This is a strategic project put together by nine POs operating within the PPSRNP. Together with another strategic proposal being submitted by the Sabang Sea Ferry Multipurpose Cooperative (SSFMPC), the sub-projects involved here were developed in close partnership with the PPSRNP PASu Office. These projects proceed from the realization that the PPSRNP is facing a lot of threats from within and without because a good number of park residents derive their sources of livelihood from the Park?s natural resources, and because much encroachment from outside remains hardly abated. The latter is largely caused by the fact that the PPSRNP has no designated buffer zone. Thus, the initiatives within the Park shall serve to regulate resource use while stimulating livelihoods to prevent community members from further destroying natural resources, while those done in the outlying portions of the Park also serve as a social fence ? a de facto buffer zone ? to the PPSRNP.

In this proposal, the following are targeted:

1. POs in the PPSRNP are empowered to participate in the management of the Park by influencing the successor PA management plan of the Park, and by forming a people?s council that shall have the political and economic muscle to engage the PAMB;
2. At least 400 hectares of significant ecosystems in one community-managed protected or conservation area established or enhanced with improved conservation status, exhibiting 20% increase in relevant dimensions of METT; and,
a. IP communities in Barangays Cabuyugan, Tagabinet and Marufinas in and around the PPSRNP maximize their benefits from the tourism in the Park through BD-friendly and IP-sensitive enterprises, to wit:
b. Organic farming and organic fertilizer production
c. Artisanal handicrafts, other value added products produced from NTFPs. Honey and herbal products marketed and/or sold as souvenir items to tourists under one distinctive brand
d. Low impact, cultural tourism through community-village homestay schemes are operated by an IP group in Sitio Kayasan
e. Community-based tour activities such as: river cruising, trekking, indigenous food tasting are established
f. A Tribal Livelihoods and Multipurpose Center functioning as a production facility/ marketing center and ICC school of living tradition is constructed and operational