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NIPAP – Final Report, March 2001

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NATIONAL INTEGRATED PROTECTED AREAS PROGRAMME

NIPAP

A special Project of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources supported with a grant from the European Union (B7-504 I/93/20)

FINAL REPORT

March 2001

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 9

1.1 Layout of the Report ........................................................................................................ 9

1.2 Conclusions ..................................................................................................................... 9

2 BACKGROUND............................................................................................................................ 11

2.1 Context ............................................................................................................................ 11

2.2 History ............................................................................................................................. 11

2.2.1 Objective .......................................................................................................................... 11

2.2.2 Constitutional Status ........................................................................................................ 11

2.2.3 Global Work Plan ............................................................................................................. 11

2.2.4 1998 Annual Workplan .................................................................................................... 11

2.2.5 The Mid-Term Review – June 1998 ................................................................................ 12

2.2.6 1999 Annual Work Plan ................................................................................................... 12

2.2.7 Site Prioritization in 1999 (Malampaya Sound and Mts. Iglit & Baco) ............................. 13

2.2.8 Special Consideration of Coron Island ............................................................................ 13

2.2.9 2000 Annual Work Plan ................................................................................................... 14

2.2.10 Six Month Extension to March 2001 ................................................................................ 14

2.3 Background Documents ............................................................................................... 15

3 ASSESSMENT BASED ON THE LOGICAL FRAMEWORK ...................................................... 16

3.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 16

3.1.1 The Logical Framework ................................................................................................... 16

3.1.2 Status Report & Analysis ................................................................................................. 16

3.2 Specific Objective: Establish effective protection and management of natural habitats and biodiversity in 8 NIPAS sites .................................................................. 17

3.2.1 Variations in the Population Density of Indicator Species ............................................... 17

3.2.2 Presence or Absence of Indicator Species .................................................................... 17

3.2.3 Changes in Land Use and Vegetation Cover .................................................................. 17

3.2.4 Presence and Implementation of General Management Plans (GMP) ........................... 18

3.3 Output One: Appropriately Designed and Legally Established Pas Within Rationalized and Delineated Boundaries .................................................................... 19

3.3.1 Conduct Ecological Studies ............................................................................................. 19

3.3.2 Conduct Socio-Economic Surveys .................................................................................. 21

3.3.3 Review and Rationalize PA Boundaries .......................................................................... 23

3.3.4 Delineate PA Boundaries ................................................................................................. 24

3.3.5 Conduct Activities Necessary to Fulfill the Thirteen Legal Requirements for Congressional Enactment of Protected Areas ................................................................. 24

3.4 Output Two: Establishment of Effective Structure and Mechanisms for Protection, Management and Administation of Protected Areas ................................................. 26

3.4.1 Prepare General Management Plan ................................................................................ 26

3.4.2 Build up PA Staff Complement and Provide Equal Opportunities to Men and Women .. 27



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3.4.3 Provide Training to PA Staff ............................................................................................ 28

3.4.4 Strengthen PA Management Capability of Local Institutions and of the DENR Local and Central Level .................................................................................................................... 31

3.4.5 Provide PA Infrastructure and Equipment ....................................................................... 32 3.4.5.1 Buildings ........................................................................................................................................ 32 3.4.5.2 Transport ....................................................................................................................................... 35 3.4.5.3 Radio Equipment ............................................................................................................................ 35 3.4.5.4 Other Equipment ............................................................................................................................ 36

3.4.6 Assist and Train PAMBs in Establishing the Systems for Running the IPAF and for Collecting Fees ............................................................................................................... 39

3.4.7 Design and Organize M&E Systems at PMO and PAO Level ......................................... 39 3.4.7.1 Monitoring – Accounting ................................................................................................................. 39 3.4.7.2 Monitoring – Status Report ............................................................................................................. 39 3.4.7.3 Monitoring - BMS ........................................................................................................................... 39 3.4.7.4 Evaluation – Financial .................................................................................................................... 40 3.4.7.5 Evaluation – Management and Policy ............................................................................................. 40

3.4.8 Establish Integrated Data Base (IDB) at the PMO and PAO ........................................... 41 3.4.8.1 A Structured Digital Data-Base ....................................................................................................... 41 3.4.8.2 Repair and Maintenance ................................................................................................................ 41 3.4.8.3 GMPs ............................................................................................................................................. 41 3.4.8.4 Database Availability on Public Compact Discs .............................................................................. 41 3.4.8.5 Consolidation of Outputs ................................................................................................................ 42 3.4.8.6 The Future: PAWB/ARCBC ............................................................................................................ 42 3.4.8.7 World Wide Web Site ..................................................................................................................... 42 3.4.8.8 An IDB for Each of the Eight Sites .................................................................................................. 42

3.4.9 Establish IDB at the PMO and PAO - Library ................................................................. 49 3.4.9.1 Library Outputs .............................................................................................................................. 49

3.4.10 Establish a Geographic Information System (GIS) .......................................................... 51

3.4.11 Assist DENR/PAWB with Policy Review and Formulation .............................................. 53 3.4.11.1 DAO 98-60 – PAWB Command .................................................................................................... 53 3.4.11.2 IPAS Technical Co-ordinating Committee ..................................................................................... 53 3.4.11.3 DAO 45 Series 2000 – PASu Establishment ................................................................................ 53 3.4.11.4 DAO 2001-01 – 3D Modeling ....................................................................................................... 53 3.4.11.5 IPAF ............................................................................................................................................. 53

3.5 Output Three: Increased Public Awareness for the Need to Protect Ecosystems and Biodiversity and Increased Involvement of Resident Communities in Natural Resource Protection and Sustainable Management .................................................. 54

3.5.1 Design and Implement IEC Programmes ........................................................................ 54 3.5.1.1 The Global Work Plan .................................................................................................................... 54 3.5.1.2 Failure ............................................................................................................................................ 54 3.5.1.3 Training and Workshops ................................................................................................................ 54 3.5.1.4 Publications.................................................................................................................................... 54

3.5.2 Provide Alternative Livelihood Activities to Selected Communities Around Protected Areas and Initiate Sustainable Livelihood Projects In Accordance with the Intentions of the NIPAS Act .................................................................................................................. 58 3.5.2.1 History, 1995-1999 ......................................................................................................................... 58 3.5.2.2 History, Post 1999 .......................................................................................................................... 58 3.5.2.3 Summary of Livelihood Activities .................................................................................................... 59 3.5.2.4 Pre-Completion Assessment of the Livelihood Project .................................................................... 59 3.5.2.5 The Relevance of the Livelihood Projects ....................................................................................... 59

3.5.3 Enhance Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Conservation Activities ....................... 60 3.5.3.1 The Socio Economic Surveys ......................................................................................................... 60 3.5.3.2 PAMB Membership ........................................................................................................................ 61



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3.5.3.3 Coron Island ................................................................................................................................... 62

3.5.4 Initiate Pilot Community-based Forestry Activities (on Sibuyan Island) .......................... 62

3.5.5 Establish Linkages and Maintain Co-ordination with NGOs, POs, LGUs, and Other Stakeholders .................................................................................................................... 63 3.5.5.1 How it was done ............................................................................................................................. 63 3.5.5.2 Indicators – PAMB Membership ..................................................................................................... 63 3.5.5.3 Indicators – NGO and Aid Agency Partnerships ............................................................................. 66 3.5.5.4 Indicators – Phase In / Phase Out .................................................................................................. 66

4 SUSTAINABILITY PROCESSES ................................................................................................. 67

4.1 The Integrated Protected Area Funds (IPAF) .............................................................. 67

4.2 The Protected Areas Management Boards (PAMB) ................................................... 68

4.3 The PAO/PASu in the DENR Organization .................................................................. 69

4.4 Transfer of Skills to the Executing Agency and other Parties Concerned .............. 69

4.4.1 Summary of Workshops and Training for the Year 2000 ................................................ 69

4.4.2 Installation of the Biodiversity Monitoring System ........................................................... 70

4.4.3 Training on P 3-Dimensional Modeling ............................................................................ 71

4.4.4 IPAF Training Programme ............................................................................................... 71

4.5 The Integration of Qualified Staff into Post-NIPAP .................................................... 73

4.6 Financial Sustainability ................................................................................................. 74

4.6.1 The Budgeting Instrument ............................................................................................... 74

4.6.2 The Willingness to Pay Surveys ...................................................................................... 74

4.6.3 Funding trough International Aid ..................................................................................... 75

4.6.4 Funding through Structured Fund Raising ....................................................................... 76 4.6.4.1 Training in professional fund raising ............................................................................................... 76 4.6.4.2 Non-conventional fund raising activities – pay-phone cards ............................................................ 77

4.7 Manuals and Other Key Documents ............................................................................ 77

4.8 Phase-In/Phase-Out Workshops .................................................................................. 77

4.9 Hand-Over Activities ..................................................................................................... 79

4.9.1 The Information Communication Technology Center ...................................................... 79

4.9.2 Protected Area Planning Outputs .................................................................................... 81

4.9.3 Building Infrastructure ...................................................................................................... 81

4.9.4 Assets .............................................................................................................................. 81

5 FINANCIAL REPORT .................................................................................................................. 82

TABLES

Table 1 Indicator Species by Site ...................................................................................................... 17

Table 2 GMP Production .................................................................................................................... 18

Table 3 Ecological Studies – Coron Island ........................................................................................ 19

Table 4 Ecological Studies – El Nido ................................................................................................. 19

Table 5 Ecological Studies – Malampaya Sound .............................................................................. 19

Table 6 Ecological Studies – Mt. Guiting-Guiting .............................................................................. 19

Table 7 Ecological Studies – Mt. Isarog............................................................................................. 20



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Table 8 Ecological Studies – Mts. Iglit and Baco ............................................................................... 20

Table 9 Ecological Studies – Mt. Malindang ...................................................................................... 20

Table 10 Ecological Studies – Mt. Pulag ............................................................................................. 20

Table 11 Socio-Economic Surveys – Coron Island ............................................................................. 21

Table 12 Socio-Economic Surveys – El Nido ...................................................................................... 21

Table 13 Socio-Economic Surveys – Malampaya Sound .................................................................... 21

Table 14 Socio-Economic Surveys – Mt. Guiting-Guiting .................................................................... 21

Table 15 Socio-Economic Surveys – Mt. Isarog .................................................................................. 22

Table 16 Socio-Economic Surveys – Mts. Iglit and Baco .................................................................... 22

Table 17 Socio-Economic Surveys – Mt. Malindang ........................................................................... 22

Table 18 Socio-Economic Surveys – Mt. Pulag ................................................................................... 22

Table 19 Progress of the 13 Legal Steps............................................................................................. 24

Table 20 13 Legal Steps Related to Parallel Activities ........................................................................ 25

Table 21 GMP Preparation .................................................................................................................. 26

Table 22 NIPAP Philippines Staff – Sources and Functions, 1st March 2001 ..................................... 27

Table 23 NIPAP Philippines Staff – Sex Ratios, 1st March .................................................................. 27

Table 24 Training Manuals and Associated Documents ..................................................................... 28

Table 25 Grand Summary of Site Based Workshops .......................................................................... 29

Table 26 NIPAP Provision of Training Aids ......................................................................................... 30

Table 27 PAMB Indicators – PAMB Establishment ............................................................................. 31

Table 28 Construction – Coron Island ................................................................................................. 32

Table 29 Construction – El Nido .......................................................................................................... 32

Table 30 Construction – Malampaya Sound ........................................................................................ 33

Table 31 Construction – Mt. Guiting-Guiting ........................................................................................ 33

Table 32 Construction – Mts. Iglit & Baco ............................................................................................ 34

Table 33 Construction – Mt. Isarog ...................................................................................................... 34

Table 34 Construction – Mt. Malindang ............................................................................................... 34

Table 35 Construction – Mt. Pulag ....................................................................................................... 35

Table 36 Transport Infrastructure Supplied ......................................................................................... 35

Table 37 Radio Equipment Supplied ................................................................................................... 35

Table 38 Other Equipment Supplied – as Consolidated Inventory ...................................................... 36

Table 39 IPAF for Collection of Fees ................................................................................................... 39

Table 40 Progress of the BMS, Biodiversity Monitoring System ......................................................... 40

Table 41 Evaluations Published in Suhay ........................................................................................... 41

Table 42 IDB Work by March 2001: ..................................................................................................... 42

Table 43 Coron Island Data Base ........................................................................................................ 42

Table 44 El Nido Data Base ................................................................................................................. 43

Table 45 Malampaya Sound Data Base .............................................................................................. 44

Table 46 Mt. Guiting-Guiting Data Base .............................................................................................. 45

Table 47 Mts. Iglit and Baco Data Base............................................................................................... 46

Table 48 Mt. Isarog Data Base ............................................................................................................ 47

Table 49 Mt. Malindang Data Base ...................................................................................................... 47

Table 50 Mt. Pulag Data Base ............................................................................................................. 48

Table 51 Progress of Library Works by March 2001: .......................................................................... 49



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Table 52 Library Outputs Related to the Eight Sites ............................................................................ 50

Table 53 Progress of GIS Mapping Works by March 2001 ................................................................. 52

Table 54 Progress of Additional GIS Work for Year 2000 by Site ....................................................... 53

Table 55 Bibliography of Published Documents .................................................................................. 55

Table 56 Micro-Projects Summary of Activities ................................................................................... 59

Table 57 Micro Projects Budget ........................................................................................................... 59

Table 58 Knowledge of Indigenous People ......................................................................................... 60

Table 59 Summary of IP PAMB Membership ...................................................................................... 62

Table 60 Summary of NGO and LGU PAMB Membership by Name .................................................. 63

Table 61 Summary of Partner Organizations Collaborating with the PAOs ........................................ 66

Table 62 Formal Training organized jointly by NIPAP, PAWB and other agencies ............................ 69

Table 63 All sites - Details of Training delivered for installing the BMS System ................................. 70

Table 64 All sites - Relief models produced in 1999-2000 .................................................................. 71

Table 65 Details of Training (Phase 1) delivered for installing the IPAF System ................................ 72

Table 66 IPAF Training (Phase 2 - Roundtable discussions on the implementation and management of the

IPAF Sub-account) ................................................................................................................... 72

Table 67 All sites - Complementary (Post-NIPAP) Funding ................................................................ 75

Table 68 Phase-In/Phase-out Workshops monitoring sheet ............................................................... 78

Table 69 All sites - Phase-In Statements (Areas of Commitment and Statements of Intent) .............. 78

Table 70 All sites - System / Activity / Asset specific workshops ........................................................ 79

Table 71 PMU- ITCT’s Systems and Assets........................................................................................ 80

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 Map of the Philippines Showing the Eight NIPAP Sites ........................................... 83

Appendix 2 The Eight NIPAP Sites .............................................................................................. 84

Appendix 3 Classification of GMP Appendices – NIPAP Method ............................................... 90

Appendix 4 Indicator Species by Site .......................................................................................... 92

Appendix 5 Training and Workshops – Details .......................................................................... 100

Appendix 6 Summary Status of the Livelihood Pilot Projects at the End of 1999 ..................... 113

Appendix 7 Summary of the Assessment of the Livelihood Project in Mt. Isarog ..................... 114

APPENDIX TABLES

Appendix Table 1 NIPAP GMP Appendices Classification ............................................................... 91

Appendix Table 2 Summary of Training & Workshops, 1998 – PAN Project ................................. 100

Appendix Table 3 Training & Workshops, 1998 – Coron Island ..................................................... 100

Appendix Table 4 Training & Workshops, 1998 – El Nido .............................................................. 100

Appendix Table 5 Training & Workshops, 1998 – Malampaya Sound ........................................... 100

Appendix Table 6 Training & Workshops, 1998 – Mt. Guiting-Guiting ........................................... 101

Appendix Table 7 Training & Workshops, 1998 – Mts. Iglit and Baco ............................................ 101

Appendix Table 8 Training & Workshops, 1998 – Mt. Isarog ......................................................... 101

Appendix Table 9 Training & Workshops, 1998 – Mt. Malindang ................................................... 101

Appendix Table 10 Training & Workshops, 1998 – Mt. Pulag ........................................................ 101



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Appendix Table 11 Training, 1999 - PAN Project ........................................................................... 102

Appendix Table 12 Training, 1999 - Coron Island .......................................................................... 102

Appendix Table 13 Training, 1999 - El Nido ................................................................................... 102

Appendix Table 14 Training, 1999 - Malampaya Sound ................................................................. 102

Appendix Table 15 Training, 1999 - Mt. Guiting-Guiting ................................................................. 102

Appendix Table 16 Training, 1999 - Mounts Iglit And Baco ............................................................ 103

Appendix Table 17 Summary of Training, 1999 - Mt. Isarog .......................................................... 103

Appendix Table 18 TRAINING, 1999 - Mt. Malindang National ...................................................... 103

Appendix Table 19 Training, 1999 - Mt. Pulag National ................................................................. 104

Appendix Table 20 Workshops, 1999 – PAN Project ..................................................................... 104

Appendix Table 21 Workshops, 1999 – Coron Island ..................................................................... 105

Appendix Table 22 Workshops, 1999 – El Nido ............................................................................. 105

Appendix Table 23 Workshops, 1999 – Malampaya Sound ........................................................... 105

Appendix Table 24 Workshops, 1999 – Mt. Guiting-Guiting ........................................................... 105

Appendix Table 25 Summary of Workshops, 1999 – Mounts Iglit-Baco ......................................... 105

Appendix Table 26 Workshops, 1999 – Mt. Isarog ......................................................................... 106

Appendix Table 27 Workshops, 1999 - Mt. Pulag .......................................................................... 106

Appendix Table 28 Workshops, 1999 - Mt. Malindang ................................................................... 107

Appendix Table 29 Training, 2000 - PAN Project ........................................................................... 107

Appendix Table 30 Training, 2000 - Coron Island .......................................................................... 108

Appendix Table 31 Training, 2000 – El Nido .................................................................................. 108

Appendix Table 32 Training, 2000 – malampaya Sound ................................................................ 108

Appendix Table 33 Training, 2000 – Mt. Guiting-Guiting ................................................................ 108

Appendix Table 34 Training, 2000 – Mts. Iglit - Baco ..................................................................... 108

Appendix Table 35 Training, 2000 – Mt. Isarog .............................................................................. 109

Appendix Table 36 Training, 2000 – Mt. Malindang ....................................................................... 109

Appendix Table 37 Training, 2000 – Mt. Pulag ............................................................................... 109

Appendix Table 38 Workshops, 2000 – PAN Project ..................................................................... 109

Appendix Table 39 Workshops, 2000 – Coron Island ..................................................................... 110

Appendix Table 40 Workshops, 2000 – El Nido ............................................................................. 110

Appendix Table 41 Workshops, 2000 – Malampaya Sound ........................................................... 110

Appendix Table 42 Workshops, 2000 – Mt. Guiting-Guiting ........................................................... 110

Appendix Table 43 Workshops, 2000 – Mts Iglit-Baco ................................................................... 110

Appendix Table 44 Workshops, 2000 – Mt. Isarog ......................................................................... 110

Appendix Table 45 Workshops, 2000 – Mt. Malindang National .................................................... 111

Appendix Table 46 Workshops, 2000 – Mt. Pulag .......................................................................... 111

Appendix Table 47 Training, 2001 – Coron Island .......................................................................... 111

Appendix Table 48 Training, 2001 – El Nido .................................................................................. 111

Appendix Table 49 Training, 2001 – Malampaya Sound ................................................................ 111

Appendix Table 50 Training, 2001 – Mt. Guiting-Guiting ................................................................ 111

Appendix Table 51 Training, 2001 – Mt. Iglit-Baco ......................................................................... 111

Appendix Table 52 Training, 2001 – Mt. Isarog .............................................................................. 111

Appendix Table 53 Training, 2001 – Mt. Malindang ....................................................................... 111

Appendix Table 54 Training, 2001 – Mt. Pulag ............................................................................... 111



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Appendix Table 55 Workshop, 2001 – Coron Island ...................................................................... 111

Appendix Table 56 Workshop, 2001 – Mt. Guiting-Guiting ............................................................. 112

Appendix Table 57 Workshop, 2001 – Mt. Iglit-Baco ...................................................................... 112

Appendix Table 58 Workshop, 2001 – Mt. Pulag ............................................................................ 112

Appendix Table 59 Summary Status of the Livelihood Pilot Projects at the end of 1999 ............... 113



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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 LAYOUT OF THE REPORT

First, the report briefly gives a background to the project including a guide to key the documents that are also included on a Compact Disc, attached.

This is followed by the main part of the report being an Assessment of Outputs based on the Logical Framework. Much of the information is tabular and based on monitoring processes. However, the tables have been kept to the minimum with additional information included in the appendices that have their own tables (see index). The table of contents gives a good guide to the log-frame process.

Then comes an elaboration of the Sustainability Process because this was not, with the benefit of hindsight, sufficiently covered in the log-frame.

Lastly, the Financial Report, followed by the appendices.

Before we start, however…………………………..

1.2 CONCLUSIONS

While it is not easy for the Directorate to objectively conclude on the success or otherwise of

a project, a number of factors have become so obvious over the years, especially since the

project gathered momentum in 1999, that they need to be stated as indicators for the Way

Forward. Thus:

a. While the project successfully institutionalized the protected areas in terms of the Philippines Constitution of 1987, provided viable participatory management structures and tools, and satisfied, to some extent, the Convention on Biological Diversity1, there has been a failure to fully engage all the stakeholders, including, importantly the most marginalized poor people and the most highly placed national policy makers. The cause of this failure is twofold: first, the project did not get to grips early enough with its IEC activities (see especially subsection 3.5.1, below) and second, just plain lack of time – five years is not long enough even if everything goes well.

b. The Protected Area Planning processes have been the most innovative of the project’s activities, testing the NIPAS Act (and all the ramifications arising from it), especially in terms of stakeholder participation. In this respect the NIPAS legislation has proved to be appropriate and workable.

c. The MIS outputs are the project’s single most successful activity. (See especially subsection 3.4.8, below).

d. The need to deal with poverty amongst local stakeholders is essential but small-scale livelihood projects are not the answer and indeed can exacerbate the problem.

e. In the end, the source of the project’s successes was threefold: sound management and administration; the ability, after much debate with the EU delegation, to be able to pay sufficiently high salaries in order to recruit a few excellent local staff; and the fact of the two co-directors being able to work well together as a team.

f. The source of the failures was lack of time. Although adverse criticisms might be made about the project design, the FM and early management dysfunctions, all these problems were ultimately overcome.

1 Although, in this respect the directors do not feel that NIPAP on its own is enough for the purpose.



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g. There is a need for the European Commission, as the funding agency, to develop mechanisms to ensure that the best possible TA team is put into the field. In the Philippines, where there is a large pool of technical expertise, international standard project management is what the EU should provide above all else.

h. The DENR, as an institution, is capable of developing and managing protected areas but is handicapped by limited funding and cannot be expected to take over foreign assisted projects that have extended the DENR work-load, unless other fund sources are encouraged to complement and sustain project operations.

i. There needs to be many more years of research into the ecological dynamics of the NIPAP sites.

j. Landrovers are entirely inappropriate as they cannot easily be maintained locally in the Philippines and because spare parts are expensive. After-service care is very poor.

k. Both review missions were inadequate, each having a poor team spirit and insufficient time to get to grips with the complexities of NIPAP. The pre-completion mission team, in particular, appeared to be imbibed with a strange philosophy that pre-disposed it against the value of conservation efforts in the Philippines.



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2 BACKGROUND

2.1 CONTEXT

The National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act is the context within which NIPAP operates. Thus the project is one of the many manifestations of the Philippines ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992.

2.2 HISTORY

2.2.1 Objective

The objective of NIPAP, according to the Financing Memorandum, is to help protect, conserve and manage tropical forest biodiversity areas with endangered endemic species, in some 8 Protected Areas at various sites throughout the Philippines. The eight sites are shown on a map of the Philippines as Appendix 1 on page 83. A brief description of each site is included in Appendix 2 on page 84.

2.2.2 Constitutional Status

Following the signing of the Financing Memorandum on 30th May and the Technical Assistance contract on 27th September 1995, the implementation of a five year project started on the 6th October 1995 and was fully operational by January 1996.

The Global Work Plan was approved by the NIPAS Policy and Program Steering Committee (NPPSC), as the NIPAP Executive Steering Committee1, in November 1996.

In June 1999, The Secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs requested the EC for an extension of the validity of the Financing Memorandum from January 2001 to September 27th 2001. This was granted towards the end of September so that the project extended to the 29th September with the TA contact ending on the 31st.

2.2.3 Global Work Plan

The project objective was refined by the Global Work Plan, thus:

➢ Appropriately designed and legally established PAs within rationalised and delineated/ demarcated boundaries;

➢ Establishment of effective structures and mechanisms for protection, management & administration of PAs; and

➢ Increased public awareness for the need to protect ecosystems and biodiversity and increased involvement of resident communities in natural resource protection and sustainable management.

2.2.4 1998 Annual Workplan

The 1998 Annual defined the take-off of the project, the inception period having lasted about 15 months. Thus:

➢ Establishing effective systems for protection and management of biodiversity and natural habitats with formally gazetted and demarcated boundaries in the eight PAs.

1 The ESC, as defined by the Financing Memorandum, is a reconstitution of the DENR NIPAS

Policy & Programme Steering Committee (NPPSC) , amended on March 25, 1998 by DENR Special Order No. 98-273.



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➢ Prompting a Community Based Protected Area Management Strategy whereby active involvement of local communities in the protection and management of the PAs is induced through institutional strengthening and awareness raising amongst the various partners and supported by pilot community based livelihood projects in selected sites.

➢ Thus NIPAP entails the following components:

Preparation of PA General Management Plan;

Revision, delineation and demarcation of PA boundaries;

Monitoring and evaluation of PA management;

Addressing the rights of dependent communities;

Promotion of alternative livelihood activities;

Capacity building and institutional strengthening;

Information, Education and Communication (IEC) programme;

Policy reviews and recommendation.

2.2.5 The Mid-Term Review – June 1998

This concluded:

➢ NIPAP should renew its efforts in the capacity building at site level in 4 priority sites. Particularly aiming at developing those four sites fully as viable models. NIPAP should continue supporting the other 4 sites.

➢ DENR has to contribute its share by funding ways of deploying counterpart staff.

➢ NIPAP suffered from under-spending of funds with only 16.3% of its total operational budget of 9.0 million ECU spent until end of 1997.

➢ The number of staff working with dependent communities needs to be increased.

➢ The under-spending for training and institutional strengthening must be overcome.

➢ DENR itself should launch a training and capacity-building programme.

➢ IEC implementation needs to be speeded up by PMU, taking into account livelihood concerns as much as possible.

➢ Innovative means of financing of NIPAP sites should be found.

2.2.6 1999 Annual Work Plan

A new European Co-Director was appointed in November 1998 and the recommendation to reduce the number of sites was not fully accepted. Moreover, the 1999 AWP involved a fairly draconian re-organization of NIPAP being fundamentally based upon a Directorate Question and Answer as follows:

➢ Question: Given the limitation on time, what would we like to leave behind as tested and sustainable outputs able to carry NIPAS, and especially the intentions of the Act, forward into the next century?

➢ Answer: The establishment of eight Protected Areas, including the production of General Management Plans, according to the intentions of the NIPAS Act, and in a way that has the broad and sustainable support of the entire community and which can be replicated elsewhere.



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2.2.7 Site Prioritization in 1999 (Malampaya Sound and Mts. Iglit & Baco)

Although the project did not drop four sites as recommended by the mid-term review mission, the directorate did decide to give low priority to Malampaya Sound and Mts. Iglit & Baco. However, this proved impracticable for three reasons:

➢ As DENR/PAWB pointed out, the contract between the GoP and the EU covered eight sites.

➢ Malampaya Sound was given low priority because of perceived intractable opposition by the Municipality of Taytay in which the Sound lies. However, the ESSC sponsored Philippine Working Group stressed the need for enhanced protection of endangered species found in the Sound, while the mayor of Taytay made a personal request to the directorate to reconsider once it was clear that NIPAP was planning to withdraw. Subsequently, ESSC was contracted to conduct a pre-feasibility study and later to prepare the draft GMP (and thus to drive the variety of activities arising therefrom).

➢ The complex socio-economic, cultural and political issues in the area of Mts. Iglit and Baco National Park (proclaimed in 1970) and the very slow progress made up to the end of 1998 resulted in the directorate concluding that so much more time was required to achieve PA status under the NIPAS Act, that very little could be done during the life of NIPAP. However, the enthusiasm of DENR staff and a number of mayors encouraged the directorate to make a greater effort. Nonetheless, the complexity remained and we never recovered the ground we had lost. This situation was exacerbated by the PASu leading the PAMB and everyone else down a cul-de-sac for most of 2000 in terms of extending the PA to include all the other PAs in Mindoro. The history of this debacle is set out in appendices of the Annual Report for 2000. The PASu has since been replaced.

2.2.8 Special Consideration of Coron Island

The Island is home to the Tagbanua people who were awarded a certificate of ancestral domain claim in 1998 (R04-CADC-134), comprising an area of 22,284 hectares including a marine component and two islands, namely Kalis and Delian.

With the assistance of an NGO (PAFID), the Tagbanua Foundation of Coron Island (TFCI) has produced its own Ancestral Domain Management Plan (ADMP). It is NIPAP’s policy to facilitate implementation with the framework of the NIPAS law but with due regard to all the rights and responsibilities of the Indigenous Peoples under the new legislation, Republic Act No. 8371, otherwise known as, the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA). In the framework of the NIPAS law, NIPAP’s policy for Coron has been to take into account the wishes of the Tagbanua community to manage both Coron and Delian Islands as Ancestral Domain through the implementation of an ADMP.

Because of the unique constitutional and sensitive cultural issues arising out of the establishment of Coron Island as a Protected Area, the challenge is to harmonize the provisions of the NIPAS Act and the IPRA on the field level with emphasis still, on biodiversity protection but with due regard to the rights of the Indigenous Peoples.

For this reason NIPAP has, since early 1999, encouraged the protection of Coron island upon the basis of IPRA and the Tagbanua’s own management plan. Moreover, there has been a policy of limiting visits by European staff.



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2.2.9 2000 Annual Work Plan

Towards the end of 1999 a new full-time Philippines Co-Director was appointed and by the time that the 2000 AWP was written to take the project up to its conclusion at the end of September, the project was focused on the achievement of six priority activities:

➢ As defined by the NIPAS Act, no less than Presidential Proclamation for all the eight sites and Congressional Action and Demarcation for the two sites which have already achieved Presidential Proclamation;

➢ Comprehensive General Management Plans as management tools for each of the eight sites. Also, the distillation of the plans into popular editions.

