PEACE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MOVERS, INC. (PSDM) 34 Title of Project: Empowering Tribal Leaders, IPMRs and IP Youth Sector within United Higaonon Tribe in Cagayan de Oro City (UNIHITRICO) Ancestral Domain for Effective Governance and Sustainable Development (Empower UNIHITRICO) Project. The Peace and Sustainable Development Movers (PSDM), Inc. is a newly formed organization, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on December 13, 2016 with an office in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. All members are composed of people coming from the social development field. PSDM envisions to transform marginalized and underprivileged communities into peaceful and sustainable communities with fully achieved needs. PSDM, Inc works with the following sectors: indigenous peoples, youth, women, farmers and other marginalized communities. The Empower UNIHITRICO project is a one-year engagement with Peace and Sustainable Development Movers focusing on the empowerment of 13 Indigenous People (IP) communities in Cagayan de Oro City as advocates of environmental protection and facilitators of access to services. With the projection of moving towards a bigger influencing or advocacy initiative, this project capacitates the target groups around IP rights and IP agenda and also facilitates a sharing of indigenous knowledge systems and practices between and amongst the tribal leaders and the younger generation. This project entitled Empowering Tribal Leaders, IPMRs and IP Youth Sector within UNIHITRICO Ancestral Domain for Effective Governance and Sustainable Development (Empower UNIHITRICO) set out to facilitate the interaction between the elderly and young generation of the 13 Indigenous People (IP) communities in Cagayan de Oro City. From the quote above from the leader of the youth council, it was evident that PDSM was on the right track.
To achieve its set objectives, PDSM employed a number of strategies as highlighted below.
Capacity Strengthening Coaching and Preparation of Project Briefs - PSDM assisted the Core Team of each barangay composed of IPMR, Tribal leaders, Women, and Youth to prioritize their projects for resource mobilization. Out of ten targeted barangays, Tuburan and Tumpagon declined to participate in the resource mobilization activities because Samdhana Institute had committed to assisting them in their priority concerns.
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