Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in the Philippines through DTI's Green Public Procurement (GPP) Program - SWITCH-Asia ...

Promoting Sustainable Consumption
and Production (SCP) in the
Philippines through DTI’s Green Public
Procurement (GPP) Program
      SWITCH-Asia Networking Meeting at the ASEAN +3 Leadership Forum
      30 September – 1 October 2014
      Denpasar, Indonesia

The Project

 Department of Trade and Industry-Green Public
                 Procurement
- launched in January 2013
- a partnership between the Philippine Government
  and the European Union through its Switch Asia
  Policy Programme
- an inter-office initiative led by the General Services
  Division (GSD) under DTI’s Management Services
  Group (MSG) in collaboration with other
  bureaus/offices

Policy Framework

* 2011-2016 Philippine Development Plan

* Executive Order 301, s 2004

* RA 9003 (Ecological Solid Waste Management
  Act of 2000)

* RA 9184 (New Government Procurement Act)

Logical Framework Design

* Project Goal:
   “To encourage businesses towards an
    environmentally sustainable consumption and
    productivity”

* Project Purpose:
  “ To support and provide incentives to
    government contractors producing an
    ecologically certified product”

* Outcome Statement:
  “Availability of eco-labelled products in the market
   ready to be procured by government
   instrumentalities”

Key Components

Core Activities
 A. Product-based Approach
    FIRST STEP               SECOND STEP

    Paper products           Printers and consumables

    Office IT                Lighting materials

    Freezers/cooling units   Vehicles

Key Components

B. Additional Approaches
   Expected Outputs
   Enlarged and enhanced preventive maintenance
   program for vehicles

   Enlarged Fleet Card program
   ENERCON measures and awareness raising activities
   New contract conditions for suppliers (adapted to GPP)

Key Components

C. Life Cycle Costing
   Future costs can be taken into account by
   adding specific criteria to the technical
   specification (e.g. introducing limits on energy
   and resource consumption)

Key Components

D. Communication
  Internal and External

E. Business Engagement
   Maintain close engagement with Micro, Small,
   Medium Enterprises throughout the
   implementation of the program
     - Technical assistance
     - Marketing support

Key Components

* Training
  Provision for technical assistance to prospective
  suppliers and vendors

* Monitoring and Review
  * Design a Knowledge Management System
  * Monthly reports

Achievements

1. Co-organized the Seminar Workshop on Green
   Public Procurement with EU-SWITCH Philippines

 a. Awareness on the concepts of Sustainable
    Consumption and Production , GPP and Eco-
    labelling

 b. Discussed the implementation of GPP in the
    context of the Government Procurement Law (RA
    9184) and EO 301 (GPP)

 c. Formulate informed ideas for the drafting of the
    DTI GPP Action Plan

Achievements

2. Drafted the Green Public Procurement Action
   Plan through the assistance of a Green
   Procurement expert

 a. External meetings with relevant government –
    agencies (i.e. DBM-PS, GPPB, COA, PCCI,
    PCEPSDI)

 b. Creation of GPP Technical Working Group

 c. Internal meetings within the project
     management team

Achievements

3. Co-organized Life Cycle Costing Workshop

 a. Participants were from different DTI attached
    agencies

 b. Raise awareness in regards to the
    methodological concept and the application
    of life cycle costing

Achievements

3.Capacity-building for GPP program managers,
  members of the Technical Working Group, and
  procurement officers through participation in
  training workshops

   a. ASEAN+3 Green Procurement Program and Eco-
      labelling Workshop on Sustainable Consumption
      and Production Program, Seoul

   b. Regional Workshop on Life Cycle Costing as a tool
      for Sustainable Public Procurement, Kuala Lumpur

Achievements

4. Participated at the Suppliers’ Forum on Green
   Procurement and Eco-labelling under the
   PCEPSDI and the Green Procurement Suppliers
   Forum under Green Philippines Exhibition

Challenges and Priorities

1. Resistance from the vendor side:
   “prevailing impression that adopting green process
   and eco-labelling is another cost of production
   and of doing business”

2. Close coordination with other relevant agencies

3. While there is already a policy statement in the PDP
   and MSME Development Plan, there is no clear
   pathway how this policy can be implemented with
   adherence to RA 9184

Challenges

4. Development of eco-labelling standard as
  (government) procuring entity’s preferred
  standard

5. Propagation of green labelling and
   certification standards among existing and
   prospective bidders

6. Promotion of green products and services through
   to public recognition/honor awards program,
   trade fair and other mechanisms for champions of
   green products and services

Challenges

7. Promotion of green products and services through
   to public recognition/honor awards program,
   trade fair and other mechanisms for champions of
   green products and services

8. Documentation of the green innovation
   developed within the DTI procurement system and
   creation of database of accredited/ certified
   green suppliers

Challenges

9. Assessment of the learnings developed from the
   project; and production of manuals and
   promotion materials that will encourage
   replication by other government agencies as well
   as by the private sector

10. Conceptualization of programs to assist
    enterprises in adopting green production process
    and eco-labelling ( e.g. Green Audit, Green
    Financing, etc.)

Towards a Policy Shift

The DTI-GPP, ultimately, seeks to influence the immediate
shift of existing procurement policy directions on the
following fronts:

   • Strict implementation and support to EO 301 on
     green procurement program and eco-labelling

   • Adoption of agency-level rules and regulation on
     green procurement and advocacy

   • Submission of proposals and recommendations to
     amend and further strengthen RA 9184 to
     incorporate green procurement agenda in its
     Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR)

Greening the DTI Supply Chain

 DTI is committed to champion and lead in the
 greening of supply chain in the public sector.
 With its pursuit for transparency,
 competitiveness, and accountability in the
 procurement process, as enshrined in RA 9184.

DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Enabling Business, Empowering Consumers
www.dti.gov.ph

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Makati City
1200 Philippines