ANNUAL REPORT 1 July 2016 - June 2017
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PROTECT WILDLIFE ANNUAL REPORT 1 July 2016 - June 2017 OCTOBER 2017 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by DAI Global, LLC PROTECT WILDLIFE ACTIVITY WORK PLAN FOR YEAR 1 1 Activity Title: Protect Wildlife Activity Sponsoring USAID Office: USAID/Philippines Contract Number: AID-OAA-I-14-00014/AID-492-TO-16-00002 Contractor: DAI Global, LLC Date of Publication: October 2017 Author: DAI Global, LLC The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for InternationalPROTECT Development WILDLIFE or theACT UnitedIVITY WORK States PLAN Government. FOR YEAR 1 i CONTENTS TABLES AND FIGURES ............................................................................................................. iv PREFACE ...................................................................................................................................... iv ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................................vii 1 OVERVIEW OF PROTECT WILDLIFE ACTIVITY ......................................................... 1 2 ACCOMPLISHMENTS, PROGRESS, ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN YEAR 1.......... 6 3 ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS ................................................................. 17 4 MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ................................................................... 37 5 ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND LESSONS ........................................................................ 40 6 PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR FIRST QUARTER OF YEAR 2 ...................................... 42 7 PAST AND PROJECTED EXPENDITURES ................................................................... 48 ANNEXES No table of figures entries found.AAssessment of Financial Service Providers and Agricultural Commodities in Southe B Cost and Revenue Analysis of Selected Payment for Ecosystem Services in Protect Wildlife Sites .......................................................................................................................................................................... 66 C Technical Working Group Resolutions .......................................................................................................... 77 D Training Modules on Forest Land Use and Protected Area Management Planning Implemented in Year 1 ................................................................................................................................................................. 86 E List of Maps Prepared and Spatial Analysis Performed in FLUP and Protected Area Management Plan Preparation .................................................................................................................................................... 91 F Assessment of Research Capabilities of Selected Universities in Protect Wildlife Sites .................... 93 G Summary of the Assessment on Wildlife Gathering and Trafficking in Protect Wildlife Sites ........ 106 H Summary of Gender Analyses Results in Selected Protect Wildlife Sites ............................................ 139 I Report on the Roundtable Discussion-Workshop on Medicinal Plants, including Tongkat Ali, in Southern Palawan ........................................................................................................................................... 152 J Report on the Roundtable Discussion-Workshop on Almaciga Resin in Southern Palawan .......... 158 K Assessment of Prospective Sandfish Ocean Nursery and Sea Ranch Sites in Palawan ...................... 165 PROTECT WILDLIFE ANNUAL REPORT 1 iii TABLES 1 Contract Deliverables: 4th Quarter and Year 1 Accomplishments ................................................8 2 Protect Wildlife Contributions to USAID Economic Growth Outcomes ................................. 13 3 Protect Wildlife Contributions to USAID Economic Growth Outputs...................................... 14 4 Summary of Technical and Administrative/Finance Staff ................................................................. 35 5 Summary of Mid-range Procurement from April to June 2017 ..................................................... 36 6 Summary of Expenditures as of June 30, 2017 and Projected Expenditures .............................. 46 FIGURES 1 Priority Sites for Palawan ...........................................................................................................................3 2 Priority Sites for Zamboanga City and TawI-Tawi ..............................................................................4 iv PROTECT WILDLIFE ANNUAL REPORT 1 PREFACE The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Mission to the Philippines, has contracted DAI Global, LLC (DAI) as the implementing partner for the Protect Wildlife activity under Contract No. AID-492-TO-16-00002. The effective date of the contract is June 17, 2016 to December 11, 2020. DAI partners with four organizations—Orient Integrated Development Consultants, Inc.; Rare, Inc.; Conservation International Foundation; and Tanggol Kalikasan, Inc.—in implementing the activity. In lieu of the fourth quarterly report, DAI’s Contract requires the submission of Annual Reports to USAID within 30 days from the close of each year. This Annual Report includes clearly distinguishable discussions of the accomplishments for the fourth quarter and summary of accomplishment for the entire year. The report articulates progress towards deliverables, outputs, and outcomes. The Annual Report also provides the following: • Situational background information concerning Protect Wildlife’s objectives; • Description of progress against planned accomplishments in the Year 1 Work Plan and any deviations; • Problems and challenges and how these may affect the Year 2 Work Plan; • Progress in coordination with the host government, other donors, USAID-funded projects, and stakeholders including civil society, private sector and other development partners; and • Planned activities for the first quarter of Year 2. The Protect Wildlife Annual Report 1 covers the period of July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. It consists of five sections. The first section provides an overview of the activity and operating environment. The following section presents a summary of fourth quarter accomplishments, implementation progress and challenges encountered in Year 1. The overview discusses the overall progress based on contract deliverables, outputs and outcomes in the context of Protect Wildlife’s Theory of Change; and status of targets and accomplishments in the fourth quarter and Year 1 including deviations from targets. The third section provides detailed updates of implementation progress in Manila, Palawan and Zamboanga City-Tawi-Tawi for Contract Line Item No. (CLIN) 0001, which is comprised of Sub-CLINs for each of the activity’s Strategic Approaches: Improve attitudes and behavior toward biodiversity and its conservation in target areas; Intensify private and public sector involvement in conserving and financing biodiversity initiatives; Improve biodiversity conservation competencies of local government units and civil society organizations that include on-site land and resource management units; Enhance capacities of universities to advance biodiversity conservation education, research, monitoring and innovation; and Enhance competencies of national and local government agencies in enforcing biodiversity conservation-related laws and policies. There are no activities yet under CLIN 002. The fourth section addresses activity operations and management in Year 1. The next section outlines planned activities for July to September 2017, which are the initial activities for the Year 2 work plan. The sixth section addresses issues, challenges and lessons learned from Year 1 implementation, and the final section is on past and projected expenditures. This report’s annexes include reports of assessments conducted prior to implementation of key activities in Protect Wildlife sites. These include assessments and analyses of costs and revenues of potential partners in payment for environmental services (PES) development, livelihood and conservation financing opportunities, research capacity of universities and colleges, environmental law violations and gender roles and responsibilities in different communities. PROTECT WILDLIFE ANNUAL REPORT 1 v The Year 2 Work Plan will build on the initial list, suggestions and recommendations from regional stakeholders’ consultations, and interactions with Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) central offices—primarily the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB), Forest Management Bureau (FMB), and Foreign-Assisted and Special Projects Service (FASPS), Department of Agriculture- Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR), civil society organizations (CSOs), the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), and enforcement law agencies, among others. vi PROTECT WILDLIFE ANNUAL REPORT 1 ABBREVIATIONS ADSDPP Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan AdZU Ateneo de Zamboanga University ARMM Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao BCC behavior change communication BOC Bureau of Customs BPRWSA Brooke’s Point Waterworks System BPWS Brooke’s Point Waterworks System C4C Campaigning for Conservation CENRO Community/City Environment and Natural Resources Office CFLET Composite Fisheries Law Enforcement Team CHED Commission on