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USAID/Philippines’ Strengthening Information for Education Policy, Planning and Management in the Philippines Phase II (PhilEd Data II) project provides technical assistance to DepEd in making better use of data to support its reforms, policies and plans for the basic education sector.
USAID/Philippines’ Padayon Mindanao is a three-year project that supports peace building in select conflict-affected areas in Mindanao, Negros and Bicol by improving life skills of vulnerable youth through conduct of leadership camps and literacy summits focused on promoting civic engagement and peace education.
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.
USAID/Philippines’ Education Governance Effectiveness (EdGE) is a five-year (2013-2018) project which seeks to transform local communities as education champions, with the end goal of improving the reading skills for at least one million early grade students. The project is being implemented in 91 local government units nationwide, co-locating with selected project sites of USAID’s flagship reading project, Basa Pilipinas (Read Philippines).
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.
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.
Fisheries remain highly important to the Philippine economy, particularly to poor communities that depend on small-scale fishing for livelihood. Even with catch rates that are among the lowest in the world, the country ranks 8th worldwide in total fish production.
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