Project Liwanag

Best of Young Minds Pre-Conference (Season 5)

Gen A Team 4 (CPMPC)

In partnership with: Municipality of Consolacion

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Partner: Municipality of Consolacion

Population as of 2007: 87, 544 Land area: 1, 567.68 hectares Class 3 12 KMs east of Cebu City, 21 Brgys. Mayor Teresa Alegado Known for success in the tax collection for 2011 Main Celebration: Sarok Festival on their Adlaw sa Consolacion (Founding Anniversary)

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Brgy. Pulpogan History

Name Pulpog means smash from where the word Pulpogan History Before 1920 When Consolacion became a town, Pulpogan then turned into a barrio.

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About the Barangay

15 NGOs (Senior Citizen, Tricycle drivers, Womens, 4 Homeowners Association) 4 Academic Institution 48 Deep Wells 17 Chapels (Catholic and others)
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About the Barangay

7 districts which are actually sitios Accessible by habal2x Has a lot of small business enterprises Has two primary schools and their own high school Has 9 Councils including Brgy. Development Council

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Population as of March 2008

Total: 10, 311 Total male: 2, 746; female: 2,696 Unemployed male: 559; female: 1,430 Employed male: 2,157; female: 987 Estimated Total Households: 2,062

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Brgy. Spot Map

LEGEND:

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Overview of our project

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Overview of our project

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Why not address gambling?

1. Scope and limitations 2. Govt could not even eradicate it 3. Difficult when embedded in culture

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Causes of gambling
1. Mismanagement of funds 2. Habit and or nothing to do 3. Tradition

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Causes of mismanagement
1. Families are insensitive to the needs of the members 2. Financial situation unknown to the most members of the family 3. Lack of finance orientation

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Problem Tree Analysis

Limited funds

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Results and Discussion

42% - earns only around 1,000 to 5,000 monthly as a family 33% - earns less than 1,000 monthly 83% - is unemployed 83% - considers food to be the major expense of the family 92% - has no savings (bank, co-op or cash on hand) 75% - finds it very hard to budget available family funds 42% - says that debts and budgeting are reasons why finance management is hard

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Proposed Solutions
1. Give a God-centeredness, sensitivity team building camps 2. Provide livelihood and endorse for employment 3. Teach them to manage their income

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Outputs
1. Family members sensitive to the needs of the whole family. 2. Skills acquired and qualified for employment. 3. Families learn to allocate funds reasonably.

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General indicators for success

1. Positive self evaluation 2. Employed after the livelihood training 3. Learned managing and achieved the personal financial goals

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Specific indicators for success

1. Positive self evaluation
positive self assessment after the camp(test to be made in partnership with a psychologist) pass the sensitivity test after the camp (test to be made in partnership with a psychologist) positive average self assessment on all the monthly assessment combined

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Specific indicators for success

2. Employed after the livelihood training
Above average attendance grade Above average performance grade Receive recommendation from trainer Endorsement to job openings

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Specific indicators for success

3. Learned managing and achieved personal financial goals
positive self assessment after the family fund mgt positive average progress on all the monthly assessment combined in reaching their personal goal Pass the financial management test

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Specific indicators for success

3. Learned managing and achieved personal financial goals
improvement on the results based on the survey results:
beneficiaries income increase rate of unemployed beneficiaries decrease rate of beneficiaries who have no savings decrease rate of beneficiaries who says it is "very hard" decrease compared to management will either be "hard" "manageable" or "very manageable" rate of beneficiaries saying "budgeting" makes finance management is hard decrease

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A Holistic Character Building, Livelihood, Finance Training for Brgy. Pulpogan, Consolacion Families
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Project Liwanag

Ultimate Goal
Basic family needs sufficiently met.

Specific Objective
Family funds properly allocated.

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What is Project Liwanag

Finance Management Program
Kaisa Camp Happy Families Work Together Kapit-Bisig sa Kabuhayan Skills Helps Families Move Forward Ingat Kabuhayan Meager Resources Properly Allocated, Make Ends Meet

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How is it different from the LGUs efforts?

