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11 July 2017

Philippines launches GPP Roadmap with EU SWITCH PSC programme

The Philippine Government has launched a Green Public Procurement Roadmap with technical support from the EU-SWITCH PSC programme, aimed at reducing the environmental impact of goods and services procured by Philippine government agencies.

The Roadmap, which is part of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022’s Strategic Framework to Ensure Ecological Integrity, Clean and Healthy Environment, focuses on core green criteria across 20 product categories which will be made gradually more comprehensive in the coming years. The Philippine government will use the GPP Roadmap to demonstrate how a Life-Cycle Costing (LCC) approach taken by procurers can influence manufacturing practice, and represent a Philippine contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The Roadmap has been in development since 2016 under the direction of the Government Procurement Policy Board-Technical Support Office (GPPB-TSO).

For more information on GPP in the Philippines, visit the Philippine government's GPPB-TSO website. Further information on the SWITCH Asia programme can be found on the dedicated European Commission website.