FASPS Updates The official newletter of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Foreign-Assisted and Special Projects Service Release no. 02 April - June 2015 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Training on designing, developing foreign-assisted 3 projects gets under way Phil-WAVES conducts training on SedNet modeling 3 Phil-WAVES to reach out to 3 wider audience INREMP holds first review 4 mission BPP's biodiversity-friendly 4 investment programs validated Tubbatah Reefs' sea turtles are 5 healthy, experts say Global Environment Facility 7 (GEF)-Philippines National B+WISER Forester Josephine Rodelas (right) coached Kitanglad Guard Volunteer Ricardo Multi-Stakeholders dialogue Digbas in using CyberTracker application as part of the LAWIN software on a tablet for biodiversity and threats monitoring in Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park in Bukidnon. Southern Leyte holds 8 environment summit 2015, awards environment-friendly LGUs B+WISER makes headway in IPOPs Management Project 8 conservation and environmental law holds stakeholders consultation on POPs contaminated sites enforcementby Angel Tiamson-Saceda initiatives PAME restages 'Selfie for 9 The Biodiversity and Watersheds Improved for Stronger Economy and Ecosystem Resilience (B+WISER) Biodiversity' contest Program, a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), made significant headway in the first half of 2015. CCC launches online 10 'community of practice' B+WISER co-organized two major events, the 1st International Conference on Conservation Financing in Southeast Asia and the 3rd National Environmental Law Enforcement Summit, and inked two partnership Philippine SSME partners 10 agreements with thePhilippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation (PTFCF) and the Department of Social harmonize project workplans to Welfare and Development (DSWD) for forest-related economic activities of communities in B+WISER project move forward sites. Turn to next page Biodiversity Assessment Yields New Island Agencies collaborate to establish Balabac PEMSEA members convene Record of “Extinct” Hornbill in Negros Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Members of the Partnerships in Under the DENR-BMB and GEF-UNDP’s Biodiversity Five agencies have agreed to collaborate to promote Environmental Management for the Partnership Project (BPP) and with support from the biodiversity conservation in the municipality of Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) convened Chester Zoo, an assessment was able to validate the Balabac, Palawan. These include the Biodiversity last June 23 – 26, 2015 for the 7th East presence of population of Rufous-headed hornbill Management Bureau (BMB), Bureau of Fisheries and Asian Seas (EAS) Partnership Council (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni) in Northern Negros Natural Aquatic Resources (BFAR), Deutsche Gesellschaft fȕr Meeting to address the organization’s Park (NNNP) and in Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Asian current key activities and in Negros Oriental. NNNP is one of BPP’s eight Development Bank Regional Technical Assistance accomplishments in the eld of demonstration sites in the Philippines. 7813 (ADB-RETA), and the Center for Environment integrated coastal and ocean and Sustainable Development (CESD). governance. Turn to page 6 Turn to page 5 Turn to page 7 foreign-assisted projects 2015 Foreign-Assisted Projects 2015 Fund Distribution US$ 497.96 GEF* GIZ/BMU JICA US $ 123.20 US $ 226.41 KfW ADB USAID KfW Others IFAD Grant Projects GOP Loan Projects *GOP Counterparts (US $148.35) Biodiversity Sectoral Distribution: Foreign-Assited Projects 2015 New Conservation Areas in the Philippine Project (NewCAPP) Partnership for Biodiversity Conservation : Mainstreaming in Local Agricultural Climate Change Manila Bay Integrated Water Quality Management Project (MBIWQMP)- PPG Landscapes (BPP) Philippine Climate Change Adaptation 1% National Programme for Indigenous Removing Barriers to Invasive Species Management in Production and Protection Project (PhilCCAP) $4.97 M Forest in Southeast Asia (FORIS) Peoples and Local Communities Conserved Areas and Territories Protected Areas Management Enhancement in the Philippines (PAME) Multi-Sectoral ENR Rice Plus - Dynamic Conservation and Fifth Operation Phase of the GEF Small Grants Program in the Philippines Biodiversity and Watersheds Improved Sustainable Use of Agrobiodiversity in (SmallGrants) for Stronger Economy and Resiliency Rice-Based Farming System in the Building Trasformative Policy and Financing Frameworks to Increase Investment in Project (B+WISER) Philippines Biodiversity Management (BIOFIN) Phi. Wealth Accounting and the 1% National Programme on Wealth $4.75 M Creation from the Philippines National Biodiversity