As of 2016, the GEF has funded extra than 24,000 community and civil society initiatives in environmental safety and the conservation of efficient landscapes and seascapes international, in step with the organisation’s website.
Octavio’s ASHI is a non-government organization that replicates the Grameen Bank technique within the Philippines. Now on its twenty fifth year, ASHI has helped extra than 37,000 households who’re in general living in far flung regions. ASHI’s general mortgage portfolio has reached P491,097,959. Retention fee has been maintained at ninety four percent in the past 5 years and the repayment charge at 98 percentage.
Dr. Naomi Tangonan (PhD, Plant Pathology, 1984, UPLB), Dr. Lucrecio L. Rebugio (PhD Community Development, 1977, UPLB), Dr. Segfredo R. Serrano (PhD Agricultural Economics, 1988, UPLB) joined Ganapin and Octavio most of the remarkable SEARCA alumni. Others honored through the research middle included students from Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia.