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The project’s main objective is that men and women IPs from the ancestral domains in Bayug-Iligan, Dulangan and Bayog Zambo Sur increased resource efficient productivity consistent with abaca market standards contributing to sustainable development of their ancestral domains.
In line with this, the project will organize production guilds with at least 800 abaca farmers and those who are involved in the abaca industry in the area, increasing their farm productivity by 25% on average. Three social enterprises will be set up and strengthened so that by the course of the project term, at least two of these enterprises can get long-term purchase orders from abaca buyers. Aside from that, the project will also work with these social enterprises to access investments from government or private agencies for the sustainability and development of the ancestral domain.
The project will ensure that 40% of those
who are involved are women The project addresses 6 major problems:
- Poverty despite having vast agricultural lands
- Loss of ancestral lands
- Lack of Capacity to address current situation in their farms
- Lack of Capital
- Lack of Enabling Policies and Support Service
- Impact of Problem to women and children
3 problems in relation to the abaca value chain that the project will work on:
- Lack of capacity among farmers
- Lack of capital and enterprise mechanism sensitive to IP Farmers
- Lack of enabling policies and support services
The above 3 problems are addressed by the project through 3 components:
- IPSE farms and farmer development (IPSE-FarmDev)
- IPSE development and consolidation (IPSE-Devcon)
- Accessing and managing capital and advocating enabling policies and programs for IPSE (IPSE-CapAd).
