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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The Government of Canada has committed CA$ 8 million (PHP 332 million) for program implementation from 2024 to 2028. The fund, managed by Forest Foundation Philippines, will support local organizations in implementing holistic, community-based, and gender-responsive initiatives based on NbS principles.
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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Forest Foundation Philippines is a nonprofit organization that provides grants and technical assistance to individuals and organizations that empower the people to 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 celebrate 75 years of relations, with Canada contributing over $1 billion in aid to the Philippines since 1986.
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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.
Assessing Baseline Learning Needs in PCP4NbS Program Areas
In partnership with the University of Guelph in Canada and Bayi, Inc., Learning Needs Assessment (LNA) Workshops were conducted 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 Workshop offered safe and engaging spaces to identify learning gaps and capacity development needs, as baseline for the program’s 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.
Forest Foundation Philippines and the Government of Canada launched its Site-Based Grants in Negros Occidental
Civil society organizations, peoples organizations and non-government organizations came together last November 6, 2024, to envision priority sites in Negros Occidental – Malogo and Sicaba River Watersheds – supported by communities that adopt gender-responsive NbS for climate adaptation.
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