Environment Program
Taking into account the effects of climate change, the Environment Program of PBSP focuses on contributing to increase the resiliency of natural resources and enhance the ability of communities to adapt to climate change effects, while exploring opportunities for mitigation initiatives.
Through the restoration and protection of watersheds and coastal resources, paired with built capacity to sustain and manage, communities gain strengthened resilience from landslides, flashfloods, and storm surges. Likewise, healthy forest and marine ecology yield sustainable clean drinking water, food, and income.
Program Accomplishments as of FY 2017-2018
Our Platforms for Collective Engagement
Buhisan Watershed Reforestation
Through the Save the Buhisan Watershed Project, PBSP and its stakeholders have planted over 200,000 trees within 600 hectares with 80% survival rate. The project engages four upland people’s organizations in raising endemic and native seedlings which have provided additional income.
Water Alliance
The Water Alliance, established in 2015, is a multisectoral coalition committed to create solutions to the water problems in the Philippines. With 47 members, the Water Alliance is working with the government to address issues on water security and bring potable water to waterless communities all over the country.
Marikina Watershed Reforestation
PBSP’s tree planting initiative began in 2010 in response to the call for reforestation of the Marikina Watershed which was devastated by Typhoon Ondoy in 2009. To date, PBSP’s reforestation efforts in the Marikina Watershed have covered 304 hectares with the support of at least 25 companies.
Disaster Risk Reduction & Management
One of the main thrusts of PBSP for DRMM is relief assistance through the provision of humanitarian aid to help save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity to those individuals and communities affected by disasters, whether natural or man-made.