Upland Development Program

OBJECTIVES

   To create immediate additional incomes for upland households in support of the hunger mitigation program, and supporting the development of sustainable livelihood.

       The resources of the DENR for CY 2009 in forest development and management have been substantially reconfigured in order to accelerate the restoration of the environmental service functions of vital watersheds and protected areas. This, in addition to simultaneously catalyzing the improvement of productivity of the uplands, creating incomes of upland poor, mitigating hunger among highly vulnerable populations, engaging organized upland communities, and providing the climate for gainful economic production for poor upland dwellers. The following are the related policies and guidelines of the Program:

• DENR MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR 2009-06
  Administrative and Financial Guidelines of the Upland Development Program



• DENR MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR 2009-05
  Amendment of Memorandum Circular 2009-03 - "Supplemental Guidelines and Procedures in the Implementation of the Upland Development Program"



• DENR MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR 2009-04
  Adendum to DENR Memorandum Circular 2009-03 Re: "Supplemental Guidelines and Procedures in the Implementation of the Upland Development Program"



• DENR MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR 2009-03
  Supplemental Guidelines and Procedures in the Implementation of the Upland Development Program



• DENR MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR 2008-04
  The 2009 Upland Development Program (Reforestation and Agro-forestry)



• DENR SPECIAL ORDER No. 2008-765
  Creating the Upland Development Program Management and Advisory Committee, Technical Working Group and Program Operations Group in the National, Regional and Provincial Levels



• FMB MEMORANDUM
  Memorandum from FMB Director Acosta dated 08-Dec-2008 for all the DENR Regional Executive Directors requesting all FIS-GIS Focal Persons to extend their full assistance to the activities of SUPD.

    To develop and manage watersheds of irrigation and municipal water systems, headwaters and major river systems, mangrove, coastal zones, protected areas, and protection forest.

   To pump-prime the local economy in the uplands where investments are made;

   To demonstrate measurable and verifiable positive effects on the environmental services, including water, soil conservation, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.