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Southern Leyte State University’s (SLSU) extension activity for the year centered on extension pilot site Brgy. Milagroso, an upland barangay in Sogod mostly composed of migrant families many of whom are into daily wage jobs, and are tenants of coconut lots, and growers of abaca.

Right after SLSU held the successful International Research Congress and Business Forum on Rubber and Freshwater Prawn in March, it shifted its attention quickly to extension, deciding in April to make Milagroso the hub of its extension activities. RDE and several research and extension coordinators of academic departments took to Milagroso on April 16 for a benchmark assessment composed of gender-segregated focus group discussions and over a hundred household surveys, carried out with help from the local council.

RDE and a full-force delegation of research and extension coordinators and RDE staff returned to Milagroso on July 10 for a community validation on the results of the assessments. To fast-track the creation of extension research proposals, RDE held the ‘Writeshop for the Preparation of Extension Proposal’ in time for the Research and Extension Proposal Review and Evaluation in July 28 where research and extension proposals were evaluated.

“We can make plans and say ‘Well, let’s do this and let’s do that for that community,’“ said RDE Director Nestor Morales. “But that’s not the way we want it. We’re contrary to the top-down approach. We want it to be participatory.”

Making up SLSU’s download of extension projects for Milagroso are the Industrial Technology Department’s High Speed Sewing and Commercial Cooking class, the Rehabilitation and Designing of Barangay Milagroso’s Water System of the Engineering Department; Seminar on Project Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Projects by the Master in Management Program faculty members of the Graduate School and tree planting, environmental awareness campaign, and school-on-the-air program on organic agriculture by administrative and facilitative staff.

Other extension projects that did not follow the Milagroso path, implementing extension in other locations in the municipality, are the Robotic Training for high school students of the Computer Science in Information Technology Department, livelihood training and counseling for BJMP inmates by the Criminology Department, and barangay office repair, book and bookshelves donation, and bamboo planting by the Industrial Education Department. 

 

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TRUTH O’ METER. An accreditor talks to locals of Barangay Milagroso during the November 13-15 accreditation of several academic departments. 

 

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Hopeful for assistance, local men brim over with ideas in an all-male focus group discussion during the community assessment of Milagroso on April 16, 2014.

 

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Incentives for extension work enliven administrative staff in a meeting on July 9, 2014. RDE Director Nestor Morales reviewed the four new thrusts of research and extension – transformative learning strategies, livelihood generation, biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation and disaster risk management, and why Milagroso is the right location to nail all the new thrusts.

 

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Milagroso women learn high speed sewing and commercial cookery in Saturday classes handled by the Industrial Technology Department at the Main Campus. 

 

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Administrative and facilitative staff trekked up to Milagroso on October 25,2014. Sonny Ampo, Ali Bitang, Boy Bitang and Nesio Cabales were the few brave men who hiked back to Milagroso on November 29 amid a heavy downpour.

 

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Mila Perioles turns tree planting and info drive into family time with her children who took part in the extension activities of October 25.

 

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Research and extension coordinators of academic departments present extension terminal reports to the Research, Development and Extension Review and Evaluation Committee in the In-House Review and Evaluation on December 11, 2014 in which seven terminal reports of ongoing and completed extension activities were evaluated. 

 

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Inmates from Sogod District Jail try a new lease on life with help from SLSU guidance counselor Nenita Flores.

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Over fifty research and extension proposals were made by faculty members of the main campus. The bulk of the proposals were assessed by the Research, Development and Extension Review and Evaluation Committee (RDEREC) on July 28, 2014. Unable to handle the deluge of proposals, a second schedule for proposal presentations was set on August 4, 2014.

 

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An extension proposal from the HRTM instructors is presented on July 28, 2014.

 

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Applied research for fisheries from the CSIT Department wows both panel and audience.

 

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CSIT Department Head Alex Bacalla demonstrated to RDE staff on Sept. 5, 2014 a database program he is working on for tracking research and extension proposals. 

 

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Extension terminal reports are presented before the RDEREC on Dec. 11, 2014. 

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RDE staff are the recipients of several awards from government research institutions.

In May, SLSU-Sogod Extension Unit Head Veronica Reoma’s study “Perceived Health Problems and Leading Causes of Morbidity and Mortality in Sogod Bay Area”was awarded third place in the Eastern Visayas Health Research and Development Council (EVHRDC) Health Research Summit on May 14, 2014 at Leyte Normal University in Tacloban City. EVHRDC is a growing consortium of government agencies, public and private schools and non-government organizations, interested in or pursuing a health advocacy. EVHRDC yearly sponsors a Health Research Summit which recognizes and awards outstanding health research papers from its member agencies.

In June, the study of SLSU-Sogod Research Unit Head Dewoowoogen Baclayon and Visayas State University’s (VSU) Candelario Calibo, “Potentials of Laboratory-Produced Chitosan as Postharvest Treatment in Mango Fruit” was chosen as one of the Best Paper in the Research Project Category in the 25th Joint ViCARP and RRDEN Regional Research Development and Extension Symposium held at Visayas State University (VSU) on June 19-20, 2014. SLSU-Sogod Research, Development and Extension (RDE) staff also submitted poster entries to the symposium.

