Overall Rating Reporter
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Liaison Christine Ferrer
Submission Date March 4, 2022

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Tarlac Agricultural University
EN-10: Community Partnerships

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Name of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability :
Techno-Gabay Program.

Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? :
Yes

Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe?:
Multi-year or ongoing

Which of the following best describes the partnership?:
Sustainability-focused

Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? :
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability:

The Tarlac Agricultural University (TAU) has been extending various community extension works for so long and the impact of these to the lives of the beneficiaries has been proven beneficial. Proof to this is the relentless embracement of many individuals and institutions to the extension programs of the University. One such service is the TechnoGabay Program (TGP) wherein TAU seizes the role of becoming a benefactor to several identified institutions and farmer groups to assist them in realizing their goals.

Initiated in 2000 by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the Techno Gabay Program (TGP) aimed to promote technology dissemination and utilization guides and facilitate knowledge sharing among extension workers and farmers. TGP is implemented by 14 consortia in the Philippines, with SUCs as partner member agencies (PMA). The University adopted the program in 2006, and after more than a decade and a half of advocacy in the province of Tarlac, the university’s TGP implementation through its extension arm, the Department of Extension and Training, is still going strong. For 2020, the TAU-DET partnered with the Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center III in the enhancement of Farmers Information and Technology Services (FITS) Centers in the municipalities of Sta. Ignacia and Bamban. Regular quarterly meetings of TGP team in the province of Tarlac were also conducted through virtual platform to monitor and assess the present status of FITS Centers and Magsasaka Siyentista activities as well as to determine the training needs of FITS staff and MS, IEC needs and equipment needs of FITS Centers.


Name of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (2nd partnership):
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FOR COMMUNITIES

Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? (2nd partnership):
Yes

Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe? (2nd partnership):
Multi-year or ongoing

Which of the following best describes the partnership’s sustainability focus? (2nd partnership):
Sustainability-focused

Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? (2nd partnership):
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (2nd partnership):

Subject to mutual consent, the areas of cooperation shall include any academic program offered at either institution, research agenda or other pursuits as deemed desirable and feasible in the fostering and development of the mutual relationship between the two institutions.
Cooperation shall be carried out through such activities on UN Sustainable Development Goals, through physical or virtual modalities, but not limited to:
1. immersion and internships;
2. co-sponsorship of trainings, webinars, seminars;
3. co-hosting of academic meetings, discussions and fora;
4. joint research activities, studies, and publications;
5. benchmarking and sharing of best practices;
6. cooperative community-based SDG projects;
7. co-establishment of SDG Student Network and SDG Social Laboratory;
8. sharing of service facilities/laboratories, exchange of academic resources and other information.


Name of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (3rd partnership):
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Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? (3rd partnership):
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Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe? (3rd partnership):
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Which of the following best describes the partnership? (3rd partnership):
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Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? (3rd partnership):
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A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (3rd partnership):
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A brief description of the institution’s other community partnerships to advance sustainability:
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Website URL where information about the institution’s community partnerships to advance sustainability is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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