➢ Data Bases for each of the eight sites containing all of the primary and secondary data collected and processed by the project.

➢ The institutional strengthening of the PAMBs and all the ramifications arising therefrom, including a fairly effective PAO, secure within the DENR structure and an operating Integrated Protected Area Fund;

➢ The completion of the capital infrastructure programmes;

➢ A seamless phasing-in of current EU supported NIPAP Activities to post-EU/NIPAP Activities.

Moreover, the plan also stressed that NIPAP would enable the eight PAOs to become increasingly independent but concentrating, during the year 2000, upon:

➢ Achieving the NIPAS legal steps leading to Presidential Proclamation;

➢ Strengthening the PAMB and ensuring that it is representative especially in terms of IP groups;

➢ Limiting IEC activities to what is required for the above; and

➢ In helping the participatory processes of the production of the GMP.

So that, throughout 2000 these activities will be integrated into the PENRO/CENRO structures as appropriate.

2.2.10 Six Month Extension to March 2001

The plan for the extension is contained in a supplement to the 2000 Annual Workplan that states: thus, essentially the extension enables the AWP 2000 first to continue logically along its course of achieving the 13 Legal Steps of the NIPAP Act for each of the eight sites, and second, to continue providing the tools and the help to PA stakeholders that are required to realize the intentions of the NIPAS Act. Paramount here is the achievement of Step 12, Congressional Action for five sites and more progress in terms of Mts. Iglit-Baco/Mindoro and Coron Island.

Also, the extension will enable us to complete a PAO building for Malampaya Sound, that we would otherwise have had to count as a failure, and to focus on producing proposals acceptable to the EU for future projects that will build on NIPAP’s successes.



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2.3 BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS

For a comprehensive understanding of the NIPAP project, a knowledge of the following twenty documents is required. These are all contained on the accompanying CD, which also includes the report itself. Thus:

a. NIPAP & the Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992 (an explanation by the NIPAP Directorate and attached here as)

b. The NIPAS Act of 1992

c. Financing Memorandum between the Commission of the European Communities and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, May 1995

d. NIPAP design Options, July 1996 – PMU

e. Global Work Plan – 1996

f. Commission of the European Union, Directorate General 1B, External Relations – NIPAP – Mid Term Review (May-June 1998) – Final Report

g. Livelihood, Resource Use and Community Development Component

h. Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluating the Livelihood, Resource Use and Community Development Component and for Compiling a Micro-Project Proposal.

i. NIPAP – 1999 Annual Work Plan

j. NIPAP – 1999 Annual Report

k. NIPAP – 1999 Annual Report to the Public

l. NIPAP – 2000 Annual Work Plan m. NIPAP – Technical Report, January 1st to September 2000 n. Rider No. 2 to the Financing Memorandum between the Commission of the European

Union and the Republic of the Philippines – made in 2000

o. NIPAP – Supplement to the 2000 Annual Work Plan for the Six Month No-Cost Extension

p. NIPAP – Annual Report for 2000

q. Eight NIPAP Sites: Land Cover Maps based on Participatory 3D Mapping

r. Assessment of the Micro-projects in the Mt. Isarog National Park Project Area, Eusabio Panganiban, February 2001

s. Proposal for a Community Based Conservation Program for Integrated protected Areas, March 2001

t. Copy of Draft Aide Memoir of EU Pre-Completion Mission, March 2001

u. Analyses by Case Studies

v. Status of Phase-In Operations as at 15th March 2001

w. Summary of Workshops 1998 to 2001

x. Summary of Training 1998 to 2001



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3 ASSESSMENT BASED ON THE LOGICAL FRAMEWORK

3.1 INTRODUCTION

3.1.1 The Logical Framework

Although the Logical Frame Work was updated in 1998 it remained a flawed document for three reasons:

a. It failed to resolve the confusion about the project that had existed in the minds of the DENR and the Project Management since the beginning, which was whether the NIPAP was a project for Establishing PAs or for Establishing and Managing PAs. Clearly it was and is the former being both the realistic and the correct interpretation of the Financing Memorandum. Nonetheless, until mid-1999 many stakeholders considered NIPAP was responsible for managing the eight sites so that even the DENR Secretary himself would telephone the Directorate complaining of illegal logging or of some other infringement of DENR legislation on NIPAP sites.

b. Quite correctly, there never was a transfer of responsibility from the DENR (RED, through PENRO to CENRO and PASu) to NIPAP.

c. As is usual with a Logical Frame-work process, while it provides a very useful guide to what needs to be done and what can realistically be done (if the log-frame is build properly) is not a good guide to management organization. Where inexperienced management uses it as such a guide it merely become a straight jacket that hobbles good organization from the beginning. This was the unfortunate history of NIPAP for the first two years of its life. It has be obvious for some years that the EU needs to review its log-frame process in order to make it more management friendly. Projects fail most often because of poor management.

d. The Objectively Verifiable Indicators are in many cases not realistic in terms of a short term project: they refer, for instance, to long term ecological monitoring.

3.1.2 Status Report & Analysis

The Status of Phase-in Operations (details on the CD) is the prime output of the NIPAP monitoring process. It covers the following:

a. Status of the IPAF,

b. Status of PAMB,

c. Post/EU NIPAP Funding,

d. Post/EU NIPAP Budget,

e. DENR Administrative Structures,

f. Site Specific Phase-In Workshops,

g. Activity/System Specific Phase-In/Phase-Out Workshops and Handing Over Procedures,

h. Training,

i. Manuals and Other Key Documents,

j. Thirteen NIPAS Steps,

k. Congressional Action,

l. General Management Plan Preparation and Endorsement by PAMB,

m. GMP Manuscript Preparation,

n. PAO Infrastructure (Buildings) and



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o. Other Sustainability Indicators,

The Status Report, prepared on a monthly basis and within seven days of the end of each month, is used to enable rapid reaction management of NIPAP. Also, in many instances the data is analysed to guide policy development.

3.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: ESTABLISH EFFECTIVE PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL HABITATS AND BIODIVERSITY IN 8 NIPAS SITES

While this is a realistic objective, the logical framework set out four verifiable indicators, three of which were unrealistic given the nature, time-frame and resources available to the project. Thus:

3.2.1 Variations in the Population Density of Indicator Species

This reflects a post-establishment activity that will arise from the BMS set up on seven sites1 (see subsections 3.4.7.2 and 4.4.2below). Nonetheless, initial research defined indicator species as follows:

TABLE 1 INDICATOR SPECIES BY SITE

SITE SPECIES

Coron Island None. The Tagbanua owners of the island have their own processes of monitoring. See subsection 2.2.8, above.

El Nido See page 83, Appendix 4, below.

Malampaya Sound See, page 83, Appendix 4, below.

Mt. Guiting-Guiting See, page 83, Appendix 4, below.

Mts. Iglit & Baco See, page 83, Appendix 4, below.

Mt. Isarog See, page 83, Appendix 4, below.

Mt. Malindang See, page 83, Appendix 4, below.

Mt. Pulag See, page 83, Appendix 4, below.

3.2.2 Presence or Absence of Indicator Species

As above.

3.2.3 Changes in Land Use and Vegetation Cover

This reflects a post-establishment activity that will arise from the BMS (see subsection 3.4.7.2 below). Nonetheless, a prime NIPAP activity, as part of Step 1 of implementing the NIPAS Act (Compilation of Maps and Technical Descriptions of Protected Areas) has been the development of Land Cover maps for each site. The data for these maps has come from

1 A BMS cannot be installed on Coron Island for a number of reasons including the fact that there is

no PAMB to approve the activity. Moreover, it must be appreciated that the indigenous people of a number of NIPAP sites, including Corn Island, are very suspicious, and with good reason, of outsiders undertaking biodiversity surveys.



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three sources: JAFTA processing of remote sensing by Landsat TM; NAMRIA processing of remote sensing by SPOT; and our own 3D participatory mapping data. The latter has proved to be the most representative. See Training on P 3-Dimensional Modeling, 4.4.3, below.

Also, land-use and vegetation cover has been recorded and will be monitored as part of the BMS by Photographic Representation. See 3.4.8 and 3.4.10 below

3.2.4 Presence and Implementation of General Management Plans (GMP)

This might better have been Participatory Planning and Presence of GMPs. In the first place, a GMP has to be produced following certain minimum research, the pulling together of existing relevant data and, of paramount importance, participatory planning processes best facilitated by a capacitated PAMB. A first output arising from these activities would be ready for testing by efficiently functioning PAOs and PAMBs in year four or five of a well managed PA establishment project. The review of the project by the directors did indeed confirm the importance of GMPs (see sub-section 2.2.6 above) and by March 2001 the following had been achieved (see also the Status Report as at 15th March 2001):

TABLE 2 GMP1 PRODUCTION

SITE Descriptive Section

Analytical Section

Prescriptive Section

Budget Section

Appendices2 PAMB Endorsement

Coron Island 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 0%3

El Nido 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Malampaya Sound 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Mt. Guiting-Guiting 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Mts. Iglit & Baco4 0% 0% 0% 100 % 100 % 0%

Mt. Isarog 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Mt. Malindang 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Mt. Pulag 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 0%5

1 The GMPs are Draft Documents, as explained in the front-piece, the GMPs represent the

professional opinion of the Directorate as advised by:

the NIPAP technical staff and consultants. The Directorate is confident that the plan represents the best current management option given the present level of technical knowledge, the NIPAS inspired participation processes that have taken place and, not least, the urgent need to have a management policy now, for conserving the valuable ecological resources of ……… Nonetheless, the Directorate also stresses that the plan is not the last word but merely a Way Forward.

In many cases boundaries and zoning are not fixed and will be subject to review as more research is undertaken and PAMBs become better and more knowledgeable managers.

2 Appendices are a vital part of a GMP. They contain all available back-up information. Appendices make the GMP a comprehensive management tool. NIPAP has developed a method of classification that is described in Appendix 3 on page 90. However, the Appendices include the results of research and are therefore incomplete. The gaps will indicate the research required for the future.

3 Coron Island has no PAMB with which to endorse the GMP, see 2.2.8, above. 4 A great deal more work requires to be done, partly because the site was given a low priority by the

project following the 1998 Mid-Term Review Report. See sub-section 2.2.7 above. 5 Although everything is ready for consideration, approval has not been possible because the PAMB

meetings set up for the purpose have not reached a quorum. The last failed meeting was on the 3rd February, although a useful discussion was had with the six members who attended plus the four observers.



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3.3 OUTPUT ONE: APPROPRIATELY DESIGNED AND LEGALLY ESTABLISHED PAS WITHIN RATIONALIZED AND DELINEATED BOUNDARIES

3.3.1 Conduct Ecological Studies

The following Ecological Studies were either undertaken by NIPAP, Commissioned by NIPAP or included in the GMP Appendices as Secondary Data with the permission of the owners:

TABLE 3 ECOLOGICAL STUDIES – CORON ISLAND

TITLE AUTHOR DATE STATUS LOCATION

Resource Basic Inventory (RBI) for Coron Island

DENR 2000 Completed GMP Appendices, IDB and Library

TABLE 4 ECOLOGICAL STUDIES – EL NIDO


Coral Coverage Assessment of Bacuit Bay

Orr, Michael 1994 Completed GMP Appendices and Library

Vegetation of El Nido Madulid, Domingo

1996 Completed GMP Appendices, IDB and Library

Assessment and Zonation of Coastal Habitats at Bacuit Bay, Northern Palawan

Fortes, M.D. and et. al.


Mangrove Assessment Bravo, D. and P. Balagas


Seagrass Assessment Bagtas, V., Guillermo, N.D. and JB San Luis


Coral Reef Assessment Roco, JM and JB San Luis


Coral Reef Fish Assessment Alba, S.A. 1999 Completed GMP Appendices, IDB and Library

TABLE 5 ECOLOGICAL STUDIES – MALAMPAYA SOUND


Resource Basic Inventory (RBI) for Malampaya Sound

DENR 2000 Completed GMP Appendices and Library

TABLE 6 ECOLOGICAL STUDIES – MT. GUITING-GUITING

TITLE – Mt. Guiting-Guiting AUTHOR DATE STATUS LOCATION

The Birds of Sibuyan Island, Romblon Province, Philippines with Particular Reference to Elevational Distribution and

Biogeographic Affinities.

Goodman, Steve and D. Gonzales

1995 Printed and distributed

GMP Appendices and Library

Survey of the Terrestrial Vegetation in Sibuyan Island

Domingo Madulid 1997 Completed GMP Appendices, IDB

and Library



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TITLE – Mt. Guiting-Guiting AUTHOR DATE STATUS LOCATION

Results and Analysis of a Forest Resource Inventory and Timber Products Demand Survey Conducted In and

Around Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park

Paul Matthews 1998 Completed GMP Appendices, IDB and Library

Plant Diversity Assessment and Analysis of Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park

Domingo Madulid 1999 Completed GMP Appendices, IDB

and Library

TABLE 7 ECOLOGICAL STUDIES – MT. ISAROG


Mammalian Diversity on Mt. Isarog: A Threatened Center of Endemism on Southern Luzon Island, Philippines

Heaney, Lawrence R., Danny S. Balete, et. al.



The Birds of Mt. Isarog National Park, Southern Luzon, Philippines

Goodman, Steve and Pedro Gonzales



Resource Basic Inventory (RBI) for Mt. Isarog National Park

DENR 1999 Completed GMP Appendices, IDB and Library

TABLE 8 ECOLOGICAL STUDIES – MTS. IGLIT AND BACO


Resource Basic Inventory (RBI) for Mts. Iglit-Baco

DENR - On-going IDB and Library

TABLE 9 ECOLOGICAL STUDIES – MT. MALINDANG


Ecological Profile of Misamis Occidental DENR Region X 1994 Completed GMP Appendices and Library

Resource Basic Inventory of Mt. Malindang

DENR 1994 Completed GMP Appendices and Library

Baseline Biodiversity Inventory in Mt. Malindang National Park

CARE-AWESOME - On-going

TABLE 10 ECOLOGICAL STUDIES – MT. PULAG


Conservation of Biological Diversity of Mt. Pulag National Park

A. Jensen, M. Poulsen, J. Accos, O. Jakobsen, C. Andersen and L. Viray

1991 Completed and distributed




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3.3.2 Conduct Socio-Economic Surveys

The following Socio-Economic Surveys were either undertaken by NIPAP, Commissioned by NIPAP or included in the GMP Appendices as Secondary Data with the permission of the owners:

TABLE 11 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEYS – CORON ISLAND


Tagbanwa in Coron Island Coron, Palawan Profiles of six Indigenous People, a

Preliminary Field Assessment,

Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC)


IDB, Appendix to GMP

TABLE 12 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEYS – EL NIDO


Socio-economic and Cultural Profile of El Nido. Findings and Recommendations for Protected Area Planning resulting from a Rapid Rural Appraisal conducted within the communities of Barangays Bucana and Manlag, 144 pages

Rambaldi G.; Miclat A.; Fernan M. L.; Mabazza A.

(NIPAP)

Operio S. (IIRR); Ladra W. F, (Tambuyog dev. Center). Oczon G.R. (PRRM), De la Calzada R. J. (El Nido Foundation)

1997 Completed and

distributed

Library, IDB, Appendix to GMP

TABLE 13 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEYS – MALAMPAYA SOUND


Recommendations for PA Planning as a result of the Socio-economic profiling of Malampaya Sound and the Conduct of a Rapid Rural Appraisal in Barangays Liminangcong, San Jose and Abongan (138 pages)

NIPAP, IIRR and Tambuyog Dev. Center

1999 Second Draft. Given to ESSC for incorporation into the GMP

Advance copies furnished to PAO,

Appendix to GMP

Baseline Survey in Malampaya Sound, Taytay, Palawan (March 1997)

Statistical elaboration by ASSIST

February, 2000

Report with Tables only

IDB, Appendix to GMP

TABLE 14 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEYS – MT. GUITING-GUITING


Socio-economic and Cultural Profile of the Island of Sibuyan, Romblon. Findings and Recommendations for Protected Area Planning resulting from a Rapid Rural Appraisal conducted within the communities of Barangays Taclobo, Tampayan and

Lumbang Weste. 156 pages

Rambaldi G.; Miclat A.; Fernan M. L.; Mabazza A. Garaña J., Esther Velasco, Velarde A. (IIRR); Wilma F. Ladra, Fishery Specialist, TDC; Blastique T. (PAWB); Abueg Torres M. J.; Sespeñe P., MAO Magdiwang; Casilin C. A. MAO San Fernando; Ronion

D. MAGCAISA


Library and IDB, Appendix to GMP

Results of the Baseline Survey conducted in 1997 among communities living within and around Mount Guiting-Guiting National Park, Romblon, Philippines, 78 pages.

Rambaldi G.; Corpuz Selva E. (NIPAP);

Statistical elaboration by ASSIST.

1999 Completed and

distributed




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TABLE 15 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEYS – MT. ISAROG


Recommendations for Protected Area Planning as a Result of the Socio-economic Profiling of Mt Isarog and the Conduct of a Rapid Rural Appraisal in Barangays Villaflorida and Harubay, Camarines Sur, Philippines, 158 pages.

Rambaldi G., Garaña J., Arnuevo M.T., Fernan M. L., Meliza Joy Torres M.J. (NIPAP); Narvadez S; Resurreccion N. (Haribon

Foundation)

1998 Completed and Distributed


Results of the Baseline Survey conducted in February- March, 1997 among the communities living within and around Mount Isarog National Park, Camarines Sur, Philippines, 54 pages.

Salamanca A. HARIBON

FOUNDATION, Inc.

Rambaldi G. (NIPAP)

1997 Completed and

Distributed


TABLE 16 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEYS – MTS. IGLIT AND BACO

None

TABLE 17 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEYS – MT. MALINDANG


Findings and Recommendations for PA Planning resulting from the Collection and Review of Primary and Secondary Information and the Conduct of Rapid Rural Appraisals in Barangays Sicot, Lalud and Stimson Abordo (111 pages)

Garaña J., Arnuevo M.T., Fernan M. L., Meliza Joy Torres M.J. (NIPAP)

Narvadez S; Resurreccion N. (Haribon Foundation)

1998 Final draft Library, IDB, Appendix to GMP

Results of the Baseline Survey conducted in November 1997 among the communities living within Mount Malindang National Park, Misamis Occidental, Philippines, 70 pages.

NIPAP and Haribon Foundation Inc.

1999 Completed and

distributed


TABLE 18 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEYS – MT. PULAG


Recommendations for PA planning resulting from the Socio-economic Profiling of the Area of Mount Pulag and the conduct of a Rapid Rural Appraisal in Barangays Tawangan and Bashoy,

Kabayan, Benguet

(1997/98)

NIPAP (various contributions)

2000 Second Draft


Establishment Of Kalanguya Community Museum In Mt. Pulag National Park: Results of a Preliminary Archaeological Assessment In Barangay Tawangan, Kabayan, Benguet, Philippines.

Lerma De Lima Yambot & Israel

Cabanilla

1998 Completed and

distributed

Library and IDB Appendix to GMP

Baseline Survey in Mt. Pulag Natural Park, Benguet, Ifugao and Nueva Vizcaya (April-May 1997)

Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation and NIPAP





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3.3.3 Review and Rationalize PA Boundaries

This was undertaken as part of the 13 NIPAS Steps and as part of the participatory processes of producing the draft GMP. The following activities are relevant:

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NIPAS Step 1 – Maps & Tech Descriptions

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

NIPAS Step 2 – Initial Screening (PASA)

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

NIPAS Step 7 – Delineation 0%1 77%2 38%3 100% 0%4 100% 100% 0%5

Strategic Planning Workshop (s) 0%6 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 50%7

Strat Framework Plan approved by PAMB 0%8 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 0%9

NIPAS Step 8 – Public Hearing 0%10 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Draft GMP approved by PAMB 0%11 100% 100% 100% 0%12 100% 100% 0%13

1 The boundary coincides with the CADC Boundary 2 Work ongoing 3 Terrestrial boundaries only.

4 Work delayed, see 2.2.7, above 5 PAMB unable to agree

6 See sub-section 2.2.8, above 7 Organized and initiated but not completed 8 See sub-section 2.2.8, above

9 See footnote 21, below 10 PAMB not convened

11 PAMB not convened 12 Delayed: see 2.2.7 above

13 Although everything is ready for consideration, approval has not been possible because the PAMB meetings set up for the purpose have not reached a quorum. The last failed meeting was on the 3rd February, although a useful discussion was had with the six members who attended plus the four observers.



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3.3.4 Delineate PA Boundaries

See 3.3.3, above.

3.3.5 Conduct Activities Necessary to Fulfill the Thirteen Legal Requirements for Congressional Enactment of Protected Areas

TABLE 19 PROGRESS OF THE 13 LEGAL STEPS

NIPAS LEGAL STEPS

Coron Island

El Nido Malampaya Sound

Mt. Guiting-Guiting

Mts. Iglit & Baco

Mt. Isarog Mt. Malindang

Mt. Pulag

1 – Maps & Tech Descriptions

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

2 – Initial Screening (PASA)

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

3 – Public Notifications

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

4 – Initial Consultation

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

5 - Census & Registration

90%1 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

6 – Resource Profiling

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 85%

7 – Initial PA Plan 90%2 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

7 – Delineation 0%3 77%4 38%5 100% 0%6 100% 100% 0%7

8 – Public Hearing 0%8 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

9 – Regional Review & Recs

0% 100% 100% 100% 0%9 100% 100% 0%10

10 – National Review & Recs

0% 100% 100% 100% 0% 100% 100% 0%

11 - Presidential

Proclamation 0% 100% 100% 100% 0%

Awaiting Signature

Awaiting Signature

0%

12 – Congress Action

0% In the Lower House

In the Lower House

In the Senate

0% In the Lower House

In the Lower House

0%

13 – Demarcation 0% 10%11 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

1 Not completed 2 Awaiting confirmation from PAWB 3 The PA boundary coincides with the CADC boundary

4 On-going. 5 Terrestrial only.

6 Delayed: see 2.2.7, above 7 PAMB unable to agree

8 See 2.2.8, above 9 Delayed: see 2.2.7, above 10 Delayed: see 2.2.7, above

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The ramifications of the 13 steps are what the project called the Parallel Activities. They relate to the 13 steps as follows and are covered elsewhere in the report as shown. Thus:

TABLE 20 13 LEGAL STEPS RELATED TO PARALLEL ACTIVITIES

13 LEGAL STEPS PARALLEL ACTIVITIES REPORT REFERENCE

1 Compilation of Maps & Technical Descriptions

GIS Activities. 3.4.10, above.

2 Initial Screening

3 Public Notifications IEC Activities Commence. 3.5.1, below.

4 Initial Consultation

5 Census & Registration of PA Occupants

Socio-Economic & Cultural Surveys.

3.3.2, above.

6 Resource Profiling Ecological Surveys. 3.3.1, above.

7 Initial Protected Area Plan, including delineation

Formation of Interim PAMB. 3.4.4, 3.4.6, 3.5.3.2 and 3.5.5.2, below and 4.2 above.

PAMB Orientation. 4.2 below.

Strategic Planning Workshops. 3.3.3, above.

GMP Framework/Interim GMPs. 3.2.4, above.

Initial PA Staffing and Training. 3.4.3 below.

Boundary Delineation. 3.3.3, above.

Establishment of IPAF/Funding Functions.

4.1, below.

8 Public Hearings

9 Regional Review & Recommendations

10 National Review & Recommendations

GMP and Manuals/Appendices Complete.

3.2.4, above.

11 Presidential Proclamation Draft of Presidential Proclamation.

Table 19, above.

PAO Construction complete. See 3.4.5.1, below.

12 Congressional Action

13 Demarcation



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3.4 OUTPUT TWO: ESTABLISHMENT OF EFFECTIVE STRUCTURE AND MECHANISMS FOR PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTATION OF PROTECTED AREAS

3.4.1 Prepare General Management Plan

GMPs have been prepared as already expressed in subsection 3.3.5, above. We repeat the table and notes here for convenience.

TABLE 21 GMP PREPARATION

SITE Descriptive Section

Analytical Section

Prescriptive Section

Budget Section

Appendices1 PAMB Endorsement

Coron Island 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 0%2

El Nido 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Malampaya Sound 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Mt. Guiting-Guiting 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Mts. Iglit & Baco3 0% 0% 0% 100 % 100 % 0%

Mt. Isarog 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Mt. Malindang 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100%

Mt. Pulag 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 0%4

1 Appendices are a vital part of a GMP. They contain all available back-up information. Appendices

that make the GMP a comprehensive management tool. NIPAP has developed a method of classification that is described in Appendix 3 on page 90. However, the Appendices include the results of research and are therefore incomplete. The gaps will indicate the research required for the future.

2 Coron Island has no PAMB with which to endorse the GMP, see 2.2.8, above.

3 A great deal more work requires to be done, partly because the site was given a low priority by the project following the 1998 Mid-Term Review Report. See sub-section 2.2.7 above.

4 Although everything is ready for consideration, approval has not been possible because the PAMB meetings set up for the purpose have not reached a quorum. The last failed meeting was on the 3rd February, although a useful discussion was had with the six members who attended plus the four observers.



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3.4.2 Build up PA Staff Complement and Provide Equal Opportunities to Men and Women

Staff of NIPAP came from three sources having three distinct functions. Thus:

TABLE 22 NIPAP PHILIPPINES STAFF – SOURCES AND FUNCTIONS, 1ST MARCH 2001

SOURCE FUNCTION & AIM No. in PMU

No. at SITES

COMMENTS

1 NIPAP – EU Funded

To produce the outputs of the project for a finite period on limited contracts. They brought skills to the project but also, received training as appropriate.

40 7

About 12 of these staff found subsequent work in NGOs and ARCBC, valued for the training they received from NIPAP

2 NIPAP – GoP Funded

Largely field staff brought in to be trained to supplement DENR detailed field staff with the aim of becoming DENR contractuals or full DENR staff. Some came from and would go back to NGOs.

6 101

In the event none became DENR contractuals because of limits to DENR recruiting. But GoP funds were always available to support them.

3 DENR Detailed To enable close working relationships with DENR at PAWB and PENRO level as technicians and field staff. Ultimately to take over project activities.

2 34

In the event far too few DENR staff could be spared for

NIPAP1

Total 48 142

There never was a policy of positive discrimination for women, except for recruiting the co-ordinators (where we failed to find a woman) and RDOs. Recruitment was based on merit. As a result of this while the very top management2 and the rangers were dominated by men, women dominated technical and service positions.

TABLE 23 NIPAP PHILIPPINES STAFF – SEX RATIOS, 1ST MARCH

WOMEN MEN RATIO OF WOMEN TO MEN

NIPAP – EU Funded 22 25 1:1.1

NIPAP – GoP Funded 17 90 1:5.3

DENR Detailed 6 30 1:5

Total 45 145 1:3.23

1 It must be appreciated that DENR is short staffed in any event and was/is expected to take over

no only NIPAP activities but also CPPAP and NORDECO projects, without additional staffing. 2 This does not suggest that the Directorate considers that women do not merit the top positions but

it is the way things worked out. Attempts to recruit a woman co-ordinator failed. It is interesting that while the DENR has plenty of women in top positions the EU, here in the Philippines, does not. Neither could the EU manage to produce one single woman TA for the review missions and of the 24 NIPAP TAs only two were women, representing a shocking 3% of total person-months.

3 Since one woman is worth about three men, this would seem to be about right.



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3.4.3 Provide Training to PA Staff

The great weakness of NIPAP was the training, although a great deal of training-type sessions were conducted in the field. However, the trainers themselves were weak, especially in their knowledge of the dynamics of human ecosystems. At the end of 1998, a test made by the EDC revealed that not one of the IEC staff had even a basic knowledge of the subject.

The weakness was recognized in early 1999 and a draft policy was discussed by the directors but without the benefit of professional advice. The policy involved:

➢ Preparation of Training Modules and Aids

➢ Training of Trainers

➢ Training of NIPAP Staff and

➢ Institutional Training

This last was considered especially important so that the PAOs would be knowledgeable as an institution and capable of training themselves and other stakeholders as the needs arise. This, the Directorate felt, would be best served by a comprehensive GMP as a management tool (as described in subsection 3.4.1, above), by producing a series of easy-to-use manuals, by setting up mini-libraries, providing equipment necessary to aid training (e.g. audio visual aids) and by training DENR staff related to the PA (i.e. PENRO, CENRO and PASu).

The was a tall order for less than two years and in the event it proved impossible to find a good training specialist (and a lot of time was wasted with an “expert’ who proved not to be).

Nonetheless, a great deal was achieved, especially in terms of producing the Training Modules and Aids, and in holding site based trainings and workshops, as the tables below express. Also see 4.4 - Transfer of Skills to the Executing Agency and other Parties Concerned - below.

All staff, especially those based at the PMU, received high quality on-the-job training enabling them to take enhanced skills beyond NIPAP.

TABLE 24 TRAINING MANUALS AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS

DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION

1 Biodiversity, Conservation and the Community Collectively, a major effort is being made by NIPAP to disseminate information on the management and operations of protected areas in the Philippines, at policy, technical

and field levels.

In collaboration with the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB), other institutions - including the ASEAN Regional Center for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC), Technical Assistance for Improving Biodiversity Conservation (TABC) Project, Conservation of Priority Protected Areas Project (CPPAP) - NIPAP has produced a wide range of information resources under the title of “Essentials of Protected Area Management”. The series includes case studies, field and training

2 Primer on Criminal Procedure for Violations in Protected

Areas

3 Primer on Administrative Procedure for Violations in Protected Areas

4 Paralegal Training Manual for Protected Areas

5 A Guide to Understanding the Environment

6 Ecological Glossary for Protected Area Managers

7 Handbook on the Establishment and Operationalisation of the Sub-IPAF

8 Handbook for Protected Area Rangers and Field Officers

9 Manual on Participatory 3-Dimensional Modeling

10 Guide to Establishing a Protected Area Library



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DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION

11 Biodiversity Monitoring System Manual (NORDECO) manuals, other educational material and legal reference documents.

12 Suhay Millennium Issue, 1st Half 2000 New style Suhay being a popular analysis of NIPAP findings and a scientifically informative, especially as aids to training and information.

13 Suhay 3rd Quarter 2000

14 Suhay 4th Quarter 2000

15 GMPs and Appendices See subsection 3.4.1, above.

16 Willingness to Pay Survey – Mt. Isarog National Park The reports present the results of one-year studies conducted in two protected areas to assess the visitors’ willingness to pay for benefits enjoyed while visiting the areas. The studies recommend the fees the PAMBs should introduce to support the maintenance, management and administration of the protected areas

17 Willingness to Pay Survey – El Nido-Taytay Managed Resources Protected Area

TABLE 25 GRAND SUMMARY OF SITE BASED WORKSHOPS

For detailed tables, see Appendix 5 on page 83, below.

SITE Year No. Workshops

& Training Sessions

Ca. No. Participants

Pan –Project 1998 27 650

1999 28 1230

2000 20 475

2001 0 0

Coron Island 1998 4 22

1999 15 597

2000 9 309

2001 3 67

El Nido 1998 5 42

1999 28 770

2000 12 320

2001 1 Est. 50

Malampaya Sound 1998 5 26

1999 8 360

2000 13 415

2001 4 110

Mt. Guiting-Guiting 1998 8 100

1999 26 1445

2000 7 166

2001 5 Est. 50

Mts. Iglit and Baco 1998 2 27

1999 5 Est. 5053



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SITE Year No. Workshops

& Training Sessions

Ca. No. Participants

2000 8 305

2001 4 612

Mt. Isarog 1998 6 90

1999 45 2021

2000 13 255

2001 2 Est. 25

Mt. Malindang 1998 20 Est. 1000

1999 42 2705

2000 8 210

2001 2 Est. 100

Mt. Pulag 1998 4 68

1999 35 1003

2000 10 235

2001 6 Est. 80

TABLE 26 NIPAP PROVISION OF TRAINING AIDS

ITEM PM

U

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Mala

mp

aya

So

un

d

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mts

. Iglit &

B

aco

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Malin

dan

g

Mt. P

ula

g

Overhead Projector 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

TV Set 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2

Video Player/Recorder 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 4

Slide Projector 1 1 1 1 1

Screen 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Ordinary Camera 8 1 3 3 4 3 2

Radio Cassette Recorder 11 1 1 2 3 2

Desk-top Computer 45 2 3 2 2 2 3 5 3

Laser Printer 9 1

Color Inkjet Computer 4 1 2 1 1 2

Portable 1

Laptop 8

UPS 16

Data Back-up System 8

Other Peripherals 103 2 6 6 6 3 10 5 4

Fax / Data Modem 9

Scanner 2 1 1 1

Photocopier 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

Books 590 8 3 2 11 6 7 12 3

Video Materials 6 2 1 1 2 1 1



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3.4.4 Strengthen PA Management Capability of Local Institutions and of the DENR Local and Central Level

This activity was focused on the PAMB, which represents all the stakeholders including local institutions and the DENR at both local and central levels.

As the NIPAP project progressed, it became increasingly obvious that an efficiently functioning and sustainable PAMB empowered to guide the planning and management of the PA, is the key to fulfilling the intentions of the NIPAS Act. Moreover, a significant ramification of establishing a PAMB was the need for NIPAP to develop a good working relationship with stakeholders including the local DENR Regional Executive Director (RED), concerned NGOs and IP groups, and Governors, Mayors and, but much less easy, Barangay Captains. Additional essential tools of the PAMB are: a functioning Integrated Protected Area Fund – IPAF – necessary for financial sustainability, see 3.4.6 below; and training, see 3.4.3, above.

Also relevant is Section 4, below - Sustainability Processes.

Progress in PAMB Establishment within the terms of the NIPAS Act:

TABLE 27 PAMB INDICATORS – PAMB ESTABLISHMENT

KEY INDICATORS

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Ma

lam

pa

ya

So

un

d

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mts

. Iglit &

Bac

o

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lind

an

g

Mt. P

ula

g

Interim PAMB Installed & date of convention

No 5.98 8.99 6.96 7.93 7.94 1.94 6.94

Percentage of “legally appointed PAMB members” versus “total number of PAMB members”

Na 0% 70% 100% 42% 64% 0% 0%

Internal Rules & Regulations and Standard Operating Procedures in place

Na YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

Local Governments duly represented on the Boards

Na YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

Number of Mayors Sitting in the PAMB Enbancs

Na 0 1 2 0 0 12 0

Number of Sangguniang Bayan Members Sitting in the Enbancs

Na 3 2 6 3 4 0 4

% of seats filled in by political leaders (Mayors and SB Members) on the EmBancs

Na 7% 22% 11% 13% 12% 5% 6%

Number of PAMB Meetings in 2000 to December 31st

0 14 10 7 9 6 10 9

% of total number of PAMB (ExeCom + Enbanc) meetings (YR 2000) where quorum was met

- 100% 100% 83% 100% 100% 89% 88%

IPAF Training (Part 1) Delivered

YES YES YES YES YES No YES YES

IPAF Training (Part 2) Delivered

No YES No YES YES No YES YES



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3.4.5 Provide PA Infrastructure and Equipment

This can be divided into four areas:

Buildings

Transport

Radio Equipment and

Other Equipment

Thus:

3.4.5.1 Buildings

TABLE 28 CONSTRUCTION – CORON ISLAND

Structure Location Date of Completion Total Value

Water System Barangay Cabugao, Coron March 16, 2000 135,664.20

PA Office-Visitor Center

Tagbanua Center

Gazebo

Brgy. 5, Coron August 18, 2000

3,691,429.37

Site Stabilization

Insulation

Drainage

Brgy. 5, Coron October 27, 2000

408,505.00

Concrete Walkways

Landscaping

Lighting

Flag pole

Entrance gate

Brgy. 5, Coron February 23, 2001

465,000.00

TABLE 29 CONSTRUCTION – EL NIDO


Protected Area Office/

Visitor Center/

CENRO

El Nido Poblacion July 25, 2000

4,412,092.23

Divers House Corong-Corong August 18 , 2000 1,346,232.33

Residential Guard House New Ibajay, Palawan August 18 , 2000 1,019,705.10

Water Tank,

Fencing and

Lobby Extension

El Nido Poblacion October 11, 2000

498,980.00

Attic of PAO/Visitor Center El Nido Poblacion March 2001 229,111.54



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TABLE 30 CONSTRUCTION – MALAMPAYA SOUND


PAO/Visitor Center

(Stopped at 70%)1

Old Guinlo, Taytay Palawan May 2, 2000

1,139,117.91

Residential Guard House Binaloan, Taytay Palawan May 2, 2000 1,391,370.11

PAO/Visitor Center Building – Replacement

Old Guinlo, Taytay Palawan March 7, 2001 2,999,667.03

Attic of PAO/Visitor Center Building

Old Guinlo, Taytay Palawan March 7, 2001 131,000.00

Port

Attic 2 Extension & Driveway

Old Guinlo, Taytay Palawan March 7, 2001

425,430.81

TABLE 31 CONSTRUCTION – MT. GUITING-GUITING


Protected Areas Office Barangay Tampayan, Magdiwang

February 12,1998 2,298,771.54

Visitor Center Brgy. Tampayan, Magdiwang

February 12,1998 2,199,694.00

Staff House Brgy. Tampayan, Magdiwang

February 12,1998 1,158,184.03

Research Building Brgy. Tampayan, Magdiwang

February 12,1998 980,542.00

Service Building Brgy. Tampayan, Magdiwang

February 12,1998 500,207.91

Entrance Gate Brgy. Tampayan, Magdiwang, Romblon

February 12,1998 331,172.00

Residential Guard Houses x 3

Cantagda, Cajidiocan

Canjalon, Cajidiocan

Olango, San Fernando

February 12,1998

2,104,870.00

Water Supply system Brgy. Tampayan, Magdiwang, Romblon

February 12,1998 70,556.20

Water Tank, Deep-well &

Pump House

Brgy. Tampayan, Magdiwang, Romblon

February 12,1998

569,748.00

Increase in the elevation of Residential Guard House

Replace of Sawali Window

Riprapping & Backfilling

Canjalon, San Fernando



February 12,1998

137,722.00

Backfilling

Tie Beam

Barangay Tampayan, Magdiwang, Romblon

February 12,1998

106,000.00

1 During the inspection of the EU Commission desk officer and the Delegation Councillor, the site

was considered to be unsuitable. May be completed post-project.



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TABLE 32 CONSTRUCTION – MTS. IGLIT & BACO


Hanging Bridge x 3

Stop at 28%1

Magtangkob, Mindoro August 3,2000

917,430.22

Hanging Bridge 1 (New Contract)

Magtangkob, Mindoro March 15,2001 1,275,785.69

Repair works to new (DENR) Protected Area Office

San Jose, Mindoro March 15,2001 200,000.00

TABLE 33 CONSTRUCTION – MT. ISAROG


Multi-Purpose Center Villa Florida, Ocampo June 8, 2000 945,582.34

PAO/Visitor Center Building Panicuason, Naga City June 26, 2000 2,228,810.25

Research Building Panicuason, Naga City June 26, 2000 1,478,782.10

Entrance Gate Panicuason, Naga City June 26, 2000 241,946.70

Electrical works Panicuason, Naga City June 26, 2000 200,000.00

Riprap

Water tank & water supply

Panicuason, Naga City June 26, 2000

838,678.39

Residential Guard House

Stop at 33.5%2

Paytan, GOA November 9, 2000

798,689.07

Pinagsarong Kusog kan Bukid Isarog Building

Hiwacloy, GOA March 15, 2001 531,128.24

TABLE 34 CONSTRUCTION – MT. MALINDANG


PAO/Visitor Center Oroquieta City February 2,2001 3,162,913.58

Filling & Fence Oroquieta City February 2,2001 145,000.00

Improvement of Façade

Drainage System

Oroquieta City February 2,2001

475,000.00

Electrical

Water Tank

Staff House

Landscaping

Oroquieta City February 2,2001

822,580.57

1 The demand by the local NPA for a “revolutionary tax” was resisted. Finally one bridge was

completed and on the day of its inspection – 15th March, 2001 – a message was sent that permission would be given for the others to be completed.

2 NPA resistance, not to NIPAP but to DENR. Thus funds used for the PKBI building.



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TABLE 35 CONSTRUCTION – MT. PULAG


PAO/Visitor Center Building Ambangeg, Benguet September 28,2000 4,169,358,90

Road & Fencing

Entrance Gate

Street lighting

Water Tank

Ambangeg, Benguet September 28,2000

658,514.76

Tourist Toilet Ambangeg, Benguet March 2001 568,514.51

Entrance Gate for PA Amlimay, Bugias Benguet March 2001 165,000.00

3.4.5.2 Transport

TABLE 36 TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPLIED

Terrestrial and Marine Vehicles Supplied by EU to NIPAP for ultimate handover to DENR\PENRO\PAO &

DENR\PAWB

PM

U

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Ma

lam

pa

ya

So

un

d

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mts

. Iglit &

Bac

o

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt. M

alin

da

ng

Mt. P

ula

g

Landrover 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Suzuki-Vitara, White 4WD 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Suzuki-Vitara, RED 4WD 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Toyota Corolla, White 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Toyota Corolla, Grey 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Toyota Hi-ace Van 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

Honda XL 125 0 1 3 1 5 1 5 1 4

Honda XL 125 0 2 3 2 3 2 3 8 5

Speed Boat – 170 HP 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0

Pump Boat – 170 HP 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

Pump Boat – 5 HP 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0

3.4.5.3 Radio Equipment

TABLE 37 RADIO EQUIPMENT SUPPLIED

Radio Equipment Supplied by EU for handover to DENR\PENRO\PAO

& DENR\PAWB

PM

U

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Ma

lam

pa

ya

So

un

d

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mts

. Iglit &

Ba

co

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lind

an

g

Mt. P

ula

g

HF Base 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

HF Portables 1 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

Value – Pesos 323,000 646,000 570,000 380,000 931,000 380,000 380,000 380,000 380,000

TOTAL VALUE 4,370,000



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3.4.5.4 Other Equipment

TABLE 38 OTHER EQUIPMENT SUPPLIED – AS CONSOLIDATED INVENTORY

EQUIPMENT TO BE HANDED OVER ON MARCH 31, 2001

Based on the Official Inventory Reports of the Physical Inventory Team (NIPAP / DENR)

Property Code

Items

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Ma

lam

pa

ya

So

un

d

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mt. Ig

lit

Ba

co

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lind

an

g

Mt. P

ula

g

PM

U

TO

TA

LS

AVEQ-001 Overhead projector 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 8

AVEQ-002 TV Set 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 8

AVEQ-003 Video Player / Recorder 1 1 1 2 2 4 1 12

AVEQ-004 Slide Projector 1 1 1 1 1 5

AVEQ-005 Screen 1 1 1 1 1 1 6

AVEQ-006 Video Camera & Accessories 1 1 2

AVEQ-007 Sound System 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 12

AVEQ-009 Video Camera 1 1

AVEQ-011 Ordinary Camera 1 3 1 6 4 3 2 7 27

AVEQ-012 Projector Screen 1 1

AVEQ-013 Radio Cassette Recorder 1 3 2 3 2 2 13

COMM-001 HF-SSB Base Station 2 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 13

COMM-003 VHF Portable 8 5 5 14 5 5 5 5 4 56

COMM-005 Telephones 1 1 1 26 29

COMM-006 Battery / Battery Charger 1 1 1 3 1 2 2 1 11 23

COMM-007 Fax Machine 1 1 2 4

COMM-008 Antenna 2 3 1 1 2 6 3 2 9 29

COMM-011 Accessories for Telecom System 3 2 2 1 1 3 12

COMM-012 Installation Charges 1 1

CPTR-001 Desktop Computer 2 3 2 2 2 3 5 3 38 60

CPTR-002 Laser Printer 2 1 10 13

CPTR-003 Color Inkjet Printer 1 1 2 1 5 10

CPTR-004 Software 4 4

CPTR-005 Dot Matrix Printer 1 1 1 1 4

CPTR-006 Portable Printer 1 1

CPTR-007 Laptop 7 7

CPTR-008 UPS 15 15

CPTR-009 Data Back UP System 8 8

CPTR-010 Other Peripherals - Zip Drive, Data Switch, Printer Cable, etc 5 3 6 6 3 9 5 5 85 127

CPTR-011 Fax / Data Modem 1 9 10

CPTR-012 Scanner 1 1 1 2 5

DIVE-002 Wetsuits, BCD, Regulator 5 4 9

DIVE-003 Mask and Fin 3 2 5

DIVE-004 Tank 4 1 5

DIVE-005 Compass 1 1

DIVE-006 Set of Gloves 2 1 3

DIVE-007 Knife 2 2 4

DIVE-008 Diving Manual 3 4 7

DIVE-009 Snorkel 2 2

DIVE-010 Booties 1 1

DIVE-011 Diving Accessories - Boots, 10 14 2 26



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Property Code

Items

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Ma

lam

pa

ya

So

un

d

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mt. Ig

lit

Ba

co

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lind

an

g

Mt. P

ula

g

PM

U

TO

TA

LS

Weigh belts, Straps, Mouthpieces, bags, etc

FURN-001 Desk 1 27 28

FURN-002 Drafting Table 1 3 4

FURN-003 Filing Cabinet 2 3 8 3 5 3 2 9 35

FURN-004 Chair 6 12 4 43 10 57 15 33 88 268

FURN-005 Table 9 14 4 28 10 9 17 12 39 142

FURN-006 Fixture – Air Conditioner 1 1 2 17 21

FURN-007 Fixture – Bookshelves 3 1 33 37

FURN-008 Fixture – Whiteboard 1 3 4 1 1 10

FURN-009 Fixture – Clock 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 10

FURN-010 Hanging Cabinet 3 9 12

FURN-011 Sala Set 2 9 1 2 3 1 1 19

FURN-012 Cabinet 8 1 1 5 15

FURN-013 Glass – Sliding / Top 3 3

FURN-014 Wood Partition 1 1 1 1 4

FURN-015 Bed 6 14 2 1 9 32

FURN-016 Fixture – Others 3 8 1 2 1 15

GIS-001 GIS Hardware 3 3

GIS-002 GIS Software 1 1

GIS-003 GIS Inkjet Plotter 1 1

OTHR-001 Photocopier 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 8

OTHR-002 Ring Binder 1 1

OTHR-003 Workshop Tools 3 2 5

OTHR-005 Typewriter 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 13

OTHR-006 Housekeeping Equipment 3 1 2 1 2 3 2 8 22

OTHR-007 Kitchen Outfit (Stove, Thermos, Utensils, …) 5 3 2 7 2 13 8 6 5 51

OTHR-008 Calculator 1 2 1 6 2 8 20

OTHR-009 Adding Machine 3 3

OTHR-010 IEC Materials 1 7 8

OTHR-011 Mattress 2 8 10

OTHR-012 Linen 1 1

OTHR-013 Table Lamp 1 1 3 5

OTHR-014 Draftsman’s equipment 1 2 3

OTHR-015 Generator 1 1 1 1 1 1 6

OTHR-016 Sharpener / Paper Cutter 1 5 6

OTHR-017 Handgun 1 1

OTHR-018 Cork Board / White Board 2 3 1 1 4 24 35

OTHR-019 Fire Extinguisher 1 3 12 1 1 4 22

OTHR-020 Electric Fan 1 6 3 20 3 6 3 2 44

OTHR-021 Compressor 1 1

OTHR-022 Weighing Scale 1 1

OTHR-023 Books 8 3 7 13 5 7 12 3 539

597

OTHR-024 Flag 1 1



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Property Code

Items

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Ma

lam

pa

ya

So

un

d

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mt. Ig

lit

Ba

co

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lind

an

g

Mt. P

ula

g

PM

U

TO

TA

LS

OTHR-025 Video Materials 2 2 1 2 1 1 6 15

OTHR-026 Office Improvement 2 2 4

OTHR-027 Office Accessories 9 5 1 1 1 7 24

OTHR-030 Training Bags with Logo 1 1 1 1 1 5

OTHR-031 Fishing Accessories 1 1

OTHR-034 Building Structures 3 2 3 3 5 1 2 19

OTHR-036 Laboratory items 1 1

SURV-001 GPS 1 1 1 10 13

SURV-002 Tent 3 5 7 14 7 4 4 2 46

SURV-003 Binocular 2 5 2 6 2 6 6 6 4 39

SURV-004 Torch/Flashlight/Headlamp 3 10 7 17 10 6 3 2 2 60

SURV-005 Compass 2 2 1 4 1 3 3 3 4 23

SURV-007 Altimeter 1 3 1 3 8

SURV-008 Tape, Steel/Cloth Type 1 2 2 5 4 2 1 17

SURV-009 Sleeping Bag 3 4 1 15 2 5 11 6 3 50

SURV-010 Backpack & Daypack 5 1 4 16 9 5 2 7 2 51

SURV-011 Portable Lamp 6 1 2 1 3 7 6 6 3 35

SURV-012 Uniform set 19 21 23 22 20 23 22 23 173

SURV-013 Tripod 1 1 3 1 6

SURV-014 Range Pole 4 3 4 3 2 16

SURV-015 Rainfall Simulator 2 2

SURV-016 Misnet 1 1

TRNS-001 4WD Personal Carrier 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 9

TRNS-002 Passenger Van 1 1

TRNS-003 Sedan 2 2

TRNS-004 Motorcycle 3 6 3 8 3 8 13 9 53

TRNS-006 Pump Boat 1 2 3

TRNS-007 Speed Boat 1 1 1 3

TRNS-010 Tools 5 1 2 4 3 11 26

TRNS-011 Motorcycle Helmet 6 12 4 16 8 13 19 11 89

TRNS-012 Tires & Accessories 1 1 3 1 6

TRNS-013 Car Accessories 2 1 1 1 1 6

TRNS-014 Boat Accessories (Compass, Life Jackets, Ring Buoy, …) 10 17 4 8 39

TRNS-016 Speed Boat Accessories 1 1 2

AVEQ-001 Overhead projector 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 8

AVEQ-002 TV Set 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 8

AVEQ-003 Video Player / Recorder 1 1 1 2 2 4 1 12

AVEQ-004 Slide Projector 1 1 1 1 1 5

AVEQ-005 Screen 1 1 1 1 1 1 6

AVEQ-006 Video Camera & Accessories 1 1 2



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3.4.6 Assist and Train PAMBs in Establishing the Systems for Running the IPAF and for Collecting Fees

See also 4.4.4, IPAF Training Programme.

TABLE 39 IPAF FOR COLLECTION OF FEES

Integrated Protected Areas Fund

IPAF

Activities

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Mala

mp

aya

So

un

d

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mts

. Iglit &

Baco

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt. M

alin

dan

g

Mt. P

ula

g

Interim PAMB/PAMB No1 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

IPAF Sub-account number No 401-087 401-102 401-072 401-101 401-044 401-039 401-009

Current Account established No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Trust Fund set up Na Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes

PASu is the Special Collecting Officer

Na Yes No Yes No No No Yes

Accounts available Na Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes

Fee Collection in place Na Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Comprehensive Guidelines available – as Manual

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Training Part One Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Training Part Two No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

N.B. – The IPAF process has not been sufficiently tested and the opinion of the Directors in March 2001 was that it was probably too complicated to operate easily. For instance 9 signatures are required for the release of funds.

3.4.7 Design and Organize M&E Systems at PMO and PAO Level

Monitoring and Evaluation are two distinct processes.

3.4.7.1 Monitoring – Accounting

See Financial Report below, Section 4, on page 67.

3.4.7.2 Monitoring – Status Report

The Status Report is the manifestation of the project monitoring process. See subsection 3.1.2 on page 16.

3.4.7.3 Monitoring - BMS

See, also , 4.4.2 - Installation of the Biodiversity Monitoring System, below.

The DENR/PAWB Biodiversity Monitoring System is a scheme, developed by the NORDECO-Technical Assistance aimed at Improving Biodiversity Conservation in Protected Areas in the Philippines, to monitor biodiversity in the Philippines. Its objective is to discern positive or negative trends that will need corresponding management responses. The BMS methods have been designed to help contribute to the improved conservation and sustainable use of forests and wetlands.

NIPAP employed a short-term TA to investigate and recommend monitoring process. His view was that the NORDECO system was excellent (and it was, thereafter, endorsed by PAWB). Therefore and with the help of NORDECO, NIPAP adopted and tested the process

1 See subsection 2.2.8 above



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on seven sites, the Tagbanua of Coron Island being, understandably, suspicious of the process (see subsection 2.2.8 above).

A manual – part of the NIPAP Essentials of Protected Area Management series – has been produced:

Biodiversity Monitoring System Manual (NORDECO)

Progress to date is as follows:

TABLE 40 PROGRESS OF THE BMS, BIODIVERSITY MONITORING SYSTEM

BMS ESTABLISHMENT PROCESSES

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Ma

lam

pa

ya

So

un

d

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mts

. Iglit &

Ba

co

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lind

an

g

Mt. P

ula

g

Phase 1- Training (Provide participants with the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills on how to install BMS at the PA site)

Na Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Phase 2- Guided BMS Installation (Identification and installation of monitoring sites for photo documentation, transect walk and focus group discussion)

Na Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Phase 3- Assessment and Supervision (Follow-up site assessment to determine the progress of BMS implementation and installation as well as to identify some areas for improvement)

Na Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Phase 4- Monitoring and Supervision (Monitor and check BMS sites installed and supervise installation of additional sites if needed and preparation of BMS report)

Na No No No No No No No

Phase 5- Monitoring and Supervision (Monitor and check BMS sites installed and facilitate formulation of Action Plan to ensure BMS activities are sustained at site level)

Na No No No No No No No

3.4.7.4 Evaluation – Financial

See Financial Report below, Section 4, on page 67.

3.4.7.5 Evaluation – Management and Policy

Evaluation involves the assessment of data arising from monitoring. The subsequent response should be management/administrative reaction and policy evolution. This has been NIPAP’s experience, improving with the quantity and quality of monitoring and with the availability of evaluation.

The manifestation of evaluation is:

a. The Annual Work Plans, especially those for 1999 and 2000, including the 2000 Supplement, taking it up to March 2001 – see Subsection 2.3, above.

b. Rider Number 3 – see Subsection 2.3, above.

c. The Proposal – see Subsection 2.3, above.

d. The Quarterly reports, increasing used as policy and management review processes

e. And, very importantly, special evaluations published in the Suhay editions numbers). These are reported below while the transcripts appear in the attached CD.



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TABLE 41 EVALUATIONS PUBLISHED IN SUHAY

EDITION ITEM

1 Jan-Jun 2000 The Cost of Managing Protected Areas in the Philippines.

2 City and Municipal Government at the forefront in conservation: a reality or utopia. Also, Isarog’s Min and Max.

3 July-Sept 2000 Staffing Protected Area: defining criteria based on a case study of eight protected areas in the Philippines.

4 Multi-Stage Management Planning for Protected Area (based on Mt. Malindang PA).

5 Monitoring and Evaluation Beyond Record-keeping.

6 Oct-Jan 2001 Collection of Protected Area Funds (A year-round Review)

7 Unveiling Levels of Commitment (Protected Area Management Boards)

8 The Importance of Managerial Stability and Continuity

3.4.8 Establish Integrated Data Base (IDB) at the PMO and PAO

This is the MIS – the Management Information System. It covers three activities: GIS, IDB and the Library, each manifested by a sub-section under the management of an MIS Section Head. The GIS is covered separately below (subsection 3.4.10).

3.4.8.1 A Structured Digital Data-Base

The IDB sub-section’s primary role was completed in terms of maintaining computer systems and securing project data to generate:

➢ a structured digital database of the 8 PA sites for the use of the 8 PA offices and PAWB; and

➢ a copy of this database compilation written on compact discs for distribution to PA offices and PAWB and made available to stakeholders.

3.4.8.2 Repair and Maintenance

Regular maintenance activities included:

➢ repair and maintenance of computer hardware, software and the Local Area Network at the PMO/PAOs and

➢ maintenance of office systems such as PMO Accounting System, PAO Light Accounting System, Payroll, Document Tracking, Property and Supplies Management.

3.4.8.3 GMPs

Special attention and support was given to the preparation and finalization of GMPs. A template was developed to standardize the format and layout of GMPs and its appendices. The MIS conducted brief sessions and tutorials for GMP writers and editors.

3.4.8.4 Database Availability on Public Compact Discs

On September 2000, IDB activities were focused on the final structuring of the database for the eight sites and the collection and archiving of final plans and reports. The database of each site comprising the IDB and GIS files were written on separate CDs while the PMO database was written in two CDs. A repeat of this activity was made on March 2001 to further refine the IDB structure in line with the final handover of the database.



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3.4.8.5 Consolidation of Outputs

The 1st quarter of 2001 focused on consolidating the outputs of the MIS and the project database. Outputs that were packaged in September 2000, the original project closure date, were reviewed and worked on again. These outputs include the complete database of the 8 sites and the PMO database.

3.4.8.6 The Future: PAWB/ARCBC

The sustainability and effective use of the project’s database were recognized as the project is about to end. The phasing-in to PAWB was explored and on December 2000, PAWB agreed by issuing a Special Order, to provide MIS counterparts for GIS, Library and the IDB in preparation for the eventual turn-over. Formal talks and agreements were made for ARCBC, through PAWB, to sustain the Information Communication Technology Center (ICTC) in conjunction with ARCBC’s thrusts after March 2001. See also 4.9.1.

3.4.8.7 World Wide Web Site

In December 2000, the project proposed to assist PAWB improve its website by relocating it to a new domain. In the process, a space in the website will be allocated to contain the web pages of protected areas in the Philippines. The project initiated the registration of the new domain (www.pawb.gov.ph) to the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the hosting of the new domain to a web host. By March 2001, the new PAWB website was launched incorporating the 8 NIPAP protected area sites developed by the IDB.

TABLE 42 IDB WORK BY MARCH 2001:

ACTIVITY

PM

U /

PA

WB

Coro

n Is

.

El N

ido

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Guitin

g

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lindang

Mt. P

ula

g

Ma

lam

paya

Sound

Mts

. Iglit-

Baco

Literature Collection and Archiving

Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Picture Collection and Archiving


Organization according to IDB Structure


Distribution of the IDB on CDs


Deployment of Computer Hardware and Software


3.4.8.8 An IDB for Each of the Eight Sites

TABLE 43 CORON ISLAND DATA BASE

CORON ISLAND DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD

Coron Island Protected Areas General Management Plan, Advance Draft, Volume I, Description, Analysis and Prescription

Available Available

Pinangangalagaang Lugar ng Isla Coron, Pangkalahatang Plano ng Pamamahala (GMP Tagalog Version)

Available Available

IEC Strategy for NIPAP Implementation in Coron Island Available Available

Socio-economic and Cultural Profile of the Coron Island, Finding and Recommendations for PA Planning resulting from a Rapid Rural Appraisal

Available Available

Working with the Indigenous People in Coron Island for PA Management

Available Available

CORON ISLAND GIS DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD

http://www.pawb.gov.ph/



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Administrative boundary (barangay level) Available Available

Road/tracks/footpath Available Available

River/creeks/inland water Available Available

Place names Available Available

Significant landmarks Available Available

20-meter contour Available Available


Land cover Available Available

Cadastral and Land Status Map In Process Available

CADC, CALC, CADT, CLOA Available Available

Land mapping unit Available Available

Protected Area Boundary Available Available

Management zones Available Available

Major river/water catchment Available Available

Bathymetric Available Available

Fishing activity Available Available

Slope Available Available

Participatory 3-dimentional model Available Available

Population density Available Available

Annual average growth rate Available Available

TABLE 44 EL NIDO DATA BASE

EL NIDO DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD

Participatory 3D Model Available Available

Biodiversity Assessment of El Nido Islands, Palawan (Part II – Fauna) Available Available

Biodiversity Assessment of El Nido Islands, Palawan (Park I – Flora) Available Available

Assessment and Zonation of Coastal Habitats at Bacuit Bay, Northern Palawan

Available Available

El Nido-Taytay Protected Area General Management Plan, Executive Summary

Available Available

El Nido-Taytay Protected Area General Management Plan, Advance Draft, Volume I, Description, Analysis and Prescription

Available Available

IEC Strategy for NIPAP Implementation in El Nido Marine Reserve Available Available

Fisheries Management Proposals for the El Nido Managed Resource Protected Area, Results of the Community-based Fisheries Management Consultations

Available Available

Community based Fisheries Assessment for the El Nido Marine Reserve Available Available

List of Plants Available Available

List of Islands within the El Nido Marine Reserve Available Available

Strategic Framework for the El Nido Marine Reserve Management Plan Available Available

Recommendations for PA Planning as a result of the Socio-economic profiling of El Nido and the conduct of a Rapid Rural Appraisal

Available Available

Willingness To Pay Survey Available Available

Listing of Endemic, Rare and Endangered Species in Palawan, their habitat and conservation requirements and local status

Available Available

Bacauit Islands Profile Available Available

Status, habitat and distribution of restricted - range bird species Available Available

Protected Area Suitability Assessment (PASA) documents Available Available

Vegetation Analysis Available Available

Geology Available Available

Mammals of Palawan Available Available



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EL NIDO GIS DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD









Cadastral and Land Status Map Available Available







Present land use Available Available

Habitat type distribution Available Available

Tourism establishments Available Available







Crop suitability Available Available

Potential areas for agriculture Available Available

TABLE 45 MALAMPAYA SOUND DATA BASE

MALAMPAYA SOUND DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD


Baseline Survey in Malampaya Sound, Taytay, Palawan Available Available

Malampaya Sound Protected Land and Seascape General Management Plan, Advance Draft, Volume I, Description, Analysis and Prescription

Available Available

IEC Strategy for NIPAP Implementation in Malampaya Sound, Taytay, Palawan

Available Available

Initial Protected Area Plan Available Available

Pre Feasibility Study Available Available

Socio-economic and Cultural Profile of the Malampaya Sound, Findings and Recommendations for PA Planning resulting from Rapid Rural

Appraisal

Available Available

Endemic Flora and Fauna List Available Available

MALAMPAYA SOUND GIS DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD










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Slope In Process Planned


TABLE 46 MT. GUITING-GUITING DATA BASE

MT. GUITING-GUITING DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD


Baseline Survey in Mt Guiting-Guiting Natural Park, Sibuyan Island Available Available

Report on the Survey of the Terrestrial Vegetation in Sibuyan Island Available Available

Forest Inventory Database Available Available

Inventory of Forest Trees in Mt Guiting-Guiting Available

General Management Plan Available Available

IEC Strategy for NIPAP Implementation in Mt Guiting-Guiting National Park Available Available

Amphibians of Sibuyan Available Available

Sibuyan Mammals Available

List of municipalities and barangays Available Available

List of fauna Available Available

Vegetation of Sibuyan, List of flora Available Available

List of fishes, Sibuyan Available Available

List of Birds in Sibuyan Available

Plant Diversity Analysis of Mt Guiting-Guiting National Park Available Available

Report on the Survey of the Terrestrial Vegetation in Sibuyan Island Available Available

Strategic Framework of Mt Guiting-Guiting Natural Park Management Plan Available Available

Socio-economic and Cultural Profile of the Island of Sibuyan, Romblon, Findings and Recommendations for PA Planning resulting from Rapid Rural Appraisal

Available Available

Strengthening the Social Fence Around Mt Guiting-Guiting Natural Park through CBFM

Available Available

Participatory Planning Process with Selected Communities on Timber Supply for Domestic Use

Available Available

MALAMPAYA SOUND GIS DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD












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Land management unit Available Available








Mineral claims/application Available Available






Crop suitability Available Available


Forest inventory Available Available

TABLE 47 MTS. IGLIT AND BACO DATA BASE

MTS. IGLIT AND BACO DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD

IEC Strategy for NIPAP Implementation in Mts. Iglit-Baco National Park Available Available

Preliminary Study for Mindoro Island-wide Program for Biodiversity Conservation

Available Available

Preliminary Stakeholders Consultation Workshop for the Proposed Mindoro National Park

Available Available

Percentage of number of farms by tenure system within the municipalities encompassing MIBNP

Available Available

Bird-day totals of Mindoro forest residents (with sightings) Available Available

MOA between NIPAP and CARE, support to livelihood activities via AWESOME project???????????????????????????????????????

Available Available

Tamaraw Management Available Available

List of pending CADCs for Approval of DENR Region IV, Mindoro Province Available Available

Mt Iglit-Baco National park: An ASEAN Heritage Park and Reserve, Regional Technical Bulleting No. 1 DENR-EMPAS, Region IV

Available Available

General Information on Mt Iglit-Baco National Park Available Available

Forest Habitats in Mindoro Available Available

MTS. IGLIT AND BACO GIS DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD
















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TABLE 48 MT. ISAROG DATA BASE

MT. ISAROG DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD

Baseline Survey in Mt Isarog National Park, Camarines Sur 1997 Available Available

Mt Isarog General Management Plan, Advance Draft, Volume I, Description, Analysis and Prescription

Available Available

IEC Strategy for NIPAP Implementation in Mt Isarog National Park Available Available

Recommendations for PA planning as a result of the Socio-economic Profiling of Mt Isarog and the conduct of a Rapid Rural Appraisal

Available Available

Willing To Pay Survey, Mt Isarog National Park, Recommendations for the Establishment of Appropriate Entrance Fees

Available Available

Fault Line Found Lying in Mt Isarog National Park Available Available

Municipal and Barangay listing in Mt Isarog with area and number of farmers Available Available

Assessment of Micro-projects in Mt Isarog National Park Available Available

Existing Information on Water Companies in Mt Isarog Available Available

Cost and benefit analysis for a beekeeping project Available Available

Mt Isarog National Park: Bicol’s Last Environmental Frontier Available Available

Minutes of Strategic Planning Framework Development Workshop Available Available

Minutes of the 1st PAMB Meeting, CY 1999 Available Available

List of City/municipalities and barangays encompassing Mt Isarog National Park (with Mayors and Barangay Captains)

Available Available

Proceedings of the Phase-in/Phase-out Workshop in Mt Isarog National Park Available Available

General Overview of Mt Isarog National Park Available Available

MT. ISAROG GIS DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD

















Stakeholders Available Available


Participatory 3-dimentional model In Process Available



TABLE 49 MT. MALINDANG DATA BASE

MT. MALINDANG DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD




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Baseline Survey in Mt Malindang Mountain Range, Misamis Occidental, 1997 Available Available

General Management Plan of Mt Malindang Natural Park, Advance Draft, Volume I, Description, Analysis and Prescription

Available Available

Mt Malindang Natural Park GMP Executive Summary, Management Manual incorporating the Park Management Plan 2001-2003

Available

IEC Strategy for NIPAP Implementation in Mt Malindang National Park, Misamis Occidental

Available Available

Socio-economic and Cultural Profile of Mt Malindang, Finding and Recommendations for PA Planning resulting from the conduct of the Rapid Rural Appraisals

Available Available

Mt Malindang National Park Management Strategy Available Available

Biodiversity Conservation and Management for Mt Malindang Natural Park Available Available

Minutes of the 3rd RDOs Training Workshop in Naga City, Camarines Sur Available Available

MT. MALINDANG GIS DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD

















Stakeholders Available Available







Forest inventory Available Available

TABLE 50 MT. PULAG DATA BASE

MT. PULAG DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD


Baseline Survey Report of Mt. Pulag Available Available

Resource Base Inventory Available Available

Altitudinal Profile (Vegetation) Available Available

Mt Pulag General Management Plan, Advance Draft, Volume I, Description, Analysis and Prescription

Available Available

List of Appendices, Mt Pulag General Management Plan, Volume II Available

IEC Strategy for NIPAP Implementation in Mt Pulag National Park Available Available

Recommendations for PA Planning resulting from the Socio-economic Profiling of the Area of Mt Pulag and the conduct of a Rapid Rural Appraisal

Available Available



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Biodiversity Monitoring System in Mt Pulag National Park, Phase 1 and Phase 2

Available Available

Vertical Profile of Vegetative Cover in Mt Pulag National Park Available Available

Biological Environment of Mt Pulag (RBI) Available Available

Geo-Physical Environment of Mt Pulag (RBI) Available Available

Social Environment of Mt Pulag (RBI) Available Available

Establishment of Kalanguya Community Museum in Mt Pulag NP: Results of a Preliminary Archeological Assessment in Brgy Tawangan, Kabayan,

Benguet

Available Available

Report on Area Assessment for the Possible Expansion of Mt Pulag National Park

Available Available

Identified centers of high importance for biodiversity conservation Available Available

Proceedings of the Phase-in/Phase-out Workshop Available Available

MT. PULAG GIS DATA AVAILABILITY AT PMU ON CD












Protected Area Boundary Available In Process

Management zones Available In Process

Major river/water catchment Available In Process

Present land use Available In Process

Tourism establishments Available In Process

Stakeholders Available In Process

Geology Available In Process

Slope Available In Process

Participatory 3-dimentional model Available In Process

Population density Available In Process

Annual average growth rate Available In Process

3.4.9 Establish IDB at the PMO and PAO - Library

The Library is part of the IDB but has special importance in terms of the organization and management of hard data (including press records).

3.4.9.1 Library Outputs

TABLE 51 PROGRESS OF LIBRARY WORKS BY MARCH 2001:

LIBRARY OUTPUTS FOR PAWB

PROGRESS

Bibliographic Database and OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalogue)

3 bibliographic databases have been developed, the TECSITE Database (1,000 records) composed of documents/references for the 8 sites, the SERIALS Database (300 titles) composed of magazines, newsletters, and the BOOK Database (612 titles). The Book collection has been indexed and catalogued using the AGROVOC Thesaurus from the FAO. All databases were encoded using the CDS/WIN ISIS library software developed by UNESCO. The database has network capabilities and “Bibliographic Search” stations were piloted and



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LIBRARY OUTPUTS FOR PAWB

PROGRESS

placed for some library users.

Physical Arrangement The book collection is arranged alphabetically by call number for easy retrieval. Call numbers are assigned using the “Cutter Table” system of alphabetizing and arranging books by title and author. 3 additional shelves were added to house the growing number of the library collection. 2 of these shelves have glass doors to house and protect important materials.

Acquisition of AGROVOC

Adoption of AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus as a source of Subject Headings for library materials. The newest edition of AGROVOC was acquired as a gift from the Acquisitions librarian of IRRI from Los Baños. Additional copies of the AGROVOC will be sent to PAOs that are ready to establish their own library collections.

Library Inventory So far, the library has distributed 26,000 publications to the PAOs. These include books, serials, multi-media materials, and graphic materials, Suhay, and management strategies. NIPAP publications were also distributed to government agencies and NGOs. New titles that were not included in the previous inventory were surrendered by all the NIPAP sections numbering close to 400 as part of the closure activities.

Scanning of pictures Selection and scanning of 6 boxes of pictures to be included in the picture library were completed and made available for viewing and research..

Filing of news articles The filing of news articles was stopped due to important closure activities of NIPAP.

Writing the Guidebook 1,000 copies of the “Guide to Establishing a Protected Area Library” were sent to the PAOs and other concerned parties together with other manuals.

Sorting of Photos for the Photo Library

The sorting and pasting of pictures into the Photo Albums were completed. A total of 9 albums was generated (8 for the sites and 1 for the PMU).

Library User’s Guide Done

Mailing list Generation of mailing list in coordination with the Sustainability section for the distribution of NIPAP publications.

Distribution of GMPs and Manuals on the Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines

Done

Library training Training and orientation of Mt. Malindang PA staff on the setting-up of a mini-library was conducted in February 2001;.

A follow-up training in Mt. Malindang PA office was conducted by the Librarian on March 2001.

Training of the PAWB librarian on the use of CD WIN-ISIS software and AGROVOC was conducted from December to March 2001

TABLE 52 LIBRARY OUTPUTS RELATED TO THE EIGHT SITES

LIBRARY OUTPUTS FOR PAO

Coro

n

EN

MR

PA

MT

.

GU

ITIN

G-

GU

ITIN

G

MIN

P

MM

NP

MP

NP

MS

PLS

MIB

NP

Site Training N/A N/A N/A N/A Done N/A N/A N/A

Installation of Software N/A N/A N/A N/A Done N/A N/A N/A

Distribution of materials and documents

Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Photo Documentation Done Done Done Done N/A N/A Done Done



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3.4.10 Establish a Geographic Information System (GIS)

Part of the MIS – the Management Information System, which covers three activities - GIS, IDB and the Library - each manifested by a sub-section under the management of an MIS Section Head. See subsection 3.4.9, above.

The essential mandate of the GIS sub-section was to produce all the thematic maps required to fulfill the establishment of the Pas according to the NIPAS legislation (see subsection 3.3 above) and also to facilitate GMPs (3.4.1). This required primary and secondary research.

Thus the following was completed:

a. Collection of necessary prerequisite primary and secondary data;

b. Digitization and Vectorization of the relevant base-data for all eight sites, including Digitization of P3D Model data (see 4.4.3, below);

c. Generation of requisite maps for site-based activities;

d. Technical description of PA boundary needed for Presidential Proclamation

e. Development of map design;

f. Generation of requisite maps, according to the standard layout, for GMP maps;

g. Processing of Metadata (documentation of GIS database) for the IDB, including a complete inventory to enable the correction of historic errors;

h. Development of Viewer Files (as graphic - jpeg - files);

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TABLE 53 PROGRESS OF GIS MAPPING WORKS BY MARCH 2001

MAPS DATA SET

Co

ron

Isla

nd

El N

ido

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Gu

iting

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lind

an

g

Mt. P

ula

g

Ma

lam

pa

ya

So

un

d

Mts

. Iglit-

Ba

co

REQUISITE MAPS FOR NIPAS 13 STEPS

Topographic Administrative boundary (barangay level) Done Done Done Done Done Done Done N/a

Road/tracks/footpath Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

River/creeks/inland water Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Place names Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Significant landmarks Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

20-meter contour Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Land cover

Cadastral and Land Status Map N/a Done Done Done Done N/a Done Done

CADC, CALC, CADT, CLOA Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Land mapping unit Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Completed Protected Area Boundary N/a Done Done Done Done N/a Done Done

Ongoing Boundary Delineation Done Done Done Done Done Done Done N/A

Zoning (draft) Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Major river/water catchment Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

SPECIAL MAPS

Bathymetric Done Done Done N/A N/A N/A Done N/A

Present land use N/a Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Habitat type distribution N/a Done Done N/A N/A N/A Done N/A

Tourism establishments (est’ed & proposed) N/A Done Done Done Done Done Done N/A

Fishing activity Done Done N/A N/A N/A N/A Done N/A

Stakeholders N/A N/A N/A Done Done N/A N/A N/A

Mineral claims/application N/A N/A Done N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Geology N/A Done Done N/A Done Done N/A N/A

Slope Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

3-dimentional model Done Done Done Done Done Done Done N/A

Digital data from 3D model Done Done Done Done Done Done Done N/A

Population density Done Done Done Done Done Done N/A N/A

Annual average growth rate Done Done Done Done Done Done N/A N/A

Crop suitability N/A Done Done N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Potential areas for agriculture N/A Done Done N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Forest inventory N/A N/A Done N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A



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TABLE 54 PROGRESS OF ADDITIONAL GIS WORK FOR YEAR 2000 BY SITE

ACTIVITY

Coro

n Is

.

El N

ido

Mt. G

uitin

g-

Guitin

g

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lindang

Mt. P

ula

g

Ma

lam

paya

Sound

Mts

. Iglit-

Baco

Data Capture of Topographic Maps (re-Digitization) Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Preparation of Spatial Database Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Inventory of Spatial Database Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Prepare Structure for Metadata Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Update and fill in Metadata Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Restructure Data Directory Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Standardize Map Layout Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Identify Layers for Base Maps Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Create Viewer Files on CD Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

Create Data Access for each Site Done Done Done Done Done Done Done Done

3.4.11 Assist DENR/PAWB with Policy Review and Formulation

NIPAP assisted DENR/PAWB with policy review and formulation in five significant areas.

3.4.11.1 DAO 98-60 – PAWB Command

Whereby NIPAP, in addition to NORDECO and ARCBC were formally placed under PAWB

3.4.11.2 IPAS Technical Co-ordinating Committee

NIPAP played a significant role in this particularly in terms of realizing DAO 45 of 2000 (below), the phase-in / phase-out processes of foreign assisted projects and the IPAF (below). See Phase-In/Phase-Out Workshops, subsection 4.8, below.

NIPAP’s concluding view of NIPAS is that it is a very good piece of legislation.

3.4.11.3 DAO 45 Series 2000 – PASu Establishment

NIPAP was intimately involved in the drafting of DAO 45-2000, signed by the Secretary on June 6, 2000. This defines the duties and responsibilities of the PASus and the lines of command within the DENR set-up: the PASu reports directly to the PENRO.

3.4.11.4 DAO 2001-01 – 3D Modeling

Being the institutionalization of 3D Modeling processes for all protected areas. See subsection 4.4.3, below.

3.4.11.5 IPAF

NIPAP has had a significant impact on the testing and thinking of the IPAF. See subsections 3.1.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4 and 3.4.6, above, and 4.1, below.



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3.5 OUTPUT THREE: INCREASED PUBLIC AWARENESS FOR THE NEED TO PROTECT ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY AND INCREASED INVOLVEMENT OF RESIDENT COMMUNITIES IN NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

3.5.1 Design and Implement IEC Programmes

3.5.1.1 The Global Work Plan

The GWP states that an IEC programme will be designed and implemented, aimed at enhancing the awareness of affected communities as well as the general public in the Programme’s Areas of Interest. The focus will be on social marketing and information sharing at the local level, materials development and promotion of public information campaigns through existing media.

3.5.1.2 Failure

In the event, the Directorate feels quite strongly that despite some good hard outputs arising from the IEC component of the project, on the whole, this aspect of NIPAP’s activities were a failure. In the end we failed to get the conservation message across to all sectors of the community. This especially included two groups: certain local - and often powerless – communities, including IP groups1; and policy makers at the top of the government process. There was no clear IEC vision2 or expertise in the project up to 1999, up until when the “IEC Section” produced a variety of documents of variable usefulness and was responsible for a workshops and some training. However, by the time it became clear that the section as a whole was itself ignorant of the most basic facts of ecological dynamics, there was little that the directorate could do to rectify the situation given the limited time available3. There is no doubt that a much more field-based IEC is required; this is discussed in Section Error! Reference source not found. below.

Nonetheless, a great deal was incidentally achieved as follows:

3.5.1.3 Training and Workshops

See sub-sections 3.4.3, 3.4.4 and 3.4.6, above.

3.5.1.4 Publications

85 documents were published for wide public consumption as set out below.

1 In this respect, the Tagbanua of Coron Island are undoubtedly the best informed but due mainly to

the efforts of the NGO, PAFID. Others, particularly the Mangyan of Mts. Iglit and Baco and to a lesser extend isolated IP groups around Mt. Pulag are much more ignorant of the NIPAS processes and the of the long term benefits arising therefrom.

2 With the benefit of hindsight, it seemed that all sectors of the community from local migrant groups to the very top policy makers needed to be aware of the nature of NIPAS/NIPAP as manifesting not some abstract idea about preserving nature but as an essential survival process. Moreover, NIPAP personnel would have needed to have been sensitised to the situation from the beginning; it was not.

3 Efforts to reform the IEC Section led to stiff resistance from the staff concerned who, as a result, attempted to oust the European Co-Director during his leave in October 1999. This cost the project a great deal of valuable time and energy.



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TABLE 55 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS

Bibliography of Published Documents

Protected Area Management Strategies

1 NIPAP. 2000. Management Strategy for Mt. Malindang

2 NIPAP. 2000. Management Strategy for Mt. Isarog

3 NIPAP. 2000. Pamaagi sa Pagdumala sa Bukid Malindang

4 NIPAP. 2000. Mt. Pulag Management Framework

5 NIPAP. 2000. Pamamaraan Pamamahala sa El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area

6 NIPAP. 2000. Management Framework for El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area

7 NIPAP. 2000. Management Strategy for Mt. Guiting-Guiting

8 NIPAP. 2000. Istrattehiya kan Pagmanehar sa Bukid Isarog

9 NIPAP. 2000. Pamamaraan ng Panganasiwa ng Malampaya Sound Protected Land and Seascape

10 NIPAP. 2000. Management Strategy for Malampaya Sound Protected Land and Seascape

11 NIPAP. 2000. Stratehiyang Pamamahala sa Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park

12 NIPAP. 2000. Wagas iti Panamanehar iti Pulag National Park

13 NIPAP. 2001. Pamamaraan ng Pamamahala sa Mts. Iglit-Baco National Park

Suhay Newsletter

14 Suhay Vol. 1, No. 1 (1997)

15 Suhay Vol. 1, No. 2 (1997)

16 Suhay Vol. 2, No. 1 (1998)

17 Suhay Vol. 2, No. 2 (1998)

18 Suhay Vol. 2, No. 3 (1998)

19 Suhay Vol. 2, No. 4 (1998)

20 Suhay Vol. 3, No. 1 (1999)

21 Suhay Vol. 3, No. 2 (1999)

22 Suhay Vol. 3, No. 3 (1999), ISSN 1655-0471

23 Suhay Vol. 3, No. 4 (1999), ISSN 1655-0471

24 Suhay Vol. 4, No. 2 (2000), ISSN 1655-0471

25 Suhay Vol. 4, No. 3 (2000), ISSN 1655-0471

26 Suhay Vol. 4, No. 1 (2000), ISSN 1655-0471

Publications on International Journals

27 RAMBALDI G., FERNAN M. L. and SIAR S.V. (1998). Participatory Resource Mapping: a Tool for Community-based Coastal Resource Management, Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, Vol. 92, No. 1, pages 69-79, Istituto Agronomico per l'Oltremare

28 RAMBALDI G., FERNAN M. L. and SIAR S.V. (1998). Resource Mapping, Stratified Resource Mapping and Two-Stage Resource Mapping in: Participatory Methods for Community-based Coastal Resource Management, Vol. 2, 222 - 235, IIRR, IDRC, CIDA.

29 RAMBALDI G. (1997). Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) as a Tool to Integrating People's Participation in Protected Areas Management Planning in the Philippines. SYLVATROP, Vol. 7 (1&2): 28-39.

30 RAMBALDI G., MENDOZA M. and RAMIREZ F. 2000. Adding the 4th Dimension to Participatory 3-D Modeling, PLA Notes No. 39: 19-24, IIED, London, UK



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31 RAMBALDI G. and CALLOSA TARR J. 2000. Exploring the Synergies of GIS and Participatory 3-D Modeling to Increase Local Communication Capacity. Paper presented at the 5th International Seminar on GIS and Developing Countries, GISDECO 2000, International Rice Research Institute, 2-3 November 2000.

Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines

32 SIMPSON S. and BUGNA S. 2001. Biodiversity, Conservation and the Community, Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 1. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 971-8986-23-5)

33 ASHTON JONES N. 2000. A Guide to Understanding the Environment; Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 2. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 971-8986-25-1)

34 ASHTON JONES N. 2000. Ecological Glossary for Protected Area Managers; Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 3. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 971-8986-26-X)

35 SIMPSON S. and BUGNA S. 2001. Handbook for Protected Area Rangers and Field Officers; Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 6. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 971-8986-31-6)

36 RAMBALDI G. and CALLOSA J. 2000. Manual on Participatory 3-Dimensional Modeling; Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 7. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 971-8986-21-9)

37 MACEDA E. 2000. Guide to Establishing a Protected Area Library Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 8. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 8986-36-7)

38 BACUDO I., AGLIONBY J., RAMBALDI G., MATSUURA P. and BLASTIQUE T. 2001. Handbook for the Establishment and Management of Integrated Protected Area Sub-funds. Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 10. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 971-8986-32-4)

39 BONPIN, T.T., PEREZ A.G. and ASSOCIATES. 2000. Primer on Criminal Procedure for Violations in Protected Areas. Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 11. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 971-8986-29-4)

40 BONPIN T.T., et al. 2000. Paralegal Training Manual for Protected Areas. Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 12. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 971-8986-37-5)

41 BONPIN T.T., PEREZ A.G. and ASSOCIATES. 2000. Primer on Administrative Procedure for Violations in Protected Areas. Essentials of Protected Area Management in the Philippines, Vol. 13. NIPAP, PAWB-DENR, Philippines. (ISBN 971-8986-28-6)

Brochures/leaflets

42 NIPAP Project Profile (1996) – English

43 NIPAP “Preserving nature for the children of tomorrow” (1998) - English

44 Important facts about the NIPAS ACT (1998) – English version (leaflet)

45 Important facts about the NIPAS ACT (1998) – Tagalog version (leaflet)

46 The Goals and Objectives of NIPAP (1998) –Tagalog version

47 Mga Gawain at Tungkulin ng NIPAP (1998) - Tagalog

48 Ano ang kahulugan ng mga “Management Zones”, 1998 - Tagalog

49 The Management Zones in a Protected Area (1998)

50 Know and Understand all about Biodiversity (1998) - English

51 El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area (Flyer; year 2001)

52 Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park (flyer; year 2001)



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53 Mt. Malindang Natural Park (flyer; year 2001)

54 Mt. Isarog Natural Park (flyer; year 2001)

55 Mt. Isarog Natural Park (quick reference guide; year 2001)

Post Cards

56 Mt. Pulag (postcard) (year 1998)

57 Mt. Isarog (postcard) (year 1998)

58 Mts. Iglit-Baco (postcard) (year 1998)

59 Mt. Guiting-guiting (postcard) (year 1998)

60 Coron Island (postcard) (year 1998)

61 El Nido (postcard) (year 1998)

62 Malampaya (postcard) (year 1998)

63 Mt. Malindang (postcard) (year 1998)

Calendars

64 Year 1999

65 Year 2000

Annual Report to the Public

66 Year 1996

67 Year 1997

68 Year 1998

69 Year 1999

70 Year 2000

Posters

71 "Magkaisa - Magtulungan" (Year 1999)

72 "Sigurado Ang Bukas…kapag sa Kalikasan ay May Malasakit" (Year 1999)

73 "Unti-unti Mong Nilalason ang Anak Mo!" (Year 1999)

74 "Alagaan Mo ang Kalikasan…At Hindi Ka Nito Pababayaan" (Year 1999)

75 "Gusto Mo Bang Mangyari Ito sa Pamilya Mo?" (Year 1999)

76 "Pakaingatan Natin…Tanging Pamana sa Bagong Henerasyon" (Year 19990

Flip Charts with steel stands (re: NIPAS Act, NIPAP, Biodiversity, PA Management)

77 El Nido Marine Reserve, 1999 – Tagalog

78 Mt. Pulag National Park (1999) – English

79 Mt. Malindang Natural Park (1999) – Visayan

80 Mt. Isarog Natural Park (1999) – English

81 Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park (1999) – Tagalog

82 Mts. Iglit & Baco National Park (1999) – Tagalog

83 Malampaya Sound (1999) – Tagalog

84 Coron Island (1999) – Tagalog

85 Posters (for Exhibit) – One set – 10 pieces (depicting all NIPAP sites) (1999)



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3.5.2 Provide Alternative Livelihood Activities to Selected Communities Around Protected Areas and Initiate Sustainable Livelihood Projects In Accordance with the Intentions of the NIPAS Act

3.5.2.1 History, 1995-1999

The NIPAP Global Work Plan of 1995 specified that NIPAP would include the Promotion of Alternative Livelihood Activities, involving the following processes:

➢ Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRA), following on from Rapid Rural Appraisals (RRA) – including NGOs.

➢ The outcome of the PRAs were expected to be community designed micro-projects, including arrangements for implementation and monitoring.

➢ The program would support only a limited number of micro-projects, favouring those that would reduce pressure on the PA’s natural resources.

➢ Partner NGOs were supposed to have been in charge of field operations (in the event, they were only involved in the RRA).

➢ Alternative funding would be sought.

The policy was further refined in the concept paper, Livelihood, Resource Use and Community Development Component (on the CD). Thus:

➢ A Livelihood Section was set up in the PMU with activities focusing on three mountain sites: Mt. Isarog, Mt. Malindang and Mt. Pulag. Staffing in the PMU included a European TA, an Anthropologist and a Senior Rural Development Officer. Rural Development Officers (RDOs) were recruited for the three sites, supervised by the Protected Area Superintendents (PASu).

➢ In addition, a very valuable guide was produced: Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluating the Livelihood, Resource Use and Community Development Component and for Compiling a Micro-Project Proposal (on the CD).

➢ The aim remained that local NGOs should take over monitoring and support of the micro-projects. This was not seen as a problem for Mt. Malindang and Mt. Isarog where CARE Philippines and other NGOs were and are significantly supporting protection but the situation is problematic at Mt. Pulag where there is no significant NGO support. A summary of the outreach is shown in Error! Reference source not found. on page 113.

3.5.2.2 History, Post 1999

➢ With the completion of the TA Agronomist 36 month contract in September 1999, and the establishment of the Livelihood processes on the site, the PMU Livelihood Section was wound down with responsibility being delegated to the site RDOs, supervised by the PASus. This happened in the second half of 1999 (see sub-section 2.2.9, above).

➢ However, it was also clear that the PASu’s and their RDOs were not completely self-sufficient in their ability to financially manage their micro-projects or to supply information to the PMU as part of the monitoring process. Therefore, the Senior RDO was maintained as a Monitor, to be based at Mt. Isarog because this site had the most micro-projects and because the micro-projects at Mt. Malindang were being taken over by the CARE Philippines Mt. Malindang project (AWESOME).

➢ The Senior RDO left NIPAP to work for an NGO at the end of the June 2000.



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3.5.2.3 Summary of Livelihood Activities

TABLE 56 MICRO-PROJECTS SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

Site Submitted Approved Rejected % “Project”1

Funds Disbursed

% “Program”2

Funds Disbursed

Malampaya Sound 1 1 0 100% 100%

Mt. Isarog 42 25 17 100% 50%

Mt. Malindang 12 11 1 100% 90%

Mt. Pulag 11 10 1 100% 48%

TOTAL 66 47 19

TABLE 57 MICRO PROJECTS BUDGET

Site Project Funds

Training IEC Cross Visits

Total Expenses Replenish

Funds Transferr

ed Balance

MPNP 139,300.00 194,399.00 25,000.00 5,000.00 363,699.00 49,862.00 246,537.00 67,300.00

MINP 581,746.19 294,058.00 45,500.00 73,500.00 994,804.19 258,737.88 596,567.69 139,498.62

MMNP 258,266.00 81,000.00 27,570.00 20,000.00 386,836.00 153,922.59 207,359.00 25,554.41

TOTAL 979,312.19 569,457.00 98,070.00 98,500.00 1,745,339.19 462,522.47 1,050,463.69 232,353.03

TOTAL BUDGET PhP 1,745,339.19

EXPENSES REPLENISHED PhP 462,522.47

FUNDS TRANSFERRED PhP 1,050,463.69

BALANCE PhP 232,353.03

3.5.2.4 Pre-Completion Assessment of the Livelihood Project

The success, or otherwise, of the Livelihood activities at Mt. Isarog was considered to be indicative of the validity of the NIPAP livelihood program and approach as a whole. Therefore, a consultant was employed who undertook:

➢ To investigate and report on the state of the NIPAP livelihood project related to the Mt. Isarog National Park.

➢ To feel free to recommend a Way Forward, although this is not essential.

➢ To report to the NIPAP Directorate, upon the assumption that the Directorate has become quite ignorant about what is going on in terms of the Mt. Isarog livelihood program.

The outcome of the report is summarized on in Appendix 7 on page 114. It reinforces the Directorate view about the relevance of livelihood projects.

