Molding & Weaving

The 2010 RuMEPP South Cotabato Year-End Report

2010 Overall Assessment

• Programme Goals and Objectives

The national goal to reduce poverty is aligned with the Country’s commitment to contribute to the MDG’s goal 1: Eradication of Extreme Poverty

This is also consistent with the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan 2000-2010

# of MEs: 206 out of 202

Numerical Targets Sole Proprietors: 187Cooperatives/ Associations: 18 (including sole ME Networks like UPPSCO, POPMA, Single Parents Association) Federation: 1 (Kenhulong of Lake Sebu)

• Jobs: averaged increased of 1 from Jan-October 2010– 935 in January 2010– 1,035 in October 2010

• ME Registration: 48 (influenced by RuMEPP)

• P 30, 524, 427.40 est. combined sales as of October 2010

Jobs, New MEs, Sales

Trade Fair Sales

(RuMEPP Contribution)P 517, 080.00

Contributory Factors to RuMEPP Success in 2010

• Assurance of convergence with stakeholders like LGUs, ACT for Peace Programme, and other partners

• High-turn over of ME business compliance (registration etc.), although FDA registration is still a challenge

• High turn-over of MEs applying BDS Provisions • Big-sister; Little Sister approach of ME relationship• ME-ME sharing of market linkages • Active involvement of MEs in RuMEPP activities• Regular project review/ activity assessment before and after

implementation that involves ME (result based rather than input based)

• Assured counterparts of MEs in activities

Other facilitating factors that contributed to the improvement of rural MEs:

• provision of various business development trainings of RuMEPP

• the community ME facilitators developed are direct means to which MEs themselves share knowledge on ME development

• convergence of resources (directly or indirectly) with partner programmes and agencies like ACT for Peace, LGU-DA Tupi, Tampakan, MPDC Polomolok and Surallah

• BDS providers passion to work for ME development by constant application of validation and re-verification of intervention before implementation of any activity

• Willingness of MEs to learn • Firm level BDS provided by RuMEPP • Constant coaching and advice given by DTI Team to MEs

The factors that hindered the development of RMEs

• Poor MEs could not provide equity in their set-up of even a small processing plant/ center that is DOH-FDA compliant

• LGUs do not recognize or do not implement BMBE Law that supports ME development

• MEs (Level 1) still assumed of dole-out projects given by government without equity/ stake from them

• LGU based projects are still seen as mere livelihood (dispersal mostly) rather than gearing towards micro-enterprising.

2011 Recommendations • Intensified ME level

trainings on financial management, queuing and inventory management

• Provision of Product and ME based approach projects in ME development

• Intensified BMBE law advocacy of the LGU level (LCEs and SBs)

2011 Project Ideas MARKET IMPROVEMENT• Support to Tourism cluster through product consolidation of RuMEPP assisted products to resorts

(and/ or hotels) in the province or in the region and provision of ME capacity building on Intensified financial management and operations management esp. queuing and inventory management

• Improve market of RuMEPP MEs through market matching of RuMEPP assisted products with large companies (t-shirts and industrial soaps).

• Making micro-financing directly available to RuMEPP assisted MEs through linking RuMEPP MEs with micro-finance assistance and tapping an MFI to deliver non-financial BDS to selected MEs engage in brasscasting Lake Sebu, South Cotabato

• Intensified support to native delicacy through provision of product development/ improvement trainings and market linkage (availability of moro-delicacies in halal restaurants and other resorts)

• Assuring that relevant number/ quantity of recycled sugar bags and eco-bags in Polomolok and bayong in Surallah or Tupi, and nito products in Tampakan are available in the market through intensified LGU policy-promotion and enhanced ME capability-building on mass production and inventory of the mentioned products.

• Link of new MEs to other markets through participation to regional trade fairs.

• ME DEVELOPMENT/ KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & IMPROVEMENT / CONVERGENCE

• Provide intensified training that supports graduation of MEs from livelihood perspective towards micro-enterprising in Norala, South Cotabato through provision of a Start and Improve Your Own Business training.

• Assure that MEs are business-compliant though provision of business compliance sessions on LTO registration with DOH-FDA, taxation with BIR, policies and regulation on nutritional facts with DOST and employee benefits with DOLE, PhilHealth and SSS.