FUNDABLE, FIELD-VERIFIED COASTAL PLANS
SOUTHERN LEYTE ● EASTERN VISAYAS
Defensible coastal governance from plan to shore.
Built for financing. Verified on the shore. Sustained by citizen science in local schools.
OUR APPROACH • PLAN TO SHORE
From plans on paper to projects on the shore.
Eco-Hub brings the technical analysis and field science to design nature-based solutions that are workable, maintainable, and finance-ready, then sets up local monitoring so they last.
DISCUSS YOUR MUNICIPLITY'S COASTAL CHALLENGES ▶
01 • FUNDABLE
We align your CLUP, ICRMP, or LCCAP with the criteria of national climate facilities and global funds, so your priority projects are ready to propose for funding.
02 • FIELD VERIFIED
Before a project moves forward, our team checks on the ground that it can work: site conditions, native species suitability and community support. Where a site needs hazard or engineering studies, we bring in specialist partners.
03 • MONITORED
Through Coastline as Classroom, local teachers and students track shoreline changes each school year, giving your MENRO a regular record of shoreline observations.
SERVICES
Start with a rigorous diagnostic, not another blank page.
Many coastal plans go unfunded because their projects don't fit the site or the budget. We work directly from your CLUP, ICRMP, and LCCAP: validating projects on the shore, advising workable nature-based solutions, preparing them for financing, and setting up monitoring that lasts.
STEP 1 • START HERE
Coastal Readiness Review
A rapid 2-to-4 week technical audit for municipal planning teams. We evaluate your current CLUP, ICRMP, and LCCAP against national standards (DHSUD/CCC) and People's Survival Fund criteria.
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Which proposed projects fit the site, the ecology and your budget, and which won't hold up
Where data gaps would weaken a funding proposal
A clear, prioritized roadmap of finance-ready nature-based measures with fixed engagement costs
2-4 WEEKS • ₱ ____
fully credited toward subsequent planning or proposal authoring
STEP 2
Field Validation & Solution Design
We stress-test proposed projects directly on the shore and redesign what won't hold up.
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Ground-Truthing & PCRA: Site surveys, shoreline transects, baseline data and the community consultations your plan requires.
Nature-Based Solution Design: Workable, cost-efficient options such as beach forest buffers, on their own or alongside existing structures.
Feasibility & Fiscal Check: What your LGU can realistically build, afford and maintain.
Where your site needs specialist science, such as hazard or coastal engineering studies, we bring in trusted partners.
DISCUSS YOUR
SHOELINE SITE ▶
STEP 3
Finance-Ready Proposals & Plan Updates
Validated projects, prepared for funders and aligned with national guidelines.
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Funding Proposals: People's Survival Fund and partner proposals built on field evidence and framed around ecosystem-based adaptation and nature-based solutions.
Plan Updates: integrating validated projects into your CLUP, ICRMP or LCCAP, carried through Sangguniang Bayan approval.
DISCUSS YOUR
MUNICIPALITY'S PLAN ▶
STEP 4
Long-Term Monitoring & Retainers
Keeping your approved plan active and on track.
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Coastline Classroom: Teacher training and student shore investigations that give your MENRO regular shoreline observations.
Beach Forest Restoration Support: species selection and planting guidance [TO CONFIRM: seedlings from our Silago nursery, once producing].
Advisory Retainer: plan updates and progress reporting on monthly or annual retainer.
HOW THE MONITORING
MODEL WORKS ▶
No plan yet, or yours is due for renewal?
We write CLUPs, ICRMPs and LCCAPs end to end, with field validation built in.
SEE HOW YOU
CAN PARTNER ▶
A foundation, nonprofit, school or DepEd division?
Partner with us to help coastal towns carry out their plans.
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CAN PARTNER ▶
Why the shore still matters in the age of AI:
software can draft compliance text in minutes. It can't walk your shoreline, see whether a proposed site actually fits, or work through council and community concerns. We use modern tools to draft faster and spend the time saved where software can't go: on the shore, in the session hall and in the community.
PROJECTS
Proof on the COAST
Many coastal plans go unfunded because their projects don't fit the site or the budget. We work directly from your CLUP, ICRMP, and LCCAP: validating projects on the shore, advising workable nature-based solutions, preparing them for financing, and setting up monitoring that lasts.
COASTAL PLANNING •
SAINT BERNARD, SILAGO, LEYTE
Comprehensive Land Use Plan
THE CHALLENGE
Municipalities must keep an updated CLUP that meets strict national standards while simultaneously positioning the town to access external climate adaptation finance. Reconciling complex spatial data, ridge-to-reef hazard zones, and multi-sector consultations requires specialized technical capacity.
THE SOLUTION
Serving as lead technical consultant and editor, Eco-Hub integrated spatial baselines, local ordinances, and sectoral studies into a cohesive, defensible plan aligned with DHSUD mandates and ecosystem-based adaptation priorities.
THE IMPACT
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Approved by the Sangguniang Bayan and submitted to DHSUD [TO CONFIRM: Provincial Land Use Committee]
Opened access to national development funds, grants and partnerships
CITIZEN SCIENCE & SHORELINE MONITORING • SILAGO, SOUTHERN LEYTE
Coastline as Classroom
THE CHALLENGE
Beach forests are among a coastal town's most important natural buffers, yet municipal environment offices rarely have the recurring budget or staff to monitor shoreline dynamics across long stretches of coast.