3.5.2.5 The Relevance of the Livelihood Projects

The Directorate view is that the micro-project part of NIPAP was irrelevant to the primary activity of establishing projected areas within the NIPAS legislation. At best it may have bribed some communities to accept NIPAP and provided a bit of extra income for a few people. At worst it may have distracted local farmers from their primary activity of struggling to survive in a natural and political world that is not sympathetic towards them. Moreover, to

1 Micro-Project Direct Expenses.

2 Incidental Expenses such as IEC and Cross Visits.



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suggest that the micro-projects are pilot projects is rather beside the point because pilot projects indicate follow-up activities; there never was an intention to follow up on the NIPAP livelihood component.

Notwithstanding this view, however, there is undoubtedly a need to tackle the livelihood problem in some way because it is the demands on protected areas being made by the poor people living around them that are causing them to shrink. Their economic needs must be met and it is unjust to expect poor local people to bear the costs of PA establishment. All the same, the answers are far beyond the abilities of NIPAP to supply; beyond, in fact, any type of unilateral project that has to operate in a national economy (and society) that needs to radically re-structure to solve the problem of rural poverty. One might suggest, even, that the solution is even beyond the nation, given the nature of the globalized economy in which it is forced to operate.

Moreover, well run an successful small projects can serve to bring marginalized local people into the orbit of the project.

3.5.3 Enhance Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Conservation Activities

This cannot be considered to have been an unqualified success because of the failure, in this area, of the IEC programme (see 3.5, above). Two main areas of activity can, nonetheless, be recognized:

3.5.3.1 The Socio Economic Surveys

Socio Economic Surveys were available for seven of the eight NIPAP sites (see 3.3.2, above), Mts. Iglit-Baco being the exception. All were produced by or directed by NIPAP with the exception of Coron Island.

TABLE 58 KNOWLEDGE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

SITE SUMMARY OF KNOWLEDGE

Coron Island Indigenous People: Tagbanua

Ancestral Domains:

▪ R04-CADC-134, Coron, Palawan, 22,284 ha – Tagbanua

El Nido Indigenous People: Tagbanua

Ancestral Lands:

▪ CALC application Sitio Patuyo, Barangay Bucana.

Malampaya Sound

Indigenous People: Tagbanua

Ancestral Lands:

▪ CALC: Sitio Yakal, Barangay new Guinlo, 791 ha – Tagbanua

Ancestral Domains: Ancestral Domains:

▪ R04-CADC-121: San Vicente, Palawan, 2060 ha, - Tagbanua

Mt. Guiting-Guiting

Indigenous People: Sibuyan Mangyan-Tagabukid

Ancestral Domains:

▪ Application filed by the Tagabukid (Sibuyan Mangyan) claiming 7,905 ha within the protected area in the municipalities of Cajidiocan and San Fernando.



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Mts. Iglit & Baco

Indigenous People: Mangyan, including: Iraya, Alangan, Batangan, Hanunuo, Ratagnon, Taayawan, Buhid (Tao Buhid)

Ancestral Domains:

▪ R04-CADC-130: San Jose, Rizal, Calintaan, Sablayan, Bongabong, Bansud, Roxas and Mansalay, 94,022 ha – Buhid Mangyan

▪ R04-CADC-125: Pinamalayan, Gloria and Socorro, Oriental Mindoro, 21,000 ha -Tao Buhid

▪ R04-CADC-123: Gloria and Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro, 3,750 ha –Tadyawan Mangyan

Mt. Isarog Indigenous People: Agta Tabangnon and Agta Cimarron

Ancestral Domains:

▪ R05-CADC-062: Goa, Camarines Sur, 9,226 ha - Agta Tabangnon and Agta Cimarron

▪ R05-CADC-092: Ocampo, Camarines Sur, 4,118 ha - Agta Tabangnon and Agta Cimarron

▪ R05-CADC-098: Tigaon, Camarines Sur, 4,794 ha - Agta Tabangnon and Agta Cimarron

Mt. Malindang

Indigenous People: Subanen

Ancestral Domains:

▪ R10-CADC-082: Bonifacio, Misamis Occidental, 5,642 ha – Subanen

▪ R10-CADC-083: Clarin, Misamis Occidental, 3,519 ha – Subanen

▪ R10-CADC-084: Jimenez, Misamis Occidental, 4,732 ha – Subanen

▪ R10-CADC-089: Tudela, Misamis Occidental, 4,539 ha – Subanen

▪ R10-CADC-159: Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, 2,967 ha – Subanen

▪ R10-CADC-160: Lopez Jaena, Misamis Occidental, 4,715 ha – Subanen

▪ R10-CADC-163: Oroquieta City, Misamis Occidental, 6230 ha, Subanen

Mt. Pulag Indigenous People: Kalanguya, Ibaloi, Kankana-ey, Karao and Ifugao

Ancestral Domains:

▪ CAR-CADC-037: (Kabayan, Benguet; 27, 252 ha), Kalanguya, Ibaloi and Kankana-ey

▪ CAR-CADC-036: (Tinoc, Ifugao; 27,787 ha), Kalanguya

▪ CAR-CADC-072: (Buguias, Benguet; 18,185 ha): Kalanguya and Kankana-ey

▪ CAR-CADC-150: (Bokod, Benguet; 42,946 ha): Kalanguya, Karao, Ibaloi

3.5.3.2 PAMB Membership

A special effort has been made to ensure IP representation on the PAMBs, although this does not by any means guarantee IP influence. For more details see subsection 4.2, below.



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TABLE 59 SUMMARY OF IP PAMB MEMBERSHIP

PAMB FOR:-

% Members Representing IP Groups

% Members who are IPs

Comments

Coron Island No PAMB. Dispute over the PAMB composition. Recommended 12 members, composed of 6 Tagbanuas and the rest are representatives of DENR, LGU & NGOs.

El Nido 4%

1 of 23

4%

1 of 23

23 members legally appointed as of 22 Dec. 2000. Appointment of one (1) additional IP representative being processed.

Malampaya Sound

7%

3 of 46

9%

4 of 46

46 members (appointments are currently being processed).

Mt. Guiting-Guiting

4%

1 of 26

4%

1 of 26

26 members legally appointed as of 15 December 1998. Appointment of three (3) additional IP members being processed.

Mts. Iglit & Baco

10%

2 of 21

19%

4 of 21

21 members legally appointed as of 22 December 2000.

Mt. Isarog 6%

2 of 36

6%

2 of 36

36 members legally appointed as of 28 February 2000.

Mt. Malindang

17%

9 of 52

21%

11 of 52

52 members legally appointed as of 23 January 2001. Appointment of two (2) additional IP representatives being processed.

Mt. Pulag 10%

2 of 21

76%

16 of 21

21 members legally appointed as of 23 March 2000. Appointments of ten (10) additional IP members being processed.

3.5.3.3 Coron Island

The outstanding example of IP involvement in conservation processes is the Tagbanua of Coron Island. Thanks to the paternalistic and concentrated efforts of one NGO, PAFID, the Tagbanua Foundation has produced its own GMP and is effectively protecting the island in its own terms.

3.5.4 Initiate Pilot Community-based Forestry Activities (on Sibuyan Island)

The NIPAP in coordination with Mabuhay Foundation, an NGO based in Magdiwang, organized Bantay Kalikasan (BAKAL) a Community-based Forest Protection Committee on July 27, 2000. This committee started with 23 members coming from the three municipalities in the island of Sibuyan. Membership increased to 43 in October of the same year. They were given training on Basic Paralegal and workshop on Environmental Protection, Conservation and Preservation together with Values Formation and Team Building.

At present the committee has 49 volunteer members. All their activities in protected area protection are coordinated to the local DENR, PASu, PAMB and LGU. They are formally hand over to the PASu for direct supervision last March 4, 2001 during the PAMB Enbanc meeting. The DENR R4 is facilitating the deputization of BAKAL members.



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3.5.5 Establish Linkages and Maintain Co-ordination with NGOs, POs, LGUs, and Other Stakeholders

3.5.5.1 How it was done

In 1998 NIPAP was being roundly criticized for acting independently of NGOs, LGUs and DENR Regional Offices. This was rectified in the 1999 and 2000 Annual Work Plans in three ways:

➢ By ensuring NGO and LGU representation on the PAMBs (and, incidentally, by ensuring regular PAMB meetings).

➢ By developing a mailing list which included Aid Agencies and Foreign Missions, DENR offices, other Government Agencies including Governors’ offices, Local Government offices, NGOs (local and international), other EU supported projects and other interested organizations. At the end of 2000 the mailing list contained 623 references and was continuing to grow. In addition, the PAOs receive quantities of publications to satisfy their own mailing lists (each PAO satisfactorily satisfied the PMU request to set up their own mailing lists).

➢ By ensuring that NGOs, LGUs and regional DENR offices took part in the Phase In / Phase Out processes (see Section 4, below).

In addition, the Directorate, the Coordinators and Section Heads made a special effort to personally work closely with NGOs. This appears to have paid off.

3.5.5.2 Indicators – PAMB Membership

For more details see subsection 4.2, below.

TABLE 60 SUMMARY OF NGO AND LGU PAMB MEMBERSHIP BY NAME

Summary of NGO and LGU PAMB Membership by Name

NGOs Represented on PAMB Enbanc

NGOs Represented on PAMB Execom

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Coron Island None None None None None None

El Nido PRRM

Haribon

ENFI (El Nido Foundation Inc.)

CRRAEN (Cottage, Resorts and Restaurants Assoc. of El Nido)

ENDA (El Nido Divers Association)

ENPOOA (El Nido Pumpboat Operators and Owners Association)

ENTODA (El Nido Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association)

Fishermen’s Association

Women’s Federation

Tagbanua Tribal Community

PRRM

Tagbanua Tribal Community

ENFI

CRRAEN

Women’s Federation

2 of 2

El Nido

Taytay

2 of 2

El Nido

Taytay

20 of 21 None



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Malampaya Sound

PNNI (Palawan NGO Network Inc.)

PMPC (Pancol Multi-Purpose Cooperative)

LUCMA (Liminangcong-Upper Cataban Minorities Association)

Ya Boces Ka Katutubo sa Sitio Yakal

MSSFPC (Malampaya Sound Small Fishermen Producers Cooperative)

FEEDERS

Piglas Ka Kasama

Ya Boces Ka Katutubo sa Sitio Yakal

PNNI (Palawan NGO Network Inc.)

FEEDERS

Piglas Ka Kasama

2 of 2

Taytay

San Vicente

2 of 2

Taytay

San Vicente

22 of 22 6

Mt. Guiting-Guiting

KKP-WWF

Magcaisa

SICOPO (Sibuyan Coalition of POs)

Bakal (Bantay-Kalikasan)

Women’s League

KKP-WWF

Magcaisa

SICOPO

Bakal

3 of 3

Magdiwang

Cajidiocan

San Fernando

2 of 3

Cajidiocan

San Fernando

16 of 161 1

Mts. Iglit & Baco

KMFI (Kalikasan Mindoro Foundation Inc.)

YEAR (Youth for Environmental Action and Restoration)

Tamaraw Development Foundation Inc.

KMFI

Mt. Isarog CARE

ANIS (Anduyog Isarog)

PWAD (Pili Water District)

Ocampo Agta Community

Tigaon Agta Community

CARE

PWAD

7 of 7

Naga City

Pili

Ocampo

Goa

Tigaon

Calabanga

Tinambac

2 of 7

Naga City

Pili

23 of 23 1

1 There are only 15 Brgys. within the PA. However, Brgy. Agsao, which is outside the PA but within

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Mt. Malindang

CARE-Awesome

BEA (Bukagan Ecological Association)

MOFECO (Misamis Occidental Federation of Cooperatives)

TRICAP (Tribal Community Association of the Philippines)

CARE-Awesome

MOFECO

19 of 191

Lopez Jaena

Jimenez

Bonifacio

Ozamis

Sinacaban

Don Victoriano

Sapang Dalaga

Calamba

Pana-on

Aloran

Clarin

Tudela

Tangub

Baliangao

MECA Municipalities

Josefina

La Libertad

Pinan

Tambulig

Mutia

6 of 19

Don Victoriano

Lopez Jaena

Clarin

Calamba

Tambulig

Mutia

24 of 62 None

Mt. Pulag KADEGI (Kabayan Development Inc.)

CONCORED

None2 4 of 5

Kabayan

Tinoc

Buguias

Bokod

None 14 of 14 None

1 There are only 14 municipalities within the PA. Five municipalities belonging to the Malindang

Ecological Convergence Area (MECA) requested seats in the PAMB. Mt. Malindang is the water source of these municipalities in Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga del Norte

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3.5.5.3 Indicators – NGO and Aid Agency Partnerships

TABLE 61 SUMMARY OF PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS COLLABORATING WITH THE PAOS

Site Name Mission Statement and Policy

Coron Island

PAFID Working with indigenous cultural communities to ensure the tenurial rights of these communities over their homelands.

Conservation International

To protects the earth’s biologically richest areas and helps people who live there to improve their quality of life.

El Nido El Nido Foundation

A pro-active NGO supporting the sustainable development of the El Nido community through public and private sector partnership based on shared objectives and cooperative efforts in order to encourage developmental

initiatives among the people

KKP/WWF To stop, and eventually reverse the accelerating degradation of the natural environment in the Philippines, and to help build a future in which Filipinos live in harmony with nature.

PRRM Engaged in the design and implementation of community and habitat development programs in the Philippines.

Malampaya Sound

ESSC Involved in the preservation of ecological equilibrium and sustainable, equitable use of the world’s resources through scientific research, community involvement and policy dialogue.

USAID

Democracy objective of “broadened participation in the formulation and implementation of public policy geared towards integrated family planning, sustainable management of the environment, and broadened citizen participation in Philippine democracy”.

Mt. Guiting-Guiting

KKP/WWF To stop, and eventually reverse the accelerating degradation of the natural environment in the Philippines, and to help build a future in which Filipinos live in harmony with nature.

Magcaisa NGO cooperative of Municipalities aiming to improve the lives of Sibuyanites

Mts. Iglit and Baco

Fauna and Flora

Helps conservation organizations in different parts of the world to develop the ability to implement effective conservation projects.


A field-based, non-profit organization that protects the earth’s biologically richest areas and helps people who live there to improve their quality of life.

Mt. Isarog Care Philippines

Serves marginalized groups such as smallholder farmers, fisher-folk, livestock producers, micro-entrepreneurs and women of reproductive age.

Pili Water District

Potential contribution in kind in appropriating certain portion of watershed as under their care for patrolling and rehabilitation.

Mt. Malindang

Care Philippines

Serves marginalized groups such as smallholder farmers, fisher-folk, livestock producers, micro-entrepreneurs and women of reproductive age.

PALS (AusAid)

Promotes sustainable production systems.

SEARCA Philippine-Dutch Biodiversity Research Programme

Mt. Pulag

Office of the Presidential Advisor on the Peace Process

Mandated by virtue of Executive Order No 125 to oversee and manage the government’s comprehensive peace process. The involvement of the Office in the Cordilleras, particularly in boundary conflict resolution, is anchored on the four-point peace and development framework of the region, which was formulated in a series of consultative meetings of the Cordillera peace partners in 1996. The agenda consists of the following components:

autonomy; ancestral domain; cultural integrity and healing and reconciliation.

3.5.5.4 Indicators – Phase In / Phase Out

See Section 4, below



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4 SUSTAINABILITY PROCESSES

A primary objective of NIPAP in its final year was to assure a smooth and efficient transition from the current Project to a future post-Project scenario. Thus, a series of critical sustainability factors were identified and monitored:

➢ Existence of site-based functional Integrated Protected Area Sub-Funds (IPAFs);

➢ Legally established and functional PAMBs;

➢ PAOs fully integrated into the regular activities of the DENR Regional Offices;

➢ Integrated qualified contractual staff into the regular function of the DENR or other PA-Concerned Bodies;

➢ Availability of sufficient financial resources to assure the day-to-day operations of the Protected Area Offices;

➢ Availability of funding from sources other than the DENR;

➢ Availability of ready-to-use manuals and other key documents.

Moreover, the specific aims of the Extension, September 2000 to March 2001 included:

➢ Efforts to improve sustainability confidence at all sites;

➢ Post NIPAP fund-raising and preparation of project proposals;

➢ In association with PAWB and ARCBC:

State-of-the-art Information Technology Centre established.

Mini IT Centre set up in purpose built PAOs.

Web site established.

4.1 THE INTEGRATED PROTECTED AREA FUNDS (IPAF)

A site-specific assessment of the operational status of the IPAF was conducted at the beginning of 2001, a monitoring system having been set up to stimulate action at PA level. Over the year 2000, the total funds collected by the five sites that operated the IPAF increased from P 215,000 to P 732,000; an increase of 240%.

Mt. Pulag National Park was the most successful followed by Mt. Isarog. The pattern of fee collection in these two sites has been steady, suggesting an efficient operation of the IPAF.

During the last quarter of 2000, the number of designated Special Collecting Officers remained at four, despite consistent efforts made by the PMU to speed up bureaucratic procedures at regional level. However, improvements occurred in terms of setting or adjusting fee systems: Mt. Guiting-Guiting diversified the existing system, MMNP introduced it and MPNP and MINP updated their rates.

Additional IPAF related activities include:

IPAF Subaccount Balance

(Dec. 99- Dec. 00)

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600

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➢ the production of manuals1, see subsection 4.7, below;

➢ the conduct of specific training, see subsection 4.4, below; and

➢ technical assistance provided to the TFCI in establishing a fee system.

4.2 THE PROTECTED AREAS MANAGEMENT BOARDS (PAMB)

See subsections 3.4.6, 3.5.3.2 and 3.5.5.2, above.

Few months are left for assuring full functionality of all PAMBs. Some Boards have been recreated, after cessation of the 5-year terms of the previously appointed ones. In line with the indicators of the Logical Framework, the section set up an ad-hoc monitoring system for measuring the performance and level of organization of the single boards.

The current number of PAMB members2 is 311, but only 83 are legally appointed, although 70 more have complied with all requirements. Their applications have been signed by the REDs concerned and are awaiting endorsement by the DENR Secretary, most since March3.

While on paper the appointment procedure4 appears to be a straightforward course of action, reality is different. NIPAP experience shows that it may take even one year for applicants to get their appointment. Delays are accrued at various levels, starting from the

production of the documents required for the submission of the application, throughout the winding path leading from the PASu to the OSEC, passing via the RED and PAWB.

Most sites met regularly, Enbanc meetings generally prevailing over Execom. Quorums were achieved as left.

An analysis of the composition of the boards confirms that the presence of mayors and Sangguniang Bayan members on the ExeCom is related to higher levels of investment by the local governments on environment-related matters.

1 The first, produced as a joint-effort PAWB/NIPAP and called Handbook on Establishment and

Management of the Integrated Protected Area Sub-Fund, builds on the experience gained over three years in establishing the IPAF in eight protected areas. It deals with procedural matters, provides a financial and economic insight into the various aspects of fund management, answers questions from the field and supplies guidelines for budget preparation according to government prescriptions. The second document is a trainers’ training manual targeting those who will have to train the next generations of PAMBs. It builds on two-year experience in delivering IPAF orientations and training to protected area management boards.

2 The figure includes legally appointed PAMB members and applicants participating to the boards

meetings, but having no right of vote. 3 Recent inquiries suggest that many papers have been lost within the DENR/PAWB. 4 NIPAP prepared guidelines on how to deal with the appointment procedure and distributed these

to all NIPAP Protected Area Offices.

Be or not to Be?

83% 83% 78% 100% 90% 100% 100%

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4.3 THE PAO/PASU IN THE DENR ORGANIZATION

See 3.4.11.1, above.

DAO 45 Series 2000 signed by the Secretary on June 6, 2000 defines the duties and responsibilities of the PASus and the lines of command within the DENR: the PASu reports directly to the PENRO. NIPAP contributed to the issuance of the DAO in providing comments and advise. The Project feels that the outcome is very satisfactory.

To facilitate the full integration of the PAOs into the DENR operational structure, the Institution Specialist assessed the 19991 reorganization of the DENR Regional Offices, (Regions IV, V, X and CAR) and their functional relations with the PAOs. The findings have been discussed during the Phase-In Workshops and served as the basis for defining the Post-NIPAP organizational structures.

4.4 TRANSFER OF SKILLS TO THE EXECUTING AGENCY AND OTHER PARTIES CONCERNED

See, also, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3 and 3.4.4 above.

4.4.1 Summary of Workshops and Training for the Year 2000

1268 workshop units were delivered of which 31% were women and 1193 training units were delivered of which 34% were women.

NIPAP, PAWB and DENR-FASPO forged increasingly cohesive working groups and are now disseminating the acquired knowledge, systems and skills to a wider audience including DENR, Special Projects under DENR, LGUs and PAMBs.

There are four training programs, which translate this knowledge into practice as shown in the table below and discussed in the follow-up sections:

TABLE 62 FORMAL TRAINING ORGANIZED JOINTLY BY NIPAP, PAWB AND OTHER AGENCIES

FORMAL TRAINING AND AS % OF ACCOMPLISHMENT

Centra

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level

Coro

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El N

ido

Mt.

Guitin

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Guitin

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aro

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Mt.

Ma

lindang

Mt. P

ula

g

Ma

lam

pay

a

Iglit &

Baco

Installation of Biodiversity Monitoring System (BMS) (Phase 1 and 2)

0% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 0% 100%

Installation of Biodiversity Monitoring System (BMS) (Phase 3, 4 and 5)

0% 100% 100% 100% 0% 100% 0% 0%

Training on P 3-Dimensional Modeling 100% 100%

IPAF Training (part 1)

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

IPAF Training (part 2)

0% 100% 0% 100% 100% 0% 100% 100%

Fund Raising (fundamentals) 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

1 DAO 52, S-99 (December 15, 1999) “Prescribing a Detailed Definition of the Functions for The

Realigned Regional Divisions” modified the previous functions and alignment of the DENR Regional and Field Offices.



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4.4.2 Installation of the Biodiversity Monitoring System

See, also, 3.4.7.3, above.

The Biodiversity Monitoring System designed within the framework of the World Bank-funded Technical Assistance for Improving Biodiversity Conservation in Protected Areas of the Philippines project has been installed in six NIPAP sites. This implied the training of PAO and DENR staff from the Regional, Provincial and Community offices to grant continuity to the system. The status of implementation is shown in Table 62 and details are provided in the Table 63, below.

TABLE 63 ALL SITES - DETAILS OF TRAINING DELIVERED FOR INSTALLING THE BMS SYSTEM

BMS TRAINING Trainers/facilitators Date

/duration Location

Participating organizations and

positions

Participants (No.)

Total M F

Basic Ecology Training

T. de la Cruz February 10,

2000 Mt. Isarog: Naga City

Community and LGU Agawam

25 15 10

Installation of the Biodiversity Monitoring Systems Phase 3

M.A. Hidalgo (NIPAP), P. Alveoli (NORDECO)

February 15-17, 2000

Mt. Isarog: Peñafrancia Resort, Naga City

CENRO, LGU, PAO PASu and PAO Rangers and Staff

9 6 3

Installation of the Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 and 2)

M.A. Hidalgo (Training Specialist), R. Pine (EMS)

February 20-26, 2000

Mt. Pulag: Bashoy, Teltelpok and Abokot

DENR (PAWB, PAWD, PENRO, CENRO, PAOs MPNP and MT. GUITING-GUITING)

23 13 10

Orientation on Biodiversity Monitoring Systems

M. Reyes /T. de la Cruz PAO MINP

20 March, 2000

Mt. Isarog: Office of the PENRO, Naga City

PAO staff 25 16 9

Installation of the Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 and 2)

A. Tagtag (PAWB), M. A. Hidalgo (NIPAP-PMO), P. Alviola (NORDECO), J. Balogo (PAO)

March 20-28, 2000

Mt. Guiting-Guiting: PAO, Magdiwang, Sibuyan Island, Romblon

Representatives from DENR Region IV, PENRO, CENRO and PAO Rangers and Information Officers

23 20 3

Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 & 2)

P. Alviola and V. Palaganas (NORDECO), P. Delos Reyes (PAWB), J. San Luis (PMU), PASu Rodriguez (ENTMRPA)

6-15 April 2000

El Nido: Elm. St. Café, El Nido, Palawan

PA Rangers. A PASu (2), PAPA, NGO Reps, Youth Rep and NGA

30 27 3

Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 & 2)

P. delos Reyes (PAWB), Mira Ocampo (PAWB), W. Balilia (PAWB), J. Balogo (NIPAP)

12 – 18 July 2000

Mts Iglit and Baco: Seafront Hotel, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro

PASu, Representatives from DENR R IV, PENRO, CENRO, TCP, PAMB, PAO Rangers

26 24 2

Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 3)

N. Ramoso and S. Cabrera (PAWB)

November 21 - 23, 2000

El Nido: PAO PA Rangers. PASu (2), , NGO Reps

20 14 6


W. Ballia and S. Cabrera (PAWB)

November 28 - December 2, 2000

Mt. Pulag: Babadak Bashoy, Teltelpok and Abokot, MPNP

DENR (PAWD), PAOs MPNP)

13 11 2


E. Toledo and O. Espaya (PAWB)

December 11-14, 2000


PAO and DENR Staff 10 10 0

Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 and 2)

J. Solatre (NIPAP-PMU), APASu F. Limpahan (MMNP), O. delos Reyes, D. Rubio, S. Cabrera and O. Espaya (PAWB)

October 22 - 30, 2000

Mt. Malindang: Tatong's Beach Resort, Oroquieta City

PAMB, LGU, DENR, PAO staff

24 21 3

Total no. of trainees 228 177 51



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4.4.3 Training on P 3-Dimensional Modeling

See also, 3.2.3, Changes in Land Use and Vegetation Cover, above.

As a development of activities conducted in 1999, the PAWB Protected Area Community Management Division and DENR Reg. IV have been trained in Participatory 3-D Modeling. As detailed in Section 4.7, a manual has been prepared for the purpose.

Thus, in March 2000, NIPAP organized a hands-on training in the Municipality of Rodriguez, Rizal, facilitating the construction of a 1:2,000 scale relief model of the Pamitinan Protected Landscape. Attendance included key central and provincial DENR and PAWB staff. A series of follow-up exercises focused on the extraction of the information for digitizing purposes. Training continued in Taytay, where a 1:20,000 scale model of Malampaya Sound has been constructed on May 5-13, 2000.

An article on the subject has been published on PLA Notes No. 39, a quarterly magazine produced by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London.

TABLE 64 ALL SITES - RELIEF MODELS PRODUCED IN 1999-2000

Protected Area Scale Area

(km2)

Active participants

(no.)

Women’s participation

(%)

Working days (no.)

Mt. Pulag National Park, Benguet, Nueva Vizcaya, Ifugao

1:10,000 360 75 19% 270

Mt. Isarog National Park, Camarines Sur 1:10,000 480 101 28% 277

Mt. Malindang National Park, Misamis Occ. 1:10,000 1,176 119 21% 376

Mt. Malindang National Park, Misamis Occ. 1:50,000 3,552 22 30% 60

Pamitinan Protected Landscape, Rizal 1: 2,000 17 93 52% 300

Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park, Romblon 1:10,000 896 101 31% 261

Community-based Forest Management Area, Buffer Zone, Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park

1: 5,000 10 10 30% 40

El Nido-Taytay Managed Resources Protected Area, El Nido, Palawan

1:20,000 1,968 70 23% 190

Malampaya Sound Sea- and Landscape Protected Area, Taytay, Palawan

1:20,000 (*)

3,016 87 23% 246

(*) Differentiated scaling (1:20,000 horizontal; 1:10,000 vertical) has been adopted in Malampaya Sound to enhance the perception of slope.

4.4.4 IPAF Training Programme

See also, 3.4.6, Assist and Train PAMBs in Establishing the Systems for Running the IPAF and for Collecting Fees.

This program targets all sites, particularly the PAMBs. In order to ensure the roll-over of skills in setting up and managing the IPAF, the training has been extended to selected DENR staff from Regional, Provincial (PENRO) and Community (CENRO) levels, and in some sites, to municipal treasurers and administrators. The training involved a total of 179 individuals (27% women) in the first phase and 70 (33% women) in the roundtable



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discussions (second phase). As detailed in Section 4.7 manuals are being produced for the purpose of guiding the PAMB in installing the system and providing DENR (field level) with the instruments and skills necessary for training the members of future boards.

TABLE 65 DETAILS OF TRAINING (PHASE 1) DELIVERED FOR INSTALLING THE IPAF SYSTEM

Trainers/ facilitators Date Location Participating organizations

and positions

Participants (No.)

Total M F

I. Bacudo (IPAF Training Specialist) and T. Blastique (PAWB)

22-23 February,

2000


PAMB Execom members, LGU officials (Mayors and municipal treasurers) and representatives from the PENRO and CENRO, PASu and PAO Admin Officer

19 16 3


07-08 February,

2000

El Nido: Elm St. Restaurant, El Nido, Palawan

PAMB Execom members, LGU officials (Vice-Mayor and Municipal Administrator) and representatives from the PENRO and CENRO, PASu and PAO Admin Officer

19 16 3


09-10 February,

2000

Malampaya: Publico Guest House, Taytay, Palawan

PAMB Execom members, LGU official (Vice-Mayor) and representatives from the PENRO and CENRO, PASu and PAO Admin Officer

18 2 16


6-7 April, 2000

Mt. Malindang: Naomi Tourist Inn, Banadero, Ozamiz City

PAMB Execom members, LGU officials (Mayors and municipal treasurers) and representatives from the PENRO, CENRO, PAO (PASu and Admin Officer) and NGOs (CARE and PIPULI)

41 37 4


04 May, 2000

Mt. Isarog: CASAFI Development Complex, Pili, Camarines Sur

PAMB Execom members, LGU officials and representatives from the PENRO, CENRO, PAO (PASu and Admin Officer) and NGOs

38 28 10


10 may, 2000

Mt. Iglit Baco: Jaybee's Restaurant, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro

PAMB Execom members, LGU officials and representatives from the PENRO, CENRO, PAO (PASu and Admin Officer) and NGOs

19 13 6

P. Matsuura (NIPAP); I. Ambal (NIPAP); T. Blastique (PAWB) and C. Samson (PAWB)

November 28 - 29,

2000

Mt. Pulag: PAO, Ambangeg, Benguet

PAMB EXECOM and PAO Staff 25 19 6


TABLE 66 IPAF TRAINING (PHASE 2 - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE

IPAF SUB-ACCOUNT)


and positions Participants

(No.)


