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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

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