AgriCARES Sample Proposal
AgriCARES Sample Proposal
D. Cooperating Agencies:
- LGU Tagum (Brgy. Apokon, New Balanban, Nueva Puerza)
- LGU Mabini (Pindasan)
- LGU New Corella (Mesaoy)
- City Agriculture Office
CENRO
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E. Duration : 3 years
It signifies the coordinated efforts of the barangay people, local government, public,
private organizations, and academe.
B. Overall Goal
Create awareness, develop skills, generate income for an improved environment and
enhance the capability advancement and technical advisory services on animal and crop
production and management, forestry, engineering innovation in significantly contributing to
the realization of a socio-economic development that improve the quality of life of the
people in the barangay.
Specific Objectives
6. to monitor and evaluate the impact of the program to the barangay people.
METHODOLOGY
It signifies the coordinated efforts of the target beneficiaries, Local Government Units,
Government Agencies, private organizations, Non-government Organization, and University
of Southeastern Philippines-USeP, Tagum-Mabini, Apokon, Tagum City, Davao del Norte).
It develop and promote an effective and integrated, need-based extension modality that
will transform target beneficiaries into self-reliant, empowered and progressive individual.
The framework (Fig. 1) shows process of program implementation 1) the circle of the
model represents the target output of the program (a) improved production, (b) production
of healthy foods, (c) protection of environment, (d) generate income and local employment;
2) the arrow head represents support, resources, collaborators and extension provider; 3)
the body shaft represents the project implementation process. Approach, methodologies and
strategies; 4) monitoring and evaluation.
One way AgriCARES wish to respond to some of the challenges is encouraging the
target beneficiaries the adoption of these relevant technologies and innovations. The
successful adoption of new technologies is affected by individual farmer livelihood strategies,
the nature of the innovation and the method of communication (Bentley and Thiele 1999;
Guerin and Guerin 1994; Hashemi et al. 2009).
Implementing Strategy/Methodology
A. Preliminaries:
1. Entry protocols at LGU
2. Meeting with the Mayor, CPDO, LGU Barangay
3. Preliminary agreements on budgetary allocations
4. Execute a memorandum of agreement by concerned parties
The first stage involves the preliminaries and necessary organization and mobilization
of target beneficiaries and key players through consultation/dialogue meeting and
orientation with the Municipal/City Agriculture Officer, Mayor, Municipal Planning and
Development Officer, Barangay Local Government Unit, and on the AgriCARES program.
This component also adopts participatory approaches for problem identification and the
necessary solutions and then proceed with the execution of a memorandum of agreement
by concerned parties.
The project involves establishing of baseline information through the conduct of Key
Informant Interview (KII), and Focus Group Discussion (FGD).
The project will also conduct a yearly community outreach activities gives the faculty,
staff and students the opportunity to get involved in community service on a regular basis,
based on the identified needs and problems of the community.
Objectives
Activities
1. Orientation meeting with barangay council
2. Site visitation and consultation meeting
3. Community assessment on needs, problems, and resources
4. MOA/MOU
5. Organizing Program Planning and Implementing Committee
6. Monitoring and Evaluation/Impact Assessment
7. Feeding
8. Gift giving
9. Tree planting
10. Coastal cleaning
11. Relief distribution
12. Medical mission
Objectives
Activities
1. Food processing
2. Native chicken production
3. Goat production
4. Swine production
5. Mushroom production
6. Vegetable gardening
7. Vermi composting
8. Bee keeping and Honey production
9. Root crop production
10. Nursery seedlings for fruit trees
11. Ornamental production and management
The project will answer the goal on nutrition improvement. A home-based approach
on health, sanitation and nutrition rehabilitation where in the families are the main actors
while provided with support from the LGU, CO, GA, NGO, Academe. The rehabilitation
interventions are based on identified causes of malnutrition in each family. The family
develops a rehabilitation plan which is backstopped by LGUs, Cos, NGOs, Academe.
Activities are home-based and monitored
Objectives
Activities
1. Training on participative Nutrition Enhancement Approach
2. Counseling for mothers of malnourish children
3. Cooking demonstration
The project protects and improves the watershed management of the target
community. It will support reforestation, climate change mitigation, and livelihood measures.
Objectives
Address the goal on climate change
Conduct capability building seminar on environmental protection and
management through watershed management, reforestation, climate change
mitigation, and livelihood measures.
