Needs assessment of indigenous people in Barangay Cogon, Babak, Island Garden City of Samal: Basis for an alternative livelihood program

Abstract

The research work "Needs assessment of indigenous people in Barangay Cogon, Babak, IGACOS: Basis for an alternative Livelihood Program" was conducted to assess the possible alternative livelihood program that would help Indigenous People lesson their poverty and to sustain their needs in terms of their livelihood. The respondents of the study are the Indigenous People of Brgy. Cogon. There are sixty (60) Indigenous People that have been surveyed and collected information that are essential for the research. The method used was descriptive research design in which the body of the data collected, recorded and solves a problem as an established of a cause and effect on relationship. The study found out that most of the respondents' age 49 to 53, 46 of them are female, 45 of them are married, only 6 of them reached college level and 36 of them are housewife, the economic activities of the respondents include banana growing in agriculture, gleaning in fisheries, chicken raising in livestock, retail store in business and masonry and tailoring in service. The skills of the respondents are vegetable planning, know how to use gleaning, hog raising, cooking, laundry work. The resources available in Brgy. Cogon is vegetable stalks/seeds, fishing rake, raising chicken, shoe repair and housemaid.