Integrated Business Services for Women Empowerment

Sustainable livelihoods for 500 to 1,000 women in Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur and other cities/municipalities of the said province.                     

• Organizing and training producers in sustainable harvesting and enterprise management.

• Establishment of supply chain for microenterprises.

 • Facilitating formal producers' institution.

 • Education on entitlements.

 • Facilitating access to government initiatives for enterprise infrastructure. • Building capacities of NGO partners to manage enterprise programmes.

The Philippine economy remains vulnerable to external shocks and unemployment continues to be a challenge and there are additional challenges for women. For instance, while over 80% of  women in the Philippines  are engaged in small holder farming, only 1% own land in their own right, access less than 10% of available credit, and less than 1% of agriculture credit. Female poverty is exacerbated by gender-based violence, including sexual violence, rape, physical violence and sexual harassment. Women’s empowerment is hindered by polygamy, early marriage and harmful cultural and traditional practices. Women's limited participation in the social, economic and political processes in the Philippines is majorly a factor of the historical patriarchal nature of the society.

Women of the indigenous community in Caraga Region. Less income families

 • Study for identification of key commodities in the area, their market potential, value addition needs for improved returns and existing supply chain.

 • Identifying points in the chain where intervention has to take place.

• Liaison, negotiation and MOUs with market players for product purchase.

 • Organizing producers and building their capacities through enterprise trainings & exposures for establishment of the supply chain.

 • Primary level supply chain establishment to undertake business on identified produces.

• Training and handholding of selected women to be entrepreneurs.

• Financial intermediation to ensure better access to finance for both individual and enterprise.

• Creation of Producers Organization to bring-in more ownership amongst the community members;

 • Building capacities of Producer Organization for professional operations and collective action;

• Building the capacities of network partners to undertake similar interventions beyond project intervention.

• 100% of trained women with improved vocational skills, enterprise management knowledge, attitude and skills (KAS) to undertake various roles in product value chains.

• All women earning at least 100% to their base-line incomes from the enterprises built around capiz shell products.

 • Women capable of speaking up for their livelihood entitlements.

• Primary level supply chain created with village-level business centres nurtured as enterprises to be taken up by women entrepreneurs.

• Producer Organization created with strong operational and financial systems to professionalize the business operations for community upliftment.  • The partner NGOs with built capacities and initiated at least one more enterprise development project in partnership or independent of implementing organization.

Moreover, Placuna placenta, a bivalve mollusk, can be found all over the Philippines, specifically in coves, lagoons, and estuaries where fresh meets salt water. They can be harvested by handpicking in shallow, muddy shores or diving in deeper waters.

Capiz shell has many applications. Its meat can be cooked in various recipes (even adobo), while its shells are crafted into chandeliers, lampshades, lanterns, jewellery boxes, picture frames, trays, partitions, panelling - if you can design. The seashell is even an ingredient in less glamorous products: chalk, soldering lead, and paint.

There 8,798 total adolescents and significant adults while there more than 700 Women in Reproductive Age

• Formation of practical women enterprise groups/Producer Organization served by trained and capable “Business Development Service Providers” and establishing partnership for convergence with public partners.

• Promotion and development of viable/sustainable livelihoods and small businesses and convergence of relevant state sponsored schemes and central schemes.

• Enable grassroots institution to mediate and facilitate the process and negotiate with successful business houses to secure a non-exploitative, mutually beneficial business relationship.

 • Women’s capacity to contribute family economy getting recognized hence facilitating her role in family decision making.

 • Producers’ Organization facilitating reduction of social exclusion through collective actions for ensuring livelihood entitlements and participation in local bodies for development decisions.

 • Reduction of financial and physical exclusion for excluded women through created enterprise and community infrastructures. • Optimal and sustainable utilization of forest resources with new value-added techniques thus improving access and control over natural resources for women

Limited Funding/Budget

We have more expertise on survey and profiling, collecting and analyzing of data, project evaluation and research, and social and environment assessment.

Registered and Accredited in the National Youth Commission, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Department of Interior and Local Government, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, We are also in partnership with the Commission on Population, Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Foundation for Philippine Environment.

We are dedicated and committed on extending social services to our constituents. We want to be the epitome and catalyst of change for a one voice toward sustainable development goals in our country.

Because we have the heart for the poor and it is good to be the one NGO like us one who will handle the project to avoid from the corrupt politicians in our country. We want to have a passion on helping the community for progress and development.