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The Philippine EIS System inputs to Planning Resettlement and

Livelihood Projects

PresentedbyPuraVitaGuia-PedrosaPhilippineCenterforEnvironment,ClimateStudiesandSustainableDevelopmentInc.

IAIA Special Symposium on Resettlement and Livelihood

Manila, Philippines ] 20-22 February 2017

Outline

I.  PhilippineEnvironmentalPolicies&embeddedrequirementsrelatedtorese9lement&livelihoods

II.  CasestudykeyfindingsIII.  Sugges@onstomaximizeusefulnessofthethe

PhilippineEISSysteminPlanningRese9lementandLivelihoodProjects

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ProjectPlanning&DecisionMakingProcess

ProjectConceptualiza8on Feasibility

DetailedEngineering

Design

ProjectConstruc8on&Development

Implementa-8on

DENR

Country Safeguard

System

- EIA, Environmental Quality Standards

AssessEnvt’lImpacts&FormulateManagement

MeasuresIncorporateEIArecommenda@on

ManageEnvironmentalImpacts;implementAir&WaterQualityand

WasteManagementstandards- Natural Resources Regula@ng/ManagingtheUseofMineral,Water&ForestResources- Biodiversity BiodiversityConserva@on/Management

Rese9lementPlanning

Implemen8ngReseClementProjects(aspartofimpactmanagement)

Resettlement as a consequence of development projects … ?

* DENR – Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Project Development Stages


MajorLawsonSafeguards

PhilippineEnvironmentalPolicy(1977)F Declaredacon@nuingpolicyoftheState:

•  produc@veandenjoyableharmonyofmanandnature•  Social&economicrequirementsofpresent&futuregenera@on•  Environmentalqualityconducivetoalifeofdignityandwell-being

F GovernmentAgencyincharge:InteragencyincludingDENR&otheragencieslikeagenciesinchargeofhousing,socialwelfare,health,educa@on,etc.

F RequiredEnvironmentalImpactStatement(EIS)forundertakingswithsignificantenvironmentalimpacts


MajorLawsinSafeguards

EIALaw–PD1586(1978)F EstablishmentofthePhilippineEnvironmentalImpactStatement(EIS)System

F Focusedonbio-physicalenvironmentalimpacts

F Implemen@ngAgency:DENRthrutheEnvironmentalManagementBureau


EIALawinthePhilippines

EnvironmentalComplianceCer8ficate(ECC)F Posi@vereviewoftheEIAF Contains:

• Description of the Scope of the Project subjected to EIA • General Conditions and conditions on Environmental

Management and Monitoring • Restrictions • Recommendation to parties and authorities for proper

appreciation and action and integration into their decision making processes


EIALawinthePhilippines

EIA&ECCF Nottheapprovalforimplementa@onF Amongtheconsidera@onsforapproval


Pre-iden8fiedimpactstobeincludedinthestudy

Land Water Air

People •  Displacement of settler/s •  In-migration •  Cultural/Lifestyle change (especially on

Indigenous People, if any)

•  Impacts on physical cultural resources

•  Threat to delivery of basic services /resource competition

•  Threat to public health and safety

•  Generation of Local Benefits from the project

•  Traffic congestion ByPuraVitaGuia-Pedrosa

AssessmentofDisplacement

•  Demographicdataofimpactarea•  Censusofpopula@on/propertythatwillbedisplaced/disturbed

•  Housingownershipprofile/availabilityofhousing/numberofinformalse9lers

Baseline Data Requirements


AssessmentofDisplacement

•  ImpactonDemography•  Availabilityofalterna@vepublicaccess•  Housingop@onsfordisplacedse9lers•  Change/conflictinlandownership•  Disturbanceofproper@es/se9lers•  Rightofwaychange/conflict

Assessment Parameters


AssessmentimpactsofproposedprojectsunderthePeopleModule

PeopleF  DemographicdataF  Proper@esF  PropertyownershipF  Informalse9lersF  CulturalresourcesF  U@li@es,public

servicefacili@esF  Socio-economicdataF  Roadnetwork

Baseline Environment

Project Impact

Impact Management

Displacement Social Development Plan

(SDP) -  Relocation (as necessary)

