About PEENRA

Implementing Rules and Regulations of EO 406

4. Institutional Linkages and Organizational Structures

The institutions involved in the development and maintenance of the PEENRA System include the PEENRA Steering Committee (PEENRA-SC), the Inter-Agency Committee (IAC) on PEENRA and the designated PEENRA Units within the organizational structure of NSCB, DENR and NEDA.  Other agencies shall also be designated to form part of the system which will take the roles as compilers, data producers and users.

4.1 Coordinative Mechanisms

The PEENRA Steering Committee and the Inter-Agency Committee (IAC) shall provide the necessary coordinative mechanism in the implementation of the EO No. 406.

4.1.1. PEENRA Steering Committee

The PEENRA Steering Committee shall perform the following functions:

1. to provide overall direction and ensure effective implementation of the EO No. 406;
2. to resolve issues and problems in the development and operationalization of the PEENRA based on recommendations of the IAC;
3. to ensure the use of standard concepts and approaches in the generation and dissemination of PEENRA data; and
4. to approve an efficient workable scheme for the institutionalization of the PEENRA System.

The PEENRA Steering Committee whose composition is indicated in the EO No. 406 shall be chaired by the Secretary of Socio-Economic Planning and NEDA Director-General who is at the same time the Chairman of the Philippine Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD).  Member agencies shall come from government and non-government sectors.  Permanent and alternate members to the committee shall be designated for each member agency.  For government, member agencies shall be represented by designated undersecretary level officials of NSCB, DENR, NSO, DTI, and DA.  There will be representative from the non-government sector to include one (1) representative each from the academe, NGO/PO, business and labor sectors.

The NSCB shall serve as the secretariat of the PEENRA-SC and  other inter-agency committees, ad-hoc and taskforce created under it.

4.1.2. Inter-Agency Committee on PPEENRA

An Inter-Agency Committee shall be created to perform the following functions:

1. to serve as a  forum for discussion of problems and issues encountered by compilers, data producers and users of PEENRA System as well as identify strategies to resolve such problems and issues;
2. to assess and evaluate available environmental statistics/indicators as input to the compilation of the PEENRA System in terms of their quality and timeliness, determine areas of duplication, discrepancies and gaps as well as come up with recommendations for improvement;
3. to recommend policies on data standards in support of the PEENRA System;
4. to recommend and efficient workable schemes for the institutionalization of the PEENRA System;
5. to recommend the creation of the technical working groups as necessary;
6. to report periodically to the PEENRA-SC; and
7. to perform other tasks are maybe assigned by the PEENRA-SC.

The Inter-Agency Committee on PEENRA shall be chaired by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).  Members shall be duly designated representatives from the DENR, NEDA, NSO, DTI, and DA.  The IAC membership can be expanded as the need arises to provide representation of other sectors for the PEENRA compilation.

Coordinators and support staff shall be designated to assist the PEENRA-SC and IAC in carrying out their respective functions.  It shall be drawn from the existing staff of the NSCB, the agency assigned to act as the secretariat to the PEENRA-SC and IACs.  The following are their specific functions:

1. Coordinators - to coordinate and monitor the effective implementation of the various activities of the PEENRA-SC and IACs including the TWGs as well as prepare status reports and other relevant documents for the committees' activities.
2. Support Staff - to provide secretariat services to the committees, take charge of the preparation of the discussion materials for the meetings as well as the highlights/minutes/proceedings of  the committees' meetings, workshops and other related activities.

4.2. PEENRA Units

PEENRA units shall be created within the organizational structure of the NSCB and the DENR.  A unit at NEDA shall be designated to coordinate ENRA activities and the agency's current personnel shall be augmented to assume the PEENRA functions.  The PEENRA units shall closely coordinate to ensure consistency and complementarily of activities in support for PEENRA.  Other agencies which will provide inputs to and adopt the PEENRA System may establish their own PEENRA units as necessary.

