Local government units (LGUs) can now submit project proposals to access the People’s Survival Fund (PSF) — a grant facility for LGUs to implement local climate change adaptation initiatives.
Aligned with the objective of advancing local resilience, the Department of Finance (DOF), chairing the PSF Board, issued the Call for Proposals enabling access by LGUs to PSF.
To access the PSF, LGUs shall complete the following documentary requirements:
1) Letter of Intent;
2) Accomplished Project Proposal Template;
3) Adaptation references such as Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessments, CCA-DRR-Enhanced Comprehensive Land Use/ Development Plans, and Local Climate Change Action Plan; and
4) the Annual Investment Plan.
Submissions shall be made through the PSF Board Secretariat in the DOF.
The Call for Proposals closes on 31 March 2023.
In 2015, the PSF was launched to provide long-stream finance for adaptation projects of LGUs and local/community organizations aimed at increasing the resilience of communities and ecosystems to climate change.
Under Republic Act 10174 of 2012, the PSF is managed by a Board, chaired by the DOF, with the Climate Change Commission PH, Department of Budget and Management, National Economic and Development Authority, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Philippine Commission on Women, and sectoral representatives as members.
More information about the PSF, including templates, may be downloaded through the CCC website at www.climate.gov.ph.
