Coastal Resource Management - LGRC DILG 10

GOOD PRACTICES IN COASTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 2PARTNERSHIPS AMONG LGUs, NGOs, AND LOCAL COMMUNITIESFDMP Cabangan, ZambalesCOMPONENTS Community Organizing and Popular Education Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Management Sustainable Livelihood and Microfinance Support Policy Research, Advocacy and Enforcement Pro-Active Social ServicesIMPLEMENTATION PROCESS1. Community organizing and strengthening; integration of gender in the organizing process:membership expansion with focus on recruitment of women to address gender balance in theorganizations; development of organizational leadership; strategic planning; strengthening financialsystems and organizational committees2. Developing local leader organizers and local trainers coming from the people’s organizationsthemselves3. Networking and linkaging: formation of a municipal alliance of fisher organizations in Cabangan(KUMACAZA) and a provincial alliance (PARASAMAZA) of fisher organizations of Zambales.4. Strengthening sustainable livelihoods and developing community enterprises: Katipunan MicroCredit Project (KMCP) for individual or family enterprises for members of partner organizations; andcreation of a providential fund (Bangko sa Bayan) from the savings from the KMCP5. Community enterprises such as Bigasang Dagat, Gasolinahan, Bagoongan and Crispy Dilis were setup by five organizations in five barangays6. Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Management: raising environmental awareness; participatory resourcemapping, monitoring and management planning; fish catch monitoring handled by fishers since 1998;protection of Batong Ungot fish sanctuary, since 1990, which was nominated for the Reef Awards ofSERVICE DELIVERY WITH IMPACT: RESOURCE BOOKS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT63