The Philippines successfully eradicated foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) through a multi-pronged strategy between 1998-2008. Key elements included strengthening animal movement controls, intensifying disease surveillance and monitoring, administering over 150 million vaccine doses, and deploying a compliance monitoring team to quickly detect and contain outbreaks. A progressive zoning approach divided the country into low-risk protected zones and higher-risk infected zones to arrest the spread of the disease. Political support, coordinated implementation, and stakeholder participation were essential to the program's success in validating the Philippines' FMD-free status.