» CRAFT VILLAGE ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT AND STRENGTHENING

This Craft Village project is being implemented with the Cordaid - Netherlands to strengthen fifteen (15) pre-selected craft villages in the areas of technical production, marketing, finance and organizational management. While the coverage area is Davao City, the advocacy component of the project aims to improve policy on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in both the urban and rural setting..  more »

» F.O.R.E.S.t. 1 & 2

Over the past decade, ISFI has had numerous partnerships with DENR in the operationalization of the Community-based Forest Management Agreement (CBFMA) scheme, particularly in the social preparation component of the scheme. As an offshoot of this collaboration, ISFI felt the need to re-visit the cooperatives that were organized specifically for the CBFMA, and to reinforce them in terms of enterprise development and forest management. Thus, the F.O.R.E.S.t. Concept was born. Developed internally by ISFI, the concept was proposed to the appropriate development institutions for support. What emerged was not just one but two separate projects, now called F.O.R.E.S.t. 1 and 2, targeting two (2) distinct watershed areas - one in Compostela Valley Province and the other in Marilog District Davao City.  more »

» FISHERIES RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROJECT

The project, which is focused on reversing the trend of fisheries resources depletion by controlling illegal fishing and over-fishing, has three (3) major components, namely: (i) Fisheries Resource Management, (ii) Income Diversification, and (iii) Capacity-Building. Fisheries Resource Management has the following sub-components: (i) Fisheries Data Management , (ii) Coastal Resource Management (CRM), (iii) Fisheries Legislation and Regulations, (iv) Community-Based Law Enforcement, and (v) near shore monitoring, control and surveillance, the sub-components under Income Diversification include: (i) Community Organizing, (ii) Micro-Enterprise Development, and (iii) Mariculture and other Enterprise Development.   more »