Philippines

Since 2012, Acted has provided emergency relief, recovery, and resilience under the Zero Poverty Pillar of its 2020-2025 programme strategy. Through this approach, Acted is providing support to households affected by natural hazards or humanmade disasters and is supporting crisis-affected households on their journey to recovery, through sustainable WaSH and shelter assistance. Acted is also working towards inclusive economic growth to close the gap between the economic growth of the country and the inequalities faced by the population.

To achieve Zero Exclusion, Acted is focusing on promoting peace and social cohesion in the BARMM region, engaging with community and religious leaders, local officials and media practitioners from the Bangsamoro, Christian and Indigenous People to improve the tolerance and the peaceful cohabitation of the Tri-People. As part of its commitment to helping a pluralistic and empowered civil society to flourish, Acted has been supporting more than 100 CSOs in the Philippines, helping women-led grassroot initiatives.

Finally, under its Zero Carbon mandate, Acted has been steadfast in supporting efforts towards circular agriculture through its work with women-led agricultural cooperatives in BARMM. Acted also promotes sustainable infrastructure in the Philippines by working with local government units to roll out climate resilient WaSH facilities at the community and household levels in areas highly vulnerable to climate change.

In the Philippines, Acted is working towards the 3ZERO objective through an innovative and transversal approach and flagship programmes:

• The 3ZERO House is a collaborative space, grounded in local eco-systems, that serves to multiply and accelerate partnerships, innovations, and solutions in a country by local actors. To this end, the 3ZERO House in Manila serves as a unique hub that innovate, connect and unleash the potential of diverse actors from every sector.
• Grassroots Organization Capacity Assessment (GOCA), Acted’ signature civil society organizational capacity assessment and development toolkit, to analyse the organisational and institutional capacity of local and national civil society organisations (CSOs)