Bayanihan CLEAN & GREEN – Pasay City Government, Manila, Philippines

Bayanihan CLEAN & GREEN – Pasay City Government, Manila, Philippines (Bayanihan Community Led Environment Awareness Network & Generating Resources Energizing the Environment Network- Pasay)

Training on Home-made Biodiesel Technology . That is converting used cooking oil to biodiesel that is both useful and environment friendly source of energy.

Bayanihan CLEAN& GREEN Program is MDG-responsive, savings-driven financial intermediation and environment-friendly income generating livelihood skills enhancement system. It helps establish triple bottom-line supply chain of social enterprises and develops life-long habits of active citizenship and environmental stewardship. It envisages learning and earning through community participation, group savings mobilization, simple environmental watching/assessment, network praying/intercession, livelihood skills training and operation of social enterprise s owned and managed by the people. It brings together all efforts of government agencies, FBOs, cooperatives and youth organizations in a complementary action plan, sharing ideas and working together for a common goal.

Training on Kitchenwaste Recycling using EMA/Bokashi. Using Bokashi Effective and Active Microorganisms equip the families to recycle their kitchen waste as fast as 2 to 3 weeks thru odorless fermentation

It starts with the formation of savings-driven Bayanihan CLEAN & GREEN (BCG) Centers, composed of 20-30 low-income households, who mutually agreed to meet, save small amounts weekly, passes through a “testing period” and governed by 5 elected officers. Secondly, the BCG center systematically diagnose the symptoms of disaster impact and other external threats to the MDGs in the community generating awareness among citizens, decision-makers and stakeholders in society. Together they implore the aid of Almighty God thru Prayers/Intercession to ensure the sustainability of MDG gains and environmental quality. Thirdly, the center apply quick holistic interventions thru demand-oriented livelihood skills training participated by members under a public, private, civil society partnership network. Fourthly, BCG members propel the zero waste economy by operationalizing the triple bottom-line supply chains of social enterprises focusing on environmental sustainability.

The Bayanihan CLEAN & GREEN programme envisions to make poor households become Empowered Households that are MDG Advocates and Achievers, Savers, Livelihood skilled, Effectively accessing interventions enjoying Increased Income, small business operators, Life skills-equipped and character-built.

To achieve this, the target clientele are formed into savings group, the Bayanihan CLEAN and GREEN Center, who sourced funds through their savings deposit achieving sustainable savings formation.

The Community Led Environment Awareness Network (CLEAN) component is a simple diagnosis, watching, interceding of critical disaster-impact causing environmental attributes or hazards and threats to the MDGs. The center or SGH/ network members identifies symptoms that can cause disaster in flood-prone areas, Dengue Watch in slum communities, Dog Watch for rabies, Air Watch for clean air, etc. Imploring the aid of Almighty God as stated in the Philippine preamble, the BSG Center/network prays/intercedes to prevent or mitigate the effects of disaster (CLEAN symptoms checklist) during their regular meetings.

The Generating Resources Energizing the Environment Network (GREEN) component is a response mechanism that pro-actively matches the diagnosis and the appropriate holistic interventions. The BCG Center/network members are equipped on demand-oriented, ecological skills livelihood training (hands-on) to effectively and efficiently match/address the environment concerns in the community. Depending on the diagnosed local problems, in partnership with the government and business sector, the BCG Center/network practices the interventions thru livelihood starter kits of small enterprises such as vermicomposting, hydroponics, styrocrete making, biodiesel, biogas making, kitchen waste,recycling, aquaponics, wetland methods, etc making them social entereprenuers.

The fourth component is marketing the program by showcasing triple bottom-line chain of social enterprises owned and operated by empowered households thru the Peoples Congress/Trade Fair. (pasay.gov.ph/ MARCH 24, 2011)