THE SOLUTION
Using a project-based learning framework developed with UPenn GSE, we designed and ran a program at Mercedes National High School, turning a school quarter into beach forest research by students and their teachers.
THE IMPACT
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Field findings formally received by the Silago MLGU to inform local coastal management
Research methodology validated by beach forest scientist Dr. Jurgenne Primavera [with permission]
Preparation underway to scale the framework to two more high schools in Silago
OUR MULTIDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE
One team, every skill a coastal plan needs.
A plan that holds up needs more than one expert. Each engagement draws on the mix of planning, field, learning and community skills it needs, and we bring in trusted specialists when a site calls for more.
Spatial Governance & Planning
Grace Quiton-Domingo
Founder & Managing Director | Lead Coastal Planning & Policy Specialist
Cal Soesanto
Partnerships & Business Development
Spatial Governance & Planning
Mark Darwin Dimzon
Environmental Solutions & Field Strategy
Honey Grace Bayron
Program Development & Beach Forest Nursery Lead
Spatial Governance & Planning
Dr. Anne Marie Jennifer Eligio
Development Communication & Learning Strategy
Pauline Gabrielle Fernandez
Science Communication & Events
Felix Ello, Jr.
Field Documentation & Video
Spatial Governance & Planning
Aylene Monteza
Local Partnerships & Community Engagement
Anabelle Pamisa
Living Lab Operations & Field Station Logistics
WHERE THE WORK HAPPENS
The Silago Living Lab & Coastal Field Station
Our grounds on Sabang Beach sit beside a living beach forest. LGU planning sessions, field surveys, teacher cohorts and workshops run here, supported by our network of local people's organizations, coastal schools and community leaders.
Visiting teams are hosted at Coast Forest Café, run with our local partner Payag ni Marya, beside the beach forest we study and restore. [Publish once the café is open]
PARTNER WITH US
Help coastal towns' plans become reality.
FOR FOUNDATIONS, NONPROFITS & CSR PARTNERS
Your partner on the ground in Eastern Visayas
We help you choose sound coastal projects and see them through, with the municipality as owner and you as a named supporter.
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Field scoping before you commit:
site, community consent, LGU readiness and feasibility checked first.
Proposal development:
aligned with ecosystem-based adaptation and nature-based solutions, built from the municipality's own plans.
Local implementation:
field logistics, community engagement and LGU bridging, so results become local policy.
Progress reporting:
field data and progress records, including shoreline observations from partner schools.
TRACK RECORD:
team members have led a Participatory Coastal Resource Assessment under a Rufford Foundation grant
REQUEST A FIELD
SCOPING CALL ▶
CAPABILITY STATEMENT ▶
FOR SCHOOLS & DEPED DIVISIONS
Bring Coastline as Classroom to your school
Students learn through real research on their own shoreline, research their municipality can use.
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Educator Cohort:
teacher training in coastal project-based learning.
Shore Investigation:
a one-quarter, cross-subject student research project on beach forests and coastal change.
Findings shared with the town:
student research reported to the MENRO and municipal planning office.
Student safety and consent:
parental consent and supervised fieldwork for every shore activity
PILOT:
built on a UPenn GSE framework and run at Mercedes National High School with 235 students and 11 teachers. Outputs were formally received by the Silago MLGU.
EXPLORE COASTLINE
AS A CLASSROOM ▶
WHERE THE TWO MEET
Sponsor a school's coastal program
Fund Coastline as Classroom in a coastal town and receive impact reporting on students, teachers and the shoreline observations shared with the municipality.
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SPONSORING ▶
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Institutional Partners & Collaborators
Municipality of Saint Bernard
Municipality of Silago
Penn GSE
Villgro Philippines
Mercedes National High School
ABOUT ECO-HUB
Grounded on the SHORELINES we protect.
Based in Silago, Southern Leyte, Eco-Hub Collective turns municipal coastal plans into field-verified, fundable projects. We pair technical advisory with school-based shoreline monitoring, reinvesting practice earnings into our applied research and native beach forest nursery.
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ECO-HUB AT A GLANCE
● Founded Nov 2024
● Formally Registered Mar 2025
● Silago, Southern Leyte
Coastal planning (CLUP, ICRMP, LCCAP), nature-based solution design, funding proposals and school-based monitoring
● Southern Leyte, and;
● Eastern Visayas
Silago Living Lab: training and meeting space beside a living beach forest, and a native beach forest nursery
● Completed the Fair Futures Accelerator (Villgro Philippines)
● Coastline as Classroom built on a UPenn GSE project-based learning framework
Child safeguarding, community consent and project accounting policies
Established
Practice Focus
Where we work
Field station
Programs
Governance
ENGAGE ECO-HUB
Ready to transform your coastal plan into a funded, lasting project?
Tell us where your municipality's coastal plans stand and which priorities you hope to carry out. We'll reply with whether a Coastal Readiness Review makes sense, and what it would cover.
Foundations, nonprofits, schools and DepEd divisions:
SEE HOW TO PARTNER WITH US ▶