09-Nov-00 Malampaya Sound: Taytay, Palawan

PAMB Execom 12 11 1

P. Matsuura (NIPAP); I. Ambal (NIPAP); T. Blastique (PAWB)and C. Samson (PAWB)

10-Nov-00 El Nido: PAO PAMB Execom; CRRAEN members

15 6 9

P. Matsuura (NIPAP); T. Blastique (PAWB)and C. Samson (PAWB)

16-Nov-00 Mt. Malindang: Supermix, Ozamis City

PAMB Execom; ARED; PENRO Accountant; IP reps.

18 12 6



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and positions Participants

(No.)

P. Matsuura - NIPAP; I. Ambal (NIPAP); T. Blastique (PAWB); C. Samson (PAWB)

19-Oct-00

M.t Isarog: Christy's Kamayan Magsaysay Ave. Naga City

PAMB Execom members; DENR - PENRO Bookkeeper; PAO staff

12 8 4


21-Nov-00

Mts Iglit and Baco: Jaybee's Restaurant, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro

PAMB Execom members, LGU officials, Municipal treasurers; PENRO Accountant, COA Auditor, PASu and PAO AO

13 10 3


In addition to the formal training the Indigenous Peoples in Coron Island were assisted in conceptualizing the set-up of a recreational fee system.

4.5 THE INTEGRATION OF QUALIFIED STAFF INTO POST-NIPAP

In December 1999 a retrospective analysis revealed that, instead of increasing, the DENR detailed personnel had been steadily decreasing both in absolute and relative terms for the past two years. Preliminary results, summarized in the 1999 Annual Report, indicated that at that time the numbers and percentages of DENR-detailed staff were too low to ensure the continuity of project implementation. This pattern was brought to the attention of the DENR Regional Executive Directors and to other stakeholders during the 2000 Phase-In/Phase-Out Workshops.

The chart on the left shows that a consistent shift of staff from Project (contracted by NIPAP) to Government payroll (GoP paid) occurred during most of 2000.

It further shows that the declining trend in the number of DENR detailed personnel reversed during the second and third quarter of 2000, but declined again during the last quarter of the year. Nonetheless the department’s increased commitment towards continuity is evident when considering the GoP-paid personnel, which substantially increased. Nonetheless – even if the situation has improved - there is the absolute need for DENR to maintain the contractual staff, currently totaling 92, as part of the PAOs.

In this respect concrete steps have already been undertaken as follows:

➢ DENR included adequate financial provisions in its 2001 budget.

➢ 5-year budgets have been attached to the bills to be passed in Congress to enact the single protected areas.

1998-2000 Evolution in Staffing

(All NIPAP Protected Area Offices)

(No. of staff)

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118 118127

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The second chart shows the percentage breakdown of the different types of personnel in force in the eight sites. The years 1998 and early 1999 have been characterized by a predominance of staff contracted by NIPAP. The findings were shared with the concerned DENR Regional Executive Directors (March 2000) and during the Phase-In Phase-Out Workshops. Increased awareness coupled with steady pressure put on the concerned DENR Offices proved to be successful in the phasing-in of DENR detailed and contractual personnel. The chart shows that this process is effectively taking place.

During the first two quarters of 2000, with the objective of maximizing the integration of trained qualified staff into the regular functions of the DENR and of other PA-concerned bodies (LGUs and NGOs), the PASus delivered ad-hoc presentations during the Phase-In/Phase-out Workshops. The presentation aimed at generating interest among the participating stakeholders towards integrating qualified and trained human resources in the regular functions of the bodies they represent.

Parallel promotional activities have been done on a site-to-site basis. Most Rural Development Officers trained by NIPAP have been absorbed by partner NGOs working in the NIPAP sites. The Municipality of Kabayan (MPNP) recruited one RDO.

4.6 FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

4.6.1 The Budgeting Instrument

The sustainability of the PAOs and the PAMBs depends upon their access to funds.

Therefore, a standardized budgeting instrument (Excel workbook) inclusive of Users’ Guidelines1 was designed enabling the preparation of 5-year post-NIPAP budgets for all sites.

The chart on the left shows that the minimum yearly financial requirements for functioning PAOs and PAMBs in a post NIPAP scenario, range from 4.4 million pesos in Coron to nearly 10 million pesos in Malampaya Sound.

The budgets have been successfully used during the Phase-In / Phase-out workshops to solicit commitments from stakeholders.

DENR-FASPO has adopted the instrument and recommended its adoption by the CPPAP, the World

Bank (GEF) funded project dealing with 10 priority-protected areas.

The budgets elaborated for Mt. Guiting-Guiting, El Nido and Malampaya Sound, have been incorporated into the bills currently being debated at Congress. If approved the budgets would translate into 5-year budget appropriations for the single sites.

4.6.2 The Willingness to Pay Surveys

Other instruments put in place to in order to improve the functionality of the IPAF include the (a) Willingness to Pay Surveys (WTP) conducted in Mt. Isarog and El Nido, and a (b) case

1 The format adopts the outline and coding described in Chapter 5 of the 1991 Government

Accounting and Accounting Manual, Vol. II, Government Accounting, Commission of Audit and later revisions.

Cost of Protection

0 5 10

Coron Island

MPNP

MGGNP

MINP

MIBNP

MMNP

ENTMRPA

MSSLPA

Millions PHP/year



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study on the excess profit method conducted in MINP. The Case Study On the Calculation of the Excess Profit of the Bicol Mini-Hydro power plant in Isarog has already been shared with the PAMBs in Mt. Isarog, Mt. Guiting-Guiting and El Nido.

4.6.3 Funding trough International Aid

While the sustainability of the PAOs is important for continuity of NIPAP activities, other protected area management-related activities depend on financial and human resources deployed by institutions sharing the common goal of conserving biodiversity through addressing the root causes of its depletion, such as poverty.

There, and in line with the NIPAS Act, NIPAP has intensified its efforts to assure complementary support from and cement its relationship with NGOs, other local (PCSD, LGUs, etc.) and international institutions operating in the site areas. These efforts are summarized in the following Tables:

TABLE 67 ALL SITES - COMPLEMENTARY (POST-NIPAP) FUNDING

Site Activity/Project Source of Funding

Implementin

g Agenc

y

Amount sought / allocated

Duration and

starting date)

Status

All Sites Consolidation Programme European Commission and GoP

DENR EURO 3,000,000

3 years Being conceptualized

Northern Palawan

Integrated Resource Management Programme (IRMP)

USAID

Development Alternatives Inc.

N/A 5 years Design preparation (DAI)

PAWB HQ Institutionalizing P 3-D Modeling

To be determined

DENR / PAWB

N/A 5 months

Being conceptualized

Coron Island

Coron Biodiversity project Conservation International


US$ 200,000

1996 – cont.

Under implementation

PAFID Under implementation

El Nido Support in establishing Bantay Dagat groups in the Municipality

Shell Philippines El Nido Foundation Inc.

US$ 87,000

2000-2010

Proposal being finalized

El Nido Conservation of Biodiversity and Community Development Project

Netherlands Embassy

PRRM US$ 3,900,000

1997-2002


Residential Guard House for South Sector

British Embassy PRRM PhP 750,000

2000 Under implementation

Mt. Guiting-Guiting

Protecting the Biodiversity of Mt. Guiting-Guiting through the Development of Sustainable Livelihood Enterprises”

Netherlands Embassy

KKP US$ 1,600,000

1997-2002


Sustainable Management of the Buffer and Multiple Use Zones of Mt. Guiting-guiting Natural Park

Global Environment Fund (GEF)- UNDP

KKP and EBJF

US$ 750,000

2001-2006

Submitted to GEF on March 27, 2000

Sibuyan Island Ecotourism Development Program

GEF, Small Grants program

EBJF US$ 60,000

2001

Submitted to GEF-SGP on December 20, 2000



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Mt. Isarog Sustainable Management of Mt. Isarog's territories (SUMMIT)

Global Environment Fund (GEF)

Care Philippines

US$ 750,000

2000-2004


Mt. Isarog Integrated Conservation and Development Project (MIICDP)

European Commission

Care Philippines

EURO 978,547

4 years (Dec. 31, 1999)

Approved

Mt. Isarog Integrated Conservation and Development Project (MIICDP)

British Embassy Care Philippines

Pounds 119,691

3 yrs (March 1998)


Mt. Malindang

Agencies Working for Ecological Sustainability on Mt. Malindang Environment (AWESOME)

Netherlands Embassy

Care Philippines

US $ 3,698,964

5 yrs (Sept. 1998)


Philippine-Netherlands biodiversity research Programme for development in Mindanao – focus on Mt. Malindang

Netherlands Embassy

SEARCA

EURO 2,268,900

2000-2005

Under implementation (started July 1, 2000)

Philippines Australia Local Sustainability Program (PALS)

AusAid Acil / LGUs

US $ 5,000,000

1999-2004


Mt. Pulag

Economic Self-reliance Programme - Caraballo And Southern Cordillera Agricultural Development

European Commission & GoP

DA ECU

22,500,000

1997-2004


Mt. Pulag (Kabayan)

Integrated Conflict Management and Resolution Program for pilot Municipalities in the Cordillera

GoP

Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP)

N/A 1999- Under Implementation

Central Cordillera Agricultural Programme (CECAP), Phase 2

European Commission & GoP

DA Euro 27.5M

1996-2003


Cordillera Highlands Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Programme (CHARM)

Asian Development Bank

DA and DENR

N/A 1998-2003


Malampaya Sound

Establishment of a Malampaya Sound Foundation

Shell Philippines - - - Being conceptualized

Mt. Iglit-Baco

Biodiversity Conservation Programme for Mindoro and Associated Islands

Shell Philippines

Fauna and Flora International

US$ 150,000

1998-2001


4.6.4 Funding through Structured Fund Raising

4.6.4.1 Training in professional fund raising

In collaboration with Venture for Fund Raising, a specialized NGO, NIPAP sponsored the training of selected representatives from five sites and from PAWB in professional fund raising.



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4.6.4.2 Non-conventional fund raising activities – pay-phone cards

The Section identified pay-phone cards as a possible Way Forward. Designs for eight cards (one per site) have been developed and submitted jointly to a partnership proposal to major national telephone companies. The initiative has been endorsed by PAWB and the EU delegation. The mechanism would lead to raising funds for the Integrated Protected Area Sub-Funds. (e.g. 0.5% of the gross revenue from the sales of “Protected Area theme” payphone cards). NIPAP would supply the design for the cards and host one full-page advertisement on its newsletter. The protected areas would benefit from increased awareness; DENR and the European Union would gain in terms of public image as working jointly towards the conservation of the environment. The telephone company would benefit from strengthening its image as a conservation-related corporation and have access to NIPAP digital picture library for developing countrywide promotional campaigns linked to the “protected areas” series.

4.7 MANUALS AND OTHER KEY DOCUMENTS

The production of a series of manuals and other key-documents is a priority for continuity. Moreover, they acknowledge lessons learned and present a Way Forward.

By the end of the project a total of 56 documents will had been produced and distributed. The following table lists the documents under preparation and summarizes their status of accomplishment.

4.8 PHASE-IN/PHASE-OUT WORKSHOPS

A series of Phase-In/Phase-out workshops has been conducted in line with the provisions of DAO 36 S. 1994 (Establishing Guidelines for the preparation of Phase-In/Phase-Out Plan for Completing/Terminating Foreign-Assisted Projects).

These workshops are consultative meetings with a final output oriented session. They have been designed in collaboration with DENR-FASPO to develop a clear post-EU/NIPAP policy for Protected Area Offices and to elicit practical support from other stakeholders in particular DENR regional Offices, Local Government Units, NGOs, Aid Agencies and the private sector.

These events contributed to:

• Increasing awareness of participants on key-sustainability factors;

• Identifying budgetary requirements for the Post-NIPAP scenario and for integration of these into the budgetary requirements of the Regional Offices;

• Identifying funding gaps jeopardizing the functionality of the PAO and defining mechanisms for filling these gaps. Thus, eliciting commitments from stakeholders for assuring complementary support;

• Mapping out the integration of the PAO into the DENR Regional Structure;

• Formulating strategies for integrating selected trained contractual Project personnel into the DENR/LGU/NGO setting pertinent to the single PAO;

• Defining areas of commitment amongst stakeholders; and

• Production of Phase-in Implementation Statements.



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TABLE 68 PHASE-IN/PHASE-OUT WORKSHOPS MONITORING SHEET

Workshop outputs

Coro

n

Isla

nd

EL N

ido

Mt.

Guitin

g-

Guitin

g

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lindang

Mt. P

ula

g

Ma

lam

pay

a S

ound

Mt. Ig

lit-Baco

Date workshop held (yr 2000) 13 Apr 31May 08 May 21 Mar 11 May 13 Apr

Location of Workshop Quezon

City Quezon

City Pili

Oroquieta City

Baguio City

Quezon City

Attendance (% of participants / number of invitees)

95% 86% 61% 56% 55% 88%

DENR Region/PAO Organization chart finalized

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Formulated strategies for integrating trained contractual Project personnel into the DENR/LGU/NGO settings


PAO Budgetary requirements incorporated into stakeholder budgets


Phase-in Post-NIPAP Policy Statements Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

In terms of Phase-In Statements participants either took a firm commitment or expressed their statement of intent1 to do their best to implement a particular action. Table 69 summarizes the outputs.

TABLE 69 ALL SITES - PHASE-IN STATEMENTS (AREAS OF COMMITMENT AND STATEMENTS OF

INTENT)

Entity C

oro

n

Isla

nd

EL N

ido

Mt.

Guitin

g-

Guitin

g

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lindang

Mt. P

ula

g

Ma

lam

pay

a S

ound

Mt. Iglit-Baco

Funding Agencies A - - - - A

DENR A B A B A B A B A B A B

LGU B A B B B A B B

NGO A B C A B C A B C A B C - -

Line Agencies - - - - C C

Water Districts - - C - -

Private Sector - - - - A B -

Areas of Commitment to meet one or more activities listed in the POST-NIPAP budget: A

Statement of Intent to meet one or more activities listed in the POST-NIPAP budget: B

Statement of Intent to meet one or more activities related to PA management: C

1 Participants lacking executive powers and representing higher authorities formulated statements

of intent.



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4.9 HAND-OVER ACTIVITIES

Additional system/activity/asset-specific meetings were organized to develop a clear post-EU/NIPAP policy and Phase-In (or merely phase-out in some cases) for the activities as represented by the PMU sections. The objective was to assure that concerned parties (PAWB, DENR regional Offices, PAOs, LGU or Partner NGOs) be – for their respective domains - fully knowledgeable and fully responsible for the various systems (see table below), activities (e.g. implementation of the GMPs) and assets (e.g. equipment, infrastructures and other facilities) set up by NIPAP since its inception.

As shown in

Table 70, PAWB has, in principle, absorbed activities related to the Biodiversity Monitoring System (BMS). To assure the functionality of the system NIPAP’s Planning Section is still monitoring the implementing of field activities.

Two Phase-In seminars organized on December 18 (“Presentation of the General Management Plans of NIPAP project sites”) and 19 (“The way Forward for the NIPAP Management Information System”) had to be cancelled because of repeated changes of venue requested by DENR Secretary’s Office at very short notice.

TABLE 70 ALL SITES - SYSTEM / ACTIVITY / ASSET SPECIFIC WORKSHOPS1

SYSTEM / ACTIVITY / ASSET

Non s

ite-

specific

Coro

n

El N

ido

Mt. G

uitin

g –

Guitin

g

Mt. Is

aro

g

Mt.

Ma

lindang

Mt. P

ula

g

Ma

lam

paya

Mts

. Iglit a

nd

Baco

a) Geographic Information System (GIS)

10%

b) Integrated Database (IDB) 10%

c) Monitoring Systems (M&E) 10%

d) Biodiversity Monitoring System (BMS)

100%

e) Library (documentation center)

10%

Division of Assets PMU/Sites 0%

Official Inventory of Assets 0% 100% 100% 100% 0% 100% 0% 100% 100%

Handover of Assets to Sites 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

4.9.1 The Information Communication Technology Center

Some systems have the potential for outliving the Project, being adopted, improved, expanded and carried over by other projects and institutions which could benefit from their existence. This applies in particular to the Information Communication Technology Center (ICTC), which includes the Database, Geographic Information System, Library, Publication Unit and Newsletter as detailed below:

1 As at 20th March, 2001. The possibility of a further extension meant that certain hand-over

activities were withheld.



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TABLE 71 PMU- ITCT’S SYSTEMS AND ASSETS

Systems Existing Assets Benefits deriving to PAWB/ARCBC

in taking over the ICTC

IEC materials: Handbooks, Training Manuals and Case Studies

Intellectual and Human (Publication Unit), ISBN registered publications

Acquire trained staff used to work as a team; advanced desk top publishing skills; opportunity for tailoring (where applicable) existing information to the ASEAN context.

IEC materials:

Newsletter (Suhay)

Format, mail list, procedures; intellectual and human (Publication Unit), ISSN registered serial publication

Adopt existing assets, built on these and expand the newsletter’s geographical outreach. Meet - in the short term - one of ARCBC’s expected outputs.

Web site Content; knowledge of procedures; primary domain for PAWB.

Build on existing experience to develop a standard web structure for all ASEAN countries. Strategic location of the ICT Center with easy access to fast Internet connections.

Geographic Information System

Human resources, datasets, hardware and software.

Build on existing facilities and trained human resources. Use NIPAP data sets to adopt and pilot-test models.

Integrated Data Base Human resources, datasets, hardware and software.

Build on existing facilities and trained human resources. Use NIPAP data set to pilot-test models.

Library Human resources, procedures (manual), catalogued documents, books and technical references, hardware and system software.

Build on existing assets to replicate systems in other ASEAN Countries.

Monitoring and Evaluation Systems

Existing and functional M&E systems:

1. Project Implementation

2. Physical

3. Financial

4. Property Management

Including data collection, record keeping, tabulation, analysis and report-generation systems.

Build on existing systems to produce hands-on manual(s) and adopt/tailor systems to ARCBC needs.

The basis for conceiving the above strategy arises from efforts made to assure maximum continuity to meritorious systems that have been set-up during the life span of the project. The aim has always been to enable the extension of NIPAP/DENR innovations beyond the national and into a broader international (ASEAN) context.

In terms of legislation and associated instruments enabling public participation in conservation planning and management, the Philippines has been leading the way. Moreover PAWB has been identified as the Biodiversity Reference Unit for the Philippines and as the Host for the ASEAN Regional Center for Biodiversity Conservation. This implies that the bureau has a challenging dual function which transcends national borders.

The Government of the Philippines and the European Commission have invested considerable resources in assisting PAWB to assume and conduct these functions so that it may maximize the returns on its considerable intellectual and scientific capital.

Therefore, PAWB will take over these activities, including key staff and all PMU the infrastructure required, so that an ITCT will function as part of the ARCBC. Phase In formalities were complete by the 20th March.



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4.9.2 Protected Area Planning Outputs

A seminar was organized in December 2000 (Presentation of the General Management Plans of NIPAP Project Sites) to be attended by the relevant officers from PAWB, DENR central, regional, provincial and community levels, LGUs and NGOs for the presentation of General Management Plans and background information. The seminar could not materialize because of political interference from the Secretary.

4.9.3 Building Infrastructure

The Construction Section has handed over documents, including detailed technical drawings and specifications. Copies of these have been the PAOs, the PENROs and to the DENR/PAWB, in soft format.

4.9.4 Assets

Official inventories of assets were completed for all sites.



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5 FINANCIAL REPORT

PLEASE TURN OVER………………………



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APPENDIX 1 MAP OF THE PHILIPPINES SHOWING THE EIGHT NIPAP SITES



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APPENDIX 2 THE EIGHT NIPAP SITES

1 CORON ISLAND

Locally known as “Kalis” due to its shape, Coron Island is characterized by a rugged topography of karst formations, dispersed white-sand beaches and lakes.

Kalis Island is a wedge-shaped limestone island, in North Palwan. It is bounded on the North by the Coron Passage, Coron Bay on the west, and on the east and south by the Sulu Sea. Administratively it is covered by the Municipality of Coron, which lies in the southeastern section of Busuanga Island. The Island is home to the Tagbanua who were awarded a certificate of ancestral domain claim in 1998 (R04-CADC-134), comprising an area of 22,284 hectares including a marine component and two islands, namely Kalis and Delian. The two Islands are internationally recognized as areas of unique cultural and biodiversity values.

Kalis Island was designated a Tourist Zone and Marine Reserve by virtue of Proclamation No. 1801. Around 75 percent of it is covered by limestone forest, beach forest and mangroves. Several endemic, as well as endangered species are documented including the Philippine macaque, the Palawan porcupine, dugong, cockatoos and monitor lizards. The presence of inland brackish-water and fresh-water lakes harbors unclassified biodiversity of international significance. The presence of some 500 caves in the Island is home to swiftlets locally known as balinsasayaw, which produce edible birds nests. The harvesting of the nests during the months of December to June is an important livelihood activity for the Tagbanua.

With the assistance of an NGO, the Tagbanua Foundation of Coron Island (TFCI) has produced its own Ancestral Domain Management Plan (ADMP). It is NIPAP’s policy to facilitate implementation with the framework of the NIPAS law but with due regard to all the rights and responsibilities of the Indigenous Peoples under the new legislation, Republic Act No. 8371, otherwise known as, the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA). The proposed protected area covers about 20,000 hectares. In the framework of the NIPAS law, NIPAP’s policy for Coron takes into account the wishes of the Tagbanua community to manage both Coron and Delian Islands as Ancestral Domain through the implementation of an ADMP and the accomplishments of the NGOs concerned.

Because of the unique constitutional and sensitive cultural issues arising out of the establishment of Coron Island as a Protected Area, the challenge is to harmonize the provisions of the NIPAS Act and the IPRA on the field level or implementation aspect, with emphasis still, on biodiversity protection but with due regard to the rights of the Indigenous Peoples.

2 EL NIDO MANAGED RESOURCE AREA

In 1991, the Government of the Philippines proclaimed Bacuit Bay as a marine reserve; it became a prime tourist destination. In 1998, the protected area was expanded to include terrestrial ecosystems and portions of the municipality of Taytay. It is now known as El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area. Located in the northwestern part of Palawan, it covers over 36,000 ha of land and 54,000 ha of marine waters. It is characterized by towering limestone karst-cliffs, un-spoilt beaches, mangroves, clear waters, limestone forests and farmlands.

El Nido is home to a number of endangered and protected species that cover five species of mammals, including the Malayan Pangolin and 16 bird species endemic to Palawan including the Palawan Peacock Pheasant, the Palawan Hornbill and Palawan Scops Owl. Bacuit bay is also home to dugong, dolphins and marine turtles, many of which are



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threatened species. Coral reef fishes include Butterfly-fish, Parrot-fish, Wrasse, Trigger-fish, Angel-fish, Surgeon-fish, Damsel-fish, Emperor-fish, Snapper, Grouper and Rabbit-fish.

The population within the Protected Area is close to 17,000, most engaged in farming and fishing but some derive their income from tourism. The major cash crops are rice, cashew, mango, coconut and banana. Marine products include Grouper, Sweet-lip, Lobster, Mud Crab and Squid. An important seasonal activity is the gathering of edible swift’s nests commanding high market prices.

The Ten Knots Development Corporation was the first company to exploit El Nido’s tourist potential. It established exclusive resorts on Miniloc, Pangulasian and Langen Islands. The company also provides the air link between El Nido and Manila. Other developers, either residents or tourism entrepreneurs, followed suit with less exclusive enterprises catering for the cheaper end of the market. Nonetheless, the character of the place has been maintained with most developers sensitive to their environment and aware of its income earning capacity as a sellable “paradise”.

Located in North Palawan, the El Nido Managed Resource Protected Area received Presidential Proclamation in October 1998. NIPAP worked closely with all stakeholders and especially through the PAMB, to produce the GMP. Local support has increased dramatically since mid-1998, shifting from an aggressive opposition of some groups to universal endorsement. This improvement has arisen as the local community has become more involved in the NIPAS processes and has begun to see the planning, establishment and management of the PA as something, which it owns and can control. The Municipality of El Nido is especially closely associated with PA planning processes as are a number of NGOs including KKP (WWF), PRRM and ELAC who are key to the sustainability of protection.

The Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) is also operating in the area and complements the work being done by NIPAP through its El Nido Conservation of Biodiversity and Community Development Project. In 1996, a Memorandum of Agreement was signed with PRRM. PRRM is especially active in the capacity building of the PAMB

The protected area covers about 90,321 hectares according to the boundary delineation conducted by the DENR LEP team during the second quarter of 2000.

3 MALAMPAYA SOUND

Adjacent to El Nido, Malampaya Sound Protected Landscape and Seascape, located in Northwestern Palawan, is by far the largest NIPAP site, covering about 200,115 hectares. It is a watershed with a productive fishing ground called the Sound. The Sound is an elongated water body with diverse ecosystems such as the mangroves, sea-grasses and corals. It is divided into two sections, the Inner and the Outer Sound. The Inner Sound is a brackish body of water and is the only place in the Philippines where one can see the Irrawaddy dolphins (not endemic to the Philippines). The Outer Sound is where the sea-grass and coral ecosystems can be found; it is also the home of the Bottle-nose dolphin.

Malampaya is a Tagbanua word meaning "rich in fish". The Tagbanua are the indigenous people of Malampaya Sound.

Malampaya Sound is a significant center of endemism. Endemic species include the Tabon Bird, the Palawan Peacock Pheasant, the Green Imperial Pigeon, the Palawan Racket-tailed Parrot, the Palawan Malcoha, the Palawan Hornbill, the Palawan Talking Myna, the Northern Palawan Lesser Tree Squirrel, the Palawan Porcupine, and the Palawan Bearcat.



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Faunal Species of national importance include the Philippine Mallard, the Philippine Cockatoo, the Hawksbill Turtle and the Philippine Macaque.

The protected area lies within two municipalities, Taytay and San Vicente, the main sources of income being fishing and farming.

In 1998 as a result of the mid-term review, Malampaya Sound dropped to a low NIPAP priority ranking. Later appraisals done by the Philippine Working Group and the NGO Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) stressed the need for enhanced protection of endangered species found in the sound. As a result of these assessments and in line with the GoP-EC Financing Memorandum, Malampaya Sound regained high priority status in 1999. The Project Management contracted ESSC to prepare the General Management Plan.

NIPAP is now working very closely with the Municipality of Taytay, a large proportion of which is taken up by the PA. Also, parts of the Taytay Barangays of Liminangcong, Cataban and Sandoval lie within the El Nido PA.

4 MT. GUITING-GUITING

“Guiting-Guiting”, in the local dialect, means jagged, which explains the name of the mountain. Its highest peak is at 2,058 meters. The mountain is the core of Sibuyan Island in Romblon Province. Unique in the Philippines, the Island retains an intact chain of ecosystems, starting with the high altitude grasslands, leading to undisturbed mossy, montane forests, lowland forest, intact mangroves and coral reefs. The core of the island is known as Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park.

The island is one of the richest spots in the world in terms of density, diversity and endemism of flora and fauna. Endemic species include five mammals: the Greater Sibuyan and Lesser Sibuyan Forest Mouse, the Sibuyan Giant Moss Mouse, the Sibuyan Pygmy Fruit Bat and the Sibuyan Striped Shrew Rat. The Philippine Tube-nosed bat and the Philippine hawk-eagle, classified respectively as “endangered” and “vulnerable” are found in the park. Dugongs, dolphins and whales are sighted in the off-shore waters.

Sibuyan Island is composed of the municipalities of Magdiwang in the North, Cajidiocan in the East, and San Fernando in the South. It has a population of close to 50,000, mostly living along the coast and at the foothills of the mountain range. The main sources of income are farming, fishing and small-scale handicrafts. Indigenous People known as Sibuyanon or Mangyan Tagabukid live on the mountain slopes on the side of Cajidiocan and San Fernando. They represent approximately 1.5% of the total population.

Mt. Guiting-Guiting was proclaimed as a Natural Park in 1996 by President Fidel V. Ramos.

NIPAP works closely with Kabang Kalikasan ng Pilipinas (KKP/WWF), which is implementing a livelihood-oriented project, “Protecting the Biodiversity of Mt. Guiting-Guiting through the Development of Sustainable Livelihood Enterprises” with funding from The Netherlands Government. This project will continue until 2002 and, significantly, KKP/WWF is committed to support conservation activities in Mt. Guiting-Guiting beyond 2002.

The protected area covers about 15,265 hectares.

5 MTS. IGLIT AND BACO

Mts. Iglit-Baco National Park is located in the central part of Mindoro Island. It is part of a long mountain chain encompassing at least eight major river systems and has a rugged



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terrain composed of slopes, river gorges and plateaus. Approximately 75% (about 56,000 has.) of its land area lies in the province of Occidental Mindoro comprising the municipalities of Sablayan, Calintaan, Rizal and San Jose. The remaining 25% (about 18,945 has.) lies within the province of Oriental Mindoro, in the municipalities of Pinamalayan, Gloria, Bansud, Bongabong and Mansalay.

The Park has the biggest remaining population of Tamaraw in the world. It is a seriously endangered large mammal, and thus a principal concern of the IUCN. Only about 70 head exist. Because of the Tamaraw, the original game refuge and bird sanctuary of 8,956 hectares was enlarged in 1970 to 75,445 hectares and converted into a national park. The Tamaraw is also the reason why the Park has been declared as an ASEAN Heritage site and is being considered as a World Heritage Site.

The diverse habitats of the National Park support various forms of wildlife. The grasslands are inhabited by the Tamaraw, the Philippine Deer and Wild Pig. In the mossy forest of the highlands and peak summits can be found the endemic Mindoro Cloud Rat. Birds include the Mindoro Imperial Pigeon, the Mindoro Scops Owl, the Blue Shortwing, the Island thrush, Tardus, the Blue-headed Rachet-Tailed Parrot , the Philippine Coucal , the Barred Graybird , the Philippine Bulbul, the Mangrove Blue Flycatcher and Mindoro Canegrass Warbler. Endemic flora include the Mindoro Pine.

Mts. Iglit-Baco is the home of the most illusive and least known of the seven Mangyan tribes, the Batangan-tau Buid. The other major group is the Buhids.

6 MT. ISAROG NATIONAL PARK

Mt. Isarog, an inactive volcano, rises in the heart of the province of Camarines Sur, the central part of the Bicol Peninsula about 450 kilometers south of Manila. It is the highest forested peak in Southern Luzon and a major water catchment, especially for Naga City.