At designated PEENRA units of the NSCB, NEDA and DENR, the structures and specific functions of the PEENRA units are as follows:

4.2.1. National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB)

The PEENRA unit at NSCB shall be designated as one division under the Economic and Social Statistics Office.  It shall perform the following functions:

1. compile the environmental accounts, study and formulate viable approaches and methodologies for the PEENRA;
2. explore ways and means to modify and improve current environmental and economic statistics, in coordination with the concerned data producing agencies as well data users;
3. serve as repository of all PEENRA-related data materials through the National Statistical Information Center which the NSCB has established;
4. to provide technical and secretariat services to the Inter-agency committee and Task Forces which the PEENRA Steering Committee may create for the coordinated functioning of the data generating agencies;
5. act as secretariat of the PEENRA Steering Committee; and
6. to perform other tasks as maybe assigned by the PEENRA-SC.

4.3. Functional Responsibilities

The agencies involved in the PEENRA System shall take the roles as compilers of the PEENRA, data producers and users of PEENRA results.  Thus, the following agencies including their roles in the system which are as follows:

4.3.1. Compilers

The NSCB, which is the agency tasked with the compilation of the System of National Accounts (SNA), shall also be designated as the major compiler of the PEENRA.  While other PEENRA agencies shall be designated to compile the sectoral resource accounts, the NSCB as the lead agency shall be responsible for integrating the accounts.  The PEENRA shall be lodged at the NSCB.

As PEENRA compilers, the following are their responsibilities:

1. NSCB  -  shall compile the environmental accounts and in the interim, shall compile the asset  accounts for land/soil and water resources until an appropriate agency is identified.
2. DENR - shall compile the asset accounts for forest, mineral, and biological and genetic resource.
3. DA - shall compile the asset accounts for aquatic resources.

4.3.2. Data Producers

The following are identified as data producers of the PEENRA:

1. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) bureaus, attached agencies and field offices:
   
   a.1. Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (ERDB)
   a.2. Environment Management Bureau (EMB)
   a.3. Forest management Bureau (FMB)
   a.4. Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA)
   a.5. Land Management Bureau (LMB)
   a.6. Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau (MGB)
   a.7. National Mapping & Resource Information Authority (NAMREA)
   a.8. Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB)
   a.9. Other offices and attached agencies
2. Department of Agriculture (DA) bureau and attached agencies:
   
   b.1. Bureau of Agricultural statistics (BAS)
   b.2. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)
   b.3. Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM)
   b.4. Philippine Fisheries and Development Authority (PFDA)
   b.5. Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR)
   b.6. Other bureaus and attached agencies
3. Department of Energy (DOE) and attached agencies
   
   c.1. National electrification Administration (NEA)
   c.2. National power Corporation (NAPOCOR)
   c.3. Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC)
4. National Statistics Office (NSO)
   
5. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
   
6. Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES)
   
7. Land Transportation Office (LTO)
   
8. National Water Resources Board (NWRB)
   
9. Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA)
   
10. Bureau of Research and Standards (BRS)
    
11. Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
    
12. Department of Health (DOH)
    
13. Other relevant data producers

As data producers, they are responsible for the following:

1. identify means for the generation and improvement of required data;
2. provide data support in the compilation of the PEENRA; and
3. prepare a program of activities for the improvement of the data.

4.3.3. Users of PEENRA

The following are identified as users of the PEENRA:

1. National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
2. Office of the President (OP)
3. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
4. Department of Agriculture (DA)
5. Department of Energy (DOE)
6. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
7. Senate
8. House of Representative
9. Philippine Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD)
10. Academe/Researchers
11. Non-Government Organizations and People's Organization
12. Local Government Units
13. Other government agencies
14. Other concerned groups

The data users shall be responsible for doing the analysis of the PEENRA results and its applications for planning and policy making.  They will be encouraged to utilize the PEENRA results as well as provide feedback and make attributions on the use of these results.

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