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Unity and simultaneous action of all players in the environmental protection and management
is most evident in UNDP’s approach of partnership. The UN Country Team in the
Philippines lives out the challenge to tap potentials and coordinate activities of various
stakeholders in the achievement of the MDGs. By capitalizing on the principles of dialogue
and community building, concrete and localized solutions to manage environmental
carrying capacity can lead to sustainability of natural resources, an essential foundation of
poverty alleviation efforts.
CHEMICALS BIODIVERSITY LAND ENERGY FSSD*
PORTFOLIO
Deborah Landey, Resident Representative
Several initiatives are being undertaken to guide the planning and implementation of interventions for the protection of the environment
and the sustainable development of natural resources and to focus on identifying key capacities that will assist in improving the
country’s ability and capacity to meet and implement multilateral environmental agreements.
The creation of the Philippine National Authority for CDM and establishing the framework within which it shall operate is one major
intervention where UNDP is assisting the Government. In addition, building the capacity to institutionalise the national communication
preparation processes is another programme supported by UNDP dealing with climate change to reduce the long-term growth of GHG
emissions through removing barriers to commercial utilization of renewable energy power systems.
UNDP is initiating an assessment process on formulating a programme with the aim of sustainably conserve and utilize plant genetic
resources for food and agriculture through in-situ conservation indigenous crops species and their wild relatives.
A number of biodiversity conservation programmes are well underway covering areas ranging from establishing more effective, equitable
and sustainable planning, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of biodiversity conservation efforts in the Bohol Marine
Triangle, to rehabilitating and protecting the environment through adoption and implementation of appropriate natural resources
management policies, and promotion of sustainable livelihood technologies in the Lake Lanao Area.
Building on experience under the MP, UNDP and the Government of the Philippines mobilized GEF funding to implement an enabling
activity under the Stockholm Convention to develop a NIP. Additionally, the Philippines is benefiting from a GEF funded, and UNDP
implemented Global Programme that aims to demonstrate the viability and removal of barriers that impede the successful implementation
of available non-combustion technologies to destroy persistent organic pollutants.
CONTACTS
Amelia Dulce Supetran – amelia.supetran@undp.org
Tel.: (632) 9010224
http://www.undp.org.ph/sustainability.htm
PARTNERS
Some of our Partners working with
UNDP and the Government in
Philippines
UNEP USAEP
GTZ
World Bank
Government of The Netherlands
USAID
Government of Japan
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MDGR 2005 http://www.undp.org.ph/pmdg2.htM; 2 UNDP POPs website: http://www.undp.org/gef/undp-gef_focal_areas_of_action/sub_persistent_organic_polutants.html and GEF Online database:
http://www.gefonline.org/projectDetails.cfmprojID=2329; *Frameworks and Strategies for Sustainable Development 199