a. Encourage multistakeholder partnership through enabling mechanisms that encourage greater stakeholders' participation and commitments, including:
• Community-based natural resources management efforts in forestry, biodiversity conservation, protected area management, coastal resource management and integrating resilience especially among vulnerable groups (women, children, elderly, etc);
• Partnership with the business sector in cleaning the environment, natural resource management, DRR and CCA;
• Devolution of relevant ENR mandate to LGUs accompanied by capacity development;
• Mandatory creation of Environment and Natural Resources Offices for LGUs;
• Provision of effective mechanisms that will empower marginalized groups as important partners for the sustainable development and management of natural resources;
• Tenurial security both in upland and coastal areas and recognition of indigenous peoples' rights to their ancestral domain;
• Stewardship agreements and/or contracts between government and community; and
• Improved multistakeholder's effectiveness in enforcing environmental law.
b. Reduce graft and corruption:
• Curbing graft and corruption in the natural resources sector is crucial to improving environmental governance. Transparency in decision-making and in the disposition of revenues raised from extraction, processing, and sale of natural products must be ensured. Philippine participation in the EITI is also important. The "greening" of the judiciary should also be pursued. The desired end is a vigorous and consistent enforcement of environmental laws and policies.
c. Harmonize and streamline efforts in protection and conservation:
• Environmental governance should be emphasized in the local level. There should be clear delineation of duties and responsibilities of stakeholders. ENR management strategies should also be harmonized horizontally and vertically. Furthermore, harmonization and strengthening of DENR's policies, plans and programs related to the different ecosystems and natural resources will be pursued. Relatedly, requirements for environmental permits (e.g., ECC) will be streamlined and simplified.
d. Implement Convergence Initiative:
• Facilitate complementation of different agencies to ensure that resources are maximized by achieving synergy and institutional efficiency;
• Build partnerships between and among the local communities, LGUs, and government agencies to ensure that all development interventions are based on the actual needs and aspirations of the community; and
• Achieve spatial integration within the different ecosystems to ensure environmental integrity and sustainability.