Posts made in February, 2020

Valencia City, Bukidnon – Forest Foundation Philippines partners gathered on February 4-6, 2020 for the 3rd Partner’s Meeting for Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental landscape to strengthen its program efforts in achieving change towards the development of the landscape. Partner organizations and foundations presented their project milestones as well as experiences and challenges in implementation. Positive insights and feedback were drawn from the experiences of various groups with the take-away...

XSF played a part in the 3rd Philippine Environment Summit held on February 26-28, 2020 at the Grand Caprice Convention Center.             XSF Executive Director, Roel Ravanera also had the privilege to present the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) during the summit. It was also participated by our IP partners from NAMAMAYUK, Inc, Datu Herminio Guinto and youth representative Romerey Suclatan. Their participation was possible with the support of Forest...

We’re sharing this reflection paper drawn from our partner IP organizations from series of focus group discussions (FGDs) that highlights their insights on land and food security, relevance, most significant change, major challenges, key opportunities and lessons learned from the GLTN-ANGOC-XSF initiative on “Improving Tenure Security of Smallholder Farmers in Select Areas in the Philippines”. Click the link below to read the entire paper:...

For their network recap from December 2019-January 2020, the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) featured the Stakeholder’s Forum on Enhancing Tenure Security for Indigenous Communities  in Bukidnon, Philippines held last January 30, 2020 at SEARSOLIN. Read more here:...

Xavier Science Foundation, Inc. through the XU-Lands project conducted a training and workshop on basic bookkeeping and accounting to the El Gaucho Credit Cooperative (EGCC) officers last January 31, 2020 at the PLMP Building, Manresa Campus. This training and workshop aims to equip the EGCC officers to administer day-to-day financial operations and apply it in handling the financial transactions of the cooperative.  ...