First National Grassroots Conference on Mining

• Proponent: Philippine Federation of Environmental Concerns
• Amount: 1,579,511.50
• Project Start Date: January 21, 2005
• Project End Date: May 01, 2005
• Grant Type: Constituency - Building Grants
• Area: National
• Grant Status: Past

Project Goals and Objectives

to empower communities to confront the threats of mining, particularly to provide a venue for sharing experiences and struggles of communities affected by mining; identify strengths and gaps in strategies in addressing issues on mining particularly on the legal and legislative aspects; formulate strategies and action plan to address environment, health and other problems brought by mining, strengthen strategies for information and education campaign, and plan towards the creation of information and resource centers at the regional and local levels and formation of coordination mechanisms among community leaders