Mayette December 7th, 2007
 
Located in Northern Samar province, the “Kauswagan sa Panginabuhi sa Samar, Inc.-KPSI†is composed of eight member non-government organizations (NGOs) formed:
- 1. To enable the group to effectively interface with the market through the aggregation of livelihoods and enterprise development initiatives.
- To strengthen their practice through sharing of experiences and knowledge, most especially on joint concerns such as livelihoods and enterprise development, coastal resource management, participatory governance, and in relating to the market.
- To enhance the group’s capability to take collective action vis-à -vis economic and political power centers.
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Mayette December 7th, 2007
(Excerpt from the report submitted by Mae Carla Sharon Buico-Jasma)
Mahaba island had been a full-member of the Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) network since 2000. For 6 years now, it had received trainings to capacitate the members of its local resource monitoring team. Such trainings were useful for the better understanding of the community in the real state of their resources.
The learning framework which was formulated by the network was initially used by the members as of this year along with the use of the database. Trainings for the data gathering of the socio-eco and biophysical data were undertaken. The members of the Resource Management Teams (RMT) were trained on the basic use of the computer for data encoding as well as the simple reading and analysis of the graphs generated from the encoded data.
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