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In addition, unemployment increased forcing many locals into illegal logging to maintain their livelihoods. [14] More seriously, however, over 1000 CBFMs were cancelled by the DENR nationwide by 2003, [14] resulting in loss of livelihood and forest destruction in former CBFM areas in the Philippines. [5]
[1] [2] The network has a regional secretariat office in the Philippines with country-level offices in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. [ 3 ] NTFP-EP's work focuses on community-based conservation , tenure rights and governance, sustainable livelihoods, indigenous food and health, strengthening cultural ...
The Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) is a community-based capacity building effort that seeks to improve the program participants’ socio-economic status through two tracks: Micro-enterprise Development and Employment Facilitation.
In 1992 Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway [8] proposed the following composite definition of a sustainable rural livelihood, which is applied most commonly at the household level: "A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable ...
The IPOPCORM Project focuses on communities in the Philippines' most endangered coastal reef areas and works to improve food security and livelihoods by promoting family planning and sustainable fisheries management. The program has earned strong support from local mayors and community members who have appreciated IPOPCORM's focus on improving ...
In 1992 Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway [10] proposed the following composite definition of a sustainable rural livelihood, which is applied most commonly at the household level: "A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable ...
The preliminary projects focused on tissue culture, bio-fertilizer, research and capacity building in Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Philippines and Indonesia. ANSAB realized that conservation and bioresources had great potential to address the livelihood needs of small farmers and, therefore, expanded its focus to include micro, small and medium ...
The aim of PACAP is to reduce poverty and its consequences in communities throughout the Philippines. The program supports community-initiated, economically sustainable, ecologically sound and gender responsive development projects. It provides financial assistance and multi-level capability building to poor communities, who are thus empowered ...