devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
E-PESO (Philippines):  This activity will support select Philippine national government agencies in driving growth in electronic payments through policy reforms, business process improvements, and capacity building. The activity will focus on key areas where volume of payment transactions is high, including in government disbursements and revenue collections, at both the national and local government levels. E-PESO will support the Department of Budget and Management and the Bureau of the Treasury to shift national government disbursements from the current system using only government authorized depository banks, to PESONet, a U.S.-supported electronic payment initiative. PESONet makes payments to suppliers and contractors possible, whether or not the supplier's/contractor's bank is a government depository bank. U.S. assistance will also support agencies with large payment streams involved in the delivery of critical public services to shift to electronic payments. This will help increase transparency, reduce spending leakages, and enhance the efficiency in disbursements for public infrastructure, public services, and social support funds. E-PESO will also help improve efficiency of government collections, including support for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to expand options for revenue collection. It will provide advice to the Philippine central bank and the payment industry to establish more electronic payment channels to accelerate the shift towards electronic payments in retail transactions.Together, these different improvements will increase government resources for spending priorities, while improving the ease of doing business. Overall, the shift towards digital and electronic payments in retail transactions will increase domestic consumption and economic activities, and hence, economic growth. Planned activities will contribute to the U.S. foreign policy priorities of greater self-reliance and promoting a rules-based and transparent environment.... . Objectives for Philippines: OBJECTIVES: Drive transaction volume. Support the expansion and effective management of e-payment infrastructures. Improve the enabling environment for e-payment usage; and,. Build the e-payment ecosystem with particular focus on key cities identified under USAID’s Cities Development Initiative
Philippines WASH and Health Services Emergency WASH and Health services in the Philippines
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE advanced manufacturing workforce development alliance
Safe Water (Philippines):  .With Water and Sustainable Landscapes-earmarked funds, USAID, through the Safe Water activity, will improve access to resilient water supply and sanitation (WSS) services and sustainable water resources management in water-stressed areas in Palawan, Negros Occidental, and Sarangani. USAID will support local government units (LGUs) and water service providers (WSPs) to expand services and access to financing. To enhance the financial and operational viability and improve service quality of WSPs, USAID will assist in chlorination, pressure management, well drilling and construction supervision, water safety planning, and strategic planning. USAID will also help scale microloan programs to enable wider access to WSS. USAID will support LGUs to develop and implement integrated water security plans to attract WSS investments. USAID aligns with the Philippine Water Supply and Sanitation Master Plan and the Unified Resource Allocation Framework (URAF), which aim to accelerate investments, establish effective WSS bodies, and strengthen regulation of water utilities and resources. USAID will also pilot the Centralized Management System, which places WSPs under LGU oversight to improve operations and ensure the use of common standards and rational tariffs to improve cost recovery. These interventions will enhance LGU eligibility to receive funds under URAF. ..USAID's support for water security plans will drive investments in forest protection and watershed management. USAID will help reconstitute watershed management councils, build operational capacities, develop local watershed conservation plans, set up payments for ecosystem services, bolster forest patrolling, and develop sustainable livelihoods. USAID will also work with the National Water Resources Board to develop a water demand management policy. USAID will document best water efficiency practices and work with the private sector to facilitate its adoption by commercial water users..
Facilitating Public Investment (Philippines):  The Facilitating Public Investment (FPI) was designed to address weak revenue collection, excessive fiscal incentives, outdated budgeting approaches, and overall economic governance challenges. These constraints inhibit the Philippine government from achieving the public investments required to encourage more sustained and inclusive economic growth. FPI helps expand the public sector's ability to finance social and physical infrastructure by supporting activities that contribute to increased tax effort, improved public expenditure management and greater fiscal transparency. Funds will support the objectives of the Domestic Resource Mobilization initiative in the Philippines through tax policy and administration reforms that will broaden the country's tax base, increase collection, and implement business process re-engineering activities. Under FPI support to the Philippines' Open Government Partnership commitments and good governance activities will continue.
Energy Secure Philippines Activity The program focuses on advancing inclusive economic growth and resilient development through increasing private investment in order to promote advanced technology deployment and boost the energy sector's resilience to shocks and stresses.
