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President Benigno Aquino III established the National Greening Program (NGP) [40] with the signing of Executive Order No. 26 on February 24, 2011. [41] The program aims to increase the country's forest cover in 1.5 million hectares (15,000 km 2) of land with 1.5 billion trees from 2011 to 2016. In 2015, the program was expanded to cover all ...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kapaligiran at Likas na Yaman), abbreviated as DENR, is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country’s environment in natural resources, specifically forest and grazing lands, mineral resources, including those in ...
Amending certain sections of Executive Order No. 8 (s. 2010) which reorganized and renamed the Build-Operate and Transfer Center to the Public-Private Partnership Center of the Philippines and transferred its attachment from the Department of Trade and Industry to the National Economic and Development Authority, and for other purposes
In 2011, the Aquino administration launched the National Greening Program as a priority program to help reduce poverty, promote food security, environmental stability, and biodiversity conservation, as well as enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation in the country. The program paved the way for the planting of almost 1.4 billion ...
The program paved the way for the planting of almost 1.4 billion seedlings in about 1.66 million hectares nationwide during the 2011–2016 period. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ranked the Philippines fifth among countries reporting the greatest annual forest area gain, which reached 240,000 hectares during the ...
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 ...
The national government recognized the problem and since 2004 has sought to introduce sustainable water resources development management (see below). [35] Only 10% of the total population is connected to a sewer network. [36] The vast majority uses flush toilets connected to septic tanks.
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...