Regional Programmes
By way of the Small Grants Programmes, UNDP gives priority to community-based activities that seek to raise the productivity, income, and security of households or communities that could have an impact on the global environment if replicated over time on a larger scale.
The UNDP Small Grants Programmes in the Philippines provide assistance to proactive and responsive projects that pursue support actions for:
- Promoting biodiversity conservation in regions;
- Ensuring the protection of international waters from environmental impacts of activities from within the territorial boundaries of the Philippines; and
- Helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the promotion of renewable energy in rural areas
- Promotion of tropical forests.
On the other hand, UNDP's Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) has collaborated with countries within the region to develop an environmental strategy covering issues on the management of the coastal and marine environment of East Asia. Within the PEMSEA framework, the Philippines leads in public-private sector partnerships towards the management of coastal and marine resources.
In the Batangas Bay area, PEMSEA brings together the private sector and 34 municipalities of Batangas to develop, finance, build, and operate an integrated waste management facility to serve the entire province.
The Philippines now looks forward to more public-private sector partnerships to stimulate economic growth within the context of sustainable development.
While gender dimensions are mainstreamed into UNDP's programmes, two targeted interventions are supported.
Within the framework of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Asia Pacific Gender Equality Network (APGEN) strengthens regional coordination and cooperation to address issues of feminization of poverty and gender inequality in decision-making.
Launched in 1998, APGEN focuses on:
- Developing methods for measuring women's unpaid work and integrating it into economic and social policies
- Mainstreaming issues of women's access to science and technology in poverty reduction policies and programmes
- Strengthening capacities of women leaders in public and private sectors and civil society in gender-responsive governance and transformative leadership
- Strengthening capacities of State Parties and women activists in CEDAW implementation, monitoring and reporting
From the second half of 2002, APGEN will focus on promoting women's economic and political rights.
With UNICEF as the lead UN agency, the UN Country Team in the Philippines is working together to fully mainstream gender in the Common Country Assessment (CCA) and United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) as well as the individual UN agency programmes. The UNIFEM technical assistance, funded by UNDP, will produce the UN Assessment of gender issues in the Philippines and the UN Gender Strategy.
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