For the members of the Kioya Sinai Agriculture Cooperative (KIOSINACO), building a stronger cooperative is not simply about creating an organization. It is about turning the experience, knowledge, and collective…

Continue ReadingFrom GreenFiber Success to Stronger Community Enterprise: KIOSINACO Builds on Community Success

From GreenFiber Success to Stronger Community Enterprise: KIOSINACO Builds on Community Success

The opening of the Weaving Resilience: Learning from the Ground, Sustaining the Future convergence was marked by an inspiring keynote message from H.E. Dr. Andreas Michael Pfaffernoschke, whose remarks underscored…

Continue ReadingKeynote Address by H.E. Dr. Andreas Michael Pfaffernoschke Opens Weaving Resilience Learning Convergence

Keynote Address by H.E. Dr. Andreas Michael Pfaffernoschke Opens Weaving Resilience Learning Convergence

Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits, Inc. (ECOWEB), together with its government, development, academic, civil society, and community partners, convened Indigenous Peoples (IPs), community leaders, government agencies, development partners, academe, civil…

Continue ReadingWEAVING RESILIENCE: Indigenous Peoples and Partners Weave a Shared Path Toward Sustainable, Community-Led Development

WEAVING RESILIENCE: Indigenous Peoples and Partners Weave a Shared Path Toward Sustainable, Community-Led Development

EcoWEB partners Bae Gerlyn Coguit of CADT 117 and members of the IP LORAMSECA from La Paz and Loreto municipalities in Agusan del Sur actively participated in the 2026 IP…

Continue ReadingEcoWEB partner IP Leaders join 2026 IP Women Summit

EcoWEB partner IP Leaders join 2026 IP Women Summit

Strengthening Indigenous governance requires more than navigating technical processes - it means ensuring that communities are informed, organized, and empowered to shape decisions concerning their ancestral domains. In April 17,…

Continue ReadingStrengthening Indigenous Governance and Ancestral Domain Stewardship in Sibagat

Strengthening Indigenous Governance and Ancestral Domain Stewardship in Sibagat

Growing through collaboration. A cross-learning visit facilitated by KUAFA and ECOWEB's GreenFiber Project to strengthen community-managed abaca enterprises in Sibagat. The Kioya United Abaca Fiber Association (KUAFA) began as a small and developing group…

Continue ReadingKUAFA: From a Small Group to a Thriving Enterprise Association 

KUAFA: From a Small Group to a Thriving Enterprise Association 

In the highlands of Iligan, a Higaunon woman bends over her small patch of soil, her hands dark with earth as she plants seeds into the earth. In Zamboanga del…

Continue ReadingWeaving Culture, Enriching Future: Stories of Indigenous Empowerment and Sustainable Development

Weaving Culture, Enriching Future: Stories of Indigenous Empowerment and Sustainable Development

(by Rockrock Antequisa, PDA, ECOWEB) In the Philippines, traditional attire is a symbol of ethnic identity. Most indigenous group have attires with elaborate distinctive combination of colors. It is unusual…

Continue ReadingResolving Conflict, Building Resilience Among Indigenous Peoples

Resolving Conflict, Building Resilience Among Indigenous Peoples

Brot für die Welt’s program manager for the Philippines Jonna Lena Raphaela Seemann visited the abaca farmers in the hinterland of sitio Salvador of barangay Rogongon, some 40.4 kilometers far…

Continue ReadingBRoT program manager in PH visits abaca farmers in Iligan; learn farmers dev’t

BRoT program manager in PH visits abaca farmers in Iligan; learn farmers dev’t

Fifty-nine engineering students enrolled in engineering planning and design courses will conduct the "feasibility and planning, detailed engineering design, program of works and budget" for ECOWEB’s development sites with the…

Continue Reading59 engineering students-interns from MSU-IIT CET conduct ocular surveys in Higaonon, Subanen ancestral domains

59 engineering students-interns from MSU-IIT CET conduct ocular surveys in Higaonon, Subanen ancestral domains