Activity Title Sustainable Food Production System through Community Aquaponics: in Sitio

Bakal Community Development Project of Good Neighbors Philippines

Brief Activity • Proposed General Activity:
Summary (150 words) • Strengthening of Community Based Organization;
- Coordination and Partnership with LGU, BLGU and CBO
- Coordination and Partnership with DA-ATI, DA-BAR,
BFAR and Operational Aquaponics Farms
- Organizational Development Training
- GGEST
- Institutionalization of CBO into cooperative
• Establishment of Community Aquaponics:
• Training on Solar powered Aquaponic System assembly,
installation, operation and maintenance
• Educational tour to operational small scale and
commercial aquaponics farm
• Procurement of Rainshelter and Aquaponics components
• Construction of Modular Rain Shelter
• Assembly of Aquaponics System
• Procurement of vegetable seeds, fingerlings and organic
inputs
• Operationalization of the Aquaponics System
• Marketing and Partnership
• Coordination with Local Market, Vendors, Restaurants
and Social Enterprises
• Promotion and Distribution of Vegetable and Fish
• The proposed activity is designed for the Community development
project in Sitio Bakal.
• This aims to capacitate the CBO and establish a sustainable
production system to address issues in food security, efficient use of
water, renewable energy, overfishing and climate change.
• This also aims to institutionalize the CBO for sustainability
mechanism.
Sector Income Generation, Energy and Environment
SDG Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
• By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere,
currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day.
• By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and
children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to
national definitions.
• By 2030 ensure that all men and women, particularly the poor and the
vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access
to basic services, ownership, and control over land and other forms of
property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology,
and financial services including microfinance

Goal 2 : End Hunger achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition and
Promote Sustainable Agriculture

• By 2030 end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular

the poor and people in vulnerable situations including infants, to
safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
• By 2030 end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving by
internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children
 under five years of age, and address the nutritional needs of
adolescent girls, pregnant and postpartum women, and older
persons
• By 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of
small-scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous
peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including
through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources
and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and
opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
• By 2030 ensure sustainable food production systems and implement
resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and
production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity
for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought,
flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land
and soil quality

Goal 4 : Promote Lifelong Learning Opportunities for all

• By 2030 ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable
quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including
university.

Goal 5 : Achieve Gender Equality and Empower all Women and Girls
• Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources,
as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms
of property, financial services, inheritance, and natural resources in
accordance with national laws

Goal 8 : Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth,

Employment and Decent Work for all
• Promote development-oriented policies that support productive
activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and
innovation, and encourage formalization and growth of micro-,
small-and medium-sized enterprises including through access to
financial services
• By 2030 achieve full and productive employment and decent work
for all women and men, including for young people and persons
with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
• By 2020 substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in
employment, education or training
Activity location Sitio Bakal, Barangay Silangan, Quezon City, Philippines
Information about Good Neighbors International Philippines don’t have any intervention in Sitio
Previous or Existing Bakal for Income Generation but other Departments already have projects and
Activity/Program activities implemented in the area.
Operations
Activity Development Outcomes/Effectiveness
What positive • Strengthened and Institutionalized Community Based Organization:
change(s) could the The CBO is expected to have improved organizational management,
community expect to entrepreneurial skill, increased membership, and have a legal
see at the end of your identity;
Activity? (max 200) • Available and accessible safe food:
The community is expected to have continuous access to clean
vegetable and fish produced through a sustainable production system;
• Functional and Self-sustaining community based enterprise:
 The CBO will have an enterprise that operates from its income and
scaled up to provide additional source of income to the members and
community

How will you measure • The number of trained and capacitated CBO members
this change? (max 15 • The number of functional aquaponics system
0) • The number of production cycle
• Kilograms of vegetable and fish produced
• Kilograms of vegetable and fish sold
• The net sales of the enterprise
Budget
Amount Requested($) $ 16,000 (Php 800,000) for 1.5 years of implementation
Internal Local counterparts:
Contribution($) / If • Labor counterpart during the construction and assembly of the
possible rainshelter and aquaponics system;
• Operation and Maintenance of the system;
• Water for the system

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