2011 Annual Report - PhilDHRRA-Mindanao
2011 Annual Report - PhilDHRRA-Mindanao
2011 Annual Report - PhilDHRRA-Mindanao
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KAPWA UPLIFTMENT FOUNDATION, INC.<br />
Kapwa Upliftment Foundation Inc. continued<br />
to work with the Bagobo Tagabawa tribal councils<br />
to implement their ancestral domain<br />
management plans.<br />
In Makilala, Cotabato Kapwa works with the tribal<br />
councils of Buhay, Buenavida, Biangan and<br />
Batasan to implement programs and projects to<br />
improve the well-being of their people who live<br />
and farm in the 2998 hectares of their ancestral<br />
domain in Mt. Apo Protected Area. Kapwa is<br />
working with thirteen clans to improve agricultural<br />
production by optimizing crop production and<br />
planting additional rubber, abaca, banana,<br />
coffee, cacao and additional root crops. Kapwa is<br />
working with the Department of Social Welfare<br />
and the municipal health office to train IP health<br />
volunteers to improve the health status of the<br />
Bagobo Tagabawa households particularly the<br />
women and children. Kapwa will also assist with<br />
the expansion of potable water systems and<br />
improve overall sanitation both in the household<br />
and community.<br />
Kapwa is working with the clan leaders and<br />
tribal councils of Makilala to use participatory<br />
impact monitoring tools as part of the NGO<br />
Ideas Impact plus program of VENRO a<br />
German NGO network project.<br />
Household status of 500 households<br />
14<br />
was established using a modified Participatory<br />
Well-being Ranking as baseline and Situational<br />
Analysis and Goal Establishment (SAGE) as the<br />
planning tool. The clan leaders also regularly use<br />
Participatory Assessment of Group tool to<br />
monitor group performance vis a vis plans.<br />
Kapwa Upliftment Foundation Inc. has been<br />
participating since 2009 in the replication of the<br />
NGO IDEAS tools in the Philippines together with<br />
six other NGOs from the Philippines and NGOS<br />
from Africa and India. This culminated in an<br />
International conference in Bonn, Germany last<br />
October where Kapwa presented its<br />
experiences.<br />
Five tribal councils of Sta. Cruz: Sinoron, Zone II,<br />
Tibolo, Tudaya and Jose Rizal have also been<br />
assisted since 2006 to implement their ancestral<br />
domain plans. Through the tribal councils<br />
leadership the communities have developed<br />
agroforestry farms, trained leaders, youth and<br />
constructed gravitational water systems<br />
benefitting more than five hundred households.<br />
With the increased agricultural outputs Kapwa<br />
has started to assist tribal councils to organize<br />
community based enterprises to avail of better<br />
prices for their abaca through collective<br />
marketing. They have been assisted to define