Planning to Support the implementation of the CBD 2011-2020 Valuation of Ecosystem Services Strategic Plan in Republic of the Philippines (NSBAP) (Phil-WAVES) National Programme for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Conserved Project Preparatory Areas and Territories Technical Assistance Indigenous Practices for Biodiversity Conservation (IP4Biodiv) Project in Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary (AMWS) Integrated Persistent Organic Pollutants (IPOPs) Management Project Philippine Chillers Energy Efficiency Project Global Programme to Demonstrate the Viability and Removal of Barriers 5% The Biodiversity and Watersheds Improved for Stronger Economy and Ecosystem Resilience (B+WISER) Environmentthat Impede Adoption and Successful Implementation of Available, $24.89 M Program, a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project with the Department of Non-Combustion Technologies for Destroying Persistent Organic Community-Based Forest and Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), made significant headway in the first half of 2015. Pollutants Mangrove Management Project in Panay and Negros (CBFMMP) ODS - Institutional Strengthening Project - Phase IX (ODS-ISP) 8% B+WISER co-organized two major events, the 1st International Conference on Conservation Financing in $41.80 M Southeast Asia and the 3rd National Environmental Law Enforcement Summit, and inked two partnership HCFC Phase-out Management Plan Stage 1 (HPMP) Forestland Management Project agreements with thePhilippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation (PTFCF) and the Department of Social Sector Plan to Phase-Out HCFC141b in the Foam Sector (FMP) Welfare and Development (DSWD) for forest-related economic activities of communities in B+WISER project Implementation of the POPs Monitoring Plan in the East Asian Region Integrated Natural Resources and sites. -REGIONAL * 10% $51.34 M Environmental Management Project BAT and BEP in Open Burning Activities in Response to the Stockholm (INREMP) Convention on POPs - REGIONAL * Enabling Activities to Review and Update the National Implementation Forest and Climate Protection in Panay Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (FORCLIM) Improve the health and environment of artisanal gold mining communities in Southeast Asia by reducing mercury emissions 12%$ 57.59M National REDD+ Mechanism for Ratification and Early Implementation of the Minamata Convention on Greenhouse Gas Reduction Mercury in the Philippines and Conservation of Biodiversity in the Philippines Strengthening Marine Protected Areas to Conserve the Marine Key Biodiversity Areas in the 63% (REDD+ Readiness) Philippines (MKBA) $309.59 M Support to the Implementation of the Tri-National Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion Comprehensive FORESTRY Action Plan (SSME) Applying Knowledge Management to Scale Up Partnership Investments for Sustainable Coastal Development of Large Marine and Coastal Ecosystem of the East Asia and their Coast Marine Release no. 02 April - June 2015 FASPS Updates Editorial Board Editorial Advisers: Training on designing, developing foreign-assisted projects gets under way Undersecretary Manuel D. Gerochi and To further bolster the capability of DENR staff to design and develop needs-responsive projects, the Project Preparation Division of Foreign Assisted Assistant Secretary Rommel R. and Special Projects Service headed by Ms. Cristina Regunay and in close Abesamis coordination with the Human Resource Development Service of DENR spearheaded the Project Design and Development Training, whose trifurcate Editor-in-Chief: focus was to: a) understand the interrelated processes and terms/concepts used in project proposal design and development; (b) gain knowledge on the Director Edwin G. Domingo relevant methods, tools and techniques of project design and development and apply these within their work environment; and (c) appreciate the importance of an intersectoral perspective in addressing concerns in a Screening and Editing Board: spatial/area context. Cristina Regunay/Conrado A. Bravante, Jr./Susan F. Castilla Turn to page 7 Managing Editor: Jeslina B. Gorospe by Joel B. Abunda Phil-WAVES conducts training on SedNet modeling Associate Managing Editor: Joel B. Abunda Assessing the value of a natural asset is a complicated business. "Everything is connected to everything else" and "the whole is more World Bank, the training was held on April 21 to April 24, 2015 in Circulation: Alma P. Estrada than the sum of its parts." For instance, how does one put a price tag Puerto Princesa City. on a forest? He measures and assigns a value to one ecosystem Layout Artist: Laarni V. service it provides while holding others constant, he runs the risk of The SedNet, which stands forSediment and Nutrient