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Social and Relationship
Capital Performance

In line with the Company’s mission of decarbonization and regeneration, First Gen maintains its dedication to sharing value creation with its stakeholders through ongoing engagements and partnerships. The Company develops programs with the goal of fostering stakeholder collaboration in the development of future-proof and climate-resilient solutions while positively influencing its stakeholders.

Collaborative Effort to Create Value with Stakeholders

First Gen seeks to empower its key stakeholders by forming synergistic relationships in the journey towards regeneration and decarbonization. This will enable the company to forge the path of shared prosperity, which includes a healthy society, a decarbonized environment, and a better and regenerative future for all.

First Gen cultivates positive and mutually beneficial relationships with its key stakeholders by identifying their challenges through various engagement channels and addressing their concerns.and compliance with regulatory requirements while preserving the environment and maintaining good relations with the community.

Results of Stakeholder Engagements

In 2022, First Gen and its subsidiaries invested PHP 201.9 million (USD 3.62 million) in CSR programs to support its decarbonization and regeneration mission. These prioritized education, livelihood, environment, community health and safety, disaster relief and response, and local culture.

Through social acceptability, support, and cooperation from its stakeholders, First Gen’s social and relationship capitals have indirectly added value to the Company’s operations. First Gen continues to build and protect values for its stakeholders by providing reliable and clean power while ensuring their access to safety, health, well-being, and opportunities to improve their quality of life.

Building A Decarbonized Future with Customers


First Gen Energy Solutions (FGES), the power marketing and power equipment company of First Gen Corporation, has maintained its commitment to providing flexible terms, competitive power prices, unparalleled warranties and guarantees, technical expertise, and customized value-adding services (VAS).

These resulted in 297 customers in 2022, with a 47% increase of customers from 2021. This yielded significant growth on contestable customers, Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) end users and distribution utilities/electric cooperatives.

The Company enhanced its customized value-adding services (VAS) by increasing its VAS projects to 221% in 2022 compared to the previous year. The services provided to customers include, but are not limited to, energy management services like energy audits, system loss reduction, thermographic inspections, and transformer testing; sustainability programs like green branding partnerships, CSR activities, RE power plant tours, and APX register; and capability building services like lineman training, succession planning, and business continuity seminars. Out of the 297 clients served in 2022, 108 received VAS.

Growing Together With Partner Communities


First Gen invests in CSR programs that promise to support the growth and improvement of local communities in its host towns and municipalities as the Company continues its journey toward a shared prosperity and regenerative future for all.

Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Group uses the Regenerative Pathways as a platform to narrate First Gen’s journey of collaboration with its stakeholders, employees, and communities towards a shared prosperity for a better and regenerative future.



Continued Access to Education

First Gen understands the value of education and the potential it holds to create future change-makers and builders of nations. As a result, its educational program offers financial aid and scholarships to deserving residents of the host communities while also ensuring their holistic development and employment opportunities after graduation. In order to guarantee that the host communities have access to high-quality education, it also provides them with resources including school construction materials, school supplies, and blended/modular learning resources.

In 2022, First Gen provided 30,849 students and teachers with school supplies, assisted 89 schools for blended/modular learning, and assisted 51 scholars with their education.

Meanwhile, EDC supported 499 scholars across its project sites through its banner education program SIKAT in 2022. EDC provided financial assistance and mentoring support to students who are mainly from the most disadvantaged youth groups and indigenous communities. Aside from the financial support for its scholars, EDC also engages and empowers them to become passionate and values-driven advocates of regenerative development. The scholars engaged in a variety of environmental projects, advocacy campaigns, community involvement and voluntary activities, and action research initiatives to assist address various environmental concerns in their communities. EDC also continued its bi-monthly webinar series called SIKATalks which serves as a platform for coaching and mentoring of the current SIKAT scholars by EDC employees and SIKAT graduates. It aims to help the scholars with their holistic development.

EDC continues to partner with education institutions, local government units, and education foundations to implement scholarship programs and other initiatives that benefit EDC’s host communities in Mt. Apo, Leyte, and Ilocos Norte. Through Keitech Educational Foundation, Inc. (Keitech), a technical-vocational training institute established by EDC, 203 scholars were provided with technical training in 2022. In addition, EDC continued to support the Mt. Apo Foundation, Inc. (MAFI) by providing scholarship grants to 22 deserving students from Mindanao. In Ilocos Norte, EDC donated a mobile school called “School on Wheels” equipped with laptops, printers, and internet connection. This reached out to students and supported their distance learning programs under the Department of Education. EDC also partnered with LiteHaus International to provide laptops to 20 elementary schools in Kidapawan City giving technology access to students from an indigenous community.



