group Trials on Fishing Technology Innovations and/or start-up capital, and c) Assistance for the acquisition of motorized fishing equipment

8. Barangay-wide Environment Conservation Project

The respective cooperating Barangay Local Government Units (BLGU} shall implement barangay-wide projects in line with the conservation of the agro-aqua ecosystems. The

. Baran gay Projects, among others, include: a) Revisit I Refining of Barangay Natural Resource Management Program (NRMP), b) Rehabilitation and/or expansion of delineated Fish Sanctuaries and/or Community Protected Forests, c) Enforcement of Environmental Laws, and d) Training for Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction

9. Barangay Community .lnfrastructure Projects

Moreover, the IP Management Councils and the Barangay Councils shall tap the support of the DPWH to assist in the implementation of their identified priority community infrastructure projects. These projects are intended either for the enhancement of farming-fishing productivity systems, improvement of transport access to the market centers and/or the mitigation of disaster-risks or hazards. Among others, these community infrastructure projects include the installation of mini-belly bridges for

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Component 3: Community Enterprise

10. Community Entrepreneurship Training series

The BLGU and the IP Management Councils shall seek the assistance of Government and Non-Government Organizations for the conduct of a Training series participated by the members of IP Women's Associations and other self-help groups. The training, among others, shall focus on the following themes: a) Product Development, b) Project Proposal Writing, c) Project Feasibility I Market Studies, and d) Social Enterprise Development

11. Product Development & Enhancement

The IP Women Self-Help associations shall be assisted in their initiatives in Product Development and Enhancement of Social Enterprise. Initially, the identified products or enterprise projects include: financing and marketing of marine products, production of condiments, processing and marketing farm-product, hog fattening, poultry raising, and production of traditional crafts, among others.

12. Fund for Alternative Livelihood/ Community. Enterprise Development

The BLGU shall seek the support of Funding Institutions to provide support fund for IP Women's Groups Social Enterprises. Local counterpart fund shall come from the cooperating IP Women's Groups and from the BLGU.

13. Special Support to the IP Ancestral Domain Claim in Don Marcelino

AnGJther priority project identified and endorsed by the IP management Council in the IPDPP is the support for the recognition of the Ancestral Domain Claim of the IPs in Don Marcelino. The IP communities, in partnership with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples {NC!P) ensure the recognition of their Rights and security of tenure by the immediate conduct of monumental ground survey and the awarding of the Certificate of Ancestral

Domain Title (CADT). Likewise, IP leaders ne&d technical ~nd funding assistance in the conduct of their Ancestral Domains Sustainable Development and Protection Plan {ADSDPP}.

The priority projects identified in the IPDP include Barangay-wide Environmental Enhancement Programs that would be principally anchored by the respective cooperating BLGUs. Likewise, the IP leaders and the Barangay Councils had identified and prioritized the need for the installation or construction of Community Infrastructure as shown in the matrix below.

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Matrix of Identified Barangay-wide Ecosystems' Enrichment Projects

Priority Projects TALAGUTON CULAMAN NEWARGAO TINGULO MANA

1 Update of the Assessment I Assessment I Assessment I Assessment I Assessment I Barangay CRMP Appraisal Appraisal Appraisal Appraisal Appraisal

Regu Ia r Coasta I Bi-annual Bi-annual Bi-annual Bi-annual Bi-annual 2

Clean-up Clean-up Clean-up Clean-up Clean-up Clean-up

Enrichment of 50 ha . Existing

Protected Protected Coral 3 Existing Fish "Dugong" Reef (2.5

Sanctuaries Fish Sanctuary

habitat hectare} •

Estab lishment of Establishment Establishment Establishment 4

Seedling Nursery of 2 nurseries of 1 nursery of 1 nursery

Expansion of Tree-Planting Establishment Tree-Planting

Protected Protected Old Protected 5

Community Growth Forest Natural Forest and ANR of Commty Tree and ANR

Interventions Farm Interventions Forest

Enforcement of Localization of Localization of Localization of Localization of Localization of

