Towards gender-responsive Nature-based Solutions (NbS)
Philippines-Canada Partnership on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Adaptation
The Philippines-Canada Partnership on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Adaptation (PCP4NbS), a program led by Forest Foundation Philippines and funded by the Government of Canada, seeks to contribute to strengthening climate resilience of communities, particularly rural and indigenous women, while ensuring co-benefits from, and for, natural resources and healthy ecosystems.
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PCP4NbS supports local organizations in implementing holistic, community-based, gender-responsive NbS for climate adaptation, in areas in the Philippines that are facing biodiversity-related challenges, and are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts.
Grounded in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Standard for NbS, the program targets the three wins of biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, and ensuring gender equality in natural resource management.
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Project Launch
In May 2024, Forest Foundation Philippines officially launched the PCP4NbS, a four-year program supported by CA$ 8 Million (PhP 332 Million) from the Government of Canada. Watch the highlights of the Program Launch here.
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Project Launch
In May 2024, Forest Foundation Philippines officially launched the PCP4NbS , a four-year program supported by CA$ 8 Million (PhP 332 Million) from the Government of Canada. Watch the highlights of the Program Launch here.
WATCH THE RECAP
PROGRAM PARTNERS
Forest Foundation Philippines is a nonprofit organization that provides grants and technical assistance to individuals and organizations that protect and conserve the forests.
The Foundation is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation
Foundation Inc.
Global Affairs Canada is a Canadian government department that promotes Canadian interests and values globally. This office manages diplomatic relations, trade, consular services and leads international development, peace, and security efforts.
The department prioritizes gender equality, health, education, humanitarian aid, and climate action, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. In 2024, Canada and the Philippines celebrated 75 years of relations, with Canada contributing over $1 billion in aid to the Philippines since 1986.
LATEST program updates
Site-based Grants will support gender-responsive and community-based NbS projects to help reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to climate change impacts in priority program areas with rich biodiversity.
PhP 28 million in grants for Nature-based Solutions in Palawan, Camarines Sur and Davao, approved
Forest Foundation Philippines, with support from the Government of Canada, recently approved grants to support community-led implementation of NbS from ridge to reef in Calamianes Islands in Palawan, Camarines Sur, and Davao. These NbS projects will strengthen communities' ability to adapt to climate impacts across 7,200+ hectares of forests, riverbanks, coasts, and seas, through community-based agroforestry and riparian restoration, eco-tourism and community-led marine protected area management, mangrove protection, and establishment of local conservation areas. This bring the total to PhP 80.5 million for local implementation of 17 NbS grants under the Philippines-Canada Partnership on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Adaptation (PCP4NbS). For more information about the projects, read: bit.ly/pcp4nbsproposalsQ425
Assessing Baseline Learning Needs in PCP4NbS Program Areas
In partnership with the University of Guelph in Canada and Bayi, Inc., PCP4NbS conducted Learning Needs Assessment (LNA) Workshops with civil society and peoples organizations (including women and young women) in the first three priority program areas: Negros Occidental, Batanes, and Camarines Sur. The LNA Workshops offered safe and engaging spaces to identify learning gaps and capacity development needs, as baseline for the its grantmaking capacity development, knowledge management, and advocacy activities. LNAs in the rest of the Program areas will be completed in 2025.
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) Assessment conducted in Program areas
The program’s partner, the University of the Philippines Los Baños - Department of Community and Environmental Resource Planning (UPLB-DCERP) conducted a KAP assessment, to help understand the baseline knowledge, behavior, attitudes, and current practices of communities and local stakeholders on Nature-based Solutions (NbS), and identify opportunities for engagement.
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