Based on the findings and lessons learned from the study, a sustainability framework was put forward to serve as a development setting towards sustainability of fishing and rice-farming activiities at the Liguasan Marsh. The framework of the Liguasan Marsh as a social system made up of interrelated parts and elements composed of fishers-rice farmers, local leaders and the GOs, NGOs, and POs. The Liguasan Marsh exists as a community endowed with resources both human and natural which are relied upon to further its sustainability. This is reinforced with indigenous laws and resource management systems combined with modern knowledge system undergoing a process of change which are deemed important to stimulate people participation, social cohesion, governance and self-determination.