Environmental governance

The Guided Self-Assessment (GSA) is a simple management tool that enables an LGU, along with representatives of its constituents, inclusively-defined, to determine for itself what “best practices” it has already adopted, or has yet to adopt, in order to enhance governance and thereby more effectively address actual or potential threats to the environment. This report presents the results of an initial survey on governance practices, against which the results of similar future efforts will be analyzed. Two

The Philippine Environmental Governance Project (EcoGov) is a joint undertaking of the Government of the Philippines (GOP) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to install in the Philippines improved system of decision making and of taking action against five key threats to the nation’s environment: illegal forest cutting, illegal forest conversion, illegal fishing, over fishing and solid wastes.

The project focuses on three areas in the country: Western and Central Mindanao, Central

Environmental agencies like Forestry Management Bureau (FMB) are reposed with the responsibility to protect and develop the natural assets of the nation.

With the responsibility is authority. The agencies are to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to govern how the assets are to be managed, utilized and kept for the common good. They are in the business of making and enforcing rules.

This paper discusses the nature of rules. It looks into how their potency to enforce their aims and

The proposed protocol builds on DENR’s need to conduct its regular annual performance assessment of key field offices and officers and initial efforts to search and reward those offices which have carried out good environmental governance initiatives. Accordingly, the starting point in assessing and determining good environmental governance begins with the preparation, implementation, and revision/adjustments of the approved Work and Financial Plans (WFPs). The process will also provide relevant information and a set of recommendation to DENR senior