World Wildlife Fund community action document |

From the 1980s-1990s the Philippine Government, with help from the United Nations, and the academic community, created poverty alleviation projects that linked Population, Health, and Environment(PHE). These PHE projects are geared toward improving natural resource management, reproductive health services, enhancing food security, and providing Pilipinos with more livelihood options. These integrated projects have proven to be successful, creating a desire to spread or “scale-up” the PHE approach. Scaling-up has three components: expansion, replication, and collaboration. What is most noted by DeSouza are the opportunities for scaling-up, such as reaching out to new locations and people, extending pilot projects to policies at local and national levels, and expanding services to current clients. Another key factor to scaling-up the PHE approach is strengthening the national PHE network. A recap of lessons that have been learned through scaling-up is included, and a glimpse into future directions.