Explore how our initiatives are breathing life back to our community
Education
Continuous since 2014
Maintained operations of the Children's Learning Resource Centre at the G2A-Salcedo Village. GDFI also utilized individual donor funds to provide ongoing educational sponsorship for island-community college and Senior High School students.
Research
Continuous partnership
UPTC continues to provide GDFI researchers access to its laboratory facilities and equipment, allowing sediment and biofilm samples gathered during field work to be processed and analyzed.
MPA
Continuous endowment
The interest income generated from the PhP1.0M endowment fund originally donated by JIZFI continues to support insurance coverage and capacity building for GDFI's active MPA and Bantay Dagat volunteers across 24 marine sanctuaries.
Research
Continuous partnership
BFAR-8 and its attached institutes (NFRDI and GMFDC) remain key collaborative research partners with GDFI on its active sandfish research initiatives alongside municipal fishers in Eastern Samar.
Governance
Continuous through 2023
The alliance continued working toward passing and enforcing a Uniform Municipal Fisheries Ordinance to govern municipal waters across 7 municipalities, harmonizing coastal programs with national agencies like BFAR and DA-PRDP across 24 MPAs.
MPA
September 18, 2019
Coordinated an alliance-wide event hosted by LGU Quinapondan to honor local fishers and judge the "Best Managed MPA" competition. DA-PRDP contributed engine raffle items and funding for the marine sanctuary network infrastructure.
