Sen. Pia Cayetano pushed for funding amounting to 6.3 million pesos in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) to support UP Visayas projects this 2023, and as part of her Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight Initiatives.
The program title is "Capacity Building, Policy Review, and Innovative Legislation Toward Coastline Protection and Development for a Sustainable Future." The program is designed with the general aim of protecting and developing coastlines and communities for a sustainable future.
UPV proposes a three-year program that shall accomplish the following:
1.) Establish partnerships for integrated coastline protection, resilience, and sustainable development through Science and evidence-based capacity development and stakeholder engagement;
2.) conduct policy review and publish a development compendium that contributes to coastline protection and resilience, and to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the country; and
3.) draft proposed legislation creating a National Center for Coastline Protection, Resilience, and Sustainable Development.
Chancellor Clement C. Camposano, for his part, thanked Sen. Cayetano for trusting the University, adding that, "this is concrete evidence of 'futures thinking.'"