6 Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental

Laws Laws Laws Laws Laws Laws

Strict Enforcement of Environmental Ordinaces

IEC on Disaster-Purok-Levei\EC Purok-Levei\EC Purok-Level\EC Purok-Levei\EC Purok-Levei\EC

7 Risk Reduction conducted conducted comjucted conducted conducted

Measures

Appraisal of Eco- Dugong Sighting Appra isal of Established Appraisal of 8 Tourism Sites I & Natural Coral Highland Dugong Sighting Upland Water

Destinations Reef Adventu re Area bodies

Matrix of Identified Priority Community Infrastructure Projects

TALAGUTON KINANGA CULAMAN NEW ARGAO TINGULO MANA

Construction of one Rehabilitation of Installation of Box Construction of

(1} unit of Belly the Barangay Culvert for one (1} unit of

Belly Bridge near Bridge in Sitio Farm-to-Market improved drainage

the Barangay Magpacon Road in Sitio Tubod

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The above-listed priority projects shall be implemented in a two-year period by the project implementers ··as indicated in the attached Project Implementation Plan Matrix. {See Annexed A.)

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Project Management Structure Mechanisms for Administrative Efficiency and Management Effectiveness

The IPDPP proposes a multi-tiered implementation and management structure from the Barangay and Municipal levels to the Provincial and Regional levels.

At the Barangay level, the Barangay IPDP Development Team operates and oversees the core of the project activities and to refine, screen, implement, validate and evaluate the community ·projects with regard to their viability and feasibility based on the appr"aved project proposal and operations plan . The Team is co-chaired by the Punong Barangay and the IP Tribal Chieftain.

An inter-Barangay IPDPP Management Council shall be formed to set-up policies and management guidelines for the overall implementation of the key components of the Plan . Composed of the Punong Barangays and the IP Tribal Chieftains in the covered area, the Counil shall likewise follow-through the agreed-upon Project Implementation Cycle as well as ensure that the outline project interventions are delivered timely and the outputs and outcomes are closely monitored and assessed. The Council shall likewise oversee the project evaluation and shall be the mechanism to capture the lessons learnt in the project implementation phase.

The Local Barangay Councils in every Barangay is considered as an active co-implementer of the IPDPP and upholds the IPDPP strategy that encourages and promotes partnership, complementation, collaborat ion and cooperation of all the concerned sta keho lders . They shall serve as the conduit for funding and shall establish linkage with Micro-Finance Institutions to set-up the Micro"credit facility in every barangay.

Advisory Bodies and Team of Experts . In line with the principles of co-initiative and convergence, the IPDP recommends the creation of active Advisory Bodies and Team of Experts who shall provide advisory and oversight functions to refine the IPDPP strategy and implementation mechanisms in a participatory manner. The Team of Experts shall help in raising the capabilities of the I PDP Management Councils and enable them to successfully manage their priority programs and projects as outlined in the Plan.

Assisting the IP Communities in the IPDPP impl€mentation i~ a Team of Experts that is comprised of Officers or designated Project Coordinators in the Provincial LGUs and the Provincial Units of the National Line Agencies with proven capability to deliver the required services and build local capacity for sustainable and effective development of the IP-focused programs and projects. They shall assist the IP communities and project implementers in the arena of capability building, resource-management and conservation product development and

management, market linkage among others.

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An Inter-Agency Advisory is the convergence of Line Agencies, composed of the senior staff of the regional offices of National Line Agencies. Collectively they shall provide advisory on project development and management as well as build linkages for funding support and social marketing of the components of the IPDPP.

Figure 2: I PDP Management Structure

/PDP Advisory Bodies: - Office of the Municipal Mayor Implementation Structure IP Development

Program Management

Council

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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) Processes, Approaches and Outputs

During the pre-project phase, the project team shall compile a comprehensive socio-economic baseline on the Indigenous households and organizations serving as basis for the periodic PI ME­related activities. The PIME related activities, frequency of conduct and participants involv.ed are detailed in the matrix below.

