Project Completion Reports

The purpose of the Project was to establish large-scale, commercial timber plantations that will protect the environment and improve the living conditions of local residents. The Project intended to
(i.) protect the watersheds of the Banban and Vintar rivers in the province of Ilocos Nort by restoring its forest cover;
(ii.) establish tree plantations for timber, fuelwood and pulpwood production, and constriction roads to serve reforestation activities as well as the needs of local residents; and

The Project for the Enhancement of Community-Based Forest Management Program (ECBFMP) in the Philippines was a 5-year technical cooperation between the governments of the Philippines and Japan, particularly through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).  The two governments agreed to implement the Project from June 2004-June 2009 with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) as its executing agency.  

This framework is a "a work in progress" and has, so far, tried to consider the many facets that characterized the politial and institutional, socio-economic and ecosystem-related concerns that relate to coastal and marine archipelagic development. Hopefully, it will help forge concensus and partnership among  the various stakeholders in the country, favoring the adoption of ArcDev.

Land Administration and Management Project (LAMP) is an inter-agency project of the Government of the Philippines through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and its partner agencies, Department of Justice / Land Registration Authority and the Department of Agrarian Reform.

The El Nido Marine Reserve (ENMR) is a critical zone of the Palawan Biosphere Reserve and located within the territorial jurisdiction of the municipality of El Nido, Palawan. As recipient of the Debt-for-Nature Swap Program-Third Tranche (DFNS-3), the ENMR had made significant achievements on marine and forests protection. The ENMR Project has created a niche in the arena of protection and continued support this initial achievement should be complemented with continued support to meet the regular functioning of the project in its technical, organizational and financial stability.

The Third Davao del Norte Irrigation Project is the second of the two irrigation projects formulated under the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-financed technical assistance for Second Mindanao Irrigation Study. Under the ADB loan package, the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is the lead implementing agency with the Department of Health, the Department of Public Works and Highways, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources through the Forest Management Bureau as the other executing agencies.

The project objectives were to protect ten areas of high biodiversity value, improve the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) protected area (PA) management capabilities; incorporate local communities and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) into the PA management structure; confirm the tenure of indigenous cultural communities and long established residents of PAs; establish a permanent funding mechanism for PA management and development; and develop sustainable forms of livelihood consistent with biodiversity protection.

The Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management (CHARM) Project was a successor to the Highland Agricultural Development Project, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The Project’s main activities were aimed at benefiting the communities as whole rather than selected individuals, which implied that the Project was to target only the communities that had poverty incidence of over 90%.

The Philippines is now considered as one of the most severely deforested countries in the tropics and one of those countries with the lowest per capita forest cover in the Asia Pacific region. Reforestation and plantation development continue at a very slow pace, resulting to decline in sustainable wood supply and making the country a net importer of wood. In response to the alarming condition of the forestry sector, the Philippines has embraced the concept of Sustainable Forest Management as the main policy thrust in order to guarantee the long-term stability of its forest resources.