In partnership with the University of Guelph in Canada and Bayi, Inc., Learning Needs Assessment (LNA) Workshops were conducted with civil society and peoples organizations (including women and young women) in the first three priority program areas: Negros Occidental, Batanes, and Camarines Sur. The LNA Workshop offered safe and engaging spaces to identify learning gaps and capacity development needs, as baseline for the program’s grantmaking capacity development, knowledge management, and advocacy activities. LNAs in the rest of the Program areas will be completed in 2025.

The program’s partner, the University of the Philippines Los Baños - Department of Community and Environmental Resource Planning (UPLB-DCERP) conducted a KAP assessment, to help understand the baseline knowledge, behavior, attitudes, and current practices of communities and local stakeholders on Nature-based Solutions (NbS), and identify opportunities for engagement.

Civil society organizations, peoples organizations and non-government organizations came together last November 6, 2024, to envision priority sites in Negros Occidental – Malogo and Sicaba River Watersheds – supported by communities that adopt gender-responsive NbS for climate adaptation.