Fish Right (Philippines):  Fish Right supports the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to apply ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) in 48 LGUs across three marine key biodiversity areas. The partnership trains local governments on EBFM to help them set up management boards and science advisory councils, facilitate planning, and establish harvest control measures (HCMs) for ecologically important fish stocks. Building EBFM capacities in fisheries management areas (FMAs) will also increase local conservation actions. In the Calamianes Island Group (CIG), USAID will work with small-scale fishers, youth, women, and indigenous people to foster support for HCMs. As increased sea surface temperature and wave exposure due to changing climate has impacted coastal habitats, establishing marine protected area (MPA) networks and improving their management effectiveness will be supported to maximize habitat protection. Mangrove management and rehabilitation will also be supported to improve fish productivity and protect communities from extreme weather events. Fish Right will also address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing through the nationwide roll out of a monitoring tool in more than 100 coastal cities in at least four FMAs. USAID will also work with universities to improve analytics on major illegal fishing hotspots. Satellite imagery will be used to analyze spatial distribution of marine resources in CIG and understand the ecological connection of marine systems of Palawan with the West Philippine Sea. Remote sensing data will help restore mangroves in women-managed areas and support women-led livelihoods. USAID will partner with the private sector to accelerate sustainable value chains' recovery from COVID-19, address post-harvest loss, and set up responsible seafood sourcing protocols. Of the earmarked biodiversity funding for Fish Right, $800,000 contributes to the total Adaptation-Indirect and to the total Combating Wildlife Trafficking contro
Integrity for Investments Initiative (i3) (Philippines):  Development assistance for anticorruption in the Philippines is done under the rubric of the Partnership for Growth, a White House signature initiative that elevates U.S. Government economic growth assistance to countries that are strongly committed to good governance. Anticorruption development assistance is implemented through the Integrity for Investments Initiative (i3). i3 seeks to improve enforcement effectiveness against large-scale corruption, reduce opportunities for corruption in areas relevant to the investment climate, and strengthen corporate governance.  Support is dedicated to a combination of independent and executive government bodies and comes in the form of skills training of government staff, limited information technology enhancements to improve records management and evidence security, and research and inter-agency dialogues in support of policy development and legislation.
Health Policy Development Program 2 (HPDP2) (Philippines):  The Health Policy Development Program 2 (HPDP2) strengthens the policy and financing environment for family planning (FP), maternal and child health (MCH), and tuberculosis (TB). Findings from the 2016 National TB Prevalence Survey, the 2017 National Demographic and Health survey, and various health sector reviews will be used to provide strategic advice on budget planning and implementation to safeguard that FP, MCH, and TB priorities are optimally funded. HPDP2 will continue to work with the DOH, PhilHealth and selected local government units to clarify and harmonize interpretation of circulars on PhilHealth benefits package for FP, MCH, and TB.
OFDA-2014-Tonga/Cyclone-Mission Allow-USAID Philippines $50,000 Emergency Relief Commodities for Act for Peace - response to Disaster Declaration
Health Sector Development Project- Policy Component (Health Policy Development Program-HPDP) The Health Policy Development Program  Phase 2 (HPDP2) is a five-year (2012-2017) United States Agency for International Development (USAID) health policy project implemented by the UPecon Foundation, Inc. It supports the DOH-led policy formulation process for scaling up the UHC initiative. HPDP2 will support the DOH in scaling up implementation of FP/MNCHN and TB interventions.
Climate Change and Clean Energy (CEnergy) Project Climate Change and Clean Energy (CEnergy) Project
Gabay (Guide): Strengthening Inclusive Education for Blind/Deaf Children (Philippines):  .USAID, through the Gabay (Guide) Strengthening Inclusive Education activity, improves access of deaf, blind, or deafblind children to quality education. USAID increases these children's access to schools, builds teacher capacity, and improves reading outcomes of children who are deaf and blind from Kindergarten to Grade 3. USAID also supports innovations and improvement of disability-inclusive education policy and programs. ..USAID operates in six school divisions: Batangas City, Sorsogon City, Maasin City, Batangas Province, Sorsogon Province, and Southern Leyte Province. In the first three years of implementation, USAID tripled the enrollment of deaf and blind students and started piloting a program for deafblind/blind students with other disabilities. USAID trained nearly 800 teachers and administrators in addressing educational needs of children with sensory disabilities. USAID produced and distributed over 5,000 learning materials in Braille and Filipino Sign Language, including a Filipino Sign Language dictionary in print and electronic form. Parents and caregivers also began training in sign language and Braille..FY 2022 in basic education-earmarked funding will support the extension of the activity for approximately 15 months and will address the shortage of special education teachers, highlighted because of the rapid increase in enrollment of children with disabilities in project sites. USAID will increase the capacity of general education teachers to teach children with disabilities, strengthen local capacity to develop more special education teachers, and increase parents'/caregivers' capacity to support sign language and Braille reading. USAID will support the Philippine Department of Education to implement the new law for inclusive education (Republic Act 11650), which requires learners with special needs to be identified and provided with free basic and quality education. . .. .