Enabling Community Development

First Gen’s skills training and social enterprise development program prioritizes capacity building and sustainability of livelihood support, as it aims to provide community members, particularly out of school youth and IP communities, with opportunities for regenerative employment and livelihood.

Through various social enterprise development programs for IP communities, coastal communities, and farmers, First Gen provided four communities with opportunities to augment their sources of income. These projects generated around PHP 7.2 million labor contracts and revenues.

First Gen, together with its partners SEARCH Foundation and the Maraiging Mamanwa Farmers Skilled Workers Association (MAMAFASWAS), successfully implemented a 2,000 square meter pilot farm in Barangay Maraiging, Jabonga, Agusan del Norte. During its launch in August 2022, members of the MAMAFASWAS and their guests harvested various vegetables including ampalaya, kalabasa, talong, sitaw, bell pepper, and tomatoes. The pilot farm is part of the community-building initiative Mamanwa Agroforestry Social Enterprise Development Plan (MA-SEDP).

First Gen continued to partner with Connected Women in the implementation of the Elevate AIDA (Artificial Intelligence and Data Annotation) Program which aims to accelerate women empowerment in the digital age, by building their own economic resilience through technology skills, communication, and remote work which will provide equal opportunity for women and improve their overall quality of life including their families. Twenty women from First Gen host communities graduated in 2022 from this program.

EDC also supported community organizations and farmers’ associations in generating around PHP 15 million revenues from livelihood projects comprising four long-term social enterprise projects and around 15 short-term livelihood projects. These collectively benefit an estimated 2,000 households across EDC’s project sites.

Enhancing Resilience of Communities


First Gen understands the susceptibility of its host communities to climatic risks, crises, and catastrophes. To ensure that the community is informed and prepared for any crisis, the Company continues to collaborate with local government agencies, other host organizations, and community people.



Building a Climate-Resilient Future

The Company’s environment program supports the holistic development approach. Its Create for the Climate program trained the local communities on climate change awareness and action through various IECs on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation which were participated by 337 individuals from three schools and various external stakeholder groups.

First Gen continued its Ideathon 2021: Innovate for the Climate project wherein a total of six climate action projects were implemented in 2022. These projects, proposed and implemented by employees and students from partner schools, aim to equip various local communities with projects that will aid in climate adaptation and mitigation.

In 2022, First Gen conducted a series of capacity-building sessions for five host municipalities on Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment, Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Climate Expenditure Tagging, and the People’s Survival Fund to aid them in preparing their Local Climate Change Action Plans (LCCAP). The training on emergency and disaster preparedness focused on actual exercises and tested the participants’ analytical and practical understanding in an emergency situation. This was participated by individuals from nine municipalities including Lobo in Batangas, Jabonga in Agusan del Norte, Pantabangan and Carranglan in Nueva Ecija, Alfonso Castaneda in Nueva Vizcaya, Maria Aurora in Aurora, Manolo Fortich and Impasug-ong in Bukidnon, and Caramoan.

In September 2022, First Gen signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support the Batangas City local government in the rehabilitation of a two-hectare dumpsite and its development into an Eco-Park, an eco-friendly facility for the local residents and a sanctuary for wildlife in the city.

First Gen continues to collaborate with local government units, agencies, and local community members to protect the environment through the BINHI program which involves reforestation of denuded areas and protection of terrestrial and marine biodiversity, while providing the host communities and organizations with alternative sources of income. In 2022, four farmer associations and peoples’ organizations were awarded with PHP 7,191,522 worth of labor contracts.



Preparing and Responding to Disasters

As part of First Gen’s commitment to build local capacities on emergency and disaster response, the CSR team in partnership with the Archdiocese of Lipa and Lipa Archdiocesan Social Action Commission, Inc. (LASAC) facilitated the Humanitarian Emergency Assistance Response Training (HEART) to community responders.

In partnership with the local governments of Sorsogon City, Ormoc City, Kidapawan City, Kananga, and Valencia, EDC conducted a three-day training exercise “All Hazard Community Emergency Response & Austere Environment Rescue” to enhance the community’s emergency preparedness and response.

EDC also signed a memorandum of agreement with the Sorsogon City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO) for the installation of a very high-frequency repeater system at the EDC radio tower facility to strengthen and improve the radio communications within the 64 barangays of Sorsogon City.

In Ilocos Norte, EDC partnered with the Office of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management to conduct its third Municipal Rescue Olympics which aimed to enhance the capabilities of rescue volunteers to respond more effectively during emergencies. This activity was participated in by volunteers from Emergency Rescue Teams from 11 barangays of Burgos.

First Gen conducted several operations to provide relief assistance amounting to PHP 2,010,000 to 3,620 disaster-stricken families in Nueva Ecija and Nueva Vizcaya who were affected by Super Typhoon Karding. Meanwhile during the first quarter of 2022, EDC and its employees extended financial assistance worth PHP 2.79 million to two barangays and nine municipalities in Leyte who were affected by Typhoon Odette. A few months later, Leyte was impacted by tropical cyclone Agaton prompting EDC to provide relief assistance amounting to PHP 1.2 million to affected communities.



Strengthening Local Health Programs

First Gen understands that community health is a key driver of economic development and a key component in realizing the Company’s regenerative goals. As a result, First Gen conducted clinics in 189 communities, offered medicines and healthcare supplies to 91 barangays and 5,629 people, and supported 10 children through a feeding program through its various health programs.

First Gen continued to support the iWASH Program which provides community members of Batangas City, Caloocan, Marikina, and Malabon with access to water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities. In 2022, this program benefitted 3,100 households. The Company also donated 75 water filters to provide 750 households in Bohol with access to clean water.

In May 2022, EDC donated medical supplies, equipment, and furniture worth PHP 262,000 to two newly-constructed health centers in Brgy. Nagotgot, Manito, Albay and dental equipment to the Dental Health Unit in Kananga, Leyte. This provided safe dental services to 23 barangays within the municipality. In Ilocos Norte, EDC partnered with Barangay Poblacion to implement a 30-day supplemental feeding program for underweight children. In addition, the Company donated supplies and equipment to 11 Barangay Health Units in Burgos, Ilocos Norte.



Continuing COVID-19 Response

Responding to and mitigating the impacts of the pandemic has been one of the Company’s priorities since 2020. In order to maintain the general well-being of its personnel and to support the government’s overarching goal of achieving herd immunity against COVID-19, First Gen continued its vaccination campaigns in 2022.

First Gen also continued its support to various LGUs in managing the pandemic. The Company donated 67,020 doses of vaccines to 14 LGUs and two institutions in 2022. Meanwhile, EDC donated cash assistance worth PHP 225,000 to Negros Oriental Chamber of Commerce Inc (NOCCI) to support their vaccination efforts in the Negros Oriental province.

Creating A Safe Workplace and Community Environments


First Gen is dedicated to providing a secure and healthy working environment for all of its personnel, including contractors and subcontractors. The Company implements a number of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) programs that focus on preventing illness, fatalities, and serious injuries. It also ensures safe plant operations to limit any negative effects on surrounding communities, and it assures that all of its operations comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

First Gen continues to implement its Contractor ESH Management (CESHM) System to manage the risks associated with contractor activities, conduct due diligence on contractors’ regulatory compliance status prior to engagement, and ensure that the contractors align with First Gen’s ESH requirements and expectations during project execution.



LNG Terminal Project:

3 Million Safe Man-hours without Lost Time Injury achieved in September 2022

As we forge collaborative pathways for a decarbonized and regenerative future, we ensure that the wellbeing and safety of our employees, contractors, and communities is our utmost priority.


First Gen Clean Energy Complex — GKK Awards Regional Winners

The Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) recognized FGPC, FGP Corp., and FNPC as regional winners in the 12th Gawad Kaligtasan at Kalusugan (GKK) program. The three FGEN subsidiaries subsequently received the Silver Award during the GKK National Awarding Ceremonies.


To know more how First Gen’s Social and Relationship Capital is contributing to the effort to forge collaborative pathways for a decarbonized and regenerative future, please see our Strategic Positioning section.