UP Tacloban students win UP SDG Youth Summit project grants
16 March 2026
Two capstone projects proposed by the UP Tacloban student delegation won seed grants of ₱ 50,000 each during the 2026 UP Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Youth Summit held on 12-13 March 2026 at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium in UP Diliman. Project POSOble and Project Eco-SoilMates were among 12 capstone projects that received funding.
The capstone project competition required students to identify a community problem and propose a concrete solution aligned with the SDGs for implementation within a year. Project POSOble was proposed by delegates from UP Halcyon, Junior Jaycees – Tacloban Sinirangan, and the UP Tacloban Student Council to address the lack of access to clean water in Eastern Visayas by installing community-based water pumps. Project Eco-SoilMates was proposed by delegates from Alpha Phi Omega – Theta Zeta Chapter (APO-TZ) and the UPTC Economics Society to strengthen barangay economic and disaster resilience by establishing a community garden and conducting capacity-building workshops.
The UP Tacloban delegation was composed of 24 students from four student organizations and the UPTC Student Council. They joined approximately 300 students from across the UP System in the first UP SDG Youth Summit, which was organized by the UP System Office of Student Development Services, UP-CIFAL Philippines, and UP Asian Center to deepen student leaders’ understanding of sustainable development and support student-designed projects that advance the 2030 SDG Agenda at the community level.