Integrated Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health Nutrition/Family Planning Regional Project in Visayas (VisayasHealth) (Philippines):  The VisayasHealth Project will support the scale-up and institutionalization of Department of Health (DOH)-led high-impact practices to reduce maternal and infant deaths, and meet the demand for family planning services. It will focus in geographic areas with high unmet need for family planning and high teenage pregnancy rates. It will help accelerate the implementation of the Philippines' Executive Order on reducing the unmet need for family planning services, and institutionalize existing technical initiatives. USAID will use FY 2017 funds to bolster local partners' capacity to institutionalize good practices such as intensifying demand and outreach for family planning services, strengthening service delivery networks and family planning in hospitals, enhancing health providers' skills, expanding PhilHealth accreditation, strengthening the reporting system, conducting supportive supervision, and regularly conducting data quality checks.
Integrated Family Planning & Maternal Health-Bilateral Integrated Family Planning & Maternal Health-Bilateral
Partnership for Biodiversity Conservation III Inter-agency Agreement (Philippines):  This activity will deliver technical assistance to improve government capacity on environmental law enforcement (ELE) and biodiversity conservation, focusing on combating wildlife trafficking (CWT). It will support the Philippine national wildlife forensics program, which includes setting-up a wildlife forensics laboratory, facilitating a learning tour for government officials to the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Oregon, and supporting Filipino scientists at the Society for Wildlife Forensic Science meeting. The activity will train key stakeholders across the ELE spectrum, including prosecutors and judges assigned to green courts, police investigators, fisheries officers, forest rangers, and wildlife enforcement officers. It will support policy development on ecosystem resource valuation to help the government assess fines for environmental crimes. It will promote advocacy and cooperation in wildlife law enforcement through a national environmental law enforcement summit. Finally, the activity will advance women leadership in biodiversity conservation and CWT by hosting a Women Leaders Learning Forum on Coastal and Marine Conservation.This activity leverages the deep and longstanding relationship between the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and key government agencies in the Philippines. DOI possesses important technical expertise to carry out mentoring activities on inherently governmental functions, such as wildlife crime investigation and forensics, and the development of an environmental law enforcement database.The activity directly contributes to the new Integrated Country Strategy, particularly on Mission Objective 2.3, which focuses on improving environmental resilience in the Philippines. Also, this new activity supports the Administration's Indo-Pacific Strategy of advancing a free, open, and rules-based order by promoting natural resource security and governance in the Philippines.. .... .. .. .
Expanding Participation of Persons with Disability in Development Programmi Expanding Participation of Persons with Disability in Development Programming - This APS is designed to solicit applications for funding from prospective partners to include people with disabilities (PWDs) into development programming or to work with disabled peoples organizations (DPOs) for better understanding and inclusion.
Climate Ready Project In response to the 21st Conference of Parties (COP-21) agreement reached in Paris in December 2015 and the U.S. Government's ongoing commitment to help Pacific island countries (PICs) adapt to climate change, the U.S. Government will invest $5 million in a new technical assistance program called Climate Ready. The program will work with PICs to: 1) establish policies, regulations and legal frameworks required to achieve adaptation goals identified in national adaptation plans; 2) increase access to adaptation financing; and 3) improve skills and systems of governmental entities and the private sector to effectively implement funded adaptation projects. Climate Ready will support 12 Pacific Island nations: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Kiribati, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Palau.
Philippines Performance Audit Partnership Support PASA Agreement with GAO for Philippines Performance Audit Partnership
Grant to UNICEF for WASH and Humanaritian Coordination Activities related to Phippines Typhoon Disaster Response Grant to UNICEF for WASH and Humanaritian Coordination Activities related to Phippines Typhoon Disaster Response
Philippines Water Revolving Fund (PWRF) Public resources alone cannot meet the investment required for the Philippines to achieve its goals for access to potable water. The Philippines Water Revolving Fund (PWRF), the only water revolving fund outside the United States and Europe, leveraged overseas development assistance with local private funds using a cofinancing arrangement between the Philippine government and private banks. Utilities taking advantage of the fund have been able to expand access to safe water and wastewater treatment facilities for millions of Filipinos.