-  Livelihood/Employment -  Health and safety

-  Education & recreation -  Environment and sanitation

-  Peace ad Order -  Spiritual,, etc

Relocation Framework/ Plan

•  In-migration •  Cultural/lifestyle

change •  Physical cultural

resources impact •  Threat to delivery

of basic services & resource competition

•  Threat to public health and safety

•  Generation of local benefits

•  Traffic congestion ByPuraVitaGuia-Pedrosa

ReseClement

•  Necessaryfordisplacementsasimpactofdevelopmentprojects

•  Partoftheimpactmanagementbutnotnecessarilyapartoftheprojectitself

•  SubjecttoseparateECCs


3EISCaseStudies

•  3Coal-FiredPowerPlants•  Lookedintotherese9lementandlivelihooddiscussionsintheEIS

•  Lookedintotherese9lementandlivelihoodcondi@onsintheECC


KeyFindingswith3casestudies

Observa8ons PossiblereasonAssessmentofdisplacementdoesnotmeettherequirementsunderexis8ngguidelines

LackofcapacityforEIAPreparerand/orreviewer

ContentsofthereseClementplanvaries Guidelinesaretoogeneral,EIAPreparershavedifferentperspec8ve;reviewerslackguidance

Baselinedataandassessmentnotspecifictothepar8cularcommunitytobedisplaced

EIAPreparerso^enrelyonreadilyavailablesecondarydatawhichisusuallypermunicipality/city


KeyFindingswith3casestudies

Observa8ons PossiblereasonNotalloftheECCissuedcontaincondi8onsonreseClement

Mayhavebeenmissedbytheonewhodra^edtheECC

NotalloftheECCissuedcontaincondi8onsonlivelihood

Mayhavebeenmissedbytheonewhodra^edtheECC


Recommenda8onstomaximizeusefulnessoftheSysteminPlanningReseClementandLivelihoodProjects

1.  EnhancementofPoliciesandExis@ngGuidelines

2.  EnhancementofcapacityofEMBandEIAPrac@@oners

3.  Improvingthetransmissionofinputsto&coordina@onamonggovernmentagencies


EnhancementofPolicies/Guidelines

•  includeiden@fica@onandanalysisofthetypeofdisplacementimpact(fundinginsBtuBonsclassificaBonscanbereferredto,suchasinvoluntaryacquisiBonoflandorrestricBonsonlanduseandaccess,etc.)

•  Explicitlyindicateintheguidelinestheneedtointegratefindingsintheair,water,landmodulesintheassessmentoftheneedtorelocateandchoiceofreloca@onsite


EnhancementofPolicies/Guidelines

•  clarifywhenareloca@onplanorframeworkshallberequiredaspartoftheEISandwhatwillbeitscontents


EnhancementofcapacityofEMBandEIAPrac88oners

•  OrientEMB&otherEIAPrac@@onersontheimportanceofthePhilippineEISSysteminputsinplanningrese9lementandlivelihoodprogramsandhowtheresultsoftheimpactassessmentcanbeused

•  Training/Orienta@ononenhancedpoliciesandguidelines


ImprovingthetransmissionofthePhilippineEISSysteminputs

•  ins@tu@onalizeandensureimplementa@onoftransmissionproceduresofkeyresultsandrecommenda@onsoftheEIAcri@caltotheformula@onofappropriaterese9lementandreloca@onplan


Insummary

Thesuccessinimplemen@ngsafeguardpoliciesdependson•  Goodpolicies•  Clearstandards/requirements•  Capableimplemen@ngagencies•  CapableEIAPrac@@oners(consultants/preparers,reviewers)

•  Apprecia@onanddedica@ontotheGOAL…ByPuraVitaGuia-Pedrosa

Maramingsalamatsapakikinig…Thankyouverymuchforlistening

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