EVALUATION

address marine wildlife violations in TT MKBA, resulting in over 3,000 reports and 3 major
cases being filed for the period May to December 2014. In support of FishR, the “TV White
Space” in partnership with Department of Science and Technology - Information
Communication Technology Office (DOST-ICTO), BFAR, Bohol Provincial LGU, and Microsoft
Philippines, exemplified a major success in PPP initiative of the project.
Table 7: Achievement of Key Result D at Midterm
Indicator
Target at
LOP
Number of strategic
partnerships formally
established and operating
Number of community
partnerships (CPs) actively
engaged and mobilized
8
Midterm Report
by ECOFISH
7 (88%)
5 completed
100 82 (82%)
MPE Findings
7 were verified on field (5 on
conservation and 2 on social
enterprises)
82 people’s organization (POs)
identified and trained.
Documented in MIS database
of ECOFISH
Two PPPs on social enterprise building are still in the preparatory stage. The partnership with
Asian Institute of Management (AIM) focuses on enhancing entrepreneurial skills of fishers to
capacitate them in developing project feasibility studies and business plans. AIM and ECOFISH
Project have committed technical assistance in linking with organizations that can provide the
funds to support social enterprises. In addition, the project partnered with WWF and PPPI to
support the recovery of Typhoon Yolanda-affected fishers in Palawan Island by providing boats
and training on fiberglass boat making to resume their fishing activity, as discussed earlier. The
resulting local organization - Fiberglass Boat Builders Association (FBBA) - has planned to set up
a fiberglass boat making enterprise upon acquiring the essential raw materials, molding facility
and working capital.
Eighty-two (82) of LOP target of 100 community partnerships (CPs) have been established at
midterm. The CPs included the training and institutional strengthening of existing POs. These
POs were considered as effective agents of conducting community-based enforcement of
fisheries laws and ordinances, and implementing livelihood projects. The CPs were relatively
successful in enforcing the seasonal closure activity in VIP MKBA, in conjunction with accessing
funding support for job creation for affected fishers through DSWD’s anti-poverty program
locally called “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program” to implement the Cash for Work (i.e., coastal
clean-up and waste management) at the time that fishing was not allowed during the 2014
fishing closure.
Key Result E: One million hectares (ha) of municipal marine waters under improved
management. The project planned to establish and manage networks of MPAs within each
MKBA at least at the Level 2 based on EAFM benchmark criteria developed by the project in
order to achieve this Key Result. At Level 2, adjacent waters between MPAs within MKBA
would be included in enforcement and conservation initiatives.
At midterm, the project achieved about 55 percent of targeted 1.0 million ha of municipal
waters under improved management, and 94 percent of targeted 320 ha under MPA networks
established (Table 8). However, the inter-LGU enforcement cooperation established in SN
MKBA in 2007 involving three (3) municipalities with the municipality of Bayawan acting as head
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