Greetings!

Welcome to the Laguna Lake Development Authority’s Website.

In over three decades, the LLDA has been in the forefront of meeting the challenges confronting the Laguna de Bay and  its watershed. Much efforts have been done since, yet still not enough to counter the overwhelming impacts of rapid population growth, industrialization and urbanization in the region.

Pollution from domestic and industrial sources; declining lake productivity caused by poor water quality and illegal fishing activities; encroachment by human settlement along river banks and lakeshore areas; proliferation of non-native species like the janitor fish; and conflicts arising from competition over access to fishery resources are the major challenges which have coursed our agency’s program of actions in managing the lake region.

As the lake agency operationalizes its development mandate, it adopts participatory approaches emphasizing multi-sectoral cooperation and private sector partnership. LLDA’s institutional strengthening is focused on enhancing and greater use of market-based instruments and establishment of raw water pricing, optimizing the use of IT and GIS-RIS in improving its permitting, monitoring and enforcement and policy decision making. Enhancement of its image and credibility is an important element of its institutional strengthening to be truly capable of providing valuable information support to facilitate development. This credibility is what LLDA brings into partnership with its stakeholders. The strategic shift in direction, the current and emerging roles of the Authority need corresponding changes in the way we communicate with our publics.

As we engage our stakeholders in addressing today’s rapidly changing conditions in Laguna de Bay watershed, the Internet has become an effective tool that allows the LLDA to reach out to more people at their fingertips, web visitors can quickly and conveniently access environment-related current events, comprehensive information about the Lake and the lake region, activities/schedules, programs and projects, and the services we provide.

We welcome you once again to the Laguna Lake Development Authority Website! We encourage you to explore its helpful information.  Should you have any question, comments and/or suggestions, feel free to contact us at:

+63 2 637-9037 / +63 2 637-9748 or e-mail us at ogm@llda.gov.ph.

EDGARDO C. MANDA

General Manager