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The Program Coordination Office of Lake Mainit Development Alliance turn-over 1 unit patrol boat to LGU-Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte on February 15, 2011 held at Barangay San Roque Hall, Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte. A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed between the LMDA-PCO and Municipality of Kitcharao and MOA signed between LGU-Kitcharao and Barangay San Roque, Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte highlighted the turn-over ceremony. Hon. Jenry E. Montante, Municipal Mayor and Engr. Kaiser B. Recabo, Jr., LMDA Director led the ceremonial turn-over. Said activity was also graced By Hon. Victorio I. Gonde, SB Committee Chair on Environment, Hon. Noel P. Alburo, Barangay Captain of San Roque, Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte. The program was facilitated by Mr. Omar C. Barillo, volunteer at LMDA.

Another one unit patrol boat was turn-over by LMDA to LGU-Jabonga, Agusan del Norte last November 2, 2010. Mayor Glicerio M. Monton Jr. personally accepts the patrol boat during the turn-over ceremony and signing of MOA with the presence of Vice Mayor Danny M. Moran and Municipal Agriculture personnel.

The patrol boat will be used in the implementation of the Sustainable Fishery Management Program (SFM) and the existing Unified Fishery Ordinance (UFO) of Lake Mainit. The said patrol boat is a grant project from Philippine-Australia Community Assistance Program (PACAP) through the effort of the LMDA-PCO. Although the PACAP contract was already ended last year however, this is the continued commitment of PACAP and LMDA in support to lakeshore municipalities for the tough enforcement of the Unified Fishery Ordinance in the protection of Lake Mainit.

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Lake Mainit area was experiencing one week heavy rains that resulted to flash floods in some areas in the lake ecosystem particularly at the lakeshore municipalities in Mainit and Alegria of Surigao del Norte and Kitcharao and Jabonga of Agusan del Norte. The said four municipalities was entirely affected especially the lakeshore barangays.

In the Municipality of Kitcharao, the submerged affected barangays are San Roque, Canaway, Bangayan and a portion of Barangay Crossing. The water level rises to almost 6 feet above the national highway in Barangay San Roque, Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte. Buses and ten wheelers trucks cannot even pass through the highway. All the travelers had stranded and spend a day until the water level subsides. Moreover, the residents in Barangay San Roque, Canaway and Bangayan had evacuated to the upland areas while affected households from Barangay Crossing were sent to the Gymnasium of Barangay Poblacion, Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte.  Native Kitcharaonon’s said that this marked the highest water level in history of flooding in the span of 35 years.

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Engr. Kaiser B. Recabo, Jr. LMDA Director

Welcome to LMDA Official Website Blog!

Our website created with wordpress is a free blog site which feature relevant information about LMDA, Lake Mainit, partners, projects, research, activity photos, and news updates. With technical provision of the mighty en.support, LMDA has able to introduced wordpress to partner municipal LGUs in creating and managing its website blogs.

Latest news updates of the Alliance operation and updates contributed by partners in Lake Mainit cluster are regularly posted in this website. Likewise, our periodic publication,” The Lake Mainit Chronicle”, the official newsletter of the Alliance are also uploaded in this site will show significant reports of the levels of attainment of Alliance undertaking especially on various project management updates.

We are confident that everybody who will visit our webpage will learn more about the extensive works of LMDA Program Management Office (PMO). And we are hoping that the data and updates published in here will give significant information to all partners, stakeholders, researchers and individual or parties interested in LMDA endeavors.

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AGUSAN DEL NORTE

SURIGAO DEL NORTE

Congressman

AMANTE, Angelica Rosedell M.

ROMARATE, Guillermo Jr. A.

Governor

AMANTE, Erlpe John M.

MATUGAS, Sol F.

Vice – Governor

CORVERA, Enrico R.

EGAY, Arturo Carlos Jr A.

Sangguniang Panlalawigan
(2^nd Provincial District)

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TOMANENG, Joseph E.

ROMARATE, Myrna M.

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GAMBE, Aquino W.

LARONG, Fernando T.

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ALDONZA, Leonilo A.

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RESERVA, James T.

ALAAN, Regina G.

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BORJA, Victor C.

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Source: 

• http://www.dilg13.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88&Itemid=87  
• http://www.dilg13.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=86&Itemid=85

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The Lake Mainit Development Alliance (LMDA) Program Director, Engr. Kaiser B. Recabo, Jr. is one of the invited presenters during the 3-day Forum on PACAP and the Environment with a theme: “Building Community Resilience, Sustaining Development” held at Dotties Place Hotel on April 15 – 17, 2010. Engr. Recabo speaks about LMDA experience on environment governance and lake protection as an institution responsible in resources conservation and development for the lake ecosystem.  He made mention of the crafting of the Lake Mainit Unified Fishery Ordinance as one of the keys to proper and systematic management of this God given bounty.

The first keynote speaker on the 1^st day is Commissioner Lucille Sering – Chief of the Climate Change Commission, Office of the President with her opening salvo on the worldwide campaign on climate change and discusses the status of the Philippine Government’s environment effort and challenges. Ms. Maria Anna Orquiza – Senior Programme Officer of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) with her topic on “Environment and Climate Change Strategy for the Australian Development Assistance”. She made emphasis on the investments and assistance of AusAID in Asia and the Philippines through environment projects dealing directly and indirectly on addressing climate change.

