Republic of the Philippines

SORSOGON STATE COLLEGE

Sorsogon City Campus
Sorsogon City

TERMINAL REPORT
I. PROGRAM: SSC C-CAP (Cambulaga Climate Change Adaptation Project: Coastal Clean-
up Drive and Information Dissemination on Ecological Solid Waste Management (ESWM)
and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR))

II. PROJECT SITE: Barangay Cambulaga, Sorsogon City

III. DURATION: October 29- December 3, 2016 ( Every Saturday)

IV. PROJECT BENEFICIARIES: Fishermen Constituents Barangay officials, Barangay Health

Workers, Barangay Nutrition scholar, barangay police, mothers, fathers, youth , peoples
organizations (Eco Aid)

V. IMPLEMENTING AGENCY: Sorsogon State College (BSA Program)

Barangay Cambulaga
Educ.-Accountancy Department
Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants (JPIA)

VI. SOURCE OF FUND: SSC C-CAP Contributions and Barangay Logistics Assistance
(Partnership between SSC and Barangay Cambulaga)
VII. SALIENT FEATURES OF ACCOMPLISHMENT:

A. Rationale:

The Climate Change Act of 2009, also known as Republic Act Number 9729 or
the Act Mainstreaming Climate Change into Government Policy Formulations and Creating
the Climate Change Commission, highlights the synergistic action needed in dealing with
the climate crisis and in reducing the risk of disasters associated with global climate
change. A clean ecology is vital for the overall health, welfare and development of the
nation in general. The principle of common but differentiated responsibility of all people
needs to be upheld to address climate change. To address the vulnerability of local
communities especially the most vulnerable sectors (poor, women, and children) and
adopts a gender sensitive, pro-children and pro-poor perspective is one of the mandate of
the law. The participation of all stakeholders including the government, local government
units, non-government organizations, local communities, and others is a must in responding
to the adverse effects of climate change.

Stated in article 2, section 16 of the Philippine Constitution, the state shall protect
and advance the people to a balance and healthful ecology in accordance with
the rhythm and harmony of nature. Philippine governments concern to its citizenry
extends to all that exist in nature including the ecosystem. The Barangay as the
smallest political unit is entrusted to enforce RA 9003.

Ecological Solid Waste Management (ESWM) Act or RA 9003 is considered a broad-

based and comprehensive approach to Solid Waste Management (SWM). RA 9003 aims to
protect public health and the environment, resource conservation and recovery and
promote environmental awareness. The problem in SWM have to be solved as fast as
possible for it contribute in water and air pollution in particular and to the Climate Change
in general. As a response to climate change, Philippine government including its
instrumentalities needs to addressed this perennial problem in Solid Waste Management by
conducting information dissemination on ESWM and continuous Coastal Clean-up Drive.
Furthermore, the solution that is needed to address this problem in SWM does not only
requires short-run solution like clean-up drives but most importantly, this requires harnessing
the communitys utmost discipline when it comes to proper waste management through
the conduct of sincere dialogues during seminar sessions.
 Philippines is a country located in the Asia Pacific Region and pacific ring of fire
where in the risk of natural disaster is very high. This geographical location of the Philippines
is one of the reasons why Philippines is exposed to different kinds of risks like typhoons,
earthquake, landslide, flood, tsunami etc. throughout every year which puts the country in
disadvantage. This geographical vulnerability to environment-related disasters poses a
threat to communities especially to those places wherein resources and capacity to monitor
and track these unpredictable catastrophes is limited and wherein, communities are not
equipped with information that will enable them to respond in these kinds of scenarios
appropriately.

Risks are always present and inevitable but can be addressed and mitigated once
it strikes. First world countries face disasters with minor hassle because they have lesser
vulnerabilities and much resources in which the third world countries do not have because
they have limited resources and lesser capacity.

The most affected areas by these disasters are the least privilege communities
because of their limited economic resource base before and after disasters strike. They are
the ones that endure the greatest aftermath impact of disasters. These disasters make the
lives of farmers and fishermen unbearable at times like this for they have to rebuild their
livelihood from scratch. At times like this, families have zero income to support their basic
needs for farmer needs to replant and fishermen needs to have their boat repaired and
brought into usable condition after it has been impaired by typhoon.

The Philippines being a third world country, and located in the pacific ring of fire, is
one of the most hazard-prone country in the world. According to the Brussels-based Center
for Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Philippines has a 252 recorded disasters from 1965 to
1990. It has a high risk of distraction, death, loss of property, losses caused by typhoon, flood,
landslides, drought, earthquake, and volcanic eruption. The top three disasters that cause
much distraction and death are typhoon, flood and landslide.
From 1990-2009, the Philippines experienced 237 disasters, one of the highest in the world
within two decades. During this time, almost 30% of the disaster in Southeast Asia occurred
in the Philippines. (EM-DAT: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database; www.emdat.be
Universite Catholique de Louvain- Brussels-Belgium, 2012).

This scenario gave way to the approval of The Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management Act (The Philippine Disaster Act of 2010) or Republic Act 10121 also known
as An Act Strengthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System,
Providing for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan, Appropriating
Funds, Therefore and Other Purposes that was passed and approved on May 27, 2010.

