{"id":10588,"date":"2026-05-20T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/?p=10588"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:59:53","slug":"makati-city-receives-iclei-membership-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/makati-city-receives-iclei-membership-plaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Makati City receives ICLEI membership plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ricardo Marfiga Jr. (2nd from the left), ICLEI SEA Membership, Governance, and Circular Economy Manager, turns over the ICLEI membership plaque of the City Government of Makati to representatives of the Makati City local government unit. (L-R) Retired Police Brigadier General Rodelio B. Jocson, Officer-in-Charge of the Makati City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office; Marfiga Jr.; Atty. Marianne P. Lozada, City Administrator; and Josephine Angela D. Yu, Officer-in-Charge of the Makati City International Relations Department.<\/span><\/i><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICLEI Southeast Asia (SEA) recognized the City Government of Makati in the Philippines as one of its active, longstanding members by presenting a membership plaque received by the Makati City Administrator, the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO), and the International Relations Department last April 13, 2026 at the Makati City Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During ICLEI SEA\u2019s courtesy visit, the Makati City DRRMO also welcomed the fellows of ICLEI\u2019s Enhancing Local Capacities in Socially Inclusive Resilience in Asia (SIRA) Project for a brief knowledge-sharing session on Makati City\u2019s disaster resilience system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liza Velle B. Ramos, EnP, Makati City DRRMO Research and Planning Division Chief, led the knowledge-sharing session, highlighting the city\u2019s approach of localizing the Sendai Framework for DRR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICLEI SEA awarded the membership plaque as part of a series of activities for its 21st anniversary celebration, including recognition of its members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Makati City has been involved in notable ICLEI projects over the years, starting with ICLEI SEA\u2019s first project, the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign from 1999 to 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Makati City was also part of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) from 2012 to 2016 as one of the 15 project cities in the Philippines, under which cities were assisted in developing plans for sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and climate resilience, and the ICLEI-ACCRN Guide and Toolkit was refined and tested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years, Makati City has been part of the One Planet City Challenge (OPCC), the flagship activity of the World Wildlife Fund&#8217;s (WWF) One Planet Cities (OPC) program. The OPCC is a biennial global challenge that aims to develop and disseminate best practices in climate mitigation and adaptation for cities worldwide by encouraging participating cities to report their climate actions, strategies, and data through a standardized international platform. The OPCC was brought to the Philippines in 2013, and since then, WWF-Philippines has partnered with ICLEI SEA as its technical implementation partner.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10591\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10591\" class=\"wp-image-10591 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5d9d435c-e54f-4499-9e2f-bad36e3ea2a5-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5d9d435c-e54f-4499-9e2f-bad36e3ea2a5-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5d9d435c-e54f-4499-9e2f-bad36e3ea2a5-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5d9d435c-e54f-4499-9e2f-bad36e3ea2a5-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5d9d435c-e54f-4499-9e2f-bad36e3ea2a5-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5d9d435c-e54f-4499-9e2f-bad36e3ea2a5-958x719.jpeg 958w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5d9d435c-e54f-4499-9e2f-bad36e3ea2a5-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5d9d435c-e54f-4499-9e2f-bad36e3ea2a5.jpeg 1600w\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fellows of ICLEI\u2019s Enhancing Local Capacities in Socially Inclusive Resilience in Asia (SIRA) Project last April 13, 2026 at the Makati City Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10597\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10597\" class=\"wp-image-10597 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00156-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00156-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00156-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00156-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00156-1-958x719.jpg 958w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00156-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00156-1.jpg 1216w\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liza Velle B. Ramos, EnP, Makati City DRRMO Research and Planning Division Chief, presents Makati City\u2019s disaster resilience system in a knowledge-sharing session with fellows of ICLEI\u2019s Enhancing Local Capacities in Socially Inclusive Resilience in Asia (SIRA) Project last April 13, 2026 at the Makati City Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Marfiga Jr. (2nd from the left), ICLEI SEA Membership, Governance, and Circular Economy Manager, turns over the ICLEI membership plaque of the City Government of Makati to representatives of the Makati City local government unit. (L-R) Retired Police Brigadier General Rodelio B. Jocson, Officer-in-Charge of the Makati City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[3228,3023,2466,2626,2655,2862,931,1108,2188,2679],"class_list":["post-10588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-news","tag-21st","tag-anniversary","tag-clare-sira-project","tag-iclei-member","tag-iclei-member-cities","tag-iclei-members","tag-makati-city","tag-memberships","tag-sira","tag-sira-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10598,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions\/10598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}