Introduction

This blog will contain monitoring reports on the performance of Senator Grace Poe on the Greens PH's  GREENING THE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK AGENDA. 

This agenda covers the following items:

1. Revival of Philippine Agenda 21 (PA21) through the implementation of constitutional provisions on peoples' participation in development planning & implementation through the local development councils requiring national development plans to be developed from local (barangay/village up to regions) sustainable development plans.
2. Replace MACROECONOMICS by PA21 as the main framework of the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) process of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA).
3. Conduct multi-sectoral efforts in the formulation of a National Environment Development Plan to integrate PA 21 as the main policy framework of the Philippine Government.
4. The Adoption of the Cultural, Natural and Economic (CNE) model as an analytical tool of PA 21 on Sustainable Development for adoption in all of the regions of the country.
5. Prioritize local economic development and tangkilikan including massive promotion & implementation of “buy local and buy Filipino products” This includes providing financial, technical and market support services for the development of viable and affordable local “green” products and services with priority to small and medium scale enterprises.
6. Promote massive inter-community sharing of best practices on green productivity, fair trade and green enterprise development systems, approaches and mechanisms
7. Fully implement the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) within the 5-year extension period and mobilize the improved capacity of CARP beneficiaries towards sustainable agriculture and other related sustainable enterprises
8. Repeal of Presidential Decree (PD) 1177 or the Automatic Appropriations Act that requires at least 40% of our national income to be automatically set-aside for debt payments as this has led to economic programs that erode our natural resource base.
9. Amend the Philippine Administrative Code towards full decentralization of tax management and empower communities to raise the necessary resources from tax revenues to finance their local development plans.
10. Abolish the “pork barrel” of both congress and the executive (PDAF, CA, PSF and others). Re-affirm the role of the legislature purely in national policy formulation and necessary oversight functions and away from priority-setting beyond the General Appropriations Act
11. Limit the power of the President to bulk allocations of large public funds and instead subject this to detailed allocation within the GAA process. Congress' PDAF and CA May allocation must instead be used to increase allocation of LGUs internal revenue allotments to promote equitable sharing of development resources.
12. Push both houses of Congress to form, together with an independent 3rd party a multi-sectoral body for a pro-active and comprehensive review of all treaties and agreements entered into by the Philippine government to determine their negative impacts to our local economy, public health and environment; optimize existing provisions of these agreements for redress and to mitigation of negative impacts.
13. Pass rules, regulations and necessary comprehensive legislation to require multi-sectoral and nationwide consultative mechanisms for succeeding treaties and agreements entered into by Philippine government subject to transparent coverage and monitoring by mass media & other interested CSOs based on the right to information and precautionary principles.
14. Establish an independent monitoring system on the impacts of the JPEPA (Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement) implementation that can be used by the Philippine Senate for determine cause for early revocation of this specific trade agreement.
15. Push for the appropriate action of LGUs to optimize the provision of JPEPA providing leeway for local communities to allow exemptions on specific provisions for each locality by way of local ordinances to protect themselves against any negative impacts of the implementation of JPEPA provision in their jurisdiction.