ESSC promotes community based natural resource management, evolving from its pioneering work in community resource mapping, especially in areas where Indigenous Peoples live. ESSC has continuing work in the Upper Pulangi watershed in northern Bukidnon with the youth in the Pulangiyen community and other upland communities.

Current activities include assistance in community planning, design, implementation, monitoring and review, and integration with broader management plans with local government's land and water use planning. Institutional agreements and budget allocations are also key result areas.

• Hulas, an occasion for “welding” youth and parents in Upper Pulangi. (23 Nov 2011)
• Teduray youth inspired by agroforestry farm in Bukidnon.  (4 Oct 2011)
• Reconnecting with the Teduray through the youth. (10 Aug 2011)
• Waway Saway’s Art Mission. (22 Jun 2011) 
• Knowledge beyond the Classroom. (6 June 2011)
• Upland IP youth visit coastal Dapitan. (23 May 2011)
• A practical skills approach to engaging with upland indigenous youth. (3 May 2011)
• Tapok Kabatan-onan, a youth gathering. (13 Apr 2011)
• First “Mountain” Experience.   (22 Feb 2011)
• Bukidnon IP youth visit and learn from other IP communities. (8 Dec 2010)
• 19 Pulangiyen youth hurdle first Hulas activity.  (24 Nov 2010)
• Bridging Leadership in Mindanao for Cultural and Environmental Stability. (25 Aug 2010)
  

Publications:

• ESSC’s review of IPRA in new IGES publication.(12 Jul 2011)
  

Editorials:

• Ancestral land titling in limbo (21 March 2012)
• Indigenous Peoples beyond international celebrations.  (10 Aug 2011)
• Generating advancement for upland people. (20 Jul 2011)
• Where are Indigenous Peoples going? (18 May 2011)

ESSC assisted communities in protected areas in northern Palawan, in CBFM and mangrove areas in the Visayas, in ancestral domain areas in the Cordillera, northern Luzon, and undertaken numerous community site visits and assessments across the country with the Philippine Working Group.

• Using art for teaching, learning, expressing in Hulas (15 May 2012)
• APC graduation 2012, learning for community (30 Apr 2012)
• A PRIME visit to APC (18 Apr 2012)
  
• Building freedom from fear in the uplands through the youth (28 March 2012)
  
• APC experience in mother tongue-based education (21 March 2012)
• Generating land and social productivity in Upper Pulangi. (6 Dec 2011)
• APC and ESSC share condolences and call for justice in Fr Tentorio’s murder. (25 Oct 2011)
• Panginabuhian in Bendum, towards socio-economic self-reliance. (12 Jul 2011)
• Establishing a micro-hydro power facility in an upland community in northern Mindanao.  (22 Dec 2010)