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Regular Meetings Production Teams Monthly Identify and discuss issues and

Tribal Council Monthly discoveries in project

Local Development Team Monthly implementation; chart effective

Project Management Every two months mechanisms & actions

Steering Committee Quarterly

Advisory Bodies Bi-annual

Periodic Monitoring Monitoring Team Monthly Determine gaps

Local Development Team Monthly Provide status report

Trial Council Monthly Recommend actions

Project Management Ev~ry two months Refine strategies

Advisory Bodies Bi-annual Recommend Strategies

Periodic Assess ment Production Teams Monthly Iden ti fy st rengt hs and

Tribal Council Quarterly w eakn esses; recommend concrete

Local Development Team Quarterly actions to take & strategies

Project Management Quarterly

Im pac t Assessm ent Trib al Council End of th e Pr oject Determ ine positive <'lld negative

Produ ction Teams cha nges th at are like ly to happ en

Local Development Tram ba sed on t he proj ect's log frame

Steering Committee

Assisting Agencies

Project Evaluation Tribal-Council Annual '

Identify over-all impact and effect

Local Development Team of the project as well as lessons

Project Management learnt for future replication

Consultative Bodies

Moreover, the project shall install culture-focused project monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to include--- traditional meetings and rituals, creative monitoring boards, gender-oriented monitoring activities, among others .

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Project Benefits and Impact Describe the benefits the project will bring to the community, group, or organization

As described in the narrative summary in the project's logical framework and work-breakdown structure, this particular project strengthens the shared community asset of the Indigenous communities through the adoption of appropriate productivity technologies and applicatiQn of enhanced knowledge and skills. Among the measured benefits that the project shall provide to the community are the following:

''Outcome 1:

projects Capacitated IP Organizations are successfully managing their priority community

• 70 members of the IP Tribal Council are capacitated in the area of governance and project management;

• 800 members of the IP Farmers, Fishers and Women Associations are capacitated in the project management;

Outcome 2: Proven farming and fishing technologies are innovated and replicated by IP Farmers & Fishers

792 IP households have expanded their levels of production either in on-farm, off-farm and non-farm livelihood activities

Outcome 3: Expansion of the conserved areas through community-based res ou rce conservation programs

More than 3000 hectares of conserved community forest; More than 100 hectares of conserved fish sanctuaries,·

• . More than 200 hectares of conserved household forms

Outcome 4: IP Women's groups have successfully developed and expanded community micro-enterprises

• At least 40 IP Women's Social Enterprises developed; , • 4 IP Women's Association composed of 40 production teams; • 400 members of IP Women's Associations

Among the desired impact that the project could generate after the implementation phase are the following:

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• Increased household incomes beyond poverty threshold (compared to 2011 baseline) • Cohesive IP communities that institutionalizes self-governance • Sustaining social enterprises eco-tourism projects • Safeguarded and conserved ecosystems and enhanced cultural resources • Revitalization of Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Practices

Gender-Fairness and Participation of Indigenous Women

Differentiation of roles by gender is deep rooted in the traditional communities and gender disparities are particularly noticeable in the lower socio-economic strata of rural communities. Thus, attention to Gender Fairness is integrated throughout the IPDPP implementation. IP Organizational Gender-gap Audits are strongly recommended at the incipience state and Gender-sensitivity trainings are advocated in the training programs and activities.

Likewise, more investigations and analysis of gender-related factors and issues in IP communities are needed and the continuous consultation with stakeholders - men, women and community groups - will enable the project implementers to evolve a relevant strategy towards gender equity, shared participation and empowerment, in resolving community issues. The monitoring and evaluation framework will likewise integrate gender-equity indicators to determine the overall impact of the project to gender and development goals .

Indigenous Women leaders are actively involved in the local Project Management and Project

Monitoring committees. The organizing of Women Production Teams is designed to furthet·

capacitate the B' laan, Manobo and Tagakaulo women members of the IP communities.

On the other hand support for women cultural masters especially in the production of

traditic,nal weaves and other crafts must be in ple:c e. Likewise, th e: te ch nologies to be popularized for farming and fishing systems enhancement shall see to it that women are not

over-burdened with multiple tasks and roles both in the farm, non-farm and off-farm productions.