OFDA-2014-Philippines/Typhoon-Contract-Stratford Companies LTD Procurement of 7500 Hygiene Kits to replace DXB stock used for Typhoon Yolanda
Natural Disaster Resilience New award to increase natural disaster resilience in vulnerable populations
Humanitarian Assistance Capacity building support to protect mobile and vulnerable populations from disasters and conflict.
Cities for Enhanced Governance and Engagement (CHANGE) (Philippines):  .Not applicable....
Support to the CSP, to respond the Marawi Conflict. Support to the CSP, to respond the Marawi Conflict
Investment Climate -CCPG- Unilateral Investment Climate -CCPG- Improve national systems for trade and investment
Science and Technology and Research Innovation for Development (STRIDE) (Philippines):  The Science, Technology, Research, and Innovation for Development (STRIDE) activity advances self-reliance and strengthens the country's science, technology, and innovation ecosystem by supporting local stakeholders who are committed to making innovation a driver of sustained, inclusive economic growth. STRIDE fosters stronger collaboration between academia, industry, and government. It acts as a catalyst for different government agencies to work together for a common goal, exemplified by the ongoing partnership between universities, local businesses, and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of Science and Technology, the Commission on Higher Education and private higher education institutions under the Regional Inclusive Innovation Center (RIIC) program.FY 2020 funds will support the continued roll-out of the RIIC in five regions, and expand it to two more. It will also support the expansion of the work of the Competitiveness and Innovation Group of DTI which leads the implementation of the Philippine Innovation Act.Other areas of focus will include strengthening and scaling up of industry-facing mechanisms in universities, including Knowledge and Technology Transfer Offices and University Career Centers. These would help universities align their teaching and research with the demands of industry, and improve the employment outcomes for their graduates, and improve the impact of their research. FY 2020 resources will also be used to establish a network of university-based fabrication labs that would create a sustainable mechanism where researchers and scientists can collaborate across the country on innovation.. .. .. .. .
Mangrove Rehabilitation for Sustainably-Managed, Healthy Forests (MARSH) MARSH - Mangrove Rehabilitation for Sustainably-Managed, Healthy Forests - Cooperative Agreement, five years 2012-2017, years 1-3 are in Papua New Guinea only, years four and five will be in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Humanitarian assistance to Typhoon-displaced populations Shelter, WASH and protection assistance to typhoon-displaced populations
Strengthening Private Enterprises for the Digital Economy (SPEED) (Philippines):  .Not applicable .. .. .
Evidence-Driven Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLAIMDev) (Philippines):  The CLAIMDev activity will bolster the capacity of USAID/Philippines to effectively lead and institutionalize collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) within the Mission, with a broader goal of enhancing USAID's development effectiveness. This activity will integrate CLA principles into the Mission's work - helping staff to strategically collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders, adopt a culture of continuous learning, and practice effective and agile adaptive management to achieve greater development impact. The activity will utilize earmarked Global Health, Climate Change, WASH, biodiversity, basic and higher education, TIP, and DRG funds.
OFDA-2014-Philippines/Typhoon-Grant-CRS Shelter/WASH Activities$5,341,121 Protection$ 66,336
Delivering Effective Government for Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth (DELIVER) (Philippines):  .USAID, through the DELIVER activity, assists the Philippine government, and forges partnerships with the private sector, industry players, and development stakeholders, to institutionalize innovative and lasting solutions in critical growth-enhancing programs, including in infrastructure development and delivery. USAID builds the capacity of infrastructure agencies and promotes private sector participation in infrastructure projects. USAID will support the Department of Public Works and Highways, Department of Transportation, and selected local government units to help address right-of-way bottlenecks and improve infrastructure project development, implementation, and monitoring mechanisms. USAID will support the passage of Philippine government priority infrastructure policies, which include the new Public-Private Partnership law and the 30-year National Infrastructure Program...USAID undertook fundamental work to advance these legislative bills in both houses of Congress, which adopted a considerable number of USAID's recommendations. USAID will use adaptation funds to leverage this positive policy trend to include climate-resilient infrastructure provisions in these laws in order to reduce economic losses from negative climate impacts. USAID will also use adaptation funds to advocate for regulatory agencies such as the Fiscal Incentives Board to grant incentives to firms that are willing to invest in resilient infrastructure projects and away from areas vulnerable to climate impacts. USAID will engage the Central Bank to explore insurance financing mechanisms for climate-resilient infrastructure investments and the Procurement Policy Board to incorporate climate resilience in evaluating bids. USAID will also look at potential incentive schemes to encourage government agencies and local government units to demonstrate strict implementation of environmental impact assessments and regulatory standards such as building codes. .... .. .