Almost two years after Typhoon Odette, displaced Badjao community gets support for rehabilitation under UN-Habitat’s new project.
Waste Management
This rapid assessment aimed to identify and quantitatively estimate the waste management infrastructure gaps for plastic waste in the Philippines.
It discusses existing circular economy initiatives in the six partner cities of UN-Habitat’s Healthy Oceans and Clean Cities Initiative.
This paper aims to explore barriers and motivations, and offer recommendations to promote behavior change for plastic waste reduction.
This guide aims to engage facilitators and learners to raise awareness on marine litter and its impacts, and empower to take action.
This paper presents different proposed and existing extended producer responsibility models and their application to plastic waste management.
By recycling plastic waste, Healthy Oceans and Clean Cities Initiative aims for members of the community to gain not just profit, but also a sense of purpose and fulfillment.
A a compilation of marine litter baseline studies, issues, and initiatives in the Philippines
UN-Habitat Philippines joins countries, cities, and towns across the globe in celebrating World Habitat Day on October 4, 2021, with the event “Race to Zero PH: Reflecting Waste as Resource in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time.”
<ore than 100 local experts and planners from the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Calapan, Davao, Legazpi, Manila, Naga, and Ormoc, and national government agencies such the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources and the Department of Human Settlement and Urban Development, participated in the hands-on training on hotspotting technologies and modeling software.