Moreover, the IP Women Self-Help groups shall .anchor the P,riority projects under the 3rd

component of the IPDP - Community Enterprise Development- not only to access additional sources of incomes but also to enhance their capacities in managing social enterprises as well as

to ensure that the IP Women can achieve economic sufficiency and control of assets in the households levels.

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Lastly, the awareness-raising sessions shall attempt to genderize the IP homes. The I PDP assures

that the provision of community infrastructures that the project advocates will lessen the

burden of women in the performance of their respective tasks within their gender-specific

domains.

Potential Effects on the Environment and Mitigating Factors

Th is project actively promotes a range of conservation measures to regenerate the well ness of ··the ecosystems and other life-support systems for the Indigenous Peoples. As such, the positive

effects of the project include the expansion of conserved areas--- both farmlands and

community agri-aqua-ecosystems within the ancestral homelands. This is an acceptable intervention and congruent to the tenets of the survival of the indigenous--- working with nature and not against nature.

However, there is an urgent need to propagate cash crops and augment the traditional farming systems of the indigenous. This would entail a more measured and timely approach to extension and requires that the extension agents employ more appropriate and affordable agro-forestry

technologies.

The traditional practice of sla sh and burn shifti ng -agriculture may seemed not to be

en vironmentally-sound nowa days considering the short fall ow period obse rved by the

indigenous farmers due to lim ited landholdings being ma intained . It is in th is context th e ag ro­fo restry techn olog ies shall be popula riz ed including t he practice of nu t rient pumping or

improved fall ow system s.

On the other hand, the product ion of enh anced t raditi onal crafts relies mainly on forest mi nor

products and necess itates t hat the forest shculd remain inta r :.

The project expects t hat not all fa rmi ng and/or f ishi ng households would readily change their

traditional modes of production or innovate on the conservation technologies. Hence, the

provision of micro-credit to upland farmers and Indigenous fishers would help create higher motivations as support for additional farm and fishery inputs are in place.

However, the project foresees a negative impact--- i.e. dependency on the support funds and after the project life, the intended beneficiaries may revert ba.ck to the resource-use or practices

that are detrimental to the environment.

Thus, the mitigating factors that would be employed are contained in the project strategy­

community awareness raising, timely and appropriate extension and a more culture-focused

dispute resolution .

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Prepared and Submitted by:

Datu Antonio L. Mamoc B'laan Tribal Chieftain

Barangay Talagtuon

Datu Rodino V. Fidel Tribal Chieftain

Barangay Tingulo

Date Prepared: September 18, 2012

Datu Romeo Caluyan. Sr. Tagakaulo Tribal Chieftain

Barangay Culaman

Datu Eveden A. Saripa IP Representative

Barangay Mana

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Datu Sergio M . Marquez Manobo Tribal Chieftain

Barangay New Argao

Mr. Jose Rimando IP Representative

Barangay Lais

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A Letter Proposal Submitted to the Department of Public Works and Highways [PDWH) for the rehabilitation I concreting of Farm-to-Market Road in Sitios Kibulakan,

lnaburan and Kibalabag located within Barangay Culaman in the Municipality of Malita

Engr. Rafael Yabut Undersecretary for PMO Operations Department of Public Works and Highways Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila

Attention:

SIR:

Director Carlos G. Mutuc Director NRIM-PMO

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) had administered the widening and concreting of the Malita-Don Marcelino Road Section (referred to as the NRIMP-2 Project) in the Province of Davao del Sur. This road improvement project spans to eight (8) coastal and upland barangays and would directly contribute to the enhancement of the social and economic conditions of the peoples residing in the area, most of whom are Indigenous Peoples.

However, the project had directly affected some 120 Indigenous Manobo and Tagakaulo households in Barangay Culaman where the 40 households are required to reorganize their houses or move to the resettlement sites. On the other hand, majority of the IP households in the area may not be physically displaced but who are nevertheless affected "because the road project would entail permanent loss of livelihoods or temporary restriction to sources of subsistence and/or income".

