National Greening Program

(E.O. No. 26 and DMC2011-01)

Biswas, Aldhelm Joy Q.
What is “National Greening Program”

 A program seeking to plant some 1.5 billion trees covering about 1.5 million
hectares for a period of 6 years from 2011 to 2016, in lands of the public
domain

 These lands include forestlands, mangrove and protected areas, ancestral

domais, civil and military reservations, and urban areas.
Objectives

 Human Security
 Increased household incomes
 Enhanced environmental stewardship
 Improved general well being of communities
 Economic Security
 Increased economic security
 Increased interest in technology and business development
 Increased production of crops and forest based materials
 Ecological Security
 Increased environmental stability
 Sustained provision of ecosystem goods and services
Scope and Coverage

 Areas for development

 Forestlands
 Mangrove areas and protected areas
 Ancestral domains
 Civil and military reservations
 Urban areas identified by the LGUs such as urban parks and open spaces, highways
and roadsides, church, schools and office compounds
 Inactive and abandoned mine sites, riverbanks, stream banks and other suitable
public lands
 Development Components
 Production of planting materials for forest trees and fruit tree species and bamboo
in nurseries and other appropriate sites
 Development of upland farms through agroforestry and rainforestation
 Reforestation of grasslands/brushlands and rehabilitation of coastal and mangrove
areas in community managed forestlands , consistent with their respective
management plans
 Rehabilitation of degraded areas in priority watersheds and protected areas
 Rehabilitation of rivers and stream banks and other suitable areas using bamboos
 Development of trees/forest parks and greenbelts in suitable sites in urban areas
 Targets for development
 Annual targets for development under the NGP shall be set to achieve the total
target of 1.5 million hectares in six years
What will make it work?

 Social Mobilization
 The government, private sector, people’s organizations, non-government
organizations, and civil society join hands in the activities of the NGP as volunteer
planters, long term plantation stewards or donors
 For the first time, the NGP is driven, not just by one, but by all government
agencies through a National Convergence Initiative
 Harmonization of initiatives
 This NGP is a first as it consolidates and harmonizes all greening efforts such as the
Upland Development program, Green Philippines Highways, Luntiang Pilipinas and
other similar activities of the government, private sector, local government units
and the civil society
 Provision of Incentives
 All proceeds from Agroforestry plantations, duly accounted by the DENR, shall
accrue to the NGP beneficiary communities. This shall be given priority in the
conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the DSWD
 Use Appropriate Science and Technology
 Target areas and inputs will be identified; land use optimized (determining site
specific crops/trees and markets); seeding quality ensured and organic fertilizers
such as mycorrhizal fungi and vermi composing employed
 Maintenance and protection
 With appropriate assistance from DA, DAR, DENR, DSWD, LGU’s and other
government agencies and instrumentalities, and the private sector, the members of
the PO’s concerned shall be primarily responsible for the maintenance and
protection of the established plantations.
 Expanded NGP (E.O. No. 193)
 The coverage of the national greening program is hereby expanded to cover all the
remaining unproductive, denuded and degraded forestlands and its period of
implementation is likewise extended from 2016 - 2028