The Park, of 10,112 hectares, has a significant level of biological diversity and a long history of conservation. It is home to at least 143 kinds of birds, 15 of which are endemic to Luzon including a subspecies of the Velvet-fronted Nuthatch that can be found only in Mt. Isarog. Other species endemic to the mountain are the Mt. Isarog Shrew Mouse, the Isarog Striped Shrew Rat, the Isarog Shrew Rat and the Isolated Forest Frog. Also, at least 1,300 known of plants have been recorded.

Most residents of the 23 barangays encompassing portions of the Park derive their livelihood directly or indirectly from the presence of the mountain forest which functions like a sponge feeding watercourses leading to the downhill plains. Non-timber forest products like ferns, vines, wild fruits, medicinal plants, honey, fish, cogon grass, rattan, vines, bamboo, nito, almaciga resin, pandan and anahaw are used by residents to meet their domestic needs, sold to complement household income or used as raw materials for handicraft production. Sugarcane, abaca, coconut and rice are the main agro-industrial crops grown at the foothills of the mountain. Indigenous Peoples belonging to the Agta-Tabangnon and Agta-Cimmarron groups are settled in some barangays. They depend mainly on subsistence farming planting corn, root-crops, fruit trees and on providing labor in industrial plantations.

NIPAP has consolidated its links with NGOs and other major stakeholders and has produced a comprehensive GMP which has been approved by the PAMB. European Governments and the European Commission have been supporting CARE Philippines in implementing the Sustainable Management of Mt. Isarog Territories Project (SUMMIT).



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The Governor of Camarines Sur and the Mayor of Naga City are extremely supportive for the conservation of the forest in Mt. Isarog.

The national park covers about 10,112 hectares.

7 MT. MALINDANG

Mt. Malindang Natural Park is part of the Malindang range of mountains in Mindanao and traverses the provinces of Misamis Occidental, Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur. It covers over 34,000 hectares with a peak at 2,402 meters, the highest among the six peaks in the mountain range.

The Park is characterized by a closed canopy forest, waterfalls and a crater lake. Some parts are primary forests, home to diverse species of flora and fauna.

Large, straight-trunked evergreen trees, Igem and Almaciga are abundant in the lower parts of the forest while dwarf and crooked stem trees are found in the mossy forest. The rare and endangered Philippine Eagle, Flying Lemur, Deer Tarsier, and Hornbills can be found here. Other significant species living here include mammals such as the Philippine Deer, Wild Pig, Long-Tailed Macaque, the Philippine Flying Lemur, Palm Civet and Civet Cat. Six amphibians, three reptiles, 67 birds and 25 mammals are known to be endemic to the mountain.

Over one million people living in the three provinces traversing Mt. Malindang depend on the mountain for water for domestic, agricultural and industrial purposes. The water comes from the 16 major rivers which trace their sources from the mountain.

The provinces get their main income from cultivation of coconut, cacao, coffee, rice, legumes, root crops and vegetables.

The indigenous people known as Subanen, who comprise a small percent of the territory’s total population, live in and around the park. They are believed to have occupied the mountain as far back as the 18th century. Today They are slash-and-burn farmers who have retained their distinct customs and traditions.

Located in the province of Misamis Occidental, the Mt. Malindang National Park project is complex, involving 3 provinces, 17 municipalities and cities, over 50 barangays and major internationally funded aid projects. Nonetheless, the project has a good record of collaboration with all stakeholders, of being supported by the Governor and LGUs and being understood by a fairly wide constituency. This state of affairs is rooted in the local DENR structures and a well heeled and senior PASu who has worked in the area for twenty years and who is this respected by all.

The national park covers about 34,690 hectares.

A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) has been entered into with CARE Philippines1 to co-ordinate the activities of each organization in the area. CARE and its partner NGOs are implementing the Agencies Working for Ecological Sustainability on Mt. Malindang Environment (AWESOME) project. The objective of the project is to support conservation through the provision of alternative livelihood activities and through institutional strengthening. In 1999 a major Australian-financed intervention known as the Philippine Australia Local Sustainability (PALS) Project started. It focuses on six municipalities in Misamis Occidental. These include the Municipality of Don Victoriano, which is placed at

1 Additional MoA(s) with SEARCA, SESAM and UPCIDS are in the pipeline.



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the heart of the Protected Area. In addition the Dutch funded Philippine- Netherlands Biodiversity Research Programme for Development In Mindanao- Focus on Mount Malindang started its implementation activities last July 1, 2000. NIPAP has been closely working with the proponent SEARCA, helping them identify researchable areas, which will be of use to the PAMB members, and the Protected Area Office.

8 MT. PULAG

Rising to 2,922 meters above sea level, Mt. Pulag is the highest peak in the island of Luzon and the second highest in the Philippines. The protected area covers 11,500 hectares and lies along the Grand Cordillera Central Mountain Ranges, encompassing portions of the provinces of Benguet, Ifugao and Nueva Vizcaya.

The summit of Mt. Pulag is covered with grass and dwarf bamboo plants. At lower elevations, the mountainside has a mossy forest often veiled with fog, and full of ferns, lichens and moss. Below this is the pine forest growing on barren, rocky slopes. Water-falls, rivers and small lakes mark the area.

Mt. Pulag has a large diversity of flora and fauna, much of which is endemic. Its wildlife includes threatened mammals such as the Philippine Brown Deer, the Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat and the Luzon Pygmy Fruit Bat. Also here are several orchid species some of which are possibly endemic. Other rare flora include the pitcher plant.

As a watershed, Mt. Pulag serves as a life-support system to many communities. It sustains domestic, irrigation, livelihood activities and power generation to three hydroelectric power plants.

Indigenous Communities living in the area are the Ibaloi, Kalanguya, Kankana-eys and Karaos who, with their rites and traditions, regard the mountain as a sacred place. They have a rich folklore about ancestral spirits inhabiting trees, lakes and mountains.

Agriculture, both subsistence and market-oriented, is their major livelihood. Crops grown include rice, cabbage, potato, carrot, beans, snow peas, tomato, lettuce and sweet potato.

Commercial vegetable production is perceived to be the greatest threat to conservation efforts along with competition between the different indigenous communities.

Mt. Pulag National Park was originally established by Presidential Proclamation No. 75, of February 20, 1987, a process that was not entirely endorsed by the local people.

Mt. Pulag and its environs is recipient of several on-going projects. Aside from NIPAP, another EU-funded project (CASCADE) is supporting People/LGU-driven aimed at poverty-alleviation, covering the municipalities of Kabayan, within which much of the national park lies, Buguias and Bokod; the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has declared the communities of Lusod and Tawangan, barangays adjacent and within the Park as Agrarian Reform Communities (ARC); in 1996, Kabayan, Buguias and Tinoc Municipalities were awarded a Certificate for Ancestral Domain Claim (CADC) while Bokod was awarded in 1998. At present, only Kabayan CADC has an approved Ancestral Domain Management Plan (1999).



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APPENDIX 3 CLASSIFICATION OF GMP APPENDICES – NIPAP METHOD

GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN APPENDICES

The classification is hierarchical:

1 FIRST BY GROUP (1ST LEVEL HEADING) OF WHICH THERE ARE FIVE,

- Biophysical Data

- Social Data

- Government And Administration

- Legal Documents

- Management Information

2 THEN BY SUBJECT (2ND LEVEL HEADING ) AND

3 FINALLY, BY TOPIC (3RD LEVEL HEADING).

Thus, Groups and Subjects are as follows:

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APPENDIX TABLE 1 NIPAP GMP APPENDICES CLASSIFICATION

1 BIO-PHYSICAL INFORMATION:

All non-human information and data (primary and secondary) necessary for the production of the management manual, particularly Part I Description

1.1 Geo-physical Information

1.2 Meteorological Information

1.3 Soils Information

1.4 Bio-physical Systems

1.5 Marine Life

1.6 Non-marine Aquatic Life

1.7 Terrestrial Life

2 SOCIAL INFORMATION:

All information and data about people, necessary for the production of the management manual.

2.1 Demography

2.2 Local/regional information

2.3 Other demographic information

2.4 Health

2.5 Education

2.6 Land tenure

2.7 Economy

2.8 Socio-Cultural

3 GOVERNMENT & ADMINISTRATION 3.1 International

3.2 National

3.3 Region/Province

3.4 City/Municipality

3.5 Barangay

3.6 Other

4 LEGAL DOCUMENTS 4.1 International

4.2 National

4.3 DENR

4.4 Other Departments and Branches of Government

4.5 Province

4.6 Legally binding agreements

5 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION:

All management information necessary for production of the manual and implementation of the management plan

5.1 Ecosystem Management

5.2 Law Enforcement

5.3 Sustainable Livelihoods

5.4 Tourism and Visitor Management

5.5 Research and Monitoring

5.6 Regional Integration

5.7 Institutional Organization, Management and Administration

5.8 Financial Sustainability

5.9 Information and Education Campaigns



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APPENDIX 4 INDICATOR SPECIES BY SITE

Based on the species identified by PAMB members according to the BMS process

A. EL NIDO-TAYTAY MANAGED RESOURCE PROTECTED AREA

Scientific Name Common Name/ Local Name

(Birds)

Ardea sp. Heron

Egretta sp. Egret

Chalcopaps indica Emerald Pigeon/Humamban

Treron vernans Pink-Necked Green Pigeon/Punay

Ptilinopus leclancheri Black-Chinned Fruit Dove/Punay

P. melanospila Black-naped Fruit Dove/Punay

Macropygia phasianella Reddish Cuckoo-Dove/Manuk-Manok

Ducula aenea Green Imperial Pigeon/Balud

Ducula bicolor Pied Imperial Pigeon/Kamaso

Chrysocolaptes lucidus Greater Flameback/Patuktok

Dryocopus javensis White-Bellied Woodpecker/Patuktok

Mulleripicus funebris Great Slaty Flameback/Patuktok

Halietus leucogaster White-Breasted Sea Eagle

Spilornis cheela Serpent Eagle

Prioniturus platenae Palawan Raquet-tail/ Loro

Cacatua haematuropygia Philippine Cockatoo/Alabucay/Katala

Tanygnathus lucionensis Blue-Naped Parrot/Pikoy

Gallus gallus Jungle Fowl/Labuyo

Megapodius cumingi Tabon Scrub-Fowl/Tabon Bird

Gracula religiosa Talking Mynah/Kiaw

Anthracoceros marchei Palawan Hornbill/Kalaw

Callocalia fuciphaga Edible Swiftlet/ Balinsasayaw

Polyplectron emphanum Palawan Peacock Pheasant/Tandikan

(Mammals)

Sus barbatus Bearded Pig/ Baboy-damo

Tupaia palawanesis Palawan Tree Shrew/Bising

Pteropus vampyrus Palawan Flying Fox/Paniki

Macaca fascicularis Long-tailed Macaque/Unggoy

Manis javanica Malayan Pangolin/ Balinton

Amblonyx cinerea Oriental Small-Clawed Otter/Benguen

Hystrix pumila Palawan Porcupine/Durian

Dugong dugon Dugong

Tursiops truncatus Bottle-Nosed Dolphin

(Reptiles)

Chelonia mydas Green Turtle/Pawikan

Eretmochelys imbricata Hawksbill Turtle; Pawikan

Lepidochelys olivacea Olive Ridley Turtle; Pawikan

Carreta carreta Loggerhead Turtle; Pawikan

Dermochelys coriacea Leatherback Turtle; Pawikan

(Fishes)

Carangoides sp Kalapato

Leiognathus sp. Sap-sap

Scolopsis sp. Bisugo

Centropyge vrolickii Angelfishes

Pomacanthus imperator Angelfishes

Lutjanus sp. Maya-maya

Selar crumenophthalmus Matambaka

Caranx sp Talakitok



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Chaetodon sp. Butterflyfish

Cephalopolis boenak Lapu-Lapu/Grouper

Epinephelus caeruleopunctatus Lapu-Lapu/Grouper

Decapterus sp. Galunggong

Selar sp. Alumahan

(Invertebrates)

Loligo sp. Squid/Pusit

Octopus sp. Octopus

Holothuria sp. Sea Cucumber/Balatan

Charonia sp. Triton; Budyong

Trochus sp. Top Shell; Samong

Peneus sp. Shrimps; Hipon

Tridacna sp. (all species) Giant Clams; Taklobo; Manlot; Letlet

Acanthaster plancii Crown-of-thorns

Lobster; Banagan

Corals

Apis sp Honeybee; Pukyutan

(Algae)

Caulerpa lentillifera Lato/Seaweeds

C. racemosa Lato/Seaweeds

(Mangrove Species)

Ceriops decandra Malatangal

Ceriops tagal Tangal

Rhizophora apiculata Bakauan lalaki

R. mucronata Bakauan babae

R. stylosa Bakauan bato

Bruguiera cylindrica Pototan-lalaki

Bruguiera sexangula Pototan

Bruguiera gymnorrhiza Busain

Sonneratia caseolaaris Pagatpat

Sonneratia alba Pedada

Nypa fruticans Nipa

Avicennia officinalis Bungalon/Api-Api

Avicennia marina Miyapi/Api-Api

(Seagrass)

Enhalus acoroides Lusay/ Baryaw-Baryaw

Syringodium isoetifolium Syringe grass

Thalassia hemprichii Dugong grass

Cymodocea sp.

Halophila sp. Spoon grass; Baryaw-Baryaw

(Forest Species)

Calamus sp. Rattan, yantok

Vanda sp. Orchids

Intsia bijuga Ipil

Pterocarpus indicus Narrra

Phaelanopsis sp. Orchid

Paphiopedilum sp. Lady slipper Orchid

Nepenthes sp. Pitcher plant

Lygodium sp. Nitto

Dipeterocarpus grandifrlorus Apitong

Diospyros discolor Kamagong



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B. MALAMPAYA SOUND PROTECTED LAND AND SEASCAPE


(Birds)

Ardea sp. Heron

Egretta sp. Egret

Chalcopaps indica Emerald Pigeon/Humamban

Treron vernans Pink-Necked Green Pigeon/Punay

Ptilinopus leclancheri Black-Chinned Fruit Dove/Punay

P. melanospila Black-naped Fruit Dove/Punay

Macropygia phasianella Reddish Cuckoo-Dove/Manuk-Manok

Ducula aenea Green Imperial Pigeon/Balud

Ducula bicolor Pied Imperial Pigeon/Kamaso

Chrysocolaptes lucidus Greater Flameback/Patuktok

Dryocopus javensis White-Bellied Woodpecker/Patuktok

Mulleripicus funebris Great Slaty Flameback/Patuktok

Halietus leucogaster White-Breasted Sea Eagle

Spilornis cheela Serpent Eagle

Prioniturus platenae Palawan Raquet-tail/ Loro

Cacatua haematuropygia Philippine Cockatoo/Alabucay/Katala

Tanygnathus lucionensis Blue-Naped Parrot/Pikoy

Gallus gallus Jungle Fowl/Labuyo

Megapodius cumingi Tabon Scrub-Fowl/Tabon Bird

Gracula religiosa Talking Mynah/Kiaw

Anthracoceros marchei Palawan Hornbill/Kalaw

Callocalia fuciphaga Edible Swiftlet/ Balinsasayaw

Polyplectron emphanum Palawan Peacock Pheasant/Tandikan

(Mammals)

Sus barbatus Bearded Pig/ Baboy-damo

Tupaia palawanesis Palawan Tree Shrew/Bising

Pteropus vampyrus Palawan Flying Fox/Paniki

Macaca fascicularis Long-tailed Macaque/Unggoy

Manis javanica Malayan Pangolin/ Balinton

Amblonyx cinerea Oriental Small-Clawed Otter/Benguen

Hystrix pumila Palawan Porcupine/Durian

Dugong dugon Dugong

Tursiops truncatus Bottle-Nosed Dolphin

Orcealla brevirostris Irrawady Dolphin

(Reptiles)

Chelonia mydas Green Turtle/Pawikan

Eretmochelys imbricata Hawksbill Turtle; Pawikan

Lepidochelys olivacea Olive Ridley Turtle; Pawikan

Carreta carreta Loggerhead Turtle; Pawikan

Dermochelys coriacea Leatherback Turtle; Pawikan

(Fishes)

Carangoides sp Kalapato

Leiognathus sp. Sap-sap

Scolopsis sp. Bisugo

Centropyge vrolickii Angelfishes

Pomacanthus imperator Angelfishes

Lutjanus sp. Maya-maya

Selar crumenophthalmus Matambaka

Caranx sp Talakitok

Chaetodon sp. Butterflyfish



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Cephalopolis boenak Lapu-Lapu/Grouper

Epinephelus caeruleopunctatus Lapu-Lapu/Grouper

Decapterus sp. Galunggong

Selar sp. Alumahan

(Invertebrates)

Loligo sp. Squid/Pusit

Octopus sp. Octopus

Holothuria sp. Sea Cucumber/Balatan

Charonia sp. Triton; Budyong

Trochus sp. Top Shell; Samong

Peneus sp. Shrimps; Hipon

Perna viridis Mussels

Tridacna sp. (all species) Giant Clams; Taklobo; Manlot; Letlet

Acanthaster plancii Crown-of-thorns

Lobster; Banagan

Corals

Apis sp Honeybee; Pukyutan

(Algae)

Caulerpa lentillifera Lato/Seaweeds

C. racemosa Lato/Seaweeds

(Mangrove Species)

Ceriops decandra Malatangal

Ceriops tagal Tangal

Rhizophora apiculata Bakauan lalaki

R. mucronata Bakauan babae

R. stylosa Bakauan bato

Bruguiera cylindrica Pototan-lalaki

Bruguiera sexangula Pototan

Bruguiera gymnorrhiza Busain

Sonneratia caseolaaris Pagatpat

Sonneratia alba Pedada

Nypa fruticans Nipa

Avicennia officinalis Bungalon/Api-Api

Avicennia marina Miyapi/Api-Api

(Seagrass)

Enhalus acoroides Lusay/ Baryaw-Baryaw

Syringodium isoetifolium Syringe grass

Thalassia hemprichii Dugong grass

Cymodocea sp.

Halophila sp. Spoon grass; Baryaw-Baryaw

(Forest Species)

Calamus sp. Rattan, yantok

Vanda sp. Orchids

Intsia bijuga Ipil

Pterocarpus indicus Narrra

Phaelanopsis sp. Orchid

Paphiopedilum sp. Lady slipper Orchid

Nepenthes sp. Pitcher plant

Lygodium sp. Nitto

Dipeterocarpus grandifrlorus Apitong

Diospyros discolor Kamagong



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C. MT. GUITING-GUITING NATURAL PARK


(Birds)

Spilornis holospilos Serpent Eagle

Haliastur indus Brahminy Kite

Spizaetus philippensis Philippine Hawk Eagle

Falco peregrinus Falcon

Gallus gallus Red Jungle Fowl

Phapitreron leucotis White-eared Brown Dove

Ptilinopus occipitalis Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove

Ptilinopus lechlancheri Black-chinned Fruit Dove

Ducula poliocephala Pink-bellied Imperial Pigeon

Streptopelia bitorquata Island Collared Dove

Macropygia phasianella Reddish Cuckoo Dove

Ducula carola Spotted Imperial Pigeon

Ducula aenea Green Imperial Pigeon

Tanygnathus lucionensis Blue-naped parrot

Prioniturus discurus Blue-crowned Racquet-tail

Halcyon wencheli nesydrionetes Rufous-lored Kingfisher

Hypothymis coelestis Celestial Monarch

Ninox philippinensis Philippine Hawk-owl

(Mammals)

Pteropus sp Flying fox

Nyctimene rabori Philippine Tube-nosed Fruit Bat

Macaca fascicularis Long-tailed Macaque

Sus philippinensis Philippine Warty Pig

Vivierra tangalunga Civet Cat

(Reptiles)

Hydrosaurus pustulosus Philippine Sailfin Lizard

Varanus salvator Water Monitor Lizard

Sphenomorphus cumingi Cuming’s Eared Skink

(Amphibian)

Rana magna Giant Philippine Frog

(Flora)

Pterocarpus indica Narra

Shorea sp Lauan

Hedyacras philippinensis Mamoko

Agathis philippinensis Almaciga

Xanthostemon berdugonianus Tiga

Mangifera philippinensis Pajo

Cinnamomum mercadoi Kaningang

Gnetum gnemon Bago

Ervatamia hexagona Alibutbut

Calamus sp Rattan

Pandanus calceiformis Baraui

Flagelaria indica Baling-uai

Olax imbricata Malabagio

Lygodium sp Nito

Plocoglottis sp. Orchids



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D. MT. ISAROG NATURAL PARK


(Birds)

Loriculus philippensis Philippine Hanging Parakeet / Kulasisi

Gallicolumba luzonica Bleeding Heart Pigeon / Punay

Gallus gallus Red Jungle Fowl / Talon

Mulleripicus funebris Sooty woodpecker/Ambalatok

Dryocopus javanensis White-bellied Woodpecker

Chrysocolaptes lucidus Greater Goldenback

Dendrocopus maculatus Philippine Woodpecker

Penelopides panini Tarictic Hornbill/Tariktik

Buceros hydrocorax Rufous Hornbill /Kalaw

Oriolus chinensis chinensis Black-naped Oriole/Kiyaw

Spizaetus philippensis Philippine Hawk Eagle/Sabit/Tikwee

Microhierax erythrogonys Philippine Falconet/Salibad

Spilornis holospilus Philippine Serpent Eagle/Tikwee

Haliastur Indus Brahminy Kite/Kulago

(Mammals)

Macaca fascicularis Philippine Long-tailed Macaque/ Unggoy

Phloemys cumingii Southern Luzon Cloud Rat / Bugkun

Cervus mariannus Philippine Brown Deer/ Usa

Sus philippinensis Philippine Warty Pig / Baul

Pteropus speciosus Philippine Giant Fruit Bat / Kabog, Paniki

(Reptiles)

Python reticulates Reticulated Python ; Sawa

Varanus salvator Malay (water) Monitor Lizard /Goto

(Flora)

Cyathea contaminans Tree Fern / Pakong Buwaya

Caryota cumingii Fish-Tailed Palm / Pugahan

Calamus spp. Rattan / Huyo, Palasan

Shorea contorta White Lauan / Hapnit; Apnit; Lauan

Nepenthes spp. Pitcher Plant / Puro-pitsel

Strongylodon macrobotrys Jade vine / Nipoy, Landian

E. MT. IGLIT-BACO NATIONAL PARK


(Birds)

Spilornis holospilos Serpent Eagle

Haliastur indus Brahminy Kite

Spizaetus philippensis Philippine Hawk Eagle

Penelopides mindorensis Mindoro Hornbill

Dendrocopos maculates validirostris Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker

Dryocopus javensis White-Bellied Woodpecker

Gallus gallus Red Jungle Fowl

Phapitreron leucotis White-Eared Brown Dove

Ducula mindorensis Mindoro Imperial Pigeon

Ducula poliocephala Pink-Bellied Imperial Pigeon

Macropygia phasianella Reddish Cuckoo Dove

Gallicolumba platenae Mindoro Bleeding Heart Pigeon

Ducula carola Spotted Imperial Pigeon



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Ducula aenea Green Imperial Pigeon

Tanygnathus lucionensis Blue-Napped Parrot

Prioniturus discurus Blue-crowned Racquet-tail

Loriculus philippinensis mindorensis Philippine Hanging Parakeet

Otus mindorensis Mindoro Scops Owl

Dicaeum retrocinctum Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker

Centropus steerii Black-hooded Coucal

(Mammals)

Cervus marianus Philippine Brown Deer

Pteropus sp Flying fox


Sus philippinensis Philippine Warty Pig

Bubalus mindorensis Tamaraw

Rattus sp./ Apomys sp. etc. Rats / Mice

(Reptiles)

Hydrosaurus pustulosus Philippine Sailfin Lizard

Varanus salvator Water Monitor Lizard

Sphenomorphus cumingi Cuming’s Eared Skink

(Amphibian)

Rana magna Giant Philippine Frog

(Flora)

Pterocarpus indicus Narra

Shorea contorta White lauan

Albizia procera Akleng Parang

Calamus sp Rattan

Dioscorea hispida Nami

Lygodium sp Nito

F. MT. MALINDANG NATURAL PARK


(Birds)

Pithecophaga jefferyi Philippine Eagle

Sarcops calvus Coleto

Spilornis halospilos Serpent Eagle

Pitta erythrogaster Red-belied Pitta

Haliastus Indus Brahminy Kite

Penelopides panini affinis Tarictic Hornbill

Gallus gallus Jungle Fowl

Loriculus philippensis Philippine Hanging Parakeet

(Mammals)

Cervus marrianus Philippine Brown Deer

Sus philippensis Philippine Warty Pig


Cynocephalus volans Philippine Flying Lemur

Tarsius syrichta Philippine Tarsier

Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Palm Civet

(Flora)

Shorea sp. Lauan

Dipterocarpus grandiflorus Apitong

Parashorea plicata Bagtikan

Shorea guiso Guijo

Syzygium nitidum Makaasim



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Eria polyura Orchid

Plocoglottis mindorensis Orchid

Vanilla ovalis Orchid

Calamus spp. Rattan

Medinilla magnifica Medinilla

Agathis philipinnensis Almaciga

Shorea squamata Mayapis

Podocarpus imbricatus Igem

Hopea philippinensis Guisok

Palaquium luzoniense Nato

G. MT. PULAG NATIONAL PARK


(Birds)

Ptilinopus marchei Flame-breasted Fruit Dove/ Pag-ok

Columba vitiensis Metallic Pigeon/ Dem-dem, Balog

Macropygia phasianella Reddish Cuckoo Dove/Ibaw

Prioniturus montamus Luzon Racket-tail/ Oli

Phaenicophaeus cumingi Scale-feathered Malkoha/ Hikket

Centropus viridis Philippine Coucal/ Duyoduy

Chrysocolaptes lucidus haematribon Greater Flameback

Dryocopus javensis White-belied Woodpecker/Kilahlah

Spilornis cheela holospilus Crested Serpent Eagle

Gallus gallus Red Jungle Fowl/ Habag

Otus longicornis Luzon Scoops Owl/ Akop

Otus megalotis Philippine Scoops Owl/ Akop

Bubo philippensis Philippine Eagle Owl/ Puwapo

Pitta kochi Whiskered Pitta/ Kong-kong

Ryacornis bicolor Luzon Water Redstart/ King-king

(Mammals)


Sus philippensis Philippine Warty Pig/ Ulha

Cervus marianus Philippine Brown Deer /Makwa

Acerodon jubatus Golden-crowned Flying Fox

Phloemys pallidus Northern Giant Cloud Rat/ Buwet

Crateromys scadenbergi Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat /Buwet



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APPENDIX 5 TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS – DETAILS

APPENDIX TABLE 2 SUMMARY OF TRAINING & WORKSHOPS, 1998 – PAN PROJECT

ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP PARTICIPANTS

1 Conflict Management Seminar Workshop (Boundary Delineation) 20

2 ITMEMS Symposium and pre- and post symposium courses 8

3 NIPAP Orientation Workshop on Participatory Approaches to Micro-project Planning and Development

10

4 The Economic Benefits of Protected Areas and opportunities for raising funds via fees

2

5 Workshop “Validation of the resource Utilization Booklet” 6

6 Workshop “ Orientation on the Willingness to Pay Survey” 6

7 Participatory Planning Process with selected Communities on determining how to meet Timber Demand for Domestic Use”

200

8 Participatory Planning Process with selected Communities on determining “Timber Demand for Domestic Use”

150

9 Workshop “ Orientation on the Willingness to Pay Survey” 45

10 NIPAP Second Rural Development Officers’ Training Workshop 12

11 Standardization of Project Documents: Introduction to the use of NIPAP templates

40

12 GPS Training for Boundary delineation at Mt. Pulag 12

13 GPS Training for Boundary delineation at Mt. Guiting–guiting 19

14 Remote Sensing and GPS Orientation ??

15 1998 AWP & Budget (EU and GoP) Orientation & Procedures 13

16 1998 AWP & Budget (EU and GoP) Orientation & Procedures 6

17 Training for EU/GOP Finance & Admin. Matters 16

20 1998 AWP & Budget (EU and GoP) Orientation & Procedures x 3 20

21 1999 AWP & Budget Preparation Workshop (EU and GoP) 35

22 Training for EU/GOP Finance & Admin. Matters 16

23 Boatmen Training 12

24 Land Rover Drivers’ Training 6

APPENDIX TABLE 3 TRAINING & WORKSHOPS, 1998 – CORON ISLAND


1 Diving Course (PADI) 2

2 Diving Course (PADI- Open waters) 2

3 First aid course 2

4 Paralegal Training on Illegal Activities within the Protected Areas 16

APPENDIX TABLE 4 TRAINING & WORKSHOPS, 1998 – EL NIDO


1 EIC Planning on Rezoning of El Nido Marine Reserve Workshop 20





APPENDIX TABLE 5 TRAINING & WORKSHOPS, 1998 – MALAMPAYA SOUND








101


5 Joint Paralegal Training for El Nido, Coron and Malampaya Sound 4



102

APPENDIX TABLE 6 TRAINING & WORKSHOPS, 1998 – MT. GUITING-GUITING


1 Introduction to Communication Planning For Rural Environmental Campaigns

2 Introduction to Environmental Conflict Management Approaches

3 Co-ordination Workshop on PA Management 1


5 Orientation Seminar on the Authorities and Functions of the Protected Area Management Board

25

6 PAMB Orientation Seminar on Functions and Responsibilities 24

7 Follow-up meeting with MGGNP IEC core group 12

8 IEC Orientation Workshop 5

APPENDIX TABLE 7 TRAINING & WORKSHOPS, 1998 – MTS. IGLIT AND BACO


1 PAMB Orientation-Seminar 3


APPENDIX TABLE 8 TRAINING & WORKSHOPS, 1998 – MT. ISAROG




3 PAMB Orientation 3

4 Leadership Skills Training and Conflict Management Seminar 25

5 PASu Day - Experience exchange 8

6 Basic Mountaineering Course 16

APPENDIX TABLE 9 TRAINING & WORKSHOPS, 1998 – MT. MALINDANG




3 Strategic Framework Planning Workshop for Mt. Malindang National Park 35

4 Symposium – Values of Forest and Its Status 59

5 Public Consultation Re: NIPAS Law 53

6 Seminar – Forest Ecological Awareness and Protection 19

7 Seminar – Forest Ecological Awareness and Protection 19

8 Dialog – Forest Conservation Needs 89

9 Dialog – NIPAS Law vs. Prop. Subanen Municipality in Sitog 116

12 Dalaw-Turo – Forest Conservation Awareness Campaign x 3 159

18 Forest Ecological Awareness Seminar 145

19 Environmental Awareness Radio Program “Lantawan Sa Kinaiyahan” General Public

20 Environmental Awareness “Ang Kinaiyahan” General Public

APPENDIX TABLE 10 TRAINING & WORKSHOPS, 1998 – MT. PULAG


1 Conflict Management Seminar Workshop (Boundary Delineation) 20



4 PAMB Orientation-Seminar 4



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APPENDIX TABLE 11 TRAINING, 1999 - PAN PROJECT


