
This report offers a ten-point agenda for improving environmental mainstreaming in the Philippines, to better tackle poverty and improve the sustainability of economic growth. It emphasizes work at two levels to change the way that institutions view poverty-environment links and the decisions they make. Firstly, ‘from the bottom’ – a range of actors in local government units working with poor groups to identify best environmental practices that also support poverty reduction. Secondly, linking this to work ‘from the top’ – engaging the central financial, economic and development authorities that set the Philippines Development Plan (PDP), identifying good policies that support local needs and environmental goods and services, at a bigger scale than has been achieved so far.