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Philippines
>> Regional Overview >> Philippines Overview Program Data Sheet
492-004
USAID MISSION: Philippines
PROGRAM TITLE: Environment and Energy (Pillar: Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Environmental Management Improved, 492-004
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $13,667,000 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $13,667,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1995 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: This program has two components, Environmental Governance (previously titled Integrated Resources Management) and Energy (previously titled Global Climate Change), and emphasizes assistance to conflict-affected areas of Western, Southern, and Central Mindanao.
The Environmental Governance (EcoGov) Program—
- strengthens the ability of the national and local governments and communities to address threats to the Philippines’ tropical forests and coral reefs;
- encourages recycling and composting; and builds local government capacity for obtaining solid waste-management service; and
- promotes transparency and accountability and the enforcement of environmental laws.
Improved monitoring of coastal resources also supports Philippine government efforts to control smuggling, trafficking, and terrorism.
USAID’s Energy Program promotes an open, competitive market for generating and distributing electricity; reduces vehicle emissions; and electrifies remote areas. Electrification promotes peace by facilitating growth and demonstrating government interest in conflict-affected areas.
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: Inputs include technical assistance and training at the national and local levels, and supplies and equipment for renewable energy projects.
FY 2002 Program: Major activities under the EcoGov Program include—
- improving environmental policies. Key national and local organizations will be supported in their efforts to identify, analyze, and improve priority policies and legislation
- building institutions. Training and follow-on technical assistance will be provided to local governments and communities to improve management of coral reefs, forests, and solid waste. The judicial sector and provincial and local government staff will receive training in the enforcement of environmental laws.
- supporting environmental advocacy. Activities will inform the public on key policy issues, and build the political will to improve environmental management and enforcement.
Major activities under the Energy Program include—
- lowering electricity rates. USAID-funded technical assistance for policy changes will promote competition in energy generation and distribution; strengthen the ability of a new independent Energy Regulatory Commission to handle rate cases and avoid market abuses; and aid consumer interest groups monitoring energy sector restructuring;
- expanding the use of renewable energy. In partnership with the private sector under a Philippines government-sponsored social initiative, USAID will electrify over 160 remote communities in conflict-affected areas of Mindanao. USAID and the private sector will fund procurement and installation of equipment, while USAID will organize community participation to ensure community ownership and ability to collect income and maintain systems;
- helping to create a national regulatory framework for development of natural gas resources; and
- reducing vehicle emissions. Technical assistance will support a public awareness campaign and a nationwide vehicle emission testing system; a phase out of importation of secondhand, polluting engines; and apprehension of smoke-belching vehicles.
Activities lend themselves to partnerships under USAID’s new Global Development Alliance to leverage private-sector resources to develop renewable energy sources in remote areas of the country.
Planned FY 2003 Program: The FY 2003 request will continue implementation of the activities summarized above. USAID’s program to protect productive, life-sustaining natural resources is covered by the country development strategy through FY 2004. It is anticipated that, when the strategy is revised, this program will be extended though FY 2009.
SUBMISSION OF THIS PROGRAM DATA SHEET CONSTITUTES FORMAL RENOTIFICATION OF USAID’S INTENT TO OBLIGATE FY 2002 RESOURCES FOR THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE. Performance and Results: The goal of protecting productive, life-sustaining resources was advanced in several ways in FY 2001. First, 1,649 kms of shoreline (500 kms in Mindanao) were placed under improved management, for a total of 3,000 kms to date. Forty-eight local governments (seven in Mindanao) were certified as demonstrating best coastal resource-management practices, for a total of 96—a 700% increase from the 1995 baseline. Finally, landmark legislation to restructure the Philippine energy sector for competitiveness passed as a result of USAID efforts to develop policies, craft legislation, educate legislators, and engage public support.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: USAID’s major implementing partners include Development Alternatives, Inc. (prime); PA Consulting (prime); Winrock (prime); the U.S. Department of Energy (sub); and the U.S. Peace Corps. A new implementing partner for policy-reform activities will be selected in 2002.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
492-004 Environmental Management Improved DA MAI Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 10,858 116,995 Expenditures 3,592 116,995 Unliquidated 7,266 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 4,364 0 Expenditures 4,978 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 15,222 116,995 Expenditures 8,570 116,995 Unliquidated 6,652 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 13,667 0 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 13,667 0 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 13,667 0 Future Obligations 0 0 Est. Total Cost 42,556 116,995
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