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7. The National Power Corporation (NPC);
8. Eighty-six non-government organizations (NGOs), people’s organizations (POs)
and various foundations with interest in the environment, economic
development, legal rights, religious concerns and cultural communities;
9. Researchers from seven academic institutions;
10. The Agri-Business Group from Sime Darby Philippines 7 ;
11. Seven newspaper journalists;
12. A Farmer’s Cooperative concerned in protected area issue; and
13. An independent NGO as mediator in the policy arena.
Attention was given in the third premise of ACF (see page 7) to include an intragovernmental
dimension. The internal structure of the said subsystem was composed of
diverse agencies, local/national government offices, sets of interest groups (such as NGOs
and POs) and people interested in generating and transmitting policy information (e.g.
journalists). Appendix E shows the detailed list of NGOs, POs and academic institutions
involved in policy making.
In order to capture the beliefs of these actors, the concepts used by these actors during the
policy formulation were analyzed using conceptual analysis of available public documents
(see Fig. 2). The contents of about 22 official and public documents (see Appendix A. for
detailed list of documents) were analyzed. Documents were grouped according to their
sources, such as: documents from public consultations, legislative committees, other interest
groups and media or journalists. In this way, the analysis of coded words was facilitated.
Table 4 shows the result of the conceptual analysis. It presents the concepts that appeared
from the documents and the number of times each concept occurred. The concepts then
were grouped together under the three main categories 8 , namely: environmental, social
concerns and economic development (see pages 19-21 for the validity and reliability of
content analysis).
In analyzing table 4, the results showed that the most frequent concepts are “IPs recognition
in the protected area” (39%), “participation/consultation/representation” (28%),
6 For the sources of policy actors see page 18 under the sub-heading Data Processing.
7 A private manufacturing company in the country.
8 For basis of setting categories, refer to chapter 3.
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