ISO Livelihood Projects

The Insitute of Social Order continues its CB-CRM projects in San Miguel Bay with support from the Agencia Espanola Cooperacion Internacional y Desarollo (AECID) through the Instituto para Promocion y Apoyo al Desarrollo (IPADE), which commenced last July 2008. The project is geared at both environmental protection and livelihood support for the fishers in the municipalities of Siruma and Cabusao.

With an aim to strengthen the Integrated Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Management Council (IFARMC) in San Miguel Bay, the ISO continues to implement a mud crab fattening pond project San Miguel Bay, Quezon, with the hope to transfer technology to its local partner in the community, the Cabusao Fishers’ Association (CFA).

To date, two mud crab ponds have been constructed in Brgy. New Poblacion and Brgy. Barcelonita with one of the ponds on its third cropping period. As of January 2010, the ISO and CFA were able to purchase a total of 1,000 pieces of thin crablets from one of the ponds, while the other pond has already stocked 2,000 pieces of thin crablets.

The community members of Cabusao and Siruma municipalities are now enjoying a livelihood revolving fund system. Individual members of Samahan ng Maliliit na Mangingisda ng Matandang Siruma (SMMMS), Samahan ng Mangingisda ng Penitan (SMP), and the Samahan ng Mangingisda ng Butawanan (SMB) have availed of loans through this system, a collective rice trading project has just started off by the Samahan ng Mangingisda ng Vito (SMV) through this loan.