Assessment of On-Site

Management by Community-
Based Forest Management
(CBFM )Tenure Holders in
Quirino Province
Dr. Priscila C. Dolom
Engr. Magdalena B. Villanueva
Ms. Benita A. Punzalan
Background/Rationale:
Community Based Forest Management
(CBFM) as a strategy to promote sustainable
forest management. CBFM also recognizes
the role of local communities or People’s
Organizations in forest protection,
rehabilitation, development and conservation,
(EO 263, 1995).
CBFM one of the strategies intended to
put on-site management in open access
forestlands to guarantee the long-term
sustainability of our forest resources.
Tenure, resource use rights and support to
local communities were assumed to trigger
self-perpetuating sustainable forests and
forest land practices (CBFMA, RUP).
Question: Are CBFM sites effectively
managed by the local communities or POs?
Objectives:
 The study aims to examine the
CBFM policy and assess
whether effective on site
management is present in
CBFM areas in Quirino province
and recommend ways to
improve CBFM policy
framework and
implementation.
Specifically, the project aims to:
 examine the conceptual
framework of CBFM policy
 determine the status of on-site
management of CBFM areas by
Peoples Organizations and
individuals
 Assess the effective and
efficient on-site forestland
management using criteria and
indicators that will be
developed; and
 Recommend policy options to
improve CBFM policy
framework and
implementation.
Methodology

 The study was conducted from

March 1, 2006 to February 28,
2008 in collaboration with the
Philippine Ecogovernance
Program and the DENR in Quirino,
Province. The assessment of the
on-site management by CBFM
tenure holders in Quirino province
covered 34 CBFM areas.
The assessment was done using the
following approaches:

 Creation and strengthening the provincial

Forest Land Use Plan (FLUP) core team –
a provincial FLUP core team for Quirino
province was organized and trained to
conduct the tenure assessment activities
 DENR-PENRO (Quirino) – 7 staff
 DENR –CENRO (Nagtipunan and Diffun) - 6
 Provincial LGU staff – 3
 NGO Staff – 2
 Municipal TWG - 5
 Key informants interview –
Officials and members of the
association or cooperatives were
invited as key informants using
prepared questionnaire.
 TENURE/ALLOCATION HOLDER ASSESSMENT
Guide Questions and Answer Form
Municipality/City: __________________________________________________
Tenure Holder: ___________________________________________________
Type of Tenure: ___________________________________________________
Date Issued: ______________________________________________________
Area (hectares): ___________________________________________________
Estimated Area of (hectares) ___________________________
Estimates of Bare Areas (without forest cover, in hectares) ______________
Instructions for Interviewers:
1. Use the Questions in the 1st Column to validate the performance level of tenure holder
2. Use blank spaces at the bottom of the page for answers to questions; please number answers accordingly.
3. Use blanks spaces in each performance level (1-4) to write comments
4. Use the last column for comments and assessment for each criterion
5. When necessary, translate questions to local dialect
6. If possible, obtain copies of documentary evidences for the database of the LGU

Level of Performance with Examples of Description

Documentary Comments and
Criteria and Guide Questions
Evidence Rating
1 2 3 4
Primary Areas of Assessment
1. Approved (resource) management plan is No (resource) Plan preparation Draft plan (new or Approved Draft or approved
current (i.e., the present management plan management plan or plan updating updated) has been (Resource) (resource)
covers current year) has been prepared is ongoing completed; ready Management Plan management plans.
a. What is the status of plan preparation? or the available for submission to (new or updated) Agency approval of
b. When is the expected completion date of management plan approving agency the plan
the plan? does not cover the If the tenure holder
c. Does content of the draft plan meet the current year. had a (resource)
requirements of DENR/NCIP or the management plan
approving agency? previously approved
d. When is the approval expected? by approving
e. When was it approved? agency, indicate the
f. When is the end year of the plan? plan period
g. Is there a need to update the plan? (example: 1989-
h. If plan is due for updating or expires this 1993).
year or is due for updating, is there need
to review the plan?
 Field Validation – This is done by
visiting the project sites and
validate the answers of the key
informants with the residents of the
community regarding the activities
of the PO.

