Publications/Documents
The National Plan of Action for the Prevention, Reduction and Management of Marine Litter (NPOA-ML) has been developed to provide a blueprint to enhance the current efforts of the country in resource and waste management and to bring additional lens to marine litter issues and the control of additional leakage of waste into bodies of water.
The global transboundary nature of marine litter has been emphasized with the presence of floating debris in oceanic gyres and had been put to light with secondary studies that rank the Philippines as the third largest contributor to ocean plastic litter. While such findings need country validation, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), through its Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) and Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB), set out to bring experts and actors together to examine the issues, policies, ongoing initiatives, and remaining gaps with the goal of developing the NPOA-ML through a multi-stakeholder participatory process.
The processes involved in developing the NPOA-ML consist of a series of DENR core group meetings, levelling meetings, and multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral workshops.
The kNOwWaste Knowledge Platform was developed through a Project Cooperation Agreement funding by UNEP on 2016. The platform provides data and information on holistic waste management to stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific region. The platform was developed with the following aims: generate and consolidate data or information on holistic waste management, transform data into easily comprehensible outputs for use by key stakeholders, map out and disseminate information on international waste management projects under the GPWM and UNEP projects as well as other international partners, and provide capacity building support through dissemination of data or information support for relevant stakeholders on holistic waste and waste management system.
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