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The Philippine Environmental
Governance 2 Project

The Philippines suffers from severe deforestation, declining fish produc-tion and overflowing trash. Over 100,000 ha of forests are lost every year and the country imports over $50M worth of forest products annually. About 70% of coral reefs are destroyed—overfishing and destructive fishing practices threaten the country’s food security. Less than 40% of solid waste is collected, the rest clogs rivers and streets. Almost 58 percent of all groundwater is contaminated. Only 7% of domestic effluents is managed.

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Coastal town gears up for greater role in
environmental management through Al Khalifa

Schoolchildren from Bulanit Elementary School in Labangan show off their posters after touring the aquasilvi culture project along the mangrove protected area of their village’s coastline. The Al-Khalifa sourcebook, which stipulates the moral obligation of a Muslim to preserve his environment, has paved the way for a broader understanding of environmental conservation and governance in Labangan, which is part of the Illana Bay key biodiversity area.The moral dimensions of environmental preservation is seen as equally important as the physical dimensions, and this became very evident in Labangan municipality, Zamboanga del Sur, where the USAID-funded Philippine Environmental Governance Project Phase 2 (EcoGov) recently distributed the Al-Khalifa (The Steward) sourcebook.

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EcoGov jumpstarts wastewater management
in biodiversity regions

The USAID-funded Philippine Environmental Governance Project Phase 2 (EcoGov), implemented with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), has jumpstarted efforts to properly manage wastewater in key biodiversity regions in the country.

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South Cotabato gives waste management a boost

Old computers and appliance are unloaded unto the Fit mart Mall parking lot where junkshops set up buying stations. EcoGov linked up local junkshops with a Davao City-based consolidator.The provincial government of South Cotabato is giving waste management a big boost by staging a recyclable waste fair to promote materials recovery and recycling to help address the waste problem

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Surallah in South Cotabato to construct common sanitary landfill to service 6 municipalities

DENR Assistant Secretary Gerardo Calderon (in Barong), concurrently the head of the National Solid Waste Management Commission secretariat, signs the Memorandum of Agreement for the construction of a common sanitary landfill in the municipality of Surallah, South Cotabato. With him are (L-R), Jeoffrey Frenal, SB chair on Environment representing the Sto.Nino mayor; Regional Executive Director Jim Sampulna of DENR Region 12; Director Datu Tungko Saikol of EMB Region 12; and Mayor Romulo Solivio of Surallah.A common sanitary landfill (SLF) that will service six municipalities in the province of South Cotabato will soon be constructed in Surallah town whose mayor signed a Memorandum of Agreement with mayors and representatives of the other five municipalities in ceremonies held Dec. 6 at the Fitmart Mall in Koronadal City.

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MSU System’s curricula, programs to introduce
Islamic perspectives in environmental governance

Mindanao State University System president Dr. Macapado A. Muslim (seated 3rd from left) signs a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Philippine Environmental Governance (EcoGov) project to promote advocacies of Al Khalifa, an environmental sourcebook that takes the Islamic perspective of environmental governance. On his left is Dr. Ernesto S. Guiang, EcoGov’s chief-of-party. Signing in behalf of EcoGov is Mr. Edward I. Lim (seated 2nd from left). Mindanao State University System (MSUS) is collaborating with the Philippine Environmental Governance (EcoGov) project of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in the promotion of advocacies for natural resources management based on the tenets of Islam.


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