Millennium Development Goals

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Millennium Development Goals

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Background

• In September 2000, 189 UN member-nations, rich
  and poor, reaffirmed their commitment to peace
  and security, good governance, and attention to
  the most vulnerable with the adoption of the
  Millennium Declaration.
• The declaration reflects the vision of entire
  nations, working together with international and
  country-based organizations, to wipe out poverty
  and the worst forms of human deprivation, and lay
  the foundations for sustainable human development
  by the year 2015.

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Background

• The vision is translated into the Millennium
  Development Goals (MDG) which are targets on
  specific human development indicators a) Poverty
  Reduction b) Universal Primary Education c)
  Gender Equality d) Reduced Child Mortality e)
  Improved Maternal Health f) Combat HIV/AIDS,
  Malaria, and other Diseases g) Environmental
  Sustainability and, h) Develop Global
  Partnership for Development.
• The challenge and need for each nation is to
  ensure that the MDGs are integrated and given top
  priority in development planning efforts
  monitoring, localization, advocacy, financing,
  multi-sectoral support, and MDG-responsive policy
  framework and legislation.

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Background

• The UN fully supports the Philippines and other
  committed nations in attaining targets
  Localization of the MDGs, Cities Alliance project
  on Slum Upgrading, Unleashing Entrepreneurship.
• The target on Shelter Development falls under
  Goal 7 ( Ensure Environmental Sustainability)
  Target 12 (Achieve a significant improvement in
  the lives of at least 100 M slum dwellers by
  2020).

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS GOAL 7 Target 12

• 382,285 HH (2001-2004) provided security of
  tenure through house and lot, house only, or lot
  only. This was done through the combined efforts
  of government and private sector.

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Informal Settler Families Informal Settler Families
REGION MAGNITUDE Percentage
Philippines 588,853 100.0
NCR 174,085 29.6
CAR 2,586 0.4
Region I (Ilocos) 2,735 0.5
Region II (Cagayan Valley) 9,674 1.6
Region III (Central Luzon) 24,064 4.1
Region IV (Southern Tagalog) 59,238 10.1
Region V (Bicol) 47,122 8.0
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Informal Settler Families Informal Settler Families
REGION MAGNITUDE Percentage
Region VI (Western Visayas) 69,170 11.7
Region VII (Central Visayas) 33,136 5.6
Region VIII (Eastern Visayas) 28,619 4.9
Region IX (Zamboanga Peninsula) 34,801 5.9
Region X (Northern Mindanao) 20,537 3.5
Region XI (Southern Mindanao) 36,334 6.2
Region XII (SOCSARGEN) 19,550 3.3
CARAGA 24,445 4.2
ARMM 2,757 0.5
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Number of Household Beneficiaries Number of Household Beneficiaries Number of Household Beneficiaries Number of Household Beneficiaries
PROGRAM 2001 2002 2003 Total
HUDCC Asset Reform Program 133,900 68,820 1,000 203,720
NHA Housing Programs 47,771 25,356 15,205 88,332
NHMFC Community Mortgage Program (CMP) 28,474 19,529 11,453 59,456
National Government Center (NGC) East-West Project 8,739 2,049 410 11,198
North and South Rail Relocation - 7,350 3,250 10,600
Gawad Kalinga (GK 777) 1,000 1,032 2,963 4,994
Habitat for Humanity 1,878 1,087 1,019 3,984
Total 221,762 125,223 35,300 382,285
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS GOAL 7 Target 12

1. Policy reforms include revision of the CMP
   guidelines to increase loan ceiling from P100,000
   to P120,000 in Metro Manila and other urban
   areas required document was likewise reduced
   from 56 to 18 technical assistance and financing
   provided to communities for transfer of title.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS GOAL 7 Target 12

• HUDCC and other shelter agencies work closely
  with the NGOs and private sector for slum
  upgrading and provision of dwelling units.
• EO 272 (s. 2004) was issued authorizing the
  creation of the Social Housing Finance
  Corporation (SHFC) that will finance the housing
  needs of the bottom 30 poor population. It also
  transferred the implementation of the CMP and
  Abot-Kaya Pabahay Fund programs from the NHMFC to
  the SHFC as former's subsidiary .

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CHALLENGES and PRIORITIES for ACTION

• Continuing to meet the housing requirements of
  the informal settlers
• Scaling-up proven multi-stakeholder and
  cost-effective housing programs
• Improving security of tenure, improving land
  registration process, and adopting and developing
  innovative tenure arrangements to address
  affordability issue (i.e. lease-purchase,
  usufruct, rent-to-own, etc.)
• Relocating informal settlers occupying danger
  areas in Metro Manila in a just and humane manner
  (i.e. North and South Rail, Pasig River)
• Supporting LGU and private sector-led housing
  programs
• Developing new centers for housing in Luzon,
  Visayas, and Mindanao.

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CHALLENGES and PRIORITIES for ACTION

• Pursuing an asset reform program
• Urban asset reform program shall be pursued
  (MTPDP 2004-2010) by providing property rights to
  informal settlers unlocking dead capital or
  lands occupied by IS by granting legal rights
  used to raise capital for micro-enterprises.
• Promoting sustainable source of housing finance
• SHFC to raise funds for the socialized housing
  sector

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CHALLENGES and PRIORITIES for ACTION

• Expanding private sector participation in
  socialized housing finance and construction
• Pursuing strategic linkages with client and
  sectoral groups, and private developers for joint
  venture arrangements.

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CHALLENGES and ROLES of YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

1. Provision of technical services (housing designs
   to suit the incremental mode of building, etc.)
   at rates affordable to the sector.
2. Coming up with technologies on housing that will
   bring down cost of construction.
3. Provision of employee volunteering in the form of
   technical services and/or actual construction
   that will lower the construction cost.
4. As potential developers, pursue the option of
   slum upgrading as mode of compliance to the
   Balanced Housing Law.