Partnership with UNDP

The project’s general objective is to enhance protection of the Catubig Watershed through engaging communities for integrated and sustainable biodiversity conservation and green financing. Specifically, it aims to implement the following objectives:

• To organize and capacitate Village Conservation Teams (VCTs) for ensuring cooperation among target communities in boosting the protection of the Catubig Watershed.
• To empower VCTs to implement community-based conservation initiatives in the target sites, including habitat restoration and protection and environmental campaigns; and
•  To capacitate VCTs-as village -managed financial service providers-for the development of community-based financing scheme, promotion of conservation enterprises and for the sustainability of their initiated conservation efforts.