Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance

The AVLDA is a multi-sectoral alliance composed of local government units at provincial, city and municipal levels; national government agencies in Region 12 and coalition of social development organizations in South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat. The alliance works in close coordination among its members for environmental resource sustainability while promoting economic investments and supporting community needs and security from natural disaster risks. Since its operation, the AVLDA through Program Management Office (PMO) endeavours to harmonize and synchronize LGU plans, programs and activities to ensure effective governance, specifically on watershed and river system management. Read more about AVLDA...

"PWMC National Conference and 9th General Assembly"

SOCCSKSARGEN Cluster to Host PWMC National Conference

Being the host of this year's conference, the SOCSKSARGEN Cluster cordially invites you to participate in the National Conference on Climate Change Adaptation in Watershed Context and PWMC 9th National General Assembly to be held at Diosdado Macapagal Gymnasium, Provincial Capitol, Province of Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, on November 10-12, 2009. Read More

AVLDA conducts 3rd Quarter TWG and BOD Meeting

The Quarterly TWG and BOD Meetings were held on Aug. 5 at EMR Center, Koronadal City and Aug. 12... Read More

RURM Plant Nursery Formally Opened

Brgy. Datal Dlanag, T'boli, South Cotabato – A short program was held to formally launch the Rainforestation and Upstream Resource Management (RURM) Plant Nursery, August 17, 2009. The fencing of the 0.5-hectare plant nursery site and staff house/training hall for farmers has a total estimated cost of Php 82,000.00. This project was made possible through a collaborative effort of the Local Government Unit (LGU) of South Cotabato, LGU of the municipality of T'boli, the National Commission for Indigenous People (NCIP), the Tribal Leaders Development Foundation, Inc. (TLDFI), LGU of Brgy. Datal Dlanag, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance (AVLDA). Read More

Tacurong City Conducts Series of Simultaneous Tree-Planting Activities

Tree seedlings of mahogany, narra and bamboo trees were planted along the riparian zones of Tacurong City during the simultaneous tree-planting activities last June 17-19, 2009. The activities were done in support to the Riparian Zone Re-vegetation (RZR) Program. RZR or planting of trees and other vegetations along the river banks to prevent soil erosion aims to protect the riverbanks through vegetative protection, augment farmers' income through regulated bamboo poles harvesting and production of bamboo handicrafts, and develop awareness and promote public participation on environmental conservation. Read More

Poor people pay climate costs
Climate hearing addresses climate grievances

Sultan Kudarat, Philippines, 26 June 2009 - “The changing weather has made farming harder for us. We lost all of our livelihoods. We can no longer depend on farming. The land is gone. Our children have stopped going to school, our food is not enough. In our village alone, more than a thousand hectares were lost,” said Virgilio Baño, a farmer from Kolambog, Isulan at a “climate hearing” held yesterday, the first in the Philippines, joining similar efforts elsewhere in the world. Read More

Chairperson's Message

Hon. Daisy Avance-Fuentes “The AVLDA should be moving steadily. The South Cotabato provincial government is implementing similar programs that the alliance has developed such as rainforestation and riparian zone revegatation. Read More

AVLDA, a Galing-Pook
Awardee for 2008

The winners for 2008 were awarded morning of February 12 at Malacanang, with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Local Governments Secretary Ronaldo Puno present.

“The two provinces of South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat showed how the involvement of various LGUs, where not only livelihood but lives are at stake, can work in an inter-government and multi-sector comprehensive and concerted action to address urgent multi-territorial concerns. The duty bearers and stakeholders in Allah Valley spanning two provinces get their acts together on a sustained major environmental task, a feat that most LGUs in the country should consider in the face of ominous environmental trends,” the Galing Pook magazine noted. Read More