Thus, the DPWH has supported the crafting of an Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan (IPDPP) as part of the social preparation process of the NRIMP-2 project. Likewise, the affected Indigenous households and the Barangay Council of Culman have identified a community infrastructure project as a vital component of the lPDP.

Hence, we write the DPWH to directly assist in the rehabllitation of a two-kilometer Farm-to-Market road in Barangay Culaman. This community-solicited infrastructure project would benefit not only the project affected families but all the IP residents in the inner sitios of the Barangay as well as of the neighboring barangays, all located in the municipality of Malita. Together with this letter is the Project Brief for your kind perusal and review.

The NRIP-2 project promised to provide direct assistance for the IP households that would be asked to relocate their houses, yet, there is no concrete relocation site that has been established as of this writing. Hence, we the members of the IP Tribal Councils and the Baran gay Council of Culaman, strongly request the D PWH to support the implementation of this solicited community infrastructure project. Thank you very muc

VeryTrulyyours, ~

Honorable Marilo~ n autista Punong Barangay

September 10, 2012

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Rehabilitation of the 2-kilometer Farm-to-Market Road in Sitios Kibulakan, lnaburan and Kibalabag located within Barangay Culaman, in the Municipality of Malita, Davao del Sur

During the seasons of heavy rain, some portions of the Barangay farm-to-market in Barngay Culman would be flooded and would not be passable by any vehicle. Thus the IP Tribal Council and the Barangay Local Government Unit of Barangay Culaman seek the assistance of the DPWH for the rehabilitation of the Barangay Farm­to-Market road and thus provide permanent access to the residents of the area as well as facilitate the regular transport of farm products from the sitios to the market centers.

Rehabilitation of a two-kilometer Farm-to-Market Road

The community infrastructure project could benefit directly all the members of the IP and non-IP households in the inner sitios of the Barangays. With the rehabilitation of the barangay farm-to-market road:

• Farm products can be transported to the barangay market centers through out the year;

• School children can have access of passage to their school site in barangay center;

• Products and other household essentials can be transported with lower cost, from the Barangay Poblacion to the inner sitios of Kibulakan, Jnaburan and Kibalabag

The improved road network could facilitate the increase in the productivity of farming households as well as in the marketing of farm products. Moreover, the permanent access could facilitate the attendance of the school pupils in their elementary classes throughout the school year calendar.

Barangay Culaman, Municipality of Malita

Nature of Assistance: Grant from the DPWH

Proponents: Local Barangay Government Unit of Culaman and the IP Tribal Councils of the Tagakaulo and Manobo in Barangay

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A Letter Proposal Submitted to the Department of Public Works and Highways (PDWH) for the co-nstruction of one (1) unit of Belly Bridge in Sitio Magpacon, Barangay

Talaguton, Municipality of Don Marcelino, Province of Dci.vao del Sur

Engr.RafaelYabut Undersecretary for PMO Operations Department of Public Works arid Highways Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila ·

Attention: .

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Director Carlos G. Mutuc Director NRIM -PMO

The Department of Public Work$ and Highways (DPWH) had administered the widening and concreting of the Malita-Don Marcelino Road Section (referred to as the NRIMP-2 Project) in the Province ofDavao del Sur. This road improvement project spans to eight (8) coastal and upland barangays and would directly contribute to the enhancement of the social and economic conditions of the peoples residing in the area, most of whom are Indigenous Peoples.

However, the project had directly affected some 180 Indigenous Manobo and B'laan households in Barangay Talaguton, some of whom are required to reorganize their houses or move to the resettlement sites. On the other hand, majority of the IP households in the area who are not physically displaced who are nevertheless affected "because the road project would entail permanent loss of livelihoods or temporary restriction to sources of subsistence andjor income'~

Thus, the DPWH has supported the crafting of an Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan (IPDPP) as partofthe social preparation process of the NRIMP-2 project. Likewise, the affected Indigenous households and the Barangay Council ofTalaguton has identified a community infrastructure project that is vital of the development of the IP communities.

