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PHILIPPINE AGENDA 21
CONCEPT OF PHILIPPINE AGENDA 21
• Philippine Agenda 21 is a commitment to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED).
• This is the Philippine perception of the Agenda 21. These are strategies being implemented, that are used for
the sustainable development of intervention areas.
• Sustainable development - “harmonious integration of a sound and viable economy, responsible governance,
social cohesion and ecological integrity, to ensure that development is a life-sustaining process.”
• Phil. Agenda 21 is a program of action into the 21st century for bringing the Earth into a sustainable future.
• It is panoramic and encompassing substance and unusual consensus process. It resonates with the concerns
and aspiration of the broadest sector of the society. It is also the highest framework for civil society.
R E C A P / W H AT I S A G E N D A 2 1 ?
• Agenda 21 is a movement to sustain the Earth for the future needs of people living on
it. It was brought up on the 21st century and was associated by governments around the
world through the United Nations (UN).
• This movement is concerned on the issues present on our economy, our society and our
environment, which made our people open to the reality that our resources are limited.
Through this, Agenda 21 states that people should manage resources for wise usage.
• Philippine Agenda 21 states their vision as, “PA 21 envisions a better
quality of life for all through the development of a just, moral, creative,
spiritual, economically-vibrant, caring, diverse yet cohesive society
characterized by appropriate productivity, participatory and democratic
process and living in harmony within the limits of the carrying capacity
of nature and the integrity of creation.” Through this, PA21 shows a good
motive on improving a better life for everyone to live in it.
PHILIPPINE AGENDA 21 (1996)

 Implemented on the year of 1996, after a year of
agenda 21's implication.
 In 1996, the leaders of the Asia Pacific Sustainable

Development Initiatives (APSUD) rallied around
Philippine agenda 21 as their framework for
H I S T O R Y/ I M P L E M E N TAT I O N
negotiations with government on APEC. Even those
O F P H I L I P P I N E A G E N D A 2 1 who questioned APSUD's stance in APEC did not
oppose PA21; rather they questioned the sincerity
of government in carrying out the promises they
made to have the Individual Action Plan (IAP)
governed by PA21.
 There was a revision of the Philippine Agenda 21

which was referred as “Enhanced PA21”
E N H A N C E D PA 2 1
The rise of globalization and the creation of an external environment of finance,

markets, and technology did not seem conducive to sustainable development.
The civil society needs to specify its commitments and contributions to achieving
sustainability in the updated document.
Government departments need to be imbued with the sustainable development

perspective with which to handle issues properly.
This focuses on the poverty reduction, social equity, empowerment and good
governance, peace and solidarity, and ecological integrity.
The Principles of
Unity
P HIL IPPIN E AG ENDA 21
( PA 21) IS O U R OWN
NAT IO NA L AG EN DA FO R
SUSTA IN A BL E
D E VE LO P MENT. IT IS The Action Agenda
BA SIC A LLY MA D E UP
O F :
The Implementation
Strategies
• Philippine Agenda 21 advocates a fundamental shift in development thinking and approach. It
departs from traditional conceptual frameworks that emphasize sector-based and macro
concerns. Philippine Agenda 21 promotes harmony and achieves sustainability by
emphasizing. A scale of intervention that is primarily area-based. The national and global
policy environment builds upon and supports area-based initiatives. Integrated island
development approaches where applicable. This recognizes the archipelagic character of the
Philippines which includes many small island provinces.
• People and integrity of nature at the center of development initiatives. This implies the
strengthening of roles, relationships, and interactions between and among stakeholders in
government, civil society, labor and business. Basic sectors have an important role to play in
achieving equity and managing the ecosystems that sustain life.
• 1. Primacy of Developing Full Human Potential. People are at the core
of development initiatives.
2. Holistic Science and Appropriate Technology. The search for

