SOCIO ECONOMIC PROFILE OF KATIPUNAN MUNICIPALITY

Subanen-Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development (Subanen-WAND) Implementer: Asset-Based Community Development with Equity (ABCDE) Association Funding Support: German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development The Committee of German Doctors for Developing Countries Responsible Person: Elmer V. Sayre, PhD Year	Population	Poverty Incidence	Total population below the poverty line	Total household below the poverty line
1998   1999   2000   2001   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006	36,795.00   37,310.00   36,412.00   37,937.00   38,434.00   38,935.00   39,446.00   39,960.00   40,486.00	92%   90%   88%   86%   84%   82%   80%   78%   76%	33,851.40   33,579.00   32,042.56   32,625.82   32,284.56   31,926.70   31,556.80   31,168.80   30,769.36	5,641.90   5,596.50   5,140.42   5,437.63   5,380.76   5,121.12   5,259.46   5,194.80   5,128.23

Municipal Development Planning Office, Municipality of Katipunan

 Overall Goal: 

Improving the lives of resource-poor, marginalized Subanen Indigenous Peoples and in-migrants through sustainable upland and small farm development and social mobilization so that they live dignified lives, fully participating in the democratic life of the community.

 Specific Objectives:

 a. Improving knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA) on sustainable farming, leadership and values through the training and deployment of barefoot extension agents.

 b. Improving the integrity of the watersheds by community-based seedling nurseries and tree planting in watersheds and eroded hillsides.

 c. Improving nutrition and income by the promotion of food-always in the home.

 d. Improving income, reducing labor by the provision of draft and small animals.

 e. Preventing asset disenfranchisement by redeeming land which are under usurious mortgage situation.

 f. Organizing local clusters/associations to self-manage the whole initiative.

 g. Building and strengthening a peoples’ federation for self-management, advocacy and networking work.

h. Promoting health and hygiene and closing the loop between sanitation and agriculture by the establishment of eco-san toilets side by side with home gardening activities and using the organic fertilizer from the eco-san as fertilizer for the crops.

 Expected Benefits:

a. Increase in income of 700 farm families to 120% based on the baseline of 900 pesos income per month.

 b. Improvement in health conditions by the use of eco-san and ordinary toilets.  Prevalence of  infestation of parasites and communicable diseases reduced by 50% (based on barrio health records).

 c. Improvement of nutrition of 700 families (total population of 4,200, average 6 members per family) to 25%. (based on before and after random sampling of beneficiaries and as indicated by improvement in weight, height, visual indicators, etc).

 d.  Improvement in the conditions of the watershed by the planting of trees (based on ocular survey).

 e. Improvement in the fertility of the farms by the practice of low external input agriculture system (use of organic fertilizer, multiple cropping, integrated pest management, etc.)

 f. Empowerment of the local communities and ability to participate in the democratic process through their local associations (based on minutes of meetings, local plans, association profiles).

 g. Ability to participate in local and national advocacy through the Subanen Indigenous Peoples’ (IP) federation that will be organized later on and linked to the larger IP community.

h.  Improvement in the overall morale, cohesiveness and aspirations of the beneficiaries (as per random interviews and case studies).    

 Project Inputs:

 a. Physical

 b.  Local Empowerment

Source: Municipal Planning and Development Office (MPDO)

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