Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program

The program assumed that by implementing the policy framework the government would have the tools and capacity to implement the full Pasig River Development Plan (PRDP), leading to the overall objective of improving the Pasig River water quality to class C level by 2014. However, the outputs of the policy loan covered only part of the implementation activities of the PRDP, and therefore it should have been clear from the start that the overall objective was not attainable. Better realignment of the policy and investment loan outcomes and overall impact could have led to a better understanding of the program by the participating utilities.