C.
Prohibited/Negative List
The Project will not involve activities with high potential environmental and social risks. The following
are PMNP ineligible subproject activities and/or expenditure types:
1. Prohibited Activities
a. Activities that have potential to cause any significant loss or degradation of critical natural
habitats whether directly or indirectly;
b. Activities that could adversely affect forest and forest health.;
c. Activities that could affect sites with archaeological, paleontological, historical, religious, or
unique natural values;
d. Use of goods and equipment on lands abandoned due to social tension/conflict, or the
ownership of the land is disputed or cannot be ascertained;
e. Use of goods and equipment to demolish or remove assets, unless the ownership of the
assets can be ascertained, and the owners were consulted and had concurred;
f. Land acquisition that results in physical displacement (relocation) and economic displacement
to 200 or more affected persons;
g. Activities that would result to adverse impacts on land and natural resources customarily used
by IPs, including relocation from those lands, or significant impacts on their cultural heritage material to
their identity.
h. Repair of government offices; meeting halls and places of worship;
i. Environmentally hazardous materials such as chainsaws, explosives, pesticides, herbicides,
insecticides, asbestos and other potentially dangerous materials;
j. Fishing boats (beyond the weight limit set by Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
(BFAR);
k. Activities that have alternative prior sources of committed funding;
l. Activities for fiesta and other religious and cultural activities;
m. International travel;
n. Salaried activities that employ children below the age of 14, and production or activities
involving harmful or exploitative forms of forced labor or child labor;
o. Consumption items will not include food and other basic necessities usually included in the
relief packages;
p. Maintenance and operation of infrastructure built from Project funds;
q. Production of or trade in any product or activity deemed illegal under the Philippines laws or
regulations or international conventions and agreements or subject of international phase outs or bans,
such as (a) pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and herbicides; (b) ozone-depleting substances, (c)
polychlorinated biphenyls and other hazardous chemicals, (d) wildlife or wildlife products regulated
under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and (e)
transboundary trade in waste or waste products;
r. Production of or trade in weapons and munitions, including paramilitary materials;
s. Production of or trade in alcoholic beverages, excluding beer and wine;
t. Production of or trade in tobacco;
u. Gambling, casinos and equivalent enterprises;
v. Production of or trade in radioactive materials, including nuclear reactors and components
thereof;
w. Commercial logging operations or the purchase of logging equipment for use in primary
tropical moist forests or old-growth forests; and
x. Marine and coastal fishing practices, such as large-scale pelagic drift net fishing, harmful to
vulnerable and protected species in large numbers and damaging to marine biodiversity and habitats.
2. Prohibited Infrastructures and Expenditures
a. Construction of facility/infrastructure located in or adjacent to sacred grounds and burial sites of
indigenous communities;
b. Construction of facility/infrastructure located in or adjacent to identified international and local cultural
and heritage sites;
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c. Construction of facility/infrastructure located in or adjacent to critical areas identified or
reserved by the ICCs/IPs for special purposes,
d. National communal and irrigation systems;
e. Regulatory services (i.e. establishments of laboratories, procurement of laboratory equipment)
f. Large production and post-harvest and processing equipment and facilities (i.e., four-wheel
tractors, harvesters, processing equipment and facilities);
g. Large market-related infrastructures (i.e. trading centers and food terminals);
h. Training centers (including equipment);
i. Multiple types of livestock in one project;
j. Use of goods and equipment for military or paramilitary purposes aside from vaccination
activities involving these personnel;
k. For the new and/or rehabilitation of backyard fishponds and community ponds, required buffer
zones shall be maintained as well as vegetative cover for exposed earthwork: (i) For brackish water, a
buffer zone of at least 100 meters from the sea to the main peripheral dike and 50 meters along the river
banks (for typhoon areas) and 50 meters from the sea and 20 meters along the river banks (for non-
typhoon prone areas), shall be left undisturbed for ecological reasons and physical protection from
flooding and wave action;
(ii) For freshwater, a distance of 20 meters (for non-typhoon areas) away from the embankment
and 50 meters (for typhoon prone areas) shall be maintained to serve as buffer zone to minimize flood
risk and related environmental hazards.
l. Projects classified as “environmentally critical projects” or category A based on the screening
and categorization of the Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System (PEISS);
m. Use or promotion of products covered under the Executive Order 51 otherwise known as
“National Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, Breastmilk Supplements, and Other Related
Products” or “Milk Code” and by its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations. Whether purchased
or donated, this covers products marketed as “complete or partial” substitute to breastmilk, regardless of
the age of the child, i.e., infant milk formula, feeding bottles, and teats.
n. Activities such as advertisements, receiving donations, promotional campaigns and other
marketing strategies through any form of involvement of distributors, manufacturers, marketing
personnel, marketing firms of companies that are defined and covered by Executive Order No. 51 and
its IRR.
o. Partnership or any involvement in PMNP multimedia and community-based activities of
companies manufacturing, selling, or marketing of food and beverages that are high in sugars, sodium
(salt), and fats with conflict of interests on advocacies of the DOH, especially any marketing that targets
children. This includes but not limited to chips, candies, chocolates, fast foods, sugar sweetened
beverages, cigarettes, and alcoholic beverages
