Role and involvement of nongovernmental organizations in the sustainable development of coastal resources
1991
Kalaw, M.T. Jr. (Haribon Foundation, Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila (Philippines))
Several ecological brought about by the devastation of natural resources challenged nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the Philippines to evolve dramatically from welfare services institutions to community developers and dynamic champions of the people's cause. Haribon Foundation, now the largest and leading environmental NGO, best exemplifies this metamorphosis. In 1989, it convened a large coalition of organizations under a program framework, the Green Forum-Philippines. Unfortunately, the parallel trend in the public's growing environmental awareness has been met with government inertia. In the face of this predicament, the Green Forum-Philippines recommends shift in authority from ideology to ecology and power from the state to the people, where NGO's main function is to empower people and communities towards self-development and self-government. On a broader scale, ASEAN NGO's should take advantage of the region's unequalled biodiversity and transform it into a global center of life science. Initially, an ASEAN academy of life science is proposed as a basis for a more concrete transnational advocacy.
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