Cagayan Valley
Environmental Sustainability
Partnership Forum
September 2, 2025 “Transforming Together: Partnerships for a
Cagayan Provincial Coliseum,
Bagay Road, Tuguegarao City Resilient and Sustainable Environment”
PROGRAMME
PART I
Registration (7:00 AM - 8:00 AM)
PART II
Opening Preliminaries (8:00 AM - 9:30 AM)
Doxology Red Eagle Dance Troupe, CSU Carig
Philippine National Anthem Red Eagle Chorale, CSU Carig
Bagong Pilipinas Hymn Red Eagle Chorale, CSU Carig
Bagong Pilipinas Pledge AVP
Acknowledgement of Participants Atty. ELLEN MICHELLE B. JAVIER
Chief, Administrative Division
DENR R2
Safety Briefing PLGU Cagayan Representative
Welcome Remarks Hon. MAILA ROSARIO TING-QUE
City Mayor, Tuguegarao City
Mesages Dir. GWENDOLYN C. BAMBALAN, DPA, CESO III
Regional Executive Director
DENR Region 2
Dir. AGNES A. DE LEON, CESO IV
Regional Director
Department of the Interior and
Local Government R2
Hon. EDGAR B. AGLIPAY
Governor, Province of Cagayan
Rationale ENRIQUE Q. PASION, RPF
Assistant Regional Executive Director
for Technical Services, DENR R2
Intermission Number Red Eagle Performing Artists, CSU Carig
Message & Introduction of the Atty. JUAN MIGUEL T. CUNA, CESO I
Keynote Speaker USec. for Field Operations – Luzon, Visayas and
Supervising USec. for Mines and Geosciences
Bureau-Luzon and Visayas, Environmental
Management Bureau-Luzon and Visayas, DENR
Keynote Message Sec. RAPHAEL P.M. LOTILLA
Secretary
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources
Photo opportunity All Participants
PART III
Press Briefing (9:30 AM - 10:00 AM)
PART IV
Forum Proper (10:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Atty. RICKY A. ARZADON, CESO IV
Spatial Planning on Water and Best Executive Director
Practices on Water Sustainability National Water Resources Board
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Dr. REX VICTOR O. CRUZ
Presentation of the updated Cagayan Professor Emeritus, National Academy
River Basin Master Plan of Science and Technology
University of the Philippines Los Baños
Open forum (11:30 AM - 12:00 NN)
Moderator: Dionicio C. Deundo, PENR Officer Cagayan
Awarding of plaques and tokens to resource persons
Lunch Break (12:00 NN - 1:00 PM)
1:00 PM - 1:25 PM ATTY. ANALIZA REBUELTA – TEH, CESO I
Climate Change Resiliency Undersecretary for Finance, Information
Systems, and Climate Change, DENR
1:25 PM - 1:50 PM USec. MARILOU G. ERNI
Project TRANSFORM Chief of Staff and Supervising Undersecretary
for Strategic Communications, DENR
Signing of Project TRANSFORM Partnership Agreement
1:50 PM - 2:30 PM Mr. FUKUDA TADAHIRO
Presentation of Project for Study Team Leader
Enhancement of Flood Control Japan International Cooperating Agency
Strategy in Cagayan River Basin
Open forum (2:30-3:00 PM)
Moderator: Victoria D. Baliuag, PENR Officer Batanes
Awarding of plaques and tokens to resource persons
3:00 PM - 3: 20 PM JACQUELINE A. CAANCAN, CESO III
Promoting Environmental OIC, Assistant Secretary for Environment and
Sustainable Future concurrent Director, Environmental Management
Bureau
3: 20 PM - 3:40 PM Atty. EMELYNE V. TALABIS, CESO III
Effective Foreshore Management Director, Land Management Bureau
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM Atty. GLEN B. BUNCAD
Regulations on Commercial Sand OIC, Chief, Mine Management Division
and Gravel Permit, Requirements MGB R2
and Procedures
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM Atty. JOHN MARK N. PARACAD
Policies, Rules, and Regulations OIC, Chief, Enforcement Division
Governing Environmental DENR R2
Law Enforcement
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM Engr. JASON B. MALAMUG
Addressing Water Security Chief, Clearance and Permitting Division
EMB R2
Open forum (4:40 PM - 5:00 PM)
Moderator : Giovannie M. Magat, PENR Officer Nueva Vizcaya
Awarding of plaques and tokens to resource persons
Closing Message GRACE L. CARIÑO, RPF, Ph.D.
Assistant Regional Executive Director
for Management Services
DENR R2
DENR Hymn All Participants
Ms. Francheska Maureen G. Bonnit and Mr. John Paul O. Taguinod
Masters of Ceremonies
