Manila, Philippines – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) – River Basin Control Office (RBCO) conducted the Training-Workshop on Natural Resource Accounting with Applications for Payment Ecosystem Services for River Basin Focal Persons and Other Technical Persons on October 10-13 at the B-Hotel in Alabang, Muntinlupa City. The four-day workshop was attended by
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is currently working with the International Centre for Environmental Management (ICEM) and the World Agroforestry (ICRAF) to implement the project entitled, TA-6539 REG: “Investing in Climate Change Adaptation through Agroecological Landscape Restoration: A Nature-based Approach to Building Climate Resilience in Cambodia and Philippinesâ€. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
Last 09-10 December 2021, the River Basin Control Office (RBCO) conducted a system testing of the Web-Based River Basin Integrated Information Management System (RBIIMS) in Angeles City, Pampanga. At the end of the training program, the participants are expected to describe the details of web-based RBIIMS, its structure, functionalities, and requirements; to collate, standardize, and
The Agno River Basin Management Council (RBMC) conducted its Inter-regional Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting last March 17-18, 2022 in Alaminos City, Pangasinan. The meeting was under a face-to-face set-up with the Opening Program attended by RBCO Executive Director Nelson V. Gorospe; DENR I Regional Executive Director Crizaldy M. Barcelo; Assistant Regional Director for Technical
RBCO conducted its Year-End Assessment and Planning Workshop for Calendar Year 2021 at the Best Western Metro Clark Hotel in Angeles City, Pampanga last December 1 to 3, 2021. The event was a hybrid activity with participants from Regions I, CAR, III, and IV-A physically present. The rest of the Regions participated virtually. Participants were
The province of Leyte is extreme from the impacts of typhoons and flooding. Due to climate change, this is expected to rise dramatically. Leyte has been the most vulnerable part of the Philippines to the water-related disaster which has attributed to population exposure, poverty, deforestation, lack of disaster preparedness, and gender inequality. To address these
The DENR-River Basin Control Office (RBCO) in partnership with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) organized the 1st National River Basin Summit as the kick-off activity of the 2022 World Water Day Celebration. With the theme “Groundwater: Making the Invisible, Visibleâ€, the event highlighted the best practices on river basin management in the Philippines.
To support the on-going implementation of the Integrated River Basin Management and Development Plan, DENR River Basin Control Office conducted series of Technical Workshops for the Formulation of the State of the River Basin Report of selected major river basins in Luzon, Visayas & Mindanao last October 7-11, 2019, November 14-15, 2019 and November 5-8,
