Support Environment Awards 2026

EMILIANO D. JOVEN, Chair, PRMFI

February is the month of love. Love for our family and love for every one and love for the environment.

  At PRM we give emphasis to the love of the environment. We are again launching the 2nd Environment  Projects Awards. To enable more clubs to participate, we are extending the period for this second staging until the next Rotary year. Hence, we will give the awards in June 2026.

  The award is open to all a) Rotary Club initiated Projects, and b) community-based projects of non-government and government organizations (NGOs and GOs) with significant Rotary club involvement and engagement. The nominated projects from the 10 districts must have been implemented for at least one year prior to the award ceremony in June 2026.

  The top 3 winning projects of the previous award shall not be eligible to join. A Rotary Club may however nominate another project as its entry. All nominated projects shall undergo a three-level judging process:

  First-Level Judging — the District Judging Committee shall select the best three projects from among the nominated projects. However, only one project per category is allowed. A maximum of 30 projects will proceed to the second-level judging.

  Second-Level Judging — the PRMFI Board of Trustees shall select the best 10 projects from among the projects that pass the First Level Judging irrespective of their category and District membership. The Top 10 projects shall be submitted for the third and final judging. The Top 10 projects shall receive P50,000.00 each from PRMFI.

  Third-Level Judging — The PRMFI Organizing Committee shall select the Top 3 from among the Top 10 projects from the Second-Level Judging, and shall be awarded cash prizes as follows:

Champion — P500,000.00

1st Runner-Up — P200,000.00 

2nd Runner-Up — P100,000.00

  There will be a special recognition for the Rotary Club that partnered with private companies’ corporate social responsibility projects.

  The five categories of the clubs’ environmental projects are as follows: 1) Air Quality Improvement; 2) Land Conservation; 3) Water Conservation; 4) Waste Management; and 5) Climate Change Mitigation

  The criteria and weights for judging follow the acronym IMPACT, as follows: Innovative (15 percent); Multiplicable or replicable (15 percent); Problem-Solution Fit (15 percent); Able to be sustained (20 percent); Co-productive and cooperative action with beneficiary community (15 percent); and Transformative Change (20 percent).

  Let’s join hands in promoting our clubs’ environment projects.

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This message appeared in the February 2025 Issue of the Magazine. Access this link for more information - https://www.philippinerotarymagazine.com/magazines/202502prm.