Hence, we write the DPWH to directly assist in the construction of one unit of Belly Bridge in Sitio Magpacon, Barangay Talaguton that would connect to the rehabilitation of a 2-kilometer farm-to-market road from Sitio Mapacon to Barangay Site. This community­solicited infrastructure project would benefit not only the project affected families but all the IP residents in the inner sitios of the Barangay as well as of the neighboring Barangays in themunicipality.

The NRIP-2 project promised to provide direct assistance for the rehabilitation of the affeCted IP households, and we the members of the IP Tribal Councils and the Local Barangay Council, stro,ngly urge the DPWH to support the realization and implementation of this solicited community infrastructure project. Thank you very much!

Very Truly yours,

September 5, 2012

Datu$ L Mamoc B'laan Tribal Chieftain

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Installation of one unit of Belly Bridge in Sitio Mapa con, Barangay Talaguton that shall complement the rehabilitation of a 2-kilometer farm-to-market road from Sitio Magpacon to Barangay Site

During the seasons of heavy rain, the Magpacon creek would be flooded and would not be passable by any vehicle nor by foot. Th,us the IP Tribal Council and the Barangay Local Government Unit of Barangay Talaguton seek the assistance of the DPWH for the construction ofone (1) unit o.f Belly Bridge, with approximately 12 meters in length, that shall provide permanent access to the residents in the Sitio Mapacon and from the neighboring barangays ofBaluntaya and Nueva Villa.

On the other hand, the rehabilitation of the farm-to-market ro~d has been covered by the proposed infrastructure assistance project of the Department of Agriculture. Hence the project proponents only seek the support of the DPWH to install the mini Belly Bridge.

Installation of one (1) unit Belly Bridge (approximately 12 meters in length). , ·

The community infrastructure project could benefit directly all the members of the IP and no n-IP households in the inner barangays. With the installation of the Belly Bridge:

• Farm products can be transported to the barangay market center; • School children can have access of passage to their school site in

barangay center; • Products and other household essentials can be transported from the

Barangay Poblacion to the inner sitios; and • Residents ofnei!Jhboriri!J barangays can have road access to

Barangay Talaguton, since the Baluntaya-Talaguton road .network is an alternative road from Barangay Talaguton to the center of the Don Marcelino Municipality

The improved road network could facilitate the increase in the productivity of farming households as well as in the marketing of farm products. Moreover, the permanent access could facilitate the attendance ofthe school pupils in their elementary classes

. throughout the school year calendar.

Sitio Magpacon, Barangay Talaguton, Municipality of Don Marcelino

Php 1,500,000.00

Nature of Assistance: Grarit from the DPWH

Proponents: ·Local Barangay Government ofTalaguton and the IP Tribal Councils of the B'laan and Manobo in Barangay Talaguton

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Installation of one unit of Belly Bridge in Barangay Tingulo to serve as permanent flood control and improved access for the residents

The creek in Barangay Tingulo would be. flooded and would not be passable by any vehicle nor by foot' during seasons of heavy rain. Thus the IP Tribal Council and the Barangay Local Government Unit of the Barangay seek the assistance of the DPWH for the construction of one (1) unit of Belly Bridge that could provide permanent access of passage and transport of residents as well as Of the farm products through out the year. ·

,Installation of one (1) unit Belly Bridge (approximately 18 meters in length).

The community infrastructure project could benefit directly all the members of the IP and non-IP households in the inner barangays. With the installation of the Belly Bridge:

• Farm products can be transported to the bari:mgay market center; • School children can have access of passage to their school site in

barangay center; • Products and other household essentials can be transported from the

Barangay Poblacion to the inner sitios; and • Hazards and risk of flooding in the settlements is mitigated

The improved road access could facilitate the increase in the productivity of farming households as well as in the marketing of farm products. Moreover, the permanent access could facilitate the attendance of the school pupils in their elementary classes throughout the school year calendar.

