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USAID/Philippines’ Innovative Development through Entrepreneurship Acceleration (IDEA) project is a three-year public-private partnership with the Philippine Development S&T Foundation, Inc., (PhilDev) a Filipino diaspora organization linked with Silicon Valley. IDEA fosters partnerships with the private sector, government, non-governmental organizations, and academia to spark Filipino engineering and science students, researchers and start-up entrepreneurs into transforming their innovative ideas into products and businesses.
Basa Pilipinas is USAID/Philippines’ flagship basic education project in support of the Philippine Government’s early grade reading program. Implemented in close collaboration with the Department of Education, Basa Pilipinas supports the implementation of the language and literacy component of the K to 12 curriculum for Grades 1 to 3. The project’s approach to teacher professional development and systemic change is designed to promote transformational practices at the school, division, and national level focusing on classroom change in materials development and accessibility, guided reading, writing, and grouping for differentiated learning.
The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) is a multi-lateral public-private partnership initiated by the Climate Technology Initiative (CTI) in cooperation with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Expert Group on Technology Transfer and supported by USAID through the PFAN Global Network.
In November 2011, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the U.S. Government (USG) and the Philippine Climate Change Commission (CCC) to further cooperation under the Enhancing Capacity for Low Emission Development Strategies (EC-LEDS) program with the goal being to support LEDS development in the Philippines.
The Coral Triangle (CT) is a geographical area that represents the global epicenter of marine life and biodiversity, with the Philippines located at the “center of the center” of world marine biodiversity. However, the marine resources of the Philippines and the region have been faced with threats of unsustainable fishing practices, land-based pollution and coastal development, including the growing threat of climate change.
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