1 Training on “IEC Planning and Basic Writing on Environmental issues” 14

2 Crash Course on IEC, Conflict Management and Boundary Delineation 18

3 3rd Rural Development Officers’ Training Workshop 13

4 Practical Training on Participatory 3-D Modeling (Mt. Pulag National Park and Environs)

80

5 Fish Examiners Training (Phase I)

6 4th Rural Development Officers’ Training Workshop 20

7 Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) Training Workshop 11

8 Fish Examiners’ Training (Phase II)

9 6th Livelihood, Resource Use and Community Development M&E and Training Workshop

22

10 Computer Literacy Training 15

11 GoP Counterpart fund/EU Grant Fund Orientation Procedures 8

12 NIPAP GoP Counterpart fund Utilization & PASu Trainers Workshop 60

APPENDIX TABLE 12 TRAINING, 1999 - CORON ISLAND



2 Installation of Computerized Accounting System/Orientation & Training / Reconciliation of Accounting Records

6

3 Fish Examiners Training (Phase I) 2

4 Fish Examiners’ Training (Phase II) 2


6 Basic Motorbike Training/Safety Course 20

7 Moral Recovery and Team Building Seminar 64

APPENDIX TABLE 13 TRAINING, 1999 - EL NIDO


1 PAMB Members’ Orientation



4 Para-legal training of Bantay Dagat (Volunteers) 43

5 Marine Turtle Hatchery Training

6 Fire Prevention and Management

APPENDIX TABLE 14 TRAINING, 1999 - MALAMPAYA SOUND




3 Fish Warden Training 38

4 Orientation/Seminar on the Authorities and Functions of the PAMB 58

APPENDIX TABLE 15 TRAINING, 1999 - MT. GUITING-GUITING


1 Orientation Seminar on Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) 25


3 First Aid Training 17

4 Jungle Survival Training

5 Fire Control and Management Training 21



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APPENDIX TABLE 16 TRAINING, 1999 - MOUNTS IGLIT AND BACO


1 Orientation & Training on EU Accounting Records & other recording/monitoring activities for the GoP counterpart funds

4

2 Training/Orientation on PASA and SR PAO 30

3 Law enforcement and Jungle Survival Training 7

APPENDIX TABLE 17 SUMMARY OF TRAINING, 1999 - MT. ISAROG


1 Training on the IPAF and the Setting of Fees 20

2 Crop husbandry of Watermelon and Onions 51

3 Rapid Composting by the use of Activators 11


5 Native Chicken Production and Management 21


7 Para-Legal Training for Mountaineering Groups 15

8 Practical Training on Participatory 3-D Modeling (Mt. Pulag National Park and Environs)

1

9 Beekeeping (Apis cerana) 11

10 Market Based Strategy for Determining Fees for Protected Areas 2

11 SRPAO orientation done in preparation of the joint survey of PA occupants 8


10


14 Training on Participatory Learning and Action 60

15 Product Development Seminar 1

16 Training on Participatory Learning and Action 48

17 Organic Vegetable Farming 11


19 IEC Campaign Planning and Basic Writing for the Environment 2

20 Paralegal Training for Bantay- Bundok Volunteers 26


22 Beekeeping (Apis cerana) 5

23 Biodiversity Monitoring System (BMS) Training for Protected Area Staff (Phase I)

25

24 Native Chicken Production 5

25 Swine Raising 6

26 Native Chicken Production 7

27 Backyard Swine Production 17

APPENDIX TABLE 18 TRAINING, 1999 - MT. MALINDANG NATIONAL


1 Bantay Lasang Seminar on DENR –NIPAP special Project 53


3 Documentation, (Para legal) Seminar Workshop for DENRO’s 26



6

6 Basic First aid Training 33




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APPENDIX TABLE 19 TRAINING, 1999 - MT. PULAG NATIONAL


1 Computer Literacy Training 2

2 Crash Course on IEC, Conflict Management and Boundary Delineation 2




8

6 SRPAO orientation 12

7 Fish Examiners Training 2


9 Participatory Learning and Action Training Workshop 2

10 Protected Area Office staff Assessment 11

11 IEC Campaign Planning and Basic Writing for the Environment 2

12 GoP Counterpart Workshop 2

13 Biodiversity Information and Management System (BIMS) Training 1

14 Biodiversity Monitoring System (BMS) Training for Protected Area Staff (Phase I)

1

15 RBI and SRPAO Orientation 31

16 Paralegal Training

APPENDIX TABLE 20 WORKSHOPS, 1999 – PAN PROJECT


1 PASu Consultation Workshop for the finalization of the “Filipino Park Ranger’s Training Manual” and “PASu Management Manual and Essentials of Protected Area Management”

12

2 Year-end Assessment and Forest Protection, Fire Control and Management Workshop

44

3 NIPAP 1999 Planning Forum 50

4 Dissemination Workshop “Synopsis of the BCN Results” 3

5 “Biodiversity issues, the NIPAS Act and the National Integrated Protected Areas Programme”, Lecture.

Ca. 400

6 Philippine Agricultural Economics and Development Association’s Conference on the Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization Act

Ca. 200

7 Leveling-off Workshop on Environmental Compliance Certificates (ECC) 20

8 PowerPoint presentation on Participatory 3-D Modeling: “Making information Tangible: Experiences in Promoting Collaborative Natural Resource Management in the Philippines”.

18

9 NIPAP Livelihood, Resource Use and Community Development Strategy and Achievements. Presentation

9

10 Presentation: Making Information Tangible through Participatory 3-Dimensional Modeling: experiences in Collaborative Natural Resource Management in the Philippines

28

11 Presentation: Making Information Tangible: Collaborative Natural Resource Management through 3-D Modeling in the Philippines

40

12 NIPAP 1999 Planning Forum (lecture on Principles of Monitoring and Evaluation and presentation of the Project Progress Monitoring Form

8

13 1999 EU Finance Manual Review & GoP Budget Re-programming 45

14 AWP&B 4TH Qtr. 1999 & Year 2000 Workshop/ Consultations on EU & GoP Funds

26

15 Consultation/Orientation on NIPAP Disbursement of funds 28

16 Team Building Workshop 40



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APPENDIX TABLE 21 WORKSHOPS, 1999 – CORON ISLAND


1 1st Photo Exhibit on Environmental Awareness 36

2 NIPAP’s Orientation on Objectives, Implementation Strategies and the NIPAS Act

73

3 Photo Exhibit on Environmental Awareness 138

4 School Visit 75

5 School Visit 44

6 Photo exhibit on Environmental Awareness 87

7 Awareness Test for PAO Personnel 18

8 Radio Broadcast (30 minutes) N/A

APPENDIX TABLE 22 WORKSHOPS, 1999 – EL NIDO


19 Community-Based Fisheries Management Consultation Process x 19 507 +

20 Participatory 3-D Modeling of El Nido Municipality including the ENMRPA 70

21 Validation Workshop on the Community-Based Fisheries Management Consultation

25

22 Planning Workshop for El Nido Managed Resource Protected Area 60

APPENDIX TABLE 23 WORKSHOPS, 1999 – MALAMPAYA SOUND


1 PAMB Orientation Seminar 32

2 Coral Reef Education for Students and Teachers 30

3 CREST Re-echo Seminar Workshop 133

4 Ecological Solid Waste Management Seminar/Workshop 59

APPENDIX TABLE 24 WORKSHOPS, 1999 – MT. GUITING-GUITING


1 CBFM Orientation

2 Dalaw Turo

3 Consultations on Boundary Delineation

4 Focused Group Discussion with women IP on access to timber for domestic use 20

5 Advance Leadership Training and Environmental Protection Seminar for ECPISR 120

6 Environmental Protection Seminar 33

7 Peace Corps Volunteers Seminar 48

8 Environmental Protection Seminar 18

9 Eco-scout Training 63

10 Briefing Seminar on Mt. Guiting-Guiting 210

11 Eco-scout Training on Butterfly Farming

12 Medical Mission Ca. 600

18 CBFM Orientation and Action Planning Workshop x 5 131

19 Participatory 3-D Modelling (1:5,000 scale) of the CBFM area in Barangay España, San Fernando, Sibuyan Island

6

20 Participatory 3-D Modelling of Sibuyan Island including MGGNP (1:10,000 scale) 101

21 Team Building Seminar Workshop

APPENDIX TABLE 25 SUMMARY OF WORKSHOPS, 1999 – MOUNTS IGLIT-BACO


1 Radio Programme

2 Poster Making Contest 36



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APPENDIX TABLE 26 WORKSHOPS, 1999 – MT. ISAROG


1 Seminar IEC Approaches, Conflict Management and Boundary Delineation Procedures.

3

2 Mission-Vision Workshop for Mt. Isarog 45

3 MINP Strategic Planning Framework Development Workshop 68

4 Conference on Philippine Watershed Management 1

5 Slides show in English and Bicolano as part of a two month information campaign on Mt. Isarog National Park

Ca. 200

6 A PAO Teambuilding session for better working relationship and co-ordination. 25

7 Participatory 3-D Modeling of Mt. Isarog National Park and Environs 231

8 Orientation Workshop on Biodiversity, NIPAS, NIPAP and PAMB 4

9 Orientation on Biodiversity/ NIPAS Act 19

10 IEC on Biodiversity, NIPAS Act, NIPAP and PAMB 912

11 Orientation on MINP cum Poster Making Contest 41

12 NIPAS Act/ Biodiversity 92

13 Philippine Watershed Management Coalition Assembly Seminar 1

14 PAMB Orientation on the Roles and Responsibilities of the PAMB 30

15 Basic Ecology Seminar 30

16 Orientation on Biodiversity and NIPAS 22

17 GMP Presentation Workshop 25

18 Symposium on Ecological Awareness 2

APPENDIX TABLE 27 WORKSHOPS, 1999 - MT. PULAG


1 Biodiversity 46

2 Biodiversity, NIPAS Act and PAMB Section 45

3 Biodiversity and NIPAS Act 41

4 Orientation Seminar on the Authority and Functions of the PAMB

5 Participatory 3-D Modeling of Mt. Pulag National Park and Environs 79

6 Orientation Seminar on IEC, Conflict Management and Boundary Delineation 46

7 Orientation Seminar on “Survey and Registration of PA Occupants (SRPAO)” 12

8 Family Planning and Gender Development 60

9 Biodiversity Conservation 30

10 Cross-Visit to the TPED Model Bio-Gas Digester at Wangal, La Trinidad, Benguet

3

11 IEC Planning Workshop defining the Community-Based Protected Area Management Strategy (CBPAMS)

12 Integrated Pest Management Orientation 43

13 Community Planning 21

14 NIPAP Act 35

15 Co-operation Workshop between CASCADE and NIPAP 60

16 Community Planning 25

17 Barangay Development Planning 15

18 Public Hearing 224

19 Public Hearing 130



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APPENDIX TABLE 28 WORKSHOPS, 1999 - MT. MALINDANG


1 Bantay Banwa Seminar 53

2 Orientation Seminar on DENR-NIPAP Special Project 51

3 Lay Ministers Seminar 41

4 Basic Safety Driving Seminar 23

5 Forest Protection Seminar 36

6 “Orientation and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)” sponsored by SEARCA and RAWOO

35

7 Strategic Framework Planning Workshop for Mt. Malindang 35

8 2nd Cluster-Strategic Framework Development Workshop 25

9 Orientation-Seminar on DENR-NIPAP-CARE Special Project 45

10 Land claimants meeting 33

11 Documentation Seminar (Para-legal) Workshop for DENROs) 26

12 Cross Visit to the Xavier University Sustainable Agriculture 17

13 Protected Area Planning Workshop 47

14 Seminar Workshop on Philippine Biodiversity and Wildlife Education 53

15 Seminar Workshop on Philippine Biodiversity and Wildlife Education 45

16 Protected Area Planning Workshop 47

17 Youth Environmental Summit 40

18 Consultation on Land Status in Sicot 27

19 Stakeholders Assembly on Mt. Malindang 37

20 Media Seminar on Mt. Malindang 35

21 Orientation-Seminar on Conservation and Protection of Mt. Malindang for LGU of Pana-on

74

22 Talk on Jubille of the Earth 1000

23 Orientation Seminar on the Roles and Functions of DENRO’s 31

24 Participatory 3 D Modelling of Mt. Malindang and Environs 119

25 Educational Tour/Field Trip to Lake Duminagat 35

26 Consultation Meeting with LGU of Conception 35

27 Dalaw Turo 80

28 Dalaw Turo 75

29 Presentation of Management Strategies of MMNP 66

30 Lecture of Mt. Malindang Situationer during the Barangay Administration Training of LGU Ozamiz

100

31 Lecture of Mt. Malindang Situationer during the Barangay Administration Training of LGU Ozamiz

100

32 Cross Visit to Sustainable Agriculture Sites 20

33 PAO Planning Workshop 16

34 IEC Campaign Planning Workshop 35

35 Christmas Symbol Exhibit (display of P 3-D Model of MMNP and NIPAP Posters) N/A

APPENDIX TABLE 29 TRAINING, 2000 - PAN PROJECT


1 Training on Participatory 3-D Modeling of The Pamitinan Protected Landscape and its environs

93

2 Basic Course on Fund Raising 2

3 Training on Participatory 3-D Modeling (extraction of information) 7

4 Preparation Of Resource Persons For The Pilot Test Of The Protected Area Management Course (Trainer's Enhancement Program) Training of Trainers

9



7 Restricted Land Mobile Orientation and SR3 Portable HF-SSB Radio Operation 45



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APPENDIX TABLE 30 TRAINING, 2000 - CORON ISLAND


1 Paralegal Training on Fisheries and Coastal Law for the deputisation of Community Fish Wardens

70

2 Tagbanua Cultural Sensitivity Training 58

3 National Biodiversity Conservation Priority Setting Workshop 1

APPENDIX TABLE 31 TRAINING, 2000 – EL NIDO



57

2 IPAF Training (Phase 1) 19

3 Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 & 2) 30

4 Training Needs Assessment for Strengthening Integration of Protected Area Stakeholders

18


21

6 Strengthening Integration of Protected Area Stakeholders (SIPAS) Training 16

7 IPAF Training (Phase 2 - Roundtable discussions on the implementation and management of IPAF sub-account)

15

8 Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 3) 20

APPENDIX TABLE 32 TRAINING, 2000 – MALAMPAYA SOUND



2 Coral Reef Education to Communities 34



12

5 Computer Hands-on Training on MS Word, Excel and Photo Shop Scanners 6

6 Capability Enhancement 45

APPENDIX TABLE 33 TRAINING, 2000 – MT. GUITING-GUITING



2 Installation of the Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 and 2) 23

3 CBFM Communication skills Training 32

4 Paralegal Training for Bantay Kalikasan Volunteers 44


APPENDIX TABLE 34 TRAINING, 2000 – MTS. IGLIT - BACO



2 Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 & 2) 26

3 IPAF Training (Phase 2 - Roundtable discussions on IPAF implementation and management)

13



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APPENDIX TABLE 35 TRAINING, 2000 – MT. ISAROG


1 Basic Ecology Training 25

2 Installation of the Biodiversity Monitoring Systems Phase 3 9

3 Orientation on Biodiversity Monitoring Systems 25

4 ParaVet Training 13

5 Small Business Management Training 9

6 Candy Making Training 9

7 Cutflower Production Training 9


9 PARA-LEGAL Training for PAMB Members 29

10 IPAF Training (Phase 2- Roundtable Discussions on Administrative and Legal aspects of IPAF)

12

APPENDIX TABLE 36 TRAINING, 2000 – MT. MALINDANG


1 Bio-intensive Gardening Technology 14

2 Training on High Value 14


4 Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 and 2) 24


18

APPENDIX TABLE 37 TRAINING, 2000 – MT. PULAG


1 Installation of the Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 and 2) 23

2 Tour Guide Training 27

3 Basic Orientation Course on Citrus Propagation and Production 20

4 Camote and Potato Processing Hands-on Training 11

5 GPS training 19

6 First-Aid Training 16


8 IPAF Training (Phase I) 25

APPENDIX TABLE 38 WORKSHOPS, 2000 – PAN PROJECT


1 IPAS Technical Coordinating Committee Meeting: Presentation of NIPAP no-cost Extension Plan and BMS Update

19

2 Community Organizing Workshop 1

3 Workshop on Ecological Destination 1

4 National Biodiversity Priority Setting Workshop 1

5 Presentation: Making Information Tangible: Collaborative Natural Resource Management through 3-D Modeling in the Philippines

35

6 Roundtable Discussion on Foreign Assisted Projects: Issues, Concerns and Emerging Concepts: NIPAP's Participatory 3-D Modeling and M&E Systems

23

7 Manuals and other Key Documents: Status Assessment and Action Planning Workshop

14

8 Sustainability Factors in Protected Area management: Results of Case Studies done in the Framework of the National Integrated Protected Areas Programme

8

9 Presentation: Participatory 3-Dimensional Modeling: Merging GIS Data with People’s Knowledge; The Use of Mapping Tools

42

10 Conference-Workshop on the State of Community Mapping and Resource Management Planning in the Philippines

Ca. 40

11 Participatory 3-D Modeling: a Means of communication for Designing, Managing and Monitoring Community-based Interventions

15

12 5th Seminar on GIS and Developing Countries, GISDECO 2000. Ca. 60



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Presentation: Exploring the Synergies of GIS and Participatory 3-D Modeling to Increase Local Communication Capacity

13 Curriculum Vitae Preparation Workshop 50

APPENDIX TABLE 39 WORKSHOPS, 2000 – CORON ISLAND


1 Meeting with the Tagbanua Foundation of Coron Island (TFCI) re. establishment of fee system in Coron Island

32

2 Consultation with tourism sector re. establishment of entrance fee in Kayangan Lake

73

3 Workshop: Preparation Of Resource Persons For The Pilot Test Of The Protected Area Management Course (Part 2 Write shop)

11

4 2nd Consultation on the Establishment of A Fee System for Coron Island 23

5 NIPAP-TFCI Consultation on the Coron Island Management Plan 35


APPENDIX TABLE 40 WORKSHOPS, 2000 – EL NIDO



2 Phase-in/Phase-out Workshop 42

3 Training Needs Assessment for Strengthening Integration of Protected Area Stakeholders

18


APPENDIX TABLE 41 WORKSHOPS, 2000 – MALAMPAYA SOUND



2 Solid Waste Management Seminar/Workshop 21


4 Participatory 3-D Modeling of Malampaya Sound Protected Area and Seascape (1:20,000 scale)

87

5 Strategic Planning Workshop 69


7 Coral Reef Education to Communities and Ecological Waste Management Seminar

80

APPENDIX TABLE 42 WORKSHOPS, 2000 – MT. GUITING-GUITING



2 Romblon Strategic Planning Workshop on Eco-Tourism and Sustainable Development.

1

APPENDIX TABLE 43 WORKSHOPS, 2000 – MTS IGLIT-BACO


1 Team Building Seminar Workshop 65

2 Resources Basic Inventory Orientation Workshop 38

3 Preliminary Stakeholder Consultation Seminar Workshop 73

4 IEC Orientation for Mts. Iglit-Baco National Park 12

5 Strategic Planning Workshop 57

APPENDIX TABLE 44 WORKSHOPS, 2000 – MT. ISAROG


1 7th RDO Workshop: Micro-project Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation 17

2 PAO Planning Workshop 36




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APPENDIX TABLE 45 WORKSHOPS, 2000 – MT. MALINDANG NATIONAL



2 2nd Stakeholders Orientation Workshop 42

3 Re-Echo Seminar Workshop (CV & Staff Development Workshop) 25

APPENDIX TABLE 46 WORKSHOPS, 2000 – MT. PULAG




APPENDIX TABLE 47 TRAINING, 2001 – CORON ISLAND


1 Refresher Course on Fishery Law Enforcement and Examination of Fish Poisonous Substances

27

APPENDIX TABLE 48 TRAINING, 2001 – EL NIDO


1 Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 4)

APPENDIX TABLE 49 TRAINING, 2001 – MALAMPAYA SOUND


1 Paralegal Training (Phase 1) 40

2 International Training on Management and Conservation of Protected Areas 1

3 Paralegal Training (Phase 2) 40

4 Biodiversity Monitoring System (Phase 1 and 2) 31

APPENDIX TABLE 50 TRAINING, 2001 – MT. GUITING-GUITING


1 IPAF Roundtable Discussion (Training) 23


APPENDIX TABLE 51 TRAINING, 2001 – MT. IGLIT-BACO



APPENDIX TABLE 52 TRAINING, 2001 – MT. ISAROG



2 Simple Book-keeping

APPENDIX TABLE 53 TRAINING, 2001 – MT. MALINDANG



1 Library Orientation and Training 1

APPENDIX TABLE 54 TRAINING, 2001 – MT. PULAG


1 IPAF Roundtable Discussion (Training) 17

2 Basic First Aid Training

APPENDIX TABLE 55 WORKSHOP, 2001 – CORON ISLAND


1 Refresher Course on Fishery Law Enforcement and Examination of Fish Poisonous Substances

27



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WORKSHOP, 2001 – EL NIDO - NONE

WORKSHOP, 2001 – MALAMPAYA SOUND – NONE

APPENDIX TABLE 56 WORKSHOP, 2001 – MT. GUITING-GUITING


1 Environmental Protection, Conservation, Values Formation and Team Building Workshop

2 Presentation and Launching of Management Strategy for MGGNP

APPENDIX TABLE 57 WORKSHOP, 2001 – MT. IGLIT-BACO


1 Public Hearing Hundreds



WORKSHOP, 2001 – MT. ISAROG - NONE

WORKSHOP, 2001 – MT. MALINDANG - NONE

APPENDIX TABLE 58 WORKSHOP, 2001 – MT. PULAG




3 GMP Presentation

4 Orientation of MPITGA


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APPENDIX 6 SUMMARY STATUS OF THE LIVELIHOOD PILOT PROJECTS AT THE END OF 1999

APPENDIX TABLE 59 SUMMARY STATUS OF THE LIVELIHOOD PILOT PROJECTS AT THE END OF 1999

Target Area Reference Benchmark

Performance Indicator





Impact Indicator




Impact Indicator

NIPAP site Barangay N o . o f h o u s e h o l d s r e s i d i n g i n t h e T a r g e t B a r a n g a y / s i t i o

N o . o f I n t e r e s t g r o u p s f o r m e d

P e r c e n t a g e o f n o n - r e s o u r c e b a s e d i n i t i a t i v e s ( M i c r o - p r o j e c t s ) T o t a l n o . o f w o m e n m e m b e r o f I n t e r e s t G r o u p s

T o t a l n o . o f m e n m e m b e r o f I n t e r e s t G r o u p s

T o t a l n o . o f m e m b e r s ( i n d i v i d u a l s ) o f I n t e r e s t G r o u p s

W o m e n ’ s p a r t i c i p a t i o n i n I n t e r e s t g r o u p s ( a s % o n t h e t o t a l n o . o f m e m b e r s ) T o t a l n o . o f h o u s e h o l d s b e i n g r e p r e s e n t e d i n a l l I n t e r e s t G r o u p s

N o . o f M i c r o - p r o j e c t s a p p r o v e d a n d u n d e r a c t u a l i m p l e m e n t a t i o n

T o t a l n o . o f h o u s e h o l d s b e i n g r e p r e s e n t e d i n I G s i m p l e m e n t i n g M i c r o - p r o j e c t s

P e r c e n t a g e o f h o u s e h o l d s i n t h e t a r g e t a r e a b e n e f i t i n g f r o m P r o j e c t A s s i s t a n c e

MINP

Harubay 264 8 25.0% 27 51 78 34.6% 78 5 25 29.5%

Villaflorida 132 9 33.3% 44 58 102 43.1% 101 1 38 76.5%

Panicuason 317 8 50.0% 34 31 65 52.3% 65 2 0 20.5%

Del Rosario and Curry

82 6 66.7% 27 18 45 60.0% 32 3 0 39.0%

Cawaynan 213 8 0.0% 42 40 82 51.2% 82 0 0 38.5%

MPNP Tawangan 131 6 33.3% 21 35 56 37.5% 52 3 0 39.7%

Bashoy 83 8 75.0% 52 26 78 66.7% 78 3 8 94.0%

MMNP

Sicot 86 7 0.0% 36 18 54 66.7% 32 4 22 37.2%

Sitio Tipan (S. Abordo)

65 3 0.0% 16 25 41 39.0% 40 1 10 61.5%

Coron island

Baguan Daan

75 0 - 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0.0%

Cabugao (excluding Delian

Island) 276 1 100.0% 0 13 13 0.0% 13 1 13 4.7%

ENMRPA All 126 2 100.0% 8 57 65 12.3% 55 0 0 43.7%

Mt. Guiting-guiting

Espana 150 1 0.0% 2 41 43 4.7% 43 0 0 28.7%

Malampaya Sound

Abongan and Bato

80 1 0.0% 4 68 72 5.6% 72 0 0 90.0%

TOTALS 2,080 68 35.3% 313 481 794 39.4% 743 23 116 35.7%

Target(s) 2,200 75 35.0% N/A N/A 800 50% N/A N/A N/A 40.0%

Accomplishment 94.5% 90.7% 100.8% 99.3% 78.8% 89.3%



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APPENDIX 7 SUMMARY OF THE ASSESSMENT OF THE LIVELIHOOD PROJECT IN MT. ISAROG

1 FOUR THINGS ARE STRIKING ABOUT THIS PIECE OF WORK

As set out below, the report has come up with some very interesting observations.

The output is almost perfect in terms of what a project requires from a TA: he exceeded his ToR (visiting all the sites, instead of only a sample); he produced a good report, with practicable recommendations and presented it as hard and soft copies, without any prompting; he worked away so unobtrusively that we even forgot he was around; and he made very few demands on NIPAP staff.

The standard of work comes out at the top end of everything we have received from short-term – and even some long-term - TAs over the past 2.5 years. And, at about 25% of the cost.

The report is concise and to the point, being backed up by an appendix containing detailed reports on each of the 25 micro-projects.

2 THE REPORT COMMENTS OF THE SUCCESS OF THE VARIOUS TYPES OF MICRO-PROJECT

Organic Rice Farming – not implemented

Organic Vegetable Production – failure

Multiple Cropping and Tiger Grass Production – not sucessful

Ginger Production – partly successful

Compost Production – successful

Native Chicken Production – dismal results

Swine Production – partly successful

Native Bee Keeping – in general, the project did not result to an increase in the number of colonies. Only one . . . . . was partly successful

Candy Making – continues at a reduced rate.

T-shirt Printing – appears to have failed.

The Bantay Bundok (Guardian – of the – Mountain) project has been successful in curbing illegal activities in the protected area.

3 THE REPORT DISCUSSES SUCCESS AND FAILURE FACTORS.

Section 4.0 is the most interesting part of the report, suggesting that the following factors are critical.

3.1 Climate

Bad weather had an adverse impact on vegetable, native chicken, swine and bee-keeping projects. This not only shows how farmers struggle but also suggests that some activities may be inappropriate around Mt. Isarog.

3.2 Pests and Diseases

Apparently exacerbated by the weather and clearly another example of how farmers have to struggle.

3.3 Technical Factors

This suggests a number of interesting issues:

➢ Poor adaptability of introduced varieties;

➢ Lack of technical advice or, where it was given, insufficient FOLLOW- UP visits; and



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➢ Lack of project Technical knowledge, especially in terms of livestock handling.

These are all standard failures of poor extension.

3.4 Implementation Management

Of the communal projects, only 3 (out of 14) were successful or partly successful while of the 5 carried out on an individual basis, 3 were successful or partly successful.

Mono suggests that this is because there is a direct relationship between labour input and returns. As he said in the office, communism has failed elsewhere in the world so why would we expect it to work at Mt. Isarog.

4 RECOMMENDATIONS – A WAY FORWARD

Mono makes very useful comments here. Thus

4.1 On Livelihood as a Project Component

Not enough time. Mono says agri-based projects should have a minimum period of two years of actual implementation.

4.2 On People’s Organizations vs. Interest Groups

POs have a better chance of sustainability; IGs allow faster formation.

4.3 On Phasing Business Development with Community Organising

Need to develop business skills.

4.4 On Traditional Practices vs. New Technologies

Using existing systems as a basis for improvement is better than introducing new systems.

4.5 On Demonstration vs. Income Generating Projects

These are two different types of project, the former needing to prove that a practice is worthwhile in terms of future income-generation.

4.6 On Individual vs. Communal Production

Individual production is better than communal.

4.7 On Cooperative Contract Growing to Finance Production

Grants . . . . . .reinforce the dole-out mentality. Mono recommends other ways of generating liquidity.

4.8 On Technical Training

Training needs to be tailored to the individual.

5 GENERAL COMMENTS BY THE EUROPEAN CO-DIRECTOR

The report usefully reinforces the ECD view that the micro-project part of NIPAP was irrelevant to the primary activity of establishing projected areas within the NIPAS legislation. At best it may have bribed some communities to accept NIPAP and provided a bit of extra income for a few people. At worst it may have distracted local farmers from their primary activity of struggling to survive in a natural and political world that is not sympathetic towards them. Moreover, to suggest that the micro-projects are pilot projects is rather beside the point because pilot projects indicate follow-up activities; there never was an intention to follow up on the NIPAP livelihood component.

However, there are two qualifications to this view. First, despite the irrelevance of the NIPAP livelihood effort, there is a need to tackle the livelihood problem in some way because it is the demands on the Mt. Isarog forest being made by the poor people living around it that are causing it to shrink. Their economic needs must be met and it is unjust to expect poor local people to bear the costs of PA establishement. All the same, the answers are far beyond the abilities of NIPAP to supply; beyond, in fact,



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any type of unilateral project that has to operate in a national economy (and society) that needs to radically re-structure to solve the problem of rural poverty. One might suggest that the solution is even beyond the nation, given the nature of the globalized economy in which it is forced to operate.

Second, the failures of the Mt. Isarog micro-projects programme were almost inevitable given the nature of the NIPAP project as a whole, where Mt. Isarog is one of three livelihood programmes; where only 3% of the budget was allocated to livelihood activities; and where there just was not enough time to work with and gain the trust of local people. And, moreover, where the design placed far to much confidence in non-Filipino TAs. The question we have to ask ourselves is why our Euro-arrogance did not allow the project to employ and adequately pay someone like Mono Panganiban in the first place!