Project objectives
The overall goal of the project is to improve the standard of living, social capital and environmental stewardship of poor rural communities in the southern Philippines. The goal is being achieved through two main purposes:
- Implement, sustain, and scale-up effective landcare practices and the associated institutional structures and processes within selected vulnerable landscapes of the southern Philippines.
- Analyse and evaluate the appropriateness of models used to sustain and scale-up landcare processes.
To achieve the purposes, there are three objectives:
- Strengthen the institutional support structure for landcare by assessing available models and designing a preferred option (such as an independent landcare agency) that effectively sustains existing municipal landcare associations and local landcare groups, and works with government and non-government agencies to scale up landcare to new sites.
- Sustain and scale up adoption of conservation farming systems and diversified livelihoods through the implementation of landcare processes at the farm level in existing and new sites.
- Analyse and evaluate the impacts of the institutional support structures and on-farm implementation of the landcare approach in order to confirm its effectiveness and establish the essential requirements for sustaining and scaling up landcare.
A fourth operational objective is to coordinate and manage the effective implementation and ongoing efficiency and effectiveness of the project to the satisfaction of ACIAR/AusAID and collaborators in order to ensure the effective delivery of project outcomes.
Progress report 2004-2005
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Progress report 2005-2006
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