Republic of the Philippines National Urban Assessment by Asian Development Bank

Author:Asian Development Bank [Bank, Asian Development]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Public Policy, City Planning & Urban Development, Political Science
ISBN: 9789292544874
Google: 32JzCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2014-08-01T13:20:03+00:00

Current Development Partner Focus

The Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund is an innovative trust fund set up through a partnership between ADB, the Department of International Development of the United Kingdom (DFID), and the Rockefeller Foundation, which aims to scale up the response to building urban climate change resilience in Asia. This trust fund has selected the Philippines as one of the countries for its initial focus based upon the country’s vulnerability to climate change, the enabling environment in terms of decentralized planning, and strong city networking. The core strategy would be to strengthen city-level planning systems, processes, and multi-stakeholder engagement (including the urban poor) in “climate-smart” urban planning.

The World Bank has been involved in the sector much longer than ADB; from 1961 to 2007, urban sector lending was $2.6 billion, of which loans to Metro Manila amounted to $878 million. The World Bank experience indicates that an appropriate level of cost-sharing incentives can encourage LGU investments in critical sectors, such as SWM, environmental protection, and revenue generation as well as support for informal communities affected by proposed subprojects. However, a corresponding TA project needs to be extended to enhance the capacity of the LGUs to operate and sustain the built infrastructure. Financial assistance to private sector proponents for subprojects that support local development has brought in private capital and management experience to enhance the delivery of services that have traditionally been undertaken by LGUs. Other multilateral agencies involved in the urban sector include the European Commission through the European Investment Bank, Cities Alliance, the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-HABITAT), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Bilateral contributions have come from Australia, Japan, United States.

ADB will support stronger social safety nets, including continued support for Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), and strengthened and better-targeted social protection.58 It will also support expanded, better quality social services, including supporting the government’s new K to 12 agenda for education. Working with other development partners, ADB support in these areas will also (i) strengthen institutional mechanisms for the targeting and delivery of programs that directly or indirectly address poverty (e.g., conditional cash transfer, education, health, and rural and urban development programs) and capacity at the national and subnational levels; (ii) promote the government’s agenda of convergence and rationalization across programs to cohesively tackle demand- and supply-side issues, and connect the poor to programs (such as rural infrastructure and employment promotion) to support their sustainable exit from poverty; and (iii) enhance the collection and analysis of poverty statistics, and their use in decision making.59

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