Community & Environment Program (Energy Development Corporation (through Mount Apo Foundation Inc.))

First Philippine Holdings Corporation

Ensures the sustainable and symbiotic relationshp of the communities within the Mt. Apo Natural Park through the formulation and implementatoon of a fit-to-purpose, responsive and sustained community and environment program. In particular, MAFI conducts awareness-raising and advocacy campaigns on the importance of environmental protection and biodiversity conservation. It also partners with various organizations including EDC to reforest and maintain at least 10 hectares of open areas within the Mt. Apo Natural Park. It also participates in policy formulation, lobbying, protection, and preservation of Mt. Apo through the Protected Area Management Board (PAMB), as well as in the crafting of the Provincial Environment Code of North Cotabato. Under its biodiversity conservation program, MAFI partners actively with EDC in adopting the BINHI program, where native and indigenous tree species are propagated and planted in Mt. Apo landscape (e.g. Bongolanon and Kinarum in Magpet) mainstreamed as a strategy in reforestation activities that is responsive to landscape approach of conservation. This scheme, strategy and partnership will be scaled up in the proposed Central Pantadon Range biodiversity project in partnership with the ancestral domains and IP communities in Arakan, Magpet, Kidapawan and Makilala. The partnership between EDC and MAFI and among key agencies and IP groups in upscaling the BINHI program (starting with EDC's arboretum) and addressing the landscape strategy in the project sites mentioned will be forged in a Memorandum of Agreement to delineate the commitment of the collaborating agencies and groups. Since the inception of the program in 1995, it has benefitted: 18 Scholars of Agriculture and Forestry courses 10 hectare rainforest 3 IP Community Partners 4 barangays benefitting from Medical, Dental, and Optical Outreach 301 children benefitting Feeding Program 15 patients benefitting Goiter/Harelip Operations 3,026 Households provided with Iodized salts

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