As a vital part of the development programs to reinforce the disaster risk

preparedness, PDRRMC Strengthens the communities and peoples ability to anticipate,
cope with and recover from disasters. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is anticipated to
minimize disaster-related losses of life, property, livelihood and environment. Furthermore,
DRR seeks to empower the community with information and resources available within the
community, society or organization to reduce the level of risk, or effects of a disaster.
Building a resilient community equipped with knowledge against hazards or other risk factors
is also one of the goal of DRR.

Climate change caused by the pollution both in water and air, brought by
garbage, toxic chemicals from factories and greenhouse effect, fuelled up the disaster risk.
The magnitude and frequency of disastrous events has tremendously increased. As
response, there is a need to increase the level of strategic coordination between the
climate change, Ecological Solid Waste Management and disaster risk reduction
communities. DRR, CCA and ESWM are basically linked, but are conceptually and
operationally different. Understanding these three, means increasing peoples capability to
adapt to the changes and hazards brought about by the climate and reducing their
vulnerabilities. Because of the effects of climate change, more hazards are expected to hit
the country, which in turn will affect the most vulnerable communities, exposing their lives
and livelihoods to more risks. By increasing the resilience of people to disasters through risk
reduction efforts, people will be able to adapt to the effects of climate changes and
become less vulnerable.
 The state also recognizes that climate change, pollution and problem in solid waste
management and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are closely inter-related and seeks to
integrate ESWM and DRR into climate change programs and initiatives.

Unfortunately, one of the most danger prone region in the Philippines is Region V-
Bicol. Two of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines are located in this region, Mayon
volcano and Bulusan volcano, which causes disasters to nearby communities. Furthermore,
several typhoons also pass this region every year. Sorsogon is one of the province in the
region that has alarming story of disasters recorded in Philippine history such as the
Bagyong Sisang in the year 1987. Most of these typhoons killed a large number of people
and caused massive damaged to property and environment.

Barangay Cambulaga is a fishing village located entirely along the coast of

Sorsogon Bay, Sorsogon City in the Province of Sorsogon. It is located near the city proper
and is surrounded by Barangay Tugos on the north, on the south is Sorsogon Bay, on the west
side is Barangay Peafrancia and on the eastern part is Piot. Its geographic location makes
it vulnerable to many hazards such as typhoon surge, sea level rise, typhoon, strong winds
and floods. Typhoon Sisang in the year 1987, where Sorsogon was hardest hit, Cambulaga
was one of the coastal barangays that recorded a number of casualties and damage to
properties. Based on the Identification of the Poor Survey in the Province of Sorsogon, last
July 15, 2010, more than 50% of the families in Sorsogon, live below poverty line. Though
Sorsogon City has the least number of poor families, with 38%, still it should be addressed.
With these data, SSC Education and Accountancy Faculty Extensionists purposely chose
Cambulaga for the ESWM, DRR and CCA training. This is to make capacitate the residents
and lessen their vulnerabilities against disaster.

B. Objectives:

General: Capacitate participants & provide basic knowledge on DRR, ESWM & Climate
Change Adaptation (CCA) as main response to Global Warming
Specific:
1. To educate the residents on the importance of clean environment
2. To equip the participants with knowledge on the basic terms, concepts, and
realities on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
3. To familiarize participants on situations on CCA, climate trends, scenarios and
projections.
4. To equip the participants with basic knowledge and appreciation on the legal
mandates of the LGUs on DRRM based on RA 10121 and other relevant laws.
5. To equip participants with basic knowledge on the ESWM law (R.A. 9003)

C. Trainers and Participants

1. Name of Trainers
Project Leader: Romcris B. Marbella
Facilitators: Dr. Gerry S. Digo, Ed.D
Ada J. Escopete, MBA
Fe S. Romero
Trainers: JPIANs (BSA Students from 2nd -5th year)
Pls. see attached list of JPIANs

2. List of Participants (Please refer to Attachment- B)

D. Trainings Supplies/Materials/Equipment/Facilities Used

1. Supplies and Materials
Bond Paper, Lectures Hand-outs, Recyclable materials
2. Equipment used
Laptop, Projector, Printer and Cameras for documentation
3. Facilities Used
Barangay Hall, Cambulaga, Sorsogon City

E. Strategies/Methodologies
 The need for an environmental protection extension program was identified as the
primary need on barangay Cambulaga from a preliminary assessment based from an
ambush and unstructured interviews conducted in the barangay as Barangay officials as
respondents. To document and formalize the assessment, a need assessment survey has
been conducted to verify the result of the preliminary interviews. The survey indeed shows
that the need for the disaster risk reduction is the primary concern of the Barangay since
the said location is vulnerable to risk that can arise in times of disaster. The project leader
called for a meeting together with the members of this extension to plan the said project.

