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AAS VisMin Hub Roll-Out. Hub Review and Reflection Meeting January 13 – 16, 2014 . Learning from roll-out. AAS Roll-out Process. Culmination of roll-out activities; strategic framework was drawn . Focused on understanding the communities in each barangay through community engagement.
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AAS VisMin Hub Roll-Out Hub Review and Reflection Meeting January 13 – 16, 2014
AAS Roll-out Process Culmination of roll-out activities; strategic framework was drawn Focused on understanding the communities in each barangay through community engagement Focused on understanding the VisMin hub as a whole and at the municipal and barangay level Global planning translated to AAS Phils. team planning
On Scoping Done with partners!
AAS Sites • Brgy. Pinamgo, Bien Unido, Bohol • Bgy. Mancilang, Madridejos, Cebu • Bgys. Maac and Mahayahay, Sogod, Southern Leyte • Bgy. Galas, Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte • Bgys. Binitinan and Waterfall, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental
Enhanced resilience, improved well-being, inclusive growth Goals Sustainable and environment friendly productivity improvement Increased equitable and sustainable incomes Enhanced and effective social environment that responds to challenges in climate change and food/ nutrition security Outcomes Innovation for sustainable productivity increases Value chain development, livelihood diversification and fair market access Enhanced and effective governance structure Initiatives Community Engagement AAS APPROACH Commitment to people and place, participatory action research, gender transformative approach, learning and networking, effective partnerships, strengthened capacities
Initiative 1 Farm productivity and diversification Dream: Improved existing and/or alternative livelihood-seeking activities • Existing livelihood: rehabilitation of abaca/coconut production, improving seaweed production, improving agricultural and fishing activities, livestock raising, establishing barangay nursery, engaging in fishpond farming (tilapia and milkfish)
Alternative livelihood: banana production, vegetable production, e.g., bitter gourd, squash and gabi, livestock raising, electronics shop, sari-sari store
Initiative 2 Equitable and fair market access Dream: Access to fair and equitable market • improve product marketing • better price for products • Improve credit access
Initiative 3 Enhanced and effective governance structure for managing natural resources Dreams: • Improved governance: enforce fishery laws (close season, Illegal fishing), strengthen organizations and local governments • Protected and well –managed natural resources and access to clean environment • •
Enabling conditions as expressed in the dreams Dreams: • Access to social services: i.e., hospitals, schools, training centers, health facilities, medical facilities and services, cooperatives, TESDA training, and livelihood training • Reduced vulnerability: i.e., re-channeling of river or river control, proper waste disposal, better education, building sea wall and flood control, repair of water supply, owning house and lot, owning gillnets and motorboats, owning farms • Access to infrastructure: i.e., port, wharf, concrete roads, space for solar dryer, improved irrigation canal structures, sports and recreational facilities, public market, meat shop, post-harvest facilities, electricity, potable water
Milestones in the Roll-out Process: Outputs and Key Learnings
Local community facilitators • Proved to be a major asset in community mobilization • Two types: Partner LCFs helped in coordination, facilitation, documentation and influencing the activities of partner agencies • Full-time LCFs on the other hand ensures the program of a continued presence in the community since they residents of the communities covered and are considered local champions.
Partnership • PARTNERS BEING TRANSFORMED AS CHAMPIONS OF AAS: involving partners in conceptualization enhanced their ownership of the Program; they are not only functional/operational partners both at the local (barangay, municipal, region) and national levels, but partners who co-own the concept of AAS by aligning the Program with their agency’s mandate • 25 institutions have signed MOU/MOA with WorldFish-PCO for AAS Program implementation
Ownership Engagement of the LGUs right from the start facilitated ownership as AAS provided an agenda for leadership in the communities where we work Communities realized their own strengths and resources and planned to solve their own issues and change their lives even if the Program has ended.
Process • The community dreaming allowed us to contextualize the simplicity of the community dreams that raised the bigger challenge of how their primary needs have to be addressed first for them to dream bigger • PAR provided the platform to make AAS different from other programs introduced in the area which partners and the communities appreciate
Communication • Communications audit helped identify modes of communication that can be used in conveying message, updating the communities and the local community facilitators on the activities of AAS, and informing partners about the Program. • Highlighted the need for enhanced website as platform for knowledge sharing and data management especially with government partners and media.