BENEFITS •
solutions to the complex milieu of development problems has to be
ACCORDING TO undertaken with the perspective that situates specific problems in the
larger social and ecological context. This approach facilitates the
A R T I C L E PA 2 1
development and use of appropriate technology.
PRINCIPLES OF
• 3. Cultural, Moral and Spiritual Sensitivity. Nurturing the inherent
UNITY strengths of local and indigenous knowledge, practices and beliefs
while respecting the cultural diversity, moral norms and spiritual
essence of Filipino society.
B E N E F I T S AC C O R D I N G TO A RT I C L E PA 2 1
PRINCIPLES OF UNITY
• 4. Self-determination. Respecting the right and relying on the inherent capacity of the
country and its peoples to decide on the course of their own development.
• 5. National Sovereignty. Self-determination at the national level where the norms of

society and the specifics of the local ecology inform national governance. Includes human
and environmental security as well as achieving and ensuring security and self-reliance in
basic staple foods.
• 6. Gender sensitivity. Recognizing the important and complementary roles and the
empowerment of both men and women in development.
B E N E F I T S A C C O R D I N G TO A R T I C L E PA 2 1
PRINCIPLES OF UNITY
• 7. Peace, Order And National Unity. Securing the right of all to a peaceful and secure
existence.
• 8. Social Justice, Inter-, Intra-Generational and Spatial Equity. Ensuring social cohesion
and harmony through equitable distribution of resources and providing the various
sectors of society with equal access to development opportunities and benefits today
and in the future.
• 9. Participatory democracy. Ensuring the participation and empowerment of all sectors

of society in development decision-making and processes and to operationalize
intersectoral and multi-sectoral consensus.
PRINCIPLES OF UNITY
• 10. Institutional viability. Recognizing that sustainable development is a shared, collective and
indivisible responsibility which calls for institutional structures that are built around the spirit
of solidarity, convergence and partnership between and among different stakeholders.
• 11. Viable, sound and broad-based economic development. Development founded on a

stable economy where the benefits of economic progress are equitably shared across ages,
communities, gender, social classes, ethnicities, geographical units and across generations.
• 12. Sustainable population. Achieving a sustainable population level, structure and

distribution while taking cognizance of the limited carrying capacity of nature and the
interweaving forces of population, culture, resources, environment and development.
• 13. Ecological soundness. Recognizing nature as our common heritage and thus respecting the
limited carrying capacity and integrity of nature in the development process to ensure the right of
present and future generations to this heritage.
• 14. Bio-geographical Equity and Community-Based Resource Management. Recognizing that since
communities residing within or most proximate to an ecosystem of a bio-geographic region will be
the ones to most directly and immediately feel the positive and negative impacts on that ecosystem,
they should be given prior claim to the development decisions affecting that ecosystem including
management of the resources. To ensure biogeography equity, other affected communities should be
involved in such decisions.
• 15. Global Cooperation. Building upon and contributing to the diverse capacities of individual
nations.
PRINCIPLES OF UNITY
D I M E N S I O N S O F S U S TA I N A B L E
DEVELOPMENT
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT Unless we see and explicitly acknowledge the
spiritual in nature, human beings and society in our framework of development, we
can never do justice to the strong sense of Philippine spirituality that permeates
Philippine Agenda 21.v
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Existing measures of human development, such as

the Human Development Index (HDI), which are limited to health, education and
income, indicate some improvement over time. This improvement has in part been
achieved through greater empowerment of the populace.
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
• Promoting resource access and upholding property rights

• Promoting environmental awareness, inculcating environment ethics and
supporting environment management actionv
POLITICAL DEVEL0PMENT
• Empowering the people

• Maintaining peace and order
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
 Maintaining a sustainable population
 Maintaining productivity and profitability of environment and natural resources
ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
 Adopting environmental management weapons in policy and decision making
 Protecting the environment and conserving natural resources
REFERENCE
• https://www.psdn.org.ph/pienc/pa21.html

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PHILIPPINE AGENDA 21

CONCEPT OF PHILIPPINE AGENDA 21

PHILIPPINE AGENDA 21 (1996)

 In 1996, the leaders of the Asia Pacific Sustainable

 There was a revision of the Philippine Agenda 21

The rise of globalization and the creation of an external environment of finance,

Government departments need to be imbued with the sustainable development

2. Holistic Science and Appropriate Technology. The search for

• 5. National Sovereignty. Self-determination at the national level where the norms of

• 9. Participatory democracy. Ensuring the participation and empowerment of all sectors

• 11. Viable, sound and broad-based economic development. Development founded on a

• 12. Sustainable population. Achieving a sustainable population level, structure and

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Existing measures of human development, such as

• Promoting resource access and upholding property rights

• Empowering the people

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