Panabo City RARE-PRIDE Team Exudes Remarkable Achievement

“It is very unusual for me to write a letter to campaign team before the start of the university phase. However, I feel the compelling need to express my personal satisfaction to the extraordinary achievement made in Panabo City Pride Campaign”. This is the statement that highlighted the open letter of Mr. Fel Caesar Cadiz, the Pride Program Manager of RARE, to the Panabo City Pride Team for the exceptional achievement of the team within the first 7.5 months of implementation of the campaign. Mr. Cadiz also gave special mention to the results of the hard work and dedication of the team on the campaign that contributed much on the achievement of activities in the research plan. Series of reinforcement workshops to capacitate the Fishery Law Enforcers Task Force (FLETF), constitution of a management committee for the Cagangohan Fish Sanctuary, finalization of three candidate flagship species, and remarking of the Cagangohan Sanctuary were only few of the team’s achievements. CF Dr. Girley Gumanao, DNSC’s PRIDE, headed the team.

To keep the team become superb in campaigning for sustainable fishing in Panabo City, Dr. Gumanao will again participating the 2nd University Phase of the RARE Pride for the 2012-2014 Pride Conservation Fellows. The training will run for seven (7) weeks from June 12 to July 31 of 2013. This training phase has three (3) exciting developments as shared by Director Brooke Sadowsky. First, the training phase will happen in two locations. The first  2. 5 weeks will be spent in Bohol and transfer to Cebu for the remainder of the training to allow the participants experience the change in scenery as well as the greater access to creative resources of conceptualizing and drafting campaign materials during the second half of the training phase. Second, there is a multiple opportunities for Pride Campaign Team members to join. This allows each CF to choose the 1 or 2 weeks when they would like a member of their team to join. Last but not the least, supervisors of the CF will be invited to join the last week of the Training Phase.

With this project, Davao del Norte State College partnered with RARE and other fifty (50) countries all over the world in testing and refining innovative method for social change that is helping to fill the need of meeting basic life needs in the face of dwindling natural resources