In November, Reoma’s completed extension project “University School-On-Air (USOA) as a Vehicle for Organic Agriculture and Sustainable Development” was awarded 1st prize in the Best Completed Extension category, in the Cluster 2 RDE Review of the Visayas Consortium for Agriculture Resources Program and the Regional Research Development and Extension Network for Agriculture and Fishery (ViCARP-RRDEN) on November 11-12, 2014 at Tacloban City.

Reoma’s other study “Adaptability Trials of Sweet Potato Cultivars under Southern Leyte Condition” was awarded 2nd prize in the Best Completed Research Study category. Within the same category, Nerissa Pesquerra and Shirleeen Grace Brillantes SLSU-Bontoc won the 3rd prize for their study “Rapid Coastal Biodiversity Assessment in St. Bernard and Silago, Southern Leyte. 

 

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(L-R): Naval State University RDE Director Ludito Ramirez, Veronica Reoma, VSU Research Director Ophelia Velarde and Dewoowoogen Baclayon at the Regional Symposium. 

 

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Nerissa Pesquerra of SLSU-Bontoc presenting her study at the Cluster 2 ViCARP-RRDEN In-House Review.

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The trainings started in May May 26-28, 2014 when twenty-two participants from the five campuses went to Surigao City for a training on the creation of proposals for hazard mapping and disaster risk assessment and for the critiquing of the articles of the JEHRD. SLSU was joined by three other state universities from both Agusan and Surigao.

Twenty-seven journal article writers and promising researchers went to Nasipit, Agusan del Norte for a training on scientific article format, regression analysis and application of theory on June 18-20, 2014. The statistics lecture-workshop was the beginning of the soon-to-follow monthly trainings on statistics that ran until December.

SLSU was back in the same venue on July 16-18, 2014 for the continuation of statistics workshops and critiques of research methodologies and statistical results.

In August, the training moved to Cebu with a new set of universities participating for the first time in Padua’s trainings. SLSU played host to a new group composed of Naval State University, Samar State University, Leyte Normal University and Negros Oriental State University, in August 13-15, 2014.

In September, SLSU sent again delegates to the training on Simulation Modeling in Cebu on September 10-12, 2014. Several journal articles created out of this training would eventually find its way into publication in the JSET and spur simulation article ideas among faculty members.   

A second training was held on Simulation Modeling on September 26, 2014 to create more simulation articles for JSET. SLSU instructors who had attended the Simulation Modeling training in Cebu were tapped as the resource persons.

SLSU was back again in Cebu in October 6-8, 2014 for a training-workshop on Data Mining and Theory Building and continued critiquing of research outputs from all the participating universities. In November 5-7, 2014 the workshop moved to Fractal Analysis. A continuation of the training on Fractals in Cebu in December 3-5, 2014 was cut short by typhoon Ruby.

“These trainings are an investment, and we should invest,” said Vice President for RDE Dr. Prose Ivy Yepes. “We should empower those from the technical and engineering fields, as our journal name – the Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology carries the banner courses of the campus.”

 

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DIVISION OF LABOR.  SLSU-Hinunangan Research, Development and Extension (RDE) Director Wade Lim assigns components of the hazard and disaster assessment proposal to other RDE directors and unit heads. (L-R:) SLSU-Sogod Research Unit Head Dewoowoogen Baclayon, SLSU-Sogod Extension Unit Head Veronica Reoma, SLSU-Bontoc Planning Officer Gordon Opina, Wade Lim and SLSU-San Juan RDE Director Gary Garcia. 

 

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Researchers group themselves into teams to answer statistical exercises in the training-workshop in July 16-18, 2014.

 

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SLSU participants with resource speaker Roberto Padua.

 

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A streamer in the training in Cebu.

 

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Computer Science and Information Technology instructor Rhoderick Malangsa discusses the generation of a simulation model before more than a dozen faculty members from different campuses at the training on September 26, 2014 held at SLSU-San Juan. 

 

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Participants from four other state universities listen to Dr. Roberto Padua in the training on Data Mining and Theory Building in October 3-5, 2014.

 

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The following article reviews the involvement of RDE staff in external activities related to research, extension, civic activities and academic enhancement.

In June, SLSU-Sogod Research Unit Head Dewoowoogen Baclayon was selected through a competitive screening which considered professional background, research area, and planned case study, to be part of a Case Writing Workshop by the Science, Technology, Research and Innovation for Development (STRIDE) program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The workshop which accepts only 35 applicants nationwide, was held in Manila on June 23-25, 2014. The training focused on the case method in the context of curriculum, assessment design and management education, and with the goal of testing and publishing cases. Participants were required to present a company or project based on real situational problems which they wished to profile in a case study, and highlight teaching points from the cases.

Halfway through the year in July, SLSU-Sogod Extension Unit Head and at the same time Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Person Veronica Reoma’s trainings and workshop discussions on gender began with the  “Gender and Development Mainstreaming for State Universities and Colleges” on July 22-25, 2014 at Cebu City. The training discussed gender mainstreaming, concepts and tools for gender analysis, and GAD planning, budgeting, and implementation. The meeting was participated by state universities and colleges in the Visayas and Mindanao. The gender discussion went into high gear in the later part of the year with successive meetings to discuss gender with higher education institutions (HEI) and regional line agencies. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) sponsored the Meeting and Organization on Gender and Development of Focal Persons of Higher Education Institutions in Region VIII on November 18, and on November 19 the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) sponsored Regional Gender and Development Committee (RGADC) VIII. The gender talks reached its peak with a nationwide gathering of HEIs on November 27-28 for the 3rd Higher Education Summit on Gender and Development Issues held in University of the Philippines – Diliman. The Summit was part of HEIs observation of the National Consciousness Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Children on November 25, and the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women observed from November 25 to December 12, with December 12 also marking the date for the observance of the International Day Against Human Trafficking. “Gender and Development is a law which provides that 5% of the total budget in every government institution must go to GAD,” said Reoma. “Yet only few see the importance of GAD, making it difficult to incorporate GAD in every area or mandate of a university.”

Reoma’s standing with the health research crowd has also made her an invitee to every health research symposium. Reoma had won third place in May in the Eastern Visayas Health Research and Development Council (EVHRDC) Health Research Summit. In August, a national gathering of health practitioners and researchers from the academe, government and private agencies was held in Cebu City in celebration of the Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS) Week on August 12-14, 2014 which Reoma attended. Framed in the context of a series of natural disasters to hit the country recently, the symposium presented researches on assessments of national health research capacity and community awareness system in preparation for disasters.

In August, Reoma revived SLSU’s radio program SLSU Hour at Radyo Ng Bayan DYSL 104.7 FM. SLSU Hour broadcasts updates on SLSU affairs and airs every Wednesday from 10:00-11:00 AM. Reoma anchors the weekly program. Listeners to the program can also send live comments through the DYSL number 0905687136. 

In September, abaca went center stage briefly for two RDE staff – RDE Director Nestor Morales and Extension Unit Head Veronica Reoma who attended the “Stakeholders Consultation Worskshop for the Development of an Integrated Plan of Work for Abaca Rehabilitation” on September 24-26, 2014. The workshop was sponsored by international NGO Worldfish and sought to promote abaca and coconut as an alternative means of livelihood for coastal communities to relieve pressure on the sea. Sogod abaca also took the spotlight following a session on action planning for abaca rehabilitation in Sogod.

SLSU operates an Abaca Tissue Culture Laboratory, under the oversight of the Research, Development and Extension (RDE) office. In April, Reoma and Baclayon visited farms and buyers of tissue cultured plantlets to gather information on the status of their planted abaca. Yet research efforts by the RDE office geared towards abaca started way back. In 2006 Reoma, Morales and Vivencio Pelesco did a study on the “Comparative Performance Evaluation of the Different Abaca Stripping Machines in Region 8”.  In 2008 Reoma and Gloria Reyes studied the “Information Education Communication (IEC) Preference of the Abaca Farmers in Sogod Bay Area” which was chosen as one of the Best Paper by the Regional Research Development and Extension Network for Agriculture and Fisheries (RRDEN) in the Agency In-House Research, Development and Extension Review. And in 2013 Baclayon did the study “Farmers’ Feedback on Abaca Disease Management Interventions in Major Production Areas in Sogod, Southern Leyte: A Research Note.”

Reoma also attended on November 24-26, 2014 the Training for Trainers workshop for a new course Master in Public Management major in Local Governance and Development, a course offered by the Development Academy of the Philippines’ Graduate School for Municipal and Provincial Planners in the Yolanda Corridor. SLSU is one of the schools being tapped by the Development Academy of the Philippines to provide teachers for the course. 

 

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MASTER STROKE. Baclayon’s flair lands him with a select group of writers at the STRIDE Case Writing Workshop of the USAID.

 

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Delegates from the University of the Philippines Los Banos, the Department of Science and Technology, the Philippine Council for Agriculture Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development, the Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority, Bureau of Agricultural Research, Visayas State University, Philippine Chamber of Commerce Eastern Visayas, Philippine Federation of Rural Broadcasters Aksyon Radyo DYVL Tacloban City and SLSU at the Stakeholders Consultation Worskshop for the Development of an Integrated Plan of Work for Abaca Rehabilitation sponsored by Worldfish. 

 

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(L-R): CHED Chairperson Patricia Licuanan, Reoma, and Senator Loren Legarda with GAD focal persons of state colleges and universities.

 

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Veronica Reoma hosting SLSU Hour at radio DYSL 104.7 FM.

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