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November
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PROGRAMS
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Magapa-Suague River Basin Development
Project (MSRBDP)
Land and Water Resources Development
Program
 PRDCI
is focusing its intervention on the Magapa-Suague
River Basin which is approximately 27,000
hectares wide and shared by the municipalities
of Janiuay, Mina, Maasin, Pototan, New
Lucena and Badiangan in the province of
Iloilo, Philippines. This project aims
to build capacity/capability of stakeholders,
their organizations, and communities.
Program components for the next three
years (2005-2007) are the following:
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Watershed Rehabilitation (WR) |
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Aims
to build strong stakeholder Organizations
capable of sustained positive initiatives
towards sound management of resources
within the basin. |
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The Magapa-Suague
River Basin Management Council (MSRBMC,
or the Basin Council) takes the
lead in sustainable management of
resources within the river basin
by effectively implementing its
strategic plan for 2005-2014. Actively
mobilizing constituencies and resources
in support of the Basin Council’s
programs and activities are the
basin-wide Council of People’s Organizations
(CPO), basin-wide Women Leaders’
Forum (WOLF) and the Magapa-Suague
River Rescuers’ Club (MSRRC).
Actions are directed towards increasing
vegetative cover of the basin, ecological
waste management and promotion of
Sustainable Agriculture (SA)
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Productivity and Income Enhancement
(PIE) |
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Directed
towards the adoption of SA by local
governments at the barangay (village),
municipal and provincial levels
as an approach in improving rural
productivity and income.
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Currently works
with 811 Farmer-Cooperators (FC)
on sustainable farming technologies
covering 485.30 hectares of farmlands
spread in 42 barangays of the 8
municipalities of Iloilo province.
Advocacy efforts are focused on
integration of SA into the development
plans of local government units
thus influencing the course of development
of agriculture and, therefore the
economy, of the basin. |
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agriculture farming technologies: |
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Integrated Diversified
Farming System (IDFS) |
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Masipag Rice Technology (MRT)
and Systems of Rice Intensification
(SRI) |
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Sloping Agricultural Land
Technology (SALT) |
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Bio-Intensive Gardening (BIG)
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Natural Farming Systems |
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Vermi composting |
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Production and use of botanical
plant protection agents |
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Asset Reform and Enterprise
Development (ARED) |
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Aims
to strengthen partner Peoples’
Organization (POs) with viable
enterprises that support SA
in the basin; land tenure
improvement that would empower
farmers and farm workers to
adopt SA technologies form
part of this component. |
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Organizing
efforts has resulted to the establishment
of 16 active organizations at different
levels of development and one cooperative
with members coming from several
towns. These organizations are affiliated
with a provincial coalition named
Kwalisyon sang Magunguma, Mamumugon
sa Uma kag Mangingisda sa Iloilo
(KAMI). Enterprise development and
agrarian reform are their main pre-occupation
although they are also engaged in
lobbying and claim-taking actions
for support services at the local
level.
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Gender Mainstreaming |
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Aims
to improve personnel grasp of gender
concepts and issues, ensure gender
sensitive planning, budgeting, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation (PBIME)
systems and mechanism, improve gender
relations in strengthening household
economy, and develop gender responsiveness
among leaders and members of partner
organizations. |
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