1. THE PHENOMENON OF CLIMATE
CHANGE:
Identifying the Role of International Non- Governmental
Organizations
Theme: The Challenge of Climate Change
to Peoples and Communities
Janine Galang
AB POSC- IRFS 4

2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
This study aims to identify the different
international non- governmental organization
operating in the Philippines and their roles in
addressing the phenomenon that is climate
change.

3. (1) To identify the various International Non- Governmental
Organizations (INGOs) operating in the Philippines that
advocate to address the phenomenon that is climate
change.
(2) To determine the different agenda of each of the
identified INGOs towards addressing climate change.
(3) To determine the strategies employed by these identified
INGOs in the addressing climate change as a growing non-traditional
security (NTS) threat.
(4) To determine the various challenges encountered by the
identified INGOs related to addressing the phenomenon
that is climate change as a growing non- traditional
security (NTS) threat.

4. ASSUMPTIONS: HYPOTHESIS:
1. Climate change as a
growing phenomenon
affects the NTS of the
Philippines
2. To be able to address such
threat, international non-governmental
organizations play a
crucial role.
3. International Non-
Governmental
Organizations (INGOs)
have accomplishments
and challenges in
addressing climate change
as a non- traditional
security threat.
CLIMATE
CHANGE
NTS
threat
addresses
societal,
political &
environmental
consequences
NTS
International Non-
Governmental Organizations
have a role in addressing such

5. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
STUDY ON NON-TRADITIONAL
SECURITY:
- Study of NTS
threats
STUDY OF CLIMATE
CHANGE:
- As a NTS threat
STUDY ON
INTERNATIONAL
NON-GOVERNMETNAL
ORGANIZATIONS

6. SCOPE AND LIMITATION
• Non- state Actors
International Non-
Governmental
Organizations
• Effects of climate
change
• INGOs present in the
Philippines
• Nature,
accomplishments or
successes, challenges
and actions to take in
addressing the issue
• environmental effects

7. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
(REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE)
NON- TRADITIONAL SECURITY
(challenges the survival and well- being of the
people and states that are primarily out of
non- military sources)
OBJECT OF SECURITY
state people
(individual and societal levels)

8. NON TRADITIONAL SECURITY
ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
environmental problems should be
part of a state's political agenda
CLIMATE CHANGE
(man- made problem)
- poses as a threat to the livelihoods, culture
and health of the people
State & society will be strained
(referent object of non- traditional security

9. STATE ENLARGE PARTICIPATION
INTERNATIONAL NON- GOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS
(grass- roots participation)

10. CONSTRUCTIVISM
- climate change is
socially constructed
- centered on explaining
change
- international norms
affect state behavior
and vice versa
LIBERALISM
- individuals are
essentially cooperative
based on human
nature
- state and non- state
actors are important in
international relations

12. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

13. PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND
INTERPRETATION OF DATA

14. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE #1
To identify the various International Non-
Governmental Organizations (INGOs)
operating in the Philippines that advocate to
address the phenomenon that is climate
change.

16. Name of International Non-
Governmental Organization
addressing the phenomenon
of climate change
General Description Date / Year Established
OXFAM (Oxford Committee
for Famine Relief)
Oxfam is an international
non-governmental
organization working with
others to build a future free
from the injustice of poverty
in close to 90 countries
worldwide.
Officially established as
Oxfam International-
Philippines in 1988.(Founded
in Britain in 1942)
Tzu Chi Foundation Tzu Chi Foundation is a non-profit
organization founded
by Dharma Master Cheng
Yen in the impoverished east
coast of Taiwan. The
Foundation has been
contributing to better social
and community services,
medical care, education and
humanism in Taiwan for
nearly 50 years.
Officially inaugurated on
November 8, 1994 as Tzu Chi
Foundation-
Philippines(Founded in
Taiwan in 1966)

17. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE #2
To determine the different agenda of each of
the identified INGOs towards addressing
climate change.

18. International
Non-
Governmental
Organization
Vision Mission Goal Major
Projects/
Programs/
Activities
Oxfam
International-
Philippines
“Our vision is a
just world
without poverty.
We want a
world where
people are
valued and
treated equally,
enjoy their
rights as full
citizens, and can
influence
decisions
affecting their
lives”.
- To help create
lasting solutions
to the injustice
of poverty. -We
are part of a
global
movement for
change,
empowering
people to create
a future that is
secure, just, and
free from
poverty.
- providing
shelter, clean
water and
sanitation-combat
such
discrimination.
-rights-based
sustainable
development
programs-public
education-humanitarian
assistance in
disasters and
conflicts.

19. Advocacy Campaigns, Climate Change
Mitigation processes, Humanitarian Aid,
BINDS project

20. International
Non-
Governmental
Organization
Vision Mission Goal Major Projects/
Programs/
Activities
Tzu Chi
Foundation-
Philippines
aiming to help the
poor and educate
the rich by
reverently
accepting
Buddha’s teaching
of "expressing
great kindness to
all sentient beings,
and taking their
suffering as our
own", and bearing
in mind Venerable
Master Yin
Shun’s aspiration
of "being
committed to
Buddhism and to
all living beings"
Alleviate the
sufferings and
inspiring people
in the country.
- Charity
- Environmental
Protection
- Medicine
- Education
- Humanity
- Tzu Chi’s Green
Construction-
Environmental
Protection Task
Force-
Environmental
Protection lunch
kits

21. Humanitarian Aid, Education,
Environmental Protection

22. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE #3
To determine the strategies employed by
these identified INGOs in the addressing
climate change as a growing non- traditional
security (NTS) threat.

23. Partnerships w/ LGUs;
Volunteerism

24. Volunteerism

25. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE #4
To determine the various challenges
encountered by the identified INGOs related
to addressing the phenomenon that is
climate change as a growing non- traditional
security (NTS) threat.

26. • Although partnering with LGUs is an asset,
there are times policy makers become a
roadblock in promoting their advocacies.
• Information dissemination and
coordination with other sectors are also a
challenge due to "territorial possessiveness"
or restricted access to the areas

27. CONCLUSION
• INGOs are effective in addressing the threat
of climate change because they are flexible
in adapting to local situations and response
to local needs, as well as getting
participation from the grassroots level

28. OXFAM International-
Philippines
- focuses on projects and
programs that inform
about climate change
adaptation and risk
reduction
• Tzu Chi Foundation-
Philippines
- focuses on giving
material aid and
inspiring love &
humanity among
people through its
different projects
behavior of INGOs always tend to be cooperative
best manifested in their coordination with
government agencies, environmental groups and
other civil society groups

29. CONSTRUCTIVISM
International
norms affect
state
behavior
recognition of
a common
threat:
CLIMATE
CHANGE
The way to address the
issue is through
participation in INGOs
because ideas, beliefs and
identities can be turned
into advocacies of the
people

30. LIBERALISM
Non- state
actors are
important
INGOs
Independent and indirect influences on
domestic and foreign policies of states
social and
environmental issues
are at the front of
international agenda
Influence of INGOs
on the decision-making
of LGUs
aboud climate
change adaptation
and risk reduction

31. • Policy makers may become a hindrance to
the endeavors of the INGOs in terms of
pushing for policies that are in line with
their advocacies