The forum has 3 technical sessions with 4 case presentations each. The 3 sessions cover environmental governance, sustainable development and managing for climate variability and disasters. The forum speakers who shared their success stories and experiences before grasping the fruit of their labor are leaders coming from different successful PACAP assisted projects. Strategies, systems and lessons learned were unleashed by these competent individuals.

The 3 day forum were participated by approximately 130 participants from the 5 FOCAS Provinces and RAS projects throughout the Philippines to tackle issues that evolved on the global problem on climate change.

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LMDA conducts its 13^th BOT meeting on February 9, 2010 at Tavern Hotel, Surigao City. The meeting was attended by Hon. Erlpe John M. Amante, Provincial Governor of Agusan del Norte at the same time the Chairperson of Lake Mainit Development Alliance (LMDA); Hon. Robert Ace S. Barbers, Governor of Surigao del Norte. It was also attended by Municipal Mayors, namely; Hon. Aristotle E. Montante of Municipality of Kitcharao; Hon. Glicerio M. Monton, Jr., of municipality of Jabonga; Hon. Franklin D. Lim of Santiago; Hon. Dominador G. Esma, Jr. of Alegria and Hon. Leicester P. Fetalvero of Municipality of Sison. The representatives of the Board are also present as follows; Mr. Arturo M. Cruje, PPDO Surigao del Norte; Mr. Rofel C. Cablatera, PPDO Agusan del Norte; Engr. Emilio S. Pantejo, Provincial Action Officer of Surigao del Norte, Engr. Nivard S. Gonzales, Provincial Action Officer of Agusan del Norte, Mr. Martiniano Yandra, PFO of BFAR Caraga Region XIII; Ms. Ann Jaquilmac of NEDA Caraga XIII; Mr. Fryan Abkilan of PIA Caraga XIII; Mr. Sanudin Benaning of BFAR Caraga XIII. The municipal action officers also attended the meeting as follows; Mr. Roberto R. Calubag, Jr. of Kitcharao; Mr. Ramon B. Mondano of Mainit; Mr. Edipolo A. Mosquito, Jr. of Alegria; Mr. Rajamero R. Zoleta of Tubay. Of course the presence of the LMDA – PMO staff and Expanded FMC Secretariate as follows; Engr. Kaiser B. Recabo, jr., program director; Mr. Jonathan M. Natonio; LMDA staff, Mr. Omar C. Barillo, FOCAS Project Coordinator, Mr. Johny S. Natad, Assistant Project Coordinator and yours truly.

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The first project stakeholders’ workshop was held last January 14-15, 2010 at the Eurotel, North EDSA, Quezon City. It was attended by a multi-sectoral group coming from the different line agencies, civil society organization and LGU’s from different region in the country. Most of the participants were coming from the target areas and the executing partners. The event was opened by Director Lim of PAWB and followed with the workshop objectives, overview and site selection criteria. The focal activity of the two day gathering is workshop. The workshops focus on the three main component of the project proposal. The three main components are:

• Component 1 – System capacities at the national level
• Component 2 – Institutional capacities for decentralized governance
• Component 3 – Mainstreaming in key ecosystems

                Several workshops had been conducted, starting with situational analysis and project design where the participants level off understanding on the project concept, confirmed the baseline situation and have agreed consensually on the on the project strategy to the drafting of individual site objectives, expected outcomes and outputs. The Lake Mainit group is composed of RTD Mario Eludo of PAWCMZ, DENR; Ms. Soledad  Tamayo, PENRO-DENR, Agusan del Norte, Ms. Socorro Alcantara, PEMO, Surigao del Norte; Mr. Armand Pacudan, Mindanao Area Manager, FPE; Mr. Abraham Uy, Green Mindanao; Engr. Kaiser Recabo, LMDA Program Director and Mr. Roilan Beronilla, LGU, Jabonga, Agusan del Norte. The group discussed the proposed project and come up with a collective program for Lake Mainit.

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Individual site from different regions presented their output to the plenary, they were discussed and critique. The workshop was successful and the next workshop to design of implementation arrangement, budgets and workplan is set on the 2^nd week of February, 2010.     
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Charting Future Scenarios

A group workshop on charting future scenarios was done portraying the vision of the group about the Lake Mainit in the future.

DRM Strategic Priority Program for Action for CY 2009-2015

The group identified the main concerns based thematic areas on governance, risk reductions, knowledge management, risk reduction and disaster preparedness.   

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Vision, Mission and Objectives on DRM plan and the Disaster Risk Management Structure and functions were drafted on the second day of the said activity. The group agreed the following next steps.  

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Section 6. Designated Control Terminal Point

       “The municipal government shall coordinate with other local government units within the Lake Mainit to designate and establish a control terminal point between the adjacent municipalities for the management, monitoring and implementation of this ordinance. The control terminal point and the lines will mark the technical description of the municipal waters of Mainit. The said control terminal point and the lines described above shall not be considered political boundary but for purposes of integrated management of the Lake.”

The Proposed Control Terminal Point in Lake Mainit

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