Faith Family approach TESDA certification has longer training hours Family Fund management

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Project Action Plan

Program Preliminaries
Event organizing, coordinating, delegation of tasks, forming of teams Screening of beneficiaries Covenant signing Partnerships: LGUs, RAFI, Dilaab, SK, Couples for Christ, Womens Organization, TESDA, Brgy. Dev. Council

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Beneficiary Criteria
30 selected family beneficiaries duly screened for economic instability and inadequacy based on set of criteria Family that has been tagged by the screening team as
below or very slightly higher than the poverty line, failed most parts of the poverty situationer

willing parent /guardian or child /children

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Module 1: Kaisa Camp

God-centeredness (Kaisa sa Diyos) + Sensitivity Camp + Teambuilding RAFI, Dilaab, SK, Couples for Christ to learn much themselves, God-centeredness respect, discipline, sensitivity, creativity share and apply in real life

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Module 2: Kapit-Bisig sa Kabuhayan

TESDA Skills Training + Job placement Community-based training in convergence with the LGUs Attendance and performance monitoring Graduation Day + Job fair

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Module 3: Ingat Kabuhayan

Family finance training + progress monitoring RAFI Microfinance, SK Topics  Emergency planning  Planning for the future  About Jobs and resource optimization

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Module 3: Ingat Kabuhayan

After the training, participants set a personal financial goal:
Example:

find a job start a business / improve existing save a certain amount for self / for family buy something for self / for family be able to meet a need for the family health, education, food, home

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After-Program Activities
Program Graduation Turnover of project Maintenance of website

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Project Budget Plan

Budget Plan Item Cost Funding Agency (RAFI) Trainers Venue Food Major Events Materials Allowance TESDA Operational Costs Php 60,000 AVAILABLE Php 29,700 Php 15,000 Php 6,000 Php 5,000 Php 8,800 Php 29,700 Php 15,000 Php 6,000 Php 5,000 Php 8,300 Php 36,000 Php 24,000 LGU Team Cost

TESDA Materials

Php 20,000

Php 20,000

TESDA Tools Website (Maintenance)

AVAILABLE Php 46,000

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Php 100,000

Php 44,000

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General Monitoring
Ladderized Self assessment Tests Family interview Attendance Performance Progress reports Documentation Persons responsible:
Evaluation Team

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Monitoring Plan for

Indicators Method of collection Date of collection Time and funding requirement Writing materials Intended use of data

Positive self evaluation and application of learning

Self assessment Test Sensitivity Test

After the activities, monthly

Evaluation

Evaluation Photo and Video coverage Documentatio n Evaluation

Healthy family Family relationship interview Meeting their basic needs Basic need survey

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Monitoring Plan for

Additional indicators
Indicators Method of collection Date of collection Time and funding requirement Intended use of data

Attendance grade Performance grade

Attendance Sheets Grades from trainers

Every training session Monthly (included in honorarium)

Graduation Graduation

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Monitoring Plan for

Additional indicators
Indicators Method of collection Date of collection Time and funding requirement Intended use of data

Personal financial progress report

Individual progress report sheet

Monthly after the training

Transportation Evaluation allowance of evaluators

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Sustainability
1. Turnover to an NGO: families and/ poverty 2. RAFI Integrated Development 3. Covenant of commitment with partners, Brgy., Municipality 4. the program graduates will spearhead the next season 5. program graduation = fundraiser 6. partnering with business entities who could hire the TESDA trainees

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Beneficiary Counterparts
Food Contribution Time and labor in preparing and cleaning the venue and food Self-sustenance (TESDA) Time for evaluation and assessment

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How will this address poverty

realizing what the family needs investing skills for employability or potential business opportunities teaching how to manage their funds 3 Cs:

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Thank you from

Gen A Team 4 Team CPMPC of YMA Season 5!

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