PH’s First UN Global Champion for Resilience Says: We Need to Work Double Time for DRR

Senator Loren Legarda today said that even with the increased awareness of people on the issues of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), the Philippines as a nation and the whole world must work double time to improve resilience.
Legarda made the statement during the conferment of her appointment as Global Champion for Resilience by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). The certificate of appointment was given to the Senator by Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom, outgoing […]

Statement of Senator Loren Legarda Chair, Senate Committee on Finance

“The whole budgetary process was done in the most transparent and inclusive manner. The bicameral conference committee proposed changes which were contained in the bicameral report that the Senate ratified as a body and thus carried in the General Appropriations Act.

“The Department of Health (DOH) Family Health and Responsible Parenting (FHRP) program has an allocation of P2.2 Billion in 2016 and more than P1.2 Billion in the last quarter of 2015 to be implemented in 2016. There are also projected savings of P8.8 Billion which can be used.

Legarda: There’s Sufficient Fund for Contraceptives

Senator Loren Legarda, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance, today further clarified the issue on the budget cut for the Department of Health’s (DOH) Family Health and Responsible Parenting (FHRP) program.

Legarda: Ipatupad ang ‘road-sharing scheme’

Hinihikayat ni Senador Loren Legarda ang Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) at lokal na unit ng gobyerno na ipatupad ang road sharing scheme sa Kalakhang Maynila upang mabawasan ang polusyon.
Sa isang special provision sa ating budget para sa 2016, nakasaad doon ang paglalaan ng pondo para sa road sharing activities.
Ayon kay Legarda, panahon na para wakasan ang car-centric approach kung saan naisasantabi ang mga sumasaky sa pampublikong sasakyan.
Sa road sharing scheme, 50% ng kalsada ay gagawing sidewalk para sa pedestrian, […]

1.67B still intended for contraceptives – Legarda

MANILA – Sen. Loren Legarda clarified that the Department of Health (DOH) will still have an appropriation of P1.67 billlion intended for contraceptive purchases.

Earlier, Sec. Janette Garin revealed that the bicameral conference committee slashed P1 billion from DOH’s Family Health and Responsible Parenting (FHRP) program.