Activities
The project will focus on animal and crop production and management,
forestry, engineering innovation in significantly contributing to the realization of a socio-
economic development that improve the quality of life of the people in the barangay
The activity aimed to enhance the capacity of the Science and Technology-Based
Farm.
Objectives
Activities
1. Training on Farm machineries usage and postharvest handling and
processing
2. Training on abaca tissue culture and establishment
3. Seminar on management approaches against Fusarium wilt
4. Training on pest control strategies for rice
5. Field assessment of Actinomycete inoculant for enhancing the growth and
yield of rainfed lowland and upland rice
6. Seminar on optimum fertilization to enhance yield and qualities of fresh
durian
7. Improvement of traditional farming through the application of tested
farming technologies
8. Enhancement of banana chips processing for feed grade production
9. Training on pest control strategies for pummel
Expected Outputs:
Personnel Services
Honorarium
15,000.00 175,200.00 175,200.00 131,400.00
Program Leader (5,000.00 X 3 months) (14,600.00/month X (14,600.00/month
12 months) X 9 months)
72,000.00 844,800.00 844,800.00 633,600.00
(3,000/month X 5 (8,800.00/month X (8,800.00/month X
Project Leader
Project Leader X 3 5 Project Leader X 5 Project Leader X
months) 12 months) 9 months)
Salary
45,000.00 90,000.00 90,000.00 67,500.00
Staff (7,500.00/month X 3 (7,500.00/month X (7,500.00/month X
months) 12 months) 9 months)
MOOE
Communication 1,000.00 6,000.00 6,000.00 3,000.00
Supplies and 50,000.00 200,000.00 75,000.00 150,000.00
Materials (including
Agri. Supplies)
Training Expense 60,000.00 100,000.00 75,000.00 52,850.00
Travel 10,000.00 25,000.00 25,000.00 10,000.00
IEC materials 10,000.00 20,000.00 20,000.00 10,000.00
Food and Venue 50,000.00 100,000.00 100,000.00 50,000.00
Other professional 10,000.00 25,000.00 25,000.00 10,000.00
services
Contingency Fund 32,300.00 158,600.00 143,600.00
(10% of PS and MOOE)
Scholarly Connection
Noted:
Recommending Approval:
Approved:
V. DOCUMENTARY ATTACHMENTS
Initial agreement
among and
between the
LGU and USeP
CARS Extension
Program
2. Site Visitation Identified January, 2016 Extension Head,
and Consultation community Project Leader,
Meeting problems, Staff
issues, needs
and potential
resources
3. Community Identified February, 2016 Extension Head,
Assessment on community Project Leader,
Needs, needs, Staff, students
Problems, and problems, and
Resources resources
5,000.00
5. Organizing Organized PPIC July, 2016 Extension Head, BC (10 pax)
Program and define the Project Leader, USeP (5 pax)
Planning and role and Staff BDC (10 pax)
Implementation responsibilities
Committee of the officers Food: 25 pax X
and members. 250.00
= 6,250.00
6,250.00
TOTAL 11,250.00
3,600.00
2.Planning Minutes of the March, 2016 Extension Head, LGU 15 pax
Meeting with planned Project Leader, USeP 3 pax
Barangay and activities, lists of Staff
Purok Officials existing Food: 18 pax X
organizations 200.00
and/or = 4,000.00
associations
attendance 4,000.00
3. Team Building Describe the June, 2016 Extension Head, LGU 25 pax
and Action planning process Project Leader, USeP 3 pax
Planning and formulating staff
of the Barangay Food: 28 pax X
Integrated 250.00
Development = 7,000.00
Plan,
consolidated
plans 7,000.00
4. Presentation Approved plans June, 2016 Extension Head, LGU 25 pax
of Plans to from Barangay Project leader, USeP 3 pax
Barangay Development staff
Development Council Food: 28 pax X
Council 250.00
= 7,000.00
7,000.00
5. Presentation Approved plans June 2016 Extension Head, LGU 10 pax
of Plans to from barangay Project leader, USeP 5 pax
Barangay general staff Barangay 60
General assembly pax
Assembly
Food: 75 pax X
50.00
= 3,750.00
3,750.00
6.Presentation of Presented plans July, 2016 Extension Head, LGU (10 pax)
Plans to for funding Project leader, USeP (5 pax)
Municipal/City staff MTWG (10 pax)
Technical
Working Group Food: 25 pax X
250.00
= 6,250.00
6,250.00
TOTAL 31,600.00