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Agricultural water management in the Philippines is primarily focused on irrigation. The country has 3.126 million hectares of irrigable land, 50% (1.567 million hectares) of which already has irrigation facilities. 50% of irrigated areas are developed and operated by the government through the National Irrigation System (NIS). 36% is developed by the government and operated by irrigators ...
The Sustainable Development Strategy proposes policies for assimilating environmental considerations in administration, apposite pricing of natural resources, conservation of biodiversity, rehabilitation of ecosystems, control of population growth and human resources development, inducing growth in rural areas, promotion of environmental ...
Water supply and sanitation in the Philippines This page was last edited on 13 March 2024, at 21:45 (UTC). Text is ...
For this reason the Philippines has been considered a pioneer within Asia for the successful implementation of CBFM as a nationwide tool of forest governance. [ 5 ] CBFM has resulted in varying levels of success across the country, [ 5 ] primarily due to unstable policies, poor policy implementation and a lack of funding and assistance by the ...
CLTS takes an approach to rural sanitation that works without hardware subsidies and that facilitates communities to recognize the problem of open defecation and take collective action to become "open defecation free" and clean up. The concept was developed around the year 2000 by Kamal Kar for rural areas in Bangladesh. CLTS became an ...
One example is the Sistema de Información de Agua y Saneamiento Rural (Rural Water and Sanitation Information System) [9] a monitoring system in Honduras and Nicaragua. For organizations that work on WASH interventions, monitoring means using indicators to measure effectiveness of a development program.
The rural poor are the most susceptible to poor sanitation, malnutrition, and lack of hygiene efforts. [10] These communities that depend heavily on barangay health services are affected by political, social, and economic decisions made by local authorities . [11]
The program is aimed at developing technologies that might help bridge the global sanitation gap (for example the Omni Processor, or technology for fecal sludge management). In 2015, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation published their "Water, sanitation, and hygiene strategy portfolio update and overview" called "Building demand for sanitation ...