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The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) is a national organization in Pakistan that conducts research and provides recommendations on water resources management and quality. The council plays a crucial role in addressing the country's water scarcity issues, ensuring the safety of bottled water, and collaborating with ...
The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) is a council of the Department of Science and Technology of the Philippines government. The council aims to help national research and development efforts in agriculture, forestry, and natural resources of the Philippines. It does so by ...
In 1976, Presidential Decree No. 1067, otherwise known as the Water Code of the Philippines was enacted. Based on the principles that: (a) “all water belongs to the State”; and (b) the State may allow the use or development of its waters by administrative concession", the NWRB was instituted as a “water resource regulator” tasked to ...
Protected areas in the Philippines encompasses 4,620,000 hectares (11,400,000 acres) of terrestrial areas and 3,140,000 hectares (7,800,000 acres) of marine areas. [1] They are managed according to the following classifications described in Section 4 of the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992 (NIPAS Act).
The Department of Public Works and Highways (Filipino: Kagawaran ng mga Pagawain at Lansangang Bayan), abbreviated as DPWH, is the executive department of the Philippine government solely vested with the mandate to “be the State's engineering and construction arm” and, as such, “tasked to carry out the policy” of the State to “maintain an engineering and construction arm and ...
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), formerly known as the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) until August 2011, is a working group of various government, non-government, civil sector and private sector organizations of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines established on June 11, 1978 by Presidential Decree 1566. [1]
The agency, then known as POPCOM, was created in 1969 by virtue of Executive Order (EO) 171 [1] which established a 22-member Commission on Population. [2]Republic Act 6365, [3] or the Population Act of the Philippines, [4] was enacted into law by the Philippine Congress on August 16, 1971, which established the National Population Policy.
This is a complete list of cities and municipalities in the Philippines. The Philippines is administratively divided into 82 provinces ( Filipino : lalawigan ). These, together with the National Capital Region , are further subdivided into cities (Filipino: lungsod ) and municipalities (Filipino: bayan ).