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Reports and stories from communities across the seven provinces of the Cordillera. Trainings, programmes, partnerships and the people behind them.
Our work is community-led, so most of what we publish here comes straight from the field. For situation reports during an active emergency, see Disaster Updates. For reports and research you can download, see Publications.
Cordillera Disaster Response and Development Services Inc. (CorDisRDS) successfully conducted Simple Bookkeeping Training to its two partners People’s organization in Abra
A Bookkeeping seminar was conducted in two communities of Abra namely Masablang, Licuan-Ba-ay and Binasaran, Malibcong which are program areas of CorDis RDS. On April 28-29 a two day activity was conducted in Masablang, Licuan Ba-ay and on May 1-2 the same activity...
Intern from the Netherlands visits target communities in Abra
Shortly after the start of a 20 week internship at CorDis RDS, Matthijs Boessenkool who studies Disaster Risk Management in the Netherlands joined the Abra team for an 11-day fieldtrip to the communities of Diangay, Baay-Licuan and Manapnap, Malibcong in Abra....
Gumatdang Eyed Pathway Rehab
Gumatdang, Itogon, Benguet- As part of the Child-Centered Disaster Risk and Reduction project of the Cordillera Disaster Response and Development services (CorDis RDS), residents of Barangay Gumatdang seek to complete and rehabilitate a broken and irregular pathway in...
Community-based training: CorDisRDS approach to raise consciousness of vulnerable communities
“It is the first time that training like this has been conducted in our place. Most training were conducted in the town proper (Poblacion) so we are very thankful you came” said Mr. Felix Cadangan, the chairman of the Binasaran Farmers and Community Organization...
Enhancing the Capacities of Indigenous Peoples Communities through Community-based Training
The CorDisRDS has been initiating series of training, workshops and discussions related to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in our program areas in the provinces of Abra, Benguet, Kalinga, Ifugao and Mountain Province. These activities enabled the members and officers of...
Young Austrians visited Tanglag, a community of Indigenous Peoples in the Cordillera Region
The Cordillera generally conjures beautiful landscape; rich natural resources and hospitality of the people. The issues behind the positive repute were precisely what the young Austrians learned and experienced during their short stay in Tanglag. Lubuagan, Kalinga....
PfR towards building resilient communities: The Kayan West Experience
Kayan West is one of the 19 barangays that comprise the municipality of Tadian in Mountain Province. The community is inhabited by the Kankanaey, one of the many indigenous peoples collectively known as the Igorot who call the Cordillera region their home. The...
CorDisRDS conducts community-based disaster management training in Loakan Proper
The training, which was organized by the Cordillera Disaster Response and Development Services, Inc. (CorDisRDS), served as kick-off activity for a series of DRR related activities that will be conducted in 3 urban poor communities in Baguio City. CorDisRDS is a...
CorDis RDS staff tapped to facilitate training on Disaster Risk Management in Abang, Bucay, Abra.
The major output of the training was the formation of a Disaster Preparedness Committee or DPC within the organizational structure of AIPDO in sitio Naguilian. The DPC is the arm of the community organization to deal with disaster management and to work closely...
A community-managed Rice Mill in Chapyusen, Bontoc, Mt. Province Works
Chapyusen is located along the banks of the famous Chico River adjoining Barangay Talubin and Tocucan of Bontoc & Anabel of Sadanga. Chapyusen is the farthest sitio of Barangay Can-eo and can be reached by an hour trek via Tocucan, Bontoc and 30-45 minutes hike...
TRIAL FARMS ON PALAY PRODUCTION IMPROVEMENT SUPPORTED BY PARTNER PEOPLES ORGANIZATION
Farming is the primary livelihood of the Cordillera interior communities with rice as the main crop. Generally, there are two cropping periods for rice; the cropping during dry months which covers the months of January to June and July to December for the wet months....
“Laffot”, the vanishing practice of Tonglayan, Natonin, Mt. Province
Barangay Tonglayan is one among the 11 barangays of Natonin, Mt. Province peopled by indigenous peoples particularly the Hakki tribe. Though the place has steep slopes and mountainous, rice terraces were built by the past generations with their own knowledge and...
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