Barangay Site, Barangay Tingulo, Municipality of Malita

Php 1,000,000.00

Nature of Assistance: Grant from the DPWH

Proponents: Local Barangay GovernmentofTingulo and the IP Tribal Councils of the Manobo in Barangay Tingulo

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Da~.Fidel Manobo Tribal Chieftain

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C:ommunity-Solicited Infrastructure Project of Barangay Tingulo

Installation of one unit of Belly Bridge in Barangay Tingulo to serve as permanent flood control and improved access for the residents

The creek in Barangay Tingulo would be flooded and would not be passable by any vehicle nor by foot during seasons of heavy rain. Thus the IP Tribal Council and the Barangay Local Government Unit of the Barangay seek the assistance of the DPWH for the construction of one (1) unit of Belly Bridge that could provide permanent access of passage and transport of residents as well as of the farm products through out the year.

Installation of one (1) unit Belly Bridge (approximately 18 meters in length).

The community infrastructure project could benefit directly all the members of the IP and non-IP households in the inner barangays. With the installation of the Belly Bridge:

• Farm products can be transported to the barangay market center; • School children can have access of passage to their school site in

barangay center; • Products and other household essentials can be transported from the

Barangay Poblacion to the inner sitios; and • Hazards imd risk of flooding in ~he settlements is mitigated

The improved road access could facilitate the increase in the productivity of farming households as well as in the marketing of farm products. Moreover, the permanent access could facilitate the attendance of the school pupils in their elementary classes throughout the school year calendar.

Barangay Site, Barangay Tingulo, Municipality of Malita

Php 1,000,000.00

Nature of Assistance: Grant from the DPWH

Proponents: Local Barangay GovernmentofTingulo and the IP Tribal Councils of the Manobo in Barangay Tingulo

bastian L. Yap Punong Barangay

Da~.Fidel Manobo Tribal Chieftain

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A Letter Proposal Submitted to the Department of Public Wort's and Highways (PDWH) for the rehabilitation of the Farm-to-Marl,et Road connecting the Sitios of Mawalan and Calape,

within Barangay Lais in the Municipality of Malita, Davao del Sur

Engr. Rafael Yabut Undersecretaty for PMO Operations Depmtment of Public Works and Highways Bonifacio Drive, Pmt .ATea, Manila

Attention:

SIR:

Director Carlos G. Mutuc Director NRIM-PMO

We m·e submitting to you good office a letter-proposal in connection with the widening and concreting of the Malita-Don Mm·ce)ino Road Section (refened to as the NRIMP-2 Project) in the Province ofDavao del Sm·.

In the IPDP fonnulated by the affected Indigenous households and the IP Tribal Council of Lais, we have identified a cmiunm1ity infi·ash·ucture project that is vital to the IP community development. Attached is the project btief of the said project, for your kind perusal and review.

We request the DPWH to directly assist in the rehabilitation of a two-kilometer Farm-to­Marliet •·oad in Barangay Lais. Tins cmmnmlity-solicited infi·astructure project would benefit not only the project affected fmmlies but all the IP residents in the inner sitios of Barangay Lais located in the mmucipality ofMalita, Davao del Sur

Thatlk you vety much!

Vety Truly yours,

Honm·abl~rence C. Ansa Punong Bar!n~~w

September 18, 2012

~ Mr. Jose R. Rimando

Barangay IP Representative to the Council

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Community ll~(mstructure Project Digest

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Community-Solicited Infrastructure Project in Ba1·angay ~sn 0~

Rehabilitation of the 2-lulometer Farm-to-Marliet Road in Barangay Lais within the Municipality of Malita, Davao del Sur

The sitios ofMawalay and Calape in Barangay Lais are considered as . Indigenous settlements and up to this day, the IPs comprise the majority of the populations in the area. The productive IP farmlands are likewise situated in the rolling tenain and sloping landmass in the two sitios.

The people's access to mobility and transpmt has always been a priority of all Local Government Units. However, with the meager resomces, the BLGU could not provide improved road access to the IP and Non-IP residents.

