Subsistence agriculture is a typical mode of agriculture among the indigenous Higaunon and Kolibugan tribes in Barangay Kalilangan, Iligan City. Farming families till a small farm usually half-hectare (5,000 square…

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Transforming subsistence agriculture by enhancing abaca farmer

  SITUATION OVERVIEW At around 10 AM of March 31, suspected NPA forces, estimated by the local people to number at least a hundred, who earlier raided the house of…

Continue ReadingInternal Displacement Due to Armed Conflict Between AFP and Suspected Elements of the NPA in the Ancestral Domain of Higaunon Tribe in Iligan City

Internal Displacement Due to Armed Conflict Between AFP and Suspected Elements of the NPA in the Ancestral Domain of Higaunon Tribe in Iligan City

Displacement and Armed Conflict Situationer A total of 234 families from the communities of Binasan, Baniogan, and Salingsing within the Bayug-Iligan ancestral domain and undetermined number from communities of Limonda,…

Continue ReadingHigaunon Indigenous Peoples in the Ancestral Domains of Bayug-Iligan and Dulangan displaced and scared due to ongoing fighting between NPA guerrillas and Philippine Army

Higaunon Indigenous Peoples in the Ancestral Domains of Bayug-Iligan and Dulangan displaced and scared due to ongoing fighting between NPA guerrillas and Philippine Army

ECOWEB Inc., a non-government organization, intensifies its efforts in establishing social enterprises (SE) of various modalities. SE is one of the organization’s development strategy since its inception. However, its SE…

Continue ReadingECOWEB’s statement for the #PRESENTBill: ECOWEB INTENSIFIES EFFORTS FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

ECOWEB’s statement for the #PRESENTBill: ECOWEB INTENSIFIES EFFORTS FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

ECOWEBHighlights | Community solidarity groups of Abaga and Barit, Balindong, Lanao del Sur have put forward their main priority of having multi-purpose community facilities in their barangay. This was proposed…

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Provision of Multi-Purpose Community Facilities

ECOWEBHighlights | Through the #USAIDMarawiResponseProject in partnership with Plan International, Barangay Tiowi, Butig, Lanao del Sur was granted with five solar streetlights as part of the project's social cohesion component.…

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Installation of Solar Streetlights

The Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits (EcoWEB) was also hailed the best Civil Society Organization owing to its valuable efforts in strengthening the Survivor & Community-Led Response as an innovative…

Continue ReadingNDRRMC RECOGNIZES EXEMPLARY LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS, ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS IN ITS 21ST GAWAD KALASAG

NDRRMC RECOGNIZES EXEMPLARY LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS, ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS IN ITS 21ST GAWAD KALASAG

Following the devastation of Typhoon Mangkhut, known as Typhoon Ompong in the Philippines, that hit the country in September 2018, ECOWEB with local facilitators of the Participatory Action Learning in…

Continue ReadingSurvivor and Community-Led Response Typhoon Mangkhut Experience in the Philippines – ECOWEB Inc.

Survivor and Community-Led Response Typhoon Mangkhut Experience in the Philippines – ECOWEB Inc.

Thousands of Abaca farmers affected Tens of thousands of small farmers in the Philippines producing abaca natural fiber used in the production of teabags and surgical masks used in fighting…

Continue ReadingThousands of farmers producing Abaca natural fiber for teabags, surgical masks devastated by Typhoon Goni

Thousands of farmers producing Abaca natural fiber for teabags, surgical masks devastated by Typhoon Goni