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About PCP4NbS

Let’s work together! Learn more about our program on nature-based solutions for climate adaptation.

The Philippines-Canada Partnership on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Adaptation (PCP4NbS), a program led by Forest Foundation Philippines and funded by the Government of Canada, seeks to contribute to strengthening climate resilience of communities, particularly rural and indigenous women, while ensuring co-benefits from, and for, natural resources and healthy ecosystems.
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The Government of Canada has committed CA$ 8 million (PHP 332 million) for program implementation from 2024 to 2028. The fund, managed by Forest Foundation Philippines, will support local organizations in implementing holistic, community-based, and gender-responsive initiatives based on NbS principles.

Grounded in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Standard for NbS, the program targets the three wins of biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, and ensuring gender equality in natural resource management.

Forest Foundation Philippines

Forest Foundation Philippines is a nonprofit organization that provides grants and technical assistance to individuals and organizations that empower the people to protect and conserve the forests. The Foundation is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation Inc.

Global Affairs Canada

Global Affairs Canada is a Canadian government department that promotes Canadian interests and values globally. This office manages diplomatic relations, trade, consular services and leads international development, peace, and security efforts.

The department prioritizes gender equality, health, education, humanitarian aid, and climate action, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. In 2024, Canada and the Philippines celebrate 75 years of relations, with Canada contributing over $1 billion in aid to the Philippines since 1986.

Program Updates

Forest Foundation Philippines partners with Negros Occidental and the Northern Negros Natural Park (NNNP) for the conservation of forests and biodiversity through nature-based solutions

Ms. Catherine Balasa (DENR-PENRO); Engr. Joan Nathaniel Gerangaya (PENRO and NNNP Superintendent), with Atty. Jose Andres Canivel (Forest Foundation Philippines), Ms. Lisa Paguntalan, (PhilBio); and Hon. David Hartman (Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines) signed two MOUs with Negros Occidental and NNNP on November 6, 2024.

Stakeholders in Negros Occidental during the Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) by Bayi

The GBA+ in all sites is being done by PCP4NbS partner Bayi, as part of the program’s baseline assessments, to identify key socio-cultural and economic issues being experienced by relevant stakeholders of all genders in the priority areas. Together with the Vulnerability and Risk Assessment, insights from the GBA+ inform the request for proposals for NbS projects to help reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to climate change impacts for communities.

Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) co-development workshop in Malogo River Watershed with the program’s partner, the University of the Philippines Los Baños Interdisciplinary Studies Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Environment Management

The VRAs involve workshops with target stakeholders in the sites, to identify priority issues that need to be addressed by nature-based solutions projects, through site-based grants.

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Forest Foundation Philippines and the Government of Canada launched its Site-Based Grants in Negros Occidental as part of the Philippines-Canada Partnership on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Adaptation

Civil society organizations, peoples organizations and non-government organizations came together last November 6, 2024, to envision priority sites in Negros Occidental – Malogo and Sicaba River Watersheds – supported by communities that adopt gender-responsive NbS for climate adaptation.

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Forest Foundation Philippines is a nonprofit organization that provides grants and technical assistance to individuals and organizations that empower the people to protect and conserve the forests. The Forest Foundation Philippines is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation Inc.

Global Affairs Canada is a Canadian government department that promotes Canadian interests and values globally. This office manages diplomatic relations, trade, consular servicesand leads international development, peace, and security efforts. The department prioritizes gender equality, health, education, humanitarian aid, and climate action, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. In 2024, Canada and the Philippines celebrate 75 years of relations, with Canada contributing over $1 billion in aid to the Philippines since 1986.