Newsletter: The Australian Audit confirms six flood control projects in Oriental Mindoro and suggests changes

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An Australian audit confirmed six flood control projects in Oriental Mindoro are real but noted construction flaws and safety issues. Auditors urged stricter contractor checks and reforms, while the DPWH filed graft cases against officials and contractors over project anomalies.

Newsletter: Flood control corruption an obscene plunder of much-needed climate funds – Greenpeace

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Greenpeace Philippines today called out the obscene greed of government officials and contractors who have allegedly pocketed billions from anomalous flood control projects that are meant for climate adaptation. In a press conference over Zoom, Greenpeace calculated that, based on estimations revealed at Senate inquiries, as much as PHP 1.029 trillion of the government’s climate-tagged expenditures could have potentially been lost to corruption since 2023, including PHP 560 billion in 2025 alone.