Thus the IP Tribal Com1cil and the Barangay Local Government Unit of Barangay Lais seek the assistance of the DPWH for the rehabilitation of the Barangay Fann-to-Market road and thus provide improved road access for the residents of the area as well as facilitate the regular transport of farm products fiom the sitios to the market centers.

Rehabilitation of a two-kilometer Farm-to-Market Road in Sitio Mawalay and Calape

Benefits: The community infi:astructure project could benefit directly all the members of the IP and non-IP households in the inner sitios of the Barangays. The rehabilitation of the barangay fann-to-market road would generate the following impact: increase in the productivity o.ffarming households as well as in the marketing of farm products and thus facilitate an improved wellbeing a_{ the IP households.

Site: Barangay Lais, Municipality of Malita

Nature of Assistance: Grant fi·om the DPWH

Proponents: Local Barangay Govemment Unit ofLais and the IP Tribal Council in Barangay Lais

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Honorable L wrence C. Ansa Punong Baranga)

September 18, 2012

~an do Barangay IP Representative to the Council

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A Letter Proposal Submitted to the Department of Public Works and Highways (PDWH) for the Flood Control Project in Barangay Mana, Municipality of Malita, Province of Davao del Sur

Engr. Rafael Yabut Undersecretary for PMO Operations Depatiment of Public Works and Highways Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila

Attention: Director Carlos G. Mutuc Director NRIM-PMO

SIR:

We are writing your good office in connection with the widening and concreting of the Malita-Don Mru·celino Road Section (referred to as the NRIMP-2 Project) in the Province ofDavao del Sur.

In Barangay Mana, the road improvement project had directly affected some h1digenous Manobo, B'laan and Tagakaulo households. The leaders and members of the IP Tribal Council together with their Local Barangay Council have crafted an Indigenous Peoples Development and Protection Plan (IPDPP) as part of the social preparation process of the NRIMP-2 project and have identified a community infrastructure project that is considered a vital component of the IPDP.

Hence, we request the DPWH to directly assist in the expansion and rehabilitation of the flood­control structures in the Lais River and the construction improved drainage through the construction of Spar Dike in Lower and Upper Balas and Catumbal in Barangay Mana.

This community-solicited infrastmcture project would benefit all the project affected families of the Barangay and thus, we strongly urge the DPWH to support the realization and implementation of this solicited community · frastructure project.

Vety Truly yours

Honorable Norman M. Mariano Punong Barangay

September 18, 2012

Datu Eveden A. Saripa Tribal Chieftain & IP Representative to the Council

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Community-Solicited Infrastructure Project of Barangay Mana

Expansion of the Flood Control structures in Lais River as well as improvement of the drainage through the construction of Spar Dike in Lower and Upper Balas and Catumbal to control the flash flood of the waters fi"om the Bito and the Lais River. ·

Barangay Mana has always been experience flash floods, especially during the seasons ofheavy rain. The flooding of the area due to the rushing rapids ofLais River and the run-off waters from Barangay Bito had constantly damaged the fatmer's crops and other properties. Likewise, the regular flooding in the area had disrupted the delivery of public education services, since tl1e areas that are severely affected include the site of the Elementary School.

Thus the IP Tribal Council and the Barangay Local Government Unit of the Barangay seek the assistance of the DPWH for the rehabilitation and expansion ofthe River Control Structures in the Lais River and the installation of spar dikes in the upper portion ofBarangay Mana near the School Site. This project would likewise provide permanent access of passage and transport of residents as well as of the farm products through out the year.

Improvement of Flood Control Structures in Barangay mana

Benefits: The community infrastructure project could benefit directly all the members of the IP and non-IP households in the barangays.

hnpact: The improved flood control structures could mitigate the hazard-risks associated to flooding and could likewise facilitate the increase in the productivity of farming households as well as in the marketing of farm products.

Site: Barangay Mana, Municipality ofMalita

Nature of Assistance: Grant from the DPWH

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September 18, 2012

Local Barangay Government of Mana and the IP Tribal Council of Mana

Datu Eveden A. Saripa Tribal Chieftain & IP Representative to the Council

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