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION:

Romcris B. Marbella, the project leader, held a meeting with the interested faculty
from BSA program and Education faculty regarding the extension program. Romcris B.
Marbella and Ms Ada J. Escopete went to the Barangay Cambulaga to conduct dialogues
with the Barangay Chairman, Mrs Ma. Teresa D. Perdigon to extend our intention to
conduct an extension project. The said Dialogue was positive and has been fruitful and the
Chairwoman invited the Project leader to come the following week during their monthly
session to discuss the matters with the council for the Chairwoman needs the approval of
the whole council before she could formally approve the partnership of Sorsogon State
College and BLGU of Cambulaga. The session on the partnership of SSC and Cambulaga
BLGU has been sealed in and formally approved.

SECURING APPROVAL FROM PROPER AUTHORITIES

The extension core group headed by its leader secured permission from authorities
for the conduct of the program. An extension proposal was drafted and submitted to the
proper authorities for approval and signing. After the proposal has been approved, a
Memorandum of Agreement was next drafted.

MOA SIGNING

MOA signing was done between the President of Sorsogon State College and
Barangay Captain of Cambulaga represented by DR. MODESTO D. DETERA, PhD, CES and
MA. TERESA D. PERDIGON respectively last October 29, 2016. The MOA pointed out the
degree of participation of SSC and Barangay Cambulaga in the conduct of the said
project.

ENROLMENT

The student extensionists started the enrolment during the launching of the project
last October 29, 2016 from 8:00-12:00 am.
 PARTICIPANTS

Barangay Officials
20% Cambulaga Youth Organization
30%
Barangay Police
Barangay Health Worker
10%
Barangay Clerk
Barangay Driver
2% 2%
Barangay Nutrition Scholar
12% 22%
2% Constituents (Adult/Parents)

Figure 1. Percentage Distribution of the participants

The participants that attended the SSC C-CAP extension project totalled 50
individuals which is composed of 10 Barangay Officials (20%), 5 members from Cambulaga
Youth Organization (10%), 11 Barangay Policies (22%), 6 Barangay Health Workers (12%), 1
Barangay Clerk (2%), 1Barangay Driver (2%), 1 Barangay Nutrition Scholar (2%) and lastly,
15 constituents (30%).

ORIENTATION

To fully inform the participants regarding what will transpire during the conduct of
the project, the group conducted an orientation last October 29, 2016 at 8:00 am in the
morning. Furthermore, the informative interactive-participatory seminar-workshop will be
from 8:00 am- 4:00 pm. The Barangay Council, youth and the constituents were very glad
for the launching of the program.

IMPLEMENTATION

Last October 29, 2016, the project was officially launched with 50 beneficiaries in
attendance. Orientation was conducted to give details about the said project.
Lectures and Workshops were facilitated by assigned student extensionist who was
also monitored and supervised by the assigned teacher extensionist every Saturday. From
time to time, the teacher extensionist observed the student extensionists on how they
delivered their lectures and workshops to the participants. Attendance of the participants
was also checked every meeting. Evaluation was also conducted by the extensionist-
evaluators.
Before the culminating activity, an exhibit was held to showcase the output of the
recycling workshops conducted as core part of the activities which is composed mainly of
Christmas decorations. The teacher and students extensionist also determined and
recognized the products which are of good quality and artistically made which was
awarded during the culminating activity.

PARTICIPATION OF THE TRAINEES

Initially, there were 50 beneficiaries from the Barangay Cambulaga. For some
reasons, some participants attended occasionally. To solve this, student extensionists asked
the Barangay Council to encourage the participants to attend the project. Ice breakers or
warm-up activities were conducted to capture their interest.
 PARTICIPATION OF THE TRAINEES

There were 50 Student-extensionists, 4 teacher extensionists, and a project leader.

The student-extensionists are all JPIANS composed of BSA students from second to fourth
year level. They are the ones that facilitated the lectures and workshops. The project
leader together with the teacher extensionists, checked whatever the student-
extensionists prepared for the lectures/workshops and monitored that the project was
properly implemented.

EVALUATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS

TABULAR SUMMARY OF THE EXTENSION EVALUATION AND FEEDBACK FORM

CRITERIA 1 2 3 4 5 Total Ave. Rating

1 Conduct of the Training/Extension Activity 0 0 5 8 37 50 4.64 Excellent
2 Advisory Services given by the Trainers 0 0 2 11 37 50 4.7 Excellent
3 Timeliness of Advisory Services 0 0 9 6 35 50 4.52 Excellent
Technical/Consultancy Advises are
4 responded within 3 days 0 0 4 14 32 50 4.56 Excellent
Promptness of response to the training need
5 (3 days or less) 0 0 5 13 32 50 4.54 Excellent
6 Timeliness of Extension Service Delivery 0 0 4 10 36 50 4.64 Excellent

Total 0 0 29 62 209

FORMULA
Rating = [ (1*n)+(2*n)+(3*n)+(4*n)+(5*n) ] / m
where:
n is the total scores accumulated per scale identified as 1-5
m is the total number of evaluators

Prepared by:

ROMCRIS B. MARBELLA, CPA

Project Leader

Noted:
GERRY S. DIGO, Ed. D.
Dean, Educ.-Accountancy

HELEN R. LARA, Ed. D., RGC

Campus Administrator