TACLOBAN CITY - The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) in cooperation with GTZ Philippine German and the Environmental Natural Resource Management and Rural Development Program conducted a strategic planning, including sharing and learning session, called Media Work for Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) Workshop.

The activity was held at the Cawaksi Compound, Taguiktik in Tacloban City .
 
The workshop is an interaction with the local media and environment workers. It was launched so members of media can help programs on Community-based Forest Management through information dissemination about illegal logging in communities.
 
Marlea Muñez, CBFM consultant, said powerful organizations that can be tapped are people’s organization and this will assure that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) would immediately be informed about any illegal logging activity. And when it comes to reforestation, these organizations would protect the forest and could also go beyond reforestation, she said.
 
The IAWRT also focuses on women’s perspective and in sharing and learning on how they can help the CBFM program.
 
She also said that one of workshop’s outputs is to have a project directory hotline for the media people so that they will have an immediate contact person to report about those illegal loggers in the community.

Local media personalities both from television, radio and print, accepted to help and cooperate with the IAWRT and to work one in hand for the protection of the forest in the region.

The program is funded by the German Technology Development Fund.