 Examine PO documents –
Examination and review of PO
reports was done to determine the
completeness of documents
 Data consolidation and report
preparation – the research team
consolidated, assessed and analyzed
the data and prepared the reports
with the necessary recommendations
based on the gaps identified on the
activities of the tenure holders
The Study Sites:
Regional Alienable and Forest Total %
Organization Disposable Lands (Ha) Distribution
Level Land (Ha) (Ha)
Regional Total 965,965 1,717,793 2,683,758 100.00
Batanes 7,432 13,496 20,928 0.78
Cagayan 353,193 547,074 900,267 33.55
Isabela 459,666 606,790 1,066,446 39.74
Nueva Vizcaya 88,921 301,466 390,387 14.55
Quirino 70,258 235,460 305,718 11.39
Provincial Population Distribution and Density
by Municipality
Municipality Total Area Population Density % Increase
(ha) ha/person
2000 2007***
Aglipay 24,084 21,774 25,069 0.96 15.1
Cabarroguis 18,220 25,814 28,024 0.65 8.6
Diffun 30,618 39,485 42,958 0.71 8.8
Madela* 65,232 32,198 33,637 1.94 4.5
Nagtipunan** 160,740 17,027 20,443 7.86 20.1
Saguday 6,824 12,217 13,479 0.50 10.3
TOTAL 305,718 150,515 163,610 8.7
  Results and Discussions
a. Basic Information of the CBFM in Quirino Province

Name of PO Municipality Tenure Area No. of

(Has) HH

1. Villa Agullana Tribal Dev’t Org. Maddela 3,715.00 325

2. Mataga-ey Sustainable Resource Development Maddela 2,649.41 1,341
andConservation Association
3. Villa Garcia Sustainable Resources Development Maddela 4,423.27 1,249
Cooperative
4. Natural Agricultural Resources Development Maddela 2,910.00 470
System
5. San Dionisio Farmers Association Maddela 5,350.00 744
6. Balligui Jose Ancheta Community Forest and Maddela 4,400.00 490
Development Cooperative,Inc.
7. San Martin Farmers Association Maddela 4,256.18 871
 Results and Discussions
a. Basic Information of the CBFM in Quirino Province

Name of PO Municipality Tenure Area No. of HH

(Has)
8. Wasid Ilogot Tribe Association Inc. Nagtipunan 6,420.00 295
9. Sangbay-Anak Intgegrated Farmers Nagtipunan 134.00 380
Association, Inc.
10. Quirino Tribal Farmers Multi-Purpose Nagtipunan 1,940.17 644
Cooperative,Inc.
11. Kadikitan Association for Community Nagtipunan 5,315.00 885
Development, Inc.
12. Anak Inter-Cultural Organization Nagtipunan 5,315.00 790
13. Ilongot Livelihood Association, Inc. Nagtipunan 1,752.00 356
14. Nun-un-Uhaan Inc. Nagtipunan 2,600.00 525
 Name of PO Municipality Tenure No. of
Area HH
(Has)
15. Rafael Palma Multi-Purpose Cooperative Diffun 148.83 160
16. Ifugao Village Apchocan Multipurpose Diffun 1,100 140
Cooperative, Inc.
17. Makati Watershed Enhancement Multi-Purpose Diffun 63.05 22
Cooperative Inc.
18. Salinong Campanero Association Diffun 415.50 20
19. Gabriela Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Inc. Diffun 1,647.00 800
20. Don Mariano Perez-Multi-Purpose Diffun 3,100.00 675
Cooperative,Inc.
21. Pimentel Upland Developers Association, Inc. Diffun 3,226.81 662
22. Don Faustino Pagaduan Upland Farmers Diffun 2,897.04 578
Association
23. BICAS-Baguio Village Integrated Diffun 1,990.00 156
 Name of PO Municipality Tenure No.
Area of
(Has) HH
24. Del Pilar Planters Cabarroguis 100.00 50
Association
25 Gomez Farmers Multi- Cabarroguis 620.00 190
Purpose Coop,Inc.
26. Tucod, Cabarroguis, Cabarroguis 5,237.00 252
Quirino
 Name of PO Municipality Tenure No. of
Area HH
(Has)
27. Pinaripad Sur Integrated Agroforest Aglipay 570.00 110
Association
28. Magabing Upland Farmers Aglipay 776.00 850
MPCI/Villa
29. Cabugao Intersectoration Aglipay 360.09 195
Association
30. Dumabel Upland Farmers Aglipay 795.00 140
Association
31. Alicia Sustainable Resource Aglipay 5,520.82 780
Devleopment Cooperative
9ASREDECO)
32. San Benigno Sustainable Developers Aglipay 2,321.21 797
Cooperative, Inc.
33. San Manuel-Victoria Forest Aglipay 3,176.00 780
Developers Cooperative,Inc.
34. Diodal Integrated Community Aglipay 1,361.05 550
Agroforest Development Association
 b. Assessment of on-site management of CBFM Tenure Holders
in Quirino Province

CRITERIA ACCEPTABLE
LEVEL
1. Approved resource management plan is current (i.e., the present resource 3
management plan covers 2005)
2. There is budget for plan implementation covering overhead costs, protection and 3
enforcement, and investments
3. Functional management structure of tenure holder 4
4. IPR adoption 3
5. Year-round conduct of protection and enforcement activities 3
6. Compliance with existing policies and regulations 3
7. Functioning M and E systems 4
8. Support to non- forest-based livelihood activities (for community-based 3
tenure/allocation instruments only)
9. Working conflict resolution mechanism 4
10. External linkages established 3
11. Development of forest production systems by establishing tree farms, tree 2
plantations or orchards, or agro-forestry, or other sustainable uses
12. Participation of women and men in all aspects of forest management 3
Overall rating 38
 % POs attaining
% of POs attaining preferred level of rating by municipality preferred levels

Criteria Nagtipunan (7) Maddela (7) Aglipay (8) Cabarroguis (3) Diffun (9) N = (34)
Management 40 % 0% 25% 0% 17% 16%
plan

Budget 10% 0% 13% 0% 8% 6%

IPR 30% 0% 13% 25% 50% 28%

Functional 30% 09% 13% 50% 0% 6%

organization

Protection & 50% 9% 13% 25% 25% 24%

enforcement
Compliance to 50% 18% 755 63% 67% 53%
policies

M&E system 10% 0% 0% 13% 0% 4%

Livelihood 30% 18% 75% 25% 25% 33%

Conflict 50% 0% 13% 25% 8% 18%

resolution
Source: Tenure assessment report, EcoGov 2, Northern Luzon, October, 2005
Linkages 70% 9% 38% 13% 17% 29%

Forest 30% 9% 38% 13% 8% 18%

rehabilitation &
dev.
Participation of 30% 18% 63% 25% 25% 30%
women

Source: Tenure assessment report, EcoGov 2, Northern Luzon, October, 2005

c. Improving on site Management of
CBFM

 The basic concept behind CBFM is that by

providing land tenure security through the
CBFMA, POs will be motivated to sustainably
manage allocated forestlands. However, the
tenure assessment in Quirino indicate that
CBFM sites are poorly managed.
 Considering the tenure results, promoting
improved on-site management in CBFM would
require the following:
a) Improving the policy environment
- deregulation of the harvesting of planted
trees
- regulated harvesting of wood and non-wood
products in designated area.
- immediate/ automatic deputation of PO
officers
- amendment on some provisions of CBFM
implementing rules and regulations
b) Provide adequate institutional support
c) Developing alternative financing
d) Priority sufficient technical assistance to PO’s
Recommendations

1. stabilized the policy environment in CBFM

2. Provide adequate technical support to
PO’s
3. Facilitate formation of multi-sectoral
bodies
4. Develop alternative financing mechanism
to CBFM