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Partner: Government: Government of the Philippines
International Organizations: UNDP, UN-HABITAT |
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Cost: US$200,000 |
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In 2001, the Government of the Philippines (2001) formulated and adopted an innovative and forward-looking National Urban Development and Housing Framework (NUDHF) to guide management and development of the urban sector Implementation of this Framework was the responsibility of a wide range of national and local institutions. The objective of this project was to establish the Philippine Urban Forum as a platform to facilitate a convergence of urban sector interests and activities by a variety of national institutions, and at the same time to enable those institutions to develop a common Plan of Action to implement the NUDHF.
From an early stage, the project built on two parallel but mutually supporting activities: the annual Shelter Summit (spearheaded by the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council -HUDCC) and preparations to celebrate (and at the same time review implementation of) the 10tth anniversary of the Local Government Code (spearheaded by the League of Cities of the Philippines-LCP and the Department of Interior and Local Government-DILG) to discuss and deliberate on priority governance issues). The Philippine Urban Forum (PUF) was formed in early 2002, through which UN-HABITAT shared its global Urban Governance and Secure Tenure Campaign experiences. Through the year, the PUF Secretariat supported its (principal) HUDCC/LCP and DILG partners TO conduct regional roundtables to discuss, customize and agree on national characteristics of good urban governance and operational principles for secure tenure, gradually expanding membership of the Forum to include other key national government institutions, research organizations, private sector shelter agencies, NGOs/CBOs and, most recently, international partners like the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. By using PUF as a platform for information sharing, discussion and coordination among national government agencies, local government units, civil society organizations, private sector groups, and the international donor community involved in urban development and housing, they gained broader-based understanding of the challenges and opportunities of the urban sector, culminating in the launching of National Campaigns and the development of a supporting Action Plan to implement the Framework.
The Philippine Urban Forum served as the launching pad for the National Good Urban Governance Campaign (July 2002), as well as the National Secure Tenure Campaign (October 2002) - both of which were attended and endorsed by President Arroyo. Both campaign "plans of action" were converged into one approved National Action Agenda for 2003/5, to be implemented through a number of projects: "Localizing MDGs through LGUs", "Safer Sorsogon", "Go-FAR and TEMPIS" (a sub-regional replication of lessons learned from an earlier environmental governance project supported by the Sustainable Cities Programme, and "Integrated Approaches to Poverty